* Vernon W. Thomson – April 1975 – June 1979 ; January 1981 – December 1981 ( reappointed May 1976 ).

Meldrim Thomson, Jr. ( March 8, 1912 – April 19, 2001 ) was a Republican who served three terms as Governor of the U. S. state of New Hampshire from 1973 to 1979, during which time he became known as a strong supporter of conservative political values.

* Bryden Thomson ( 1979 – 1982 )

* James Noel Thomson ( 1888 – 1979 ), officer in the British Indian Army during World War II

* Hon David Thomson, MP: Minister for Science and the Environment ( from 8 December 1979 ) ( NCP )

In 1979, Thomson was a founder member of The Medway Poets, a punk performance group, who read in pubs, as well as the Kent Literature Festival and the 1981 international Cambridge Poetry Festival.

As part of the negotiations for the peace treaty between the two organisations, the ACB agreed to let Thomson play in WSC's tour of the Caribbean in the spring of 1979.

However, Thomson managed only two Tests in 1979 – 80 when he was dropped.

In 1979, his interest in Berlin Cabaret, combined with the current punk culture, led him to joining up with Childish, Charles Thomson, Sexton Ming, Rob Earl and Miriam Carney to found the anarchic poetry performance group, The Medway Poets, which he named.

1977 – 79, he was at the Foundation Art course, Medway College of Art and Design, along with future Stuckist artists, Billy Childish and Bill Lewis, who in 1979 formed The Medway Poets performance group with Charles Thomson and three others.

In 1979, the paper expanded coverage to Franklin and Carlisle, directly competing with the Thomson Corporation's weekly Franklin Chronicle, established in 1872.

After going on Hajj ( the pilgrimage to Makka ) overland in 1977, Ahmad Thomson completed his training as a lawyer and was called to the Bar of England & Wales on the 26 July 1979.

He then moved to London in 1979 to study fine art at the Wimbledon School of Art, St Martin's School of Art ( where he became friends with artist Billy Childish ) and Chelsea School of Art, where he received an MA.

According to Childish: " Me & Charles were at war from 1979 until 1999.

It then traces the history of the group from origins in 1979 to its foundation in 1999, reviews " A Dysfunctional Decade of Saatchi Art ", describes Stuckist demonstrations at the Turner Prize and gives background on artists who have left the Stuckists — co-founder Billy Childish, Stella Vine and Gina Bold.

A forerunner of Hangman Books, the Phyroid press was formed in 1979 by Billy Childish and Sexton Ming, publishing over 30 pamphlets of their poetry.

Of country music artists, Connie Smith covered Andy Gibb's " I Just Want to Be Your Everything " in 1977, Bill Anderson did " Double S " in 1978, and Ronnie Milsap covered Tommy Tucker's " High Heel Sneakers " in 1979.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

* 1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle.

* July 31 – Bill Todman, American game show producer ( d. 1979 )

Paul and Bill began a long and successful partnership with the Newman Freeman Racing team in the Can-Am series which culminated in the Can-Am Team Championship trophy in 1979.

* Pertwee, Bill ( 1979 ).

They played as a quintet from early 1975 and always as a quartet from mid-1976 ( Bill Hurd ( keyboardist ) became an out-of-staff member ; during his retirement years, he joined Suzi Quatro's band, touring and playing on a number of worldwide hits, which included the Top 20 hit " She's in Love with You " in 1979, before re-joining the Rubettes in 1982.

The first single-chip cryptoprocessor design was for copy protection of personal computer software ( see US Patent 4, 168, 396, Sept 18, 1979 ) and was inspired by Bill Gates ' Open Letter to Hobbyists.

* 1979 NFB documentary about Bill Reid

The 1979 – 80 season saw the Clippers begin to struggle despite adding center Bill Walton, a San Diego native who was two years removed from an NBA Championship with the Trail Blazers.

Founded by Bill Rasmussen, his son Scott Rasmussen and Aetna insurance agent Ed Eagan, it launched on September 7, 1979, under the direction of Chet Simmons, the network's President and CEO ( and later the United States Football League's first commissioner ).

* Bill Gibson ( born William Scott Gibson, November 13, 1951, in Sacramento, California ) – drums, percussion, backing vocals ( 1979 – present )

She was convicted and imprisoned for her actions in the robbery, though her sentence was commuted in February 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, and she received a Presidential pardon from President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001 ( among his last official acts before leaving office ).

* Stanner, Bill ( 1979 ).

* Bill Smith ( footballer born 1906 ) ( 1906 – 1979 ), English footballer with Norwich City and Exeter City

" Sarducci has appeared in four cold openings in the 1979 – 1980 season ( on episodes hosted by Steve Martin, Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, and Rodney Dangerfield ), two commercial parodies (" MX-5 Tampons " on the 1981 – 1982 Christmas episode hosted by Bill Murray and " Bocce Ball My Way " on the last episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin ), and two monologues on the 1985 – 1986 season ( the first hosted by Madonna in a pretaped sketch showing Madonna's wedding to Sean Penn ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) and the second on the Christmas episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Garr as Sarducci's alter ego, Pope Maurice ).

In 1979, Cotati voters approved a rent control ordinance for all residential rentals, but in 1995, that ordinance was partly preempted by the passage of AB ( Assembly Bill ) 1164, known as the Costa / Hawkins Bill.

Subsequent mayors have included Marvin Hoeflinger ( 1979 – 1981 ), Gerald DeRuiter ( 1981 – 1992 ), Bill Hardiman ( 1992 – 2002 ), Richard Root ( 2002 – 2012 ), and Richard Clanton ( 2012-present ).

The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code ( 1979 ), the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms ( 1977 ), and the Alberta Bill of Rights ( 1972 ) also contain devices like the notwithstanding clause.

* Bill " The Spaceman " Lee, pitcher with the Boston Red Sox ( 1969 – 1978 ) and Montreal Expos ( 1979 – 1982 )

The pianist Bill Evans paid Powell a tribute in 1979: If I had to choose one single musician for his artistic integrity, for the incomparable originality of his creation and the grandeur of his work, it would be Bud Powell.

Gidley and her husband Bill, an electronics engineer, married in 1979 and have lived in Romsey since 1986.

Arbusto Energy ( sometimes referred to as Arbusto Oil ) was a petroleum and energy company formed in Midland, Texas, in 1979, for former US President George W. Bush by a group of investors which included Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Henry Draper III, Bill Gammell, and James R. Bath.

* 1979 – Rashard Lewis, American basketball player

* 1888 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer

* A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968 ( Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, 1979 )

* April 18 – Duffy Lewis, Major League Baseball player ( d. 1979 )

* Lewis, Roy ( 1979 ), Enoch Powell.

* 1979: Lewis Teague directed the film The Lady in Red, starring Pamela Sue Martin as the eponymous lady in the red dress.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid ( commonly GEB ) is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter, described by his publishing company as " a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll ".

Bridges also narrated the documentaries National Geographic's Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West ( 2002, IMAX ), Discovery Channel's Raising the Mammoth ( 2000 ), and ABC's Heroes of Rock and Roll ( 1979 ).

Selections of his work were translated into English in Twenty Poems of Vicente Aleixandre ( 1977 ) and A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vincent Aleixandre ( 1979 ; Copper Canyon Press, 2007 ) ( translated by Lewis Hyde ).

* Lewis, Robin Jared, E. M. Forster's Passages to India, Columbia University Press, New York, 1979.

Sting's first involvement in the human rights cause came in September 1981 when he was invited by producer Martin Lewis to participate in the fourth Amnesty International gala The Secret Policeman's Other Ball following the example set at the 1979 show by Pete Townshend.

* Huey Lewis ( born Hugh Anthony Cregg, III on July 5, 1950 in New York, New York ) – lead vocals, harmonica ( 1979 – present )

* Kidron M. Lewis ( born 1979 ), political consultant and campaign aide to both U. S. Representative Martin Frost ( former Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ) and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

* The Road From Home, a children's book by David Kherdian, recognized by the 1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

At the invitation of producer Martin Lewis he created a highly acclaimed classical-rock fusion duet with celebrated rock guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who for Townshend's anthemic Won't Get Fooled Again for the 1979 Amnesty International benefit show The Secret Policeman's Ball.

Gold won the John Frederick Lewis Prize from the American Philosophical Society in 1972 for his paper " The Nature of the Lunar Surface: Recent Evidence " and the Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1979.

( 1979 ) Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist.

Each novel in the series has received a literary award, including the 1969 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction & the 1979 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for A Wizard of Earthsea, the 1972 Newbery Honor for The Tombs of Atuan, the 1973 National Book Award for Children's Books for The Farthest Shore, the 1990 Nebula Award for Best Novel for Tehanu, and the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for The Other Wind.

In 1979 Hartman was replaced by ace session drummer Chet McCracken and Baxter by multi-instrumental string player John McFee ( late of Huey Lewis ' early band Clover ); Cornelius Bumpus ( who had been part of a recent reunion of Moby Grape ) was also recruited to add vocals, keyboards, flute and saxophone to the lineup.

In the U. S. it was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1979.

The first of these was the June 1979 appearances by Pete Townshend at The Secret Policeman's Ball, a series of benefit shows in London for human rights organization Amnesty International at which the usually electric guitar-wielding Townshend was persuaded by benefit producer Martin Lewis to perform his hits " Pinball Wizard " and " Won't Get Fooled Again " on acoustic guitar.

The Association's first woman president was Dorothy Lewis Bernstein ( 1979 – 1980 ).