In November 1979 it debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in a John Dexter production conducted by James Levine.

In 1979, the Yale biologist Arthur Galston, who specialized in herbicide research, published a review of what was known at the time about the toxicity of TCDD.

In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

A lifelong chain smoker, Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.

He has been invited to speak at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies at Yale University in 1979.

Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science ( 1975 ) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a Ph. D. in computer science ( 1979 ) from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was a student at Churchill College.

* 1979: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre on the Place de la Concorde in Paris attracted one million people, securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd at an outdoor concert.

The first attempts to synthesize bohrium by hot fusion pathways were performed in 1979 by the team at Dubna.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

In 1979, because of the difficulties in realizing a Planck radiator at high temperatures and the new possibilities offered by radiometry, the 16th CGPM adopted the modern definition of the candela.

Coleman graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1978 ; in 1978 – 1979 she was an exchange student at Røyken upper secondary school in Norway with the AFS Intercultural Programs.

A blue plaque unveiled in 1979 commemorates Attlee at 17 Monkhams Avenue, in Woodford Green in the London borough of Redbridge.

Just before that, on March 8, 1979 Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called " Philips Introduce Compact Disc " in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Coronation Street returned to ITV screens at a regular time late in 1979.

The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979.

It is usually at the retreat where, isolated from their advisers, the heads resolve the most intransigent issues: leading to the Gleneagles Agreement in 1977, the Lusaka Declaration in 1979, the Langkawi Declaration in 1989, the Millbrook Programme in 1995, and the Aso Rock Declaration in 2003.

Anderson was involved in the fledgling alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s and was the first act to come on stage at The Comedy Store when it opened in 1979.

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

Value of agricultural output grew at an average annual rate of 7. 1 % during 1968 – 73, but since 1975 the sector has been hampered by droughts ( 1975, 1977, and 1979 ), hurricanes ( in 1979 and 1980 ), and slumping world prices and quota allocations for sugar ( since 1985 ).

Steckel, who came to the Vikings in 1979 after working as an assistant with the 49ers, was the youngest head coach in the NFL in 1984 at age 38.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

There she nursed her mother Leona through the final stages of cancer and geriatric dementia until she died in 1979 at the age of 92.

NASA discouraged any discussion of additional visits due to the station's age, but in 1977 and 1978, when the agency still believed the Space Shuttle would be ready by 1979, it completed two studies on reusing the station.

Joe DeRita continued to perform live into the mid-1970s with Mousie Garner and Frank Mitchell as " The New Three Stooges " enjoying recognition well into old age, before retiring by 1979.

Continuing as an analyst until 1979, Smith left the network as the Roone Arledge era was beginning at ABC News and full retirement age approached.

By the show's tenth anniversary in 1979, 9 million American children under the age of six were watching Sesame Street daily.

Rodgers died in 1979 at age 77 after surviving cancer of the jaw, a heart attack, and a laryngectomy.

In 1979, he was the youngest PGA Tour golfer to shoot his age ( 67 ) in the second round of the 1979 Quad Cities Open.

* Oldest player to make the cut at a major: age 67 years, 2 months, 7 days at the 1979 PGA Championship

* First PGA Tour player to shoot his age: 67 in the second round of the 1979 Quad Cities Open

* Oldest player to make a cut on the PGA Tour: age 67 years, 2 months, 21 days at the 1979 Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic.

Christopher Evans died of cancer in 1979, at the age of 48, shortly after The Mighty Micro had been published in hardcover.

At the age of twenty-four, Dr Castells became an instructor at the University of Paris, from 1967 to 1979 ; first at the Paris X University Nanterre, who fired him because of the 1968 student protests, then at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, from 1970 to 1979.

He died at age 82 at Saint Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis in 1979.

Emmett Kelly died at the age of 80 of a heart attack on March 28, 1979, at his home in Sarasota, Florida.

The 1970s and 80s are regarded by many as a ' golden age ' of Australian cinema, with many successful films, from the dark science fiction of Mad Max ( George Miller, 1979 ) to the romantic comedy of Crocodile Dundee ( Peter Faiman, 1986 ) and the emergence of such film directing auteurs as Gillian Armstrong, Phillip Noyce and Bruce Beresford.

* Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979, with the mandatory three-year waiting period waived, making him the youngest inductee at 31 years of age

In a 1979 interview, Fontaine says the reason she stopped speaking with her sister was because Olivia wanted their mother ( who was suffering from cancer ) operated on at the age of 88.

Bananarama were founded in London in 1979 by Fahey, Woodward and Dallin, the latter two having been childhood friends in Bristol since the age of four, and attending St. George's School for Girls together.

Breaking Away is a 1979 American coming of age comedy-drama film that follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school.

Slowed by injuries and age, Hull played only a few games in the WHA's final season of 1979.

In 1979 at the age of 68, he was robbed and shot to death on a late Sunday evening at 11: 00 p. m., in a grocery store he owned.