Internal dissent within the government led Prime Minister Habré to send his forces against Malloum's national army in the capital in February 1979.

On 20 September 1979, Dacko, with French support, led a bloodless coup that overthrew Bokassa while he was out of the country.

In August 1979 Macias ' nephew from Mongomo and former director of the infamous Black Beach prison, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, led a successful coup d ' état ; Macias was arrested, tried, and executed.

His open endorsement of terrorism led to the Reagan administration declaring Libya a " state sponsor of terrorism " on 29 December 1979, and eventually culminated in the 1986 US Bombing of Libya.

Infocom was founded on June 22, 1979 by MIT staff and students led by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, Albert Vezza, and Joel Berez and lasted as an independent company until 1986 when it was bought by Activision.

In a major shock to the rest of the world, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Iranian Revolution of 1979 to overthrow the oil-rich, well-armed, Westernized and pro-American secular monarchy ruled by Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi.

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

It was the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan.

Moss led an independent and unsupported parapsychology laboratory that was shut down by the university in 1979.

However, the election of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher at the general election in May 1979, at the expense of Labour's James Callaghan, saw substantial trade union reform which saw the level of strikes fall, but also the level of trade union membership fall.

Although the two were allies during the Vietnam War, the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979 led to a sharp deterioration in Sino-Lao relations.

Dissatisfaction over governmental plans to raise the price of rice in 1979 led to protest demonstrations in the streets of Monrovia.

The next season, Milwaukee won 95 games and finished second in the East behind the Baltimore Orioles on the strength of their home run power, led by Oglivie ( who led the league in homers in 1980 along with Reggie Jackson ), Cooper, and Thomas ( who hit a then club-record 45 home runs in 1979, since broken by Prince Fielder, who hit 50 homers in 2007 ).

This led to a full-scale Soviet invasion in December 1979, led by the 40th Army and the Airborne Forces.

On November 20, 1979 two hundred armed Islamist dissidents led by Saudi preacher Juhayman al-Otaibi seized the Grand Mosque.

They also won the 1971 World Series behind Roberto Clemente and the 1979 World Series under the slogan " We Are Family ", led by " Pops " Willie Stargell.

In the election of 1979, Trudeau's Liberal government was defeated by the Progressive Conservatives, led by Joe Clark, who formed a minority government.

With the death of company founder and first CEO Willard Rockwell in 1978, and the stepping down of his son Willard Rockwell, Jr. in 1979 as the second CEO, Bob Anderson became CEO and led the company through the 1980s when it became the largest U. S. defense contractor and largest NASA contractor.

The success in syndication of the original live action series and fan pressure for a Star Trek revival led to The Animated Series from 1973 – 1974, as the source of new adventures of the Enterprise crew, the next being the 1979 live-action feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Following victories in the 1967 and 1974 elections, the SVLP led the island to independence, winning the first post-independence election in 1979.

In 1987, enduring fan interest, partially preserved by the first four installments of the Star Trek film franchise from 1979 to 1986, those films ' popularity led to the development of the Star Trek sequel Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became extremely successful, and led to the later sequels Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and finally Star Trek: Enterprise, which ended in 2005.

Saddam led Arab opposition to the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel ( 1979 ).

The logo replaced the striping pattern that had been on the uniforms since the team's inception ; save for color variations, the striping pattern was similar to that used by the Washington Redskins ( until 1979 ), Green Bay Packers ( until 1997 ), and Cleveland Browns ( still in use ), which is likely why the change was made.

From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell – when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979 – 80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home became a Redskins staple through 2007 – but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984.

The Redskins chose well during the 1979 NFL Draft, where they drafted future stars Don Warren and Monte Coleman.

* Rich Milot, graduate of Moon Area High School, a former American football linebacker who played his entire nine year career with the Washington Redskins from 1979 to 1987 in the National Football League.

Santana Terrell Moss ( born June 1, 1979 ) is an American football wide receiver for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League ( NFL ).

Matthew Ladell Betts ( born August 27, 1979 in Kansas City, Kansas ) is an American football running back who is currently a free agent He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the second round of the 2002 NFL Draft.

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( 1979 ) have shown that it can take 0. 5 seconds before a stimulus becomes part of conscious experience even though subjects can respond to the stimulus in reaction time tests within 200 milliseconds.

Marcuse defended the arrested East German dissident Rudolf Bahro ( author of Die Alternative: Zur Kritik des real existierenden Sozialismus The Alternative in Eastern Europe ), discussing in a 1979 essay Bahro's theories of " change from within ".

In 1979 the ( non relativistic ) hydrogen atom was solved for the first time within Feynman's path integral formulation

While organized to promote common economic, social, and cultural goals, ASEAN acquired a security dimension after Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia in 1979 ; this aspect of ASEAN expanded with the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Forum in 1994, which comprises 22 countries, including the U. S. Indonesia's continued domestic troubles have distracted it from ASEAN matters and consequently lessened its influence within the organization.

Isaac Klein ( September 5, 1905 – 1979 ) was a prominent rabbi and halakhic authority within Conservative Judaism.

In 1979 he assembled this into A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice, which is used widely by laypeople and rabbis within Conservative Judaism.

These recommendations were adopted by T. C97 at the end of 1979 as the basis for the following development of standards for Open Systems Interconnectlon within ISO.

Starting around 1979, gay men's choruses were founded within a period of months in many major U. S. cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Dallas.

The Four Cardinal Principles ( Chinese: 四项基本原则, pinyin: sì xiàng jīběn yuánzé ) were stated by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 and are the four issues for which debate was not allowed within the People's Republic of China.

Under Col. Houari Boumediène ( 1965 – 1979 ) state and army leadership was joined under his dominant and highly authoritarian presidency, but after his death, factionalization and rivalries within the military and political élites has been a major factor in Algerian politics.

The Generalitat a l ' Aran was legally created by the 2006 modification of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, although the Val d ' Aran had also enjoyed considerable autonomy within Catalonia under the 1979 Statute of Autonomy.

In 1979 the DoC formed the Canadian Videotex Consultative Committee to advise the Minister on ways to commercialize the CRC's work, and develop videotext services within Canada.

Also located within the county is Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, site of the 1979 nuclear core meltdown.

The protection given to scheduled monuments is given under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, which is a different law from that used for listed buildings ( which fall within the town and country planning system ).

According to a survey conducted in April 1979, 98 % of the evacuees had returned to their homes within three weeks.

It was instructed to produce a final report within six months, and after public hearings, depositions, and document collection, released a completed study on October 31, 1979.

The three met over dinner in early 1979 to work out quirks in the script and began shooting within a few months.

* In 1979, The first traffic light within city limits was installed at the intersection of Georgia State Route 54 and Georgia State Route 74

During Margaret Thatcher's contraction of the coal industry, six pits within a two mile ( 3 km ) radius of the city centre were closed between 1979 and 1983.

Archaeological investigations in 1979 found the remains of a probable earlier chapel, dating to the 11th century, standing within the foundations of the 12th century chapel.

Beginning in the winter of 1979, during the tumultuous days of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Rabbi Schneerson directed his emissaries to make arrangements to rescue Jewish teenagers from Iran and place them in foster homes within the Lubavitcher community in Brooklyn.

Violence in the therapy groups eventually ended in January 1979, when the ashram issued a press release stating that violence " had fulfilled its function within the overall context of the ashram as an evolving spiritual commune.

Ohira met a lot of opposition within his own party and gave up on his attempt after his party suffered badly in the 1979 election.

Auricular confession within mainstream Anglicanism became accepted in the second half of the 20th century ; the 1979 Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church in the USA provides two forms for it in the section " The Reconciliation of a Penitent.