* 1979 – Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.

He was a central figure in the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war.

After the Soviet occupation of 1979, his role as an insurgence leader earned him the nickname of " Lion of Panjshir " ().

Following the 1979 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet troops, Massoud devised a strategic plan for expelling the invaders and overthrowing the communist regime.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

Indeed, in the largest biological weapons accident known – the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city ( known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today, see Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak ).

Karmal would remain in exile until December 1979, when the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan ( with the consent of the Afghan government ) to stabilise the situation in the country, they killed Amin, the leader of the PDPA and the Afghan government.

* Sivachev, Nikolai and Nikolai Yakolev, Russia and the United States ( 1979 ), by Soviet historians

Population censuses have been taken in Azerbaijan under Russian / Soviet rule in 1897, 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

* 1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

The 1979 Soviet invasion and ensuing civil war destroyed much of the country's limited infrastructure, and disrupted normal patterns of economic activity.

In the year of the 60th anniversary of the Soviet cinema ( 1979 ), on April 25, a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR established a commemorative " Day of the Soviet cinema ".

After the December 1979 Soviet invasion, Afghanistan's foreign policy mirrored that of the Soviet Union.

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.

To bolster the Parcham faction, the Soviet Union decided to intervene on December 24, 1979, when the Red Army invaded its southern neighbor.

In 1979 the Soviet Union deployed its 40th Army into Afghanistan, attempting to suppress an Islamic rebellion against an allied Marxist regime in the Afghan Civil War.

This event marked the opening salvo of the rebellion which led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.

* 1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, on December 24, 1979, the Red Army occupied the capital.

After the December 1979 Soviet invasion, KAM was renamed and came under the control of the KGB.

* Anatoly Vasilievich Kuznetsov ( 1929 – 1979 ), Soviet writer, author of Babi Yar

Following initial positive reviews, the made-for-television film was rebroadcast twice in 1978 and 1979, but has not been shown since on national re-broadcasts, nor issued in home media.

Also in 1979 Willcox appeared as Tallulah in Stephen Poliakoff's American Days at the ICA, playing alongside Mel Smith, Antony Sher and Phil Daniels and, the same year, opposite Katharine Hepburn in the made-for-television movie The Corn is Green, directed by George Cukor.

She appeared in The Carey Treatment ( 1972 ), Lady Ice ( 1973 ), The Reincarnation of Peter Proud ( 1975 ), Caravans ( 1978 ), A Force of One ( 1979 ), Scanners ( 1981 ), and The Cover Girl Murders ( 1993 made-for-television film ).

Harwell made a cameo appearance in the 1994 film Cobb and in the made-for-television movies Aunt Mary ( 1979 ), Tiger Town ( 1983 ), and Cooperstown ( 1993 ).

In 1979, she starred on the made-for-television film version on NBC of The Miracle Worker in which she played the role of Katie Keller, the mother of the Helen Keller in which she played opposite Melissa Gilbert, Charles Siebert, and Patty Duke Astin.

Parker was portrayed by Pat Hingle in Elvis, the original 1979 made-for-television movie, produced by Dick Clark, directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell.

In 1979, Lewis co-starred as a gravedigger turned vampire in the cult classic made-for-television movie Salem's Lot.

A 1979 made-for-television movie, directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn, was filmed on location in Wales.

After 15 years abroad, Stander moved back to the U. S. for the role he is now most famous for: Max, the loyal butler, cook, and chauffeur to the wealthy, amateur detectives played by Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers on the 1979 – 1984 television series Hart to Hart ( and a subsequent series of Hart to Hart made-for-television films ).

When the programme made a comeback in 1979, it ran for just six episodes and was made in colour, one new two-part story and a colour remake of the second saga, originally a six-parter, " Noggin and the Ice Dragon ".

* CHiPs ( two-part episode " Roller Disco ") ( 1979 )

A two-part article in The New York Times in 1979 by Howard Blum and Paul L. Montgomery alleged that LaRouche had turned it — at that point with 1, 000 members in 37 offices in North America, and 26 in Europe and Latin America — into an extreme-right, anti-Semitic organization, despite the presence of Jewish members.

In 1979, a two-part article by Howard Blum and Paul L. Montgomery appeared in the New York Times that accused LaRouche of running a cult.

In 1979, she featured in The Rockford Files as Odette Lependieu in the two-part episode " Never Send a Boy King to do a Man's Job ".

His television credits include V: The Final Battle as Dan Pascal, and appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation in the season 1 episode " The Big Goodbye " as the newspaper stand man in the holodeck, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the season 3 two-part episode " Past Tense " as Vin, Time of Your Life, as a prison guard in Soap ( 1979 ) and he voiced the gangster Chuckie Sol in the animated feature film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.

* Alien ( film ), a 1979 film by Ridley Scott

Some of these have explored and offered accounts of Christie's disappearance in 1926, including the 1979 film Agatha ( with Vanessa Redgrave, where she sneaks away to plan revenge against her husband ) and the Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ( with Fenella Woolgar, her disappearance being the result of her suffering a temporary breakdown due to a brief psychic link being formed between her and an alien ).

* Ajax, a character in the 1979 film The Warriors

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

* A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus ( 1979 ) and the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman based upon it.

* Ash ( Alien ), the android antagonist in the film Alien ( 1979 )

Brooks directed his first feature film, Real Life, in 1979.

In the 1979 film The Warriors, the eponymous gang go to a meeting in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, and have to fight their way out of the borough and get back to Coney Island in Brooklyn.

She starred opposite Anthony Perkins in the 1978 Alan Rudolph film Remember My Name and opposite Jeff Bridges in the 1979 film Winter Kills.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

* Charleston ( film ), 1979 ( TV )

* Cyrus, a gang leader in the 1979 film The Warriors

A feature-length historical film Caligula was completed in 1979, in which Malcolm McDowell played the lead role.

Emlyn Williams was cast as Caligula in the never-completed 1937 film I, Claudius, and Courtney Love appeared as Caligula in a fake trailer for Gore Vidal's Caligula, ostensibly a remake of the 1979 film, but actually a parodic short film by conceptual artist Francesco Vezzoli.

Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).

Cronenberg has collaborated with composer Howard Shore on all of his films since The Brood ( 1979 ), ( see List of noted film director and composer collaborations ) with the exception of The Dead Zone ( 1983 ), which was scored by Michael Kamen.

Other regular collaborators include actor Robert Silverman, art director Carol Spier, sound editor Bryan Day, film editor Ronald Sanders, his sister, costume designer Denise Cronenberg, and, from 1979 until 1988, cinematographer Mark Irwin.