He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award ( posthumously ) for his " unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning.

* Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Michael, and Moffatt, Ann, Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, 17 – 19 May 1978 ( Australian National University, Canberra, 1979 ).

The award's only tie occurred in the National League in 1979, when Keith Hernandez and Willie Stargell received an equal number of points.

The award has been shared twice: once by Butch Metzger and Pat Zachry of the National League in 1976 ; and once by John Castino and Alfredo Griffin of the American League in 1979.

In November 1979, the Transitional Government of National Unity ( GUNT ) was created with a mandate to govern for 18 months.

The contras ( some references use the capitalized form, " Contras ") is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s.

On July 19 1979, as Sandinista forces entered the capital, a U. S. plane disguised with Red Cross markings had evacuated remaining members of the National Guard to Miami.

* National Medal of Science, 1979

Field trials sponsored by the U. S. National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH ) were conducted between 1977 and 1979 to test the reliability of the new diagnoses.

After the Nicaraguan Revolution resulted in the overthrow and exile of the Somoza's government in 1979, Ortega became a member of the ruling multipartisan Junta of National Reconstruction and was later elected president, serving from 1985 to 1990.

** National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979.

Botha, he held a succession of ministerial posts, including Posts and Telecommunications and Sports and Recreation ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mines, Energy and Environmental Planning ( 1979 – 1980 ), Mineral and Energy Affairs ( 1980 – 1982 ), Internal Affairs ( 1982 – 1985 ), and National Education and Planning ( 1984 – 1989 ).

US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, known for his hardline policies on the Soviet Union, initiated in 1979 a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain's MI6.

Years later, in a 1997 CNN / National Security Archive interview, Brzezinski detailed the strategy taken by the Carter administration against the Soviets in 1979:

His National Islamic Front first gained influence when strongman General Gaafar al-Nimeiry invited members to serve in his government in 1979.

Pei has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

In early 1979 Ismail Khan was a Captain in the Afghan National Army based in the western city of Herat.

He bounced back to hit 31 home runs and 109 RBIs in 1977, but the Reds would only reach the post-season once more during Bench's career, when the 1979 Reds were swept in three games by the Pirates in the 1979 National League Championship Series.

In 1979, he was enrolled in the National Film School of Denmark.

Until her death in 1979 she participated in the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation that she founded.

Science Research Publishing House, 1979.

In 1979, Gebhard ( with Alan B. Johnson ) published The Kinsey Data: Marginal Tabulations of the 1938 – 1963 Interviews Conducted by the Institute for Sex Research.

He was elected to the Academy of Sciences and the SED central committee, and was later appointed deputy director of the Institute for Nuclear Research in Rossendorf, near Dresden, where he served until he retired in 1979.

During this period, other related organizations were also formed, including the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine ( 1970 ), the Institute of Parascience ( 1971 ), the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, the Institute of Noetic Sciences ( 1973 ), the International Kirlian Research Association ( 1975 ), and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory ( 1979 ).

p53 was identified in 1979 by Lionel Crawford, David P. Lane, Arnold Levine, and Lloyd Old, working at Imperial Cancer Research Fund ( UK ) Princeton University / UMDNJ ( Cancer Institute of New Jersey ), and Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital, respectively.

* Australia-In 1979 the Australian Society for Psychical Research was founded.

It was developed further at the Programming Research Group at Oxford University, where Abrial worked in the early 1980s, having arrived at Oxford in September 1979.

The French Institute of International Relations ( IFRI ) was founded in 1979 and is the third oldest think tank of western Europe, after the Chatam House ( UK, 1920 ) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( Sweden, 1960 ).

In 1979 with support from the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute ( MARDI ) and UPM, the government set up the Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia ( Porim ), a public-and-private-coordinated institution.

In 1979, he worked at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute briefly, and would later serve on that organization's board.

MP / M ( Multi-Programming Monitor Control Program ) was a multi-user version of the CP / M operating system, created by Digital Research developer Tom Rolander in 1979 .< ref >

By 1979, with the establishment of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies ( FARMS ) as a California non-profit research institution, an effort led by Robert F. Smith began to take full account of Larson ’ s work and to publish a Critical Text of the Book of Mormon.

Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1979.

The body which eventually became the IAB was created originally by the United States Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with the name Internet Configuration Control Board during 1979 ; it eventually became the Internet Advisory Board during September, 1984, and then the Internet Activities Board during May, 1986 ( the name was changed, while keeping the same acronym ).

Research into the use of transesterified sunflower oil, and refining it to diesel fuel standards, was initiated in South Africa in 1979.

He worked for the Conservative Party from 1966, first as desk officer and then director ( from 1974 to 1979 ) of the Conservative Research Department.

From 1953 to 1979, he worked at Bell Labs, eventually becoming head of the Biophysical Research staff.

Ann Arbor MI: UMI Research Press, 1979 ( Studies in Musicology, 2 ).

He worked for four years from 1979 as a Research Officer with the Labour Party.

* Anthony J. Spalinger, “ The Northern Wars of Seti I: An Integrative Study .” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 16 ( 1979 ).

He was a Senior Research Fellow there to November 1979, first in the Department of Sociology, RSSS, and then from 1974, at the Centre for Continuing Education.