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

Thirty years later, on March 6, 2009, Philips received an IEEE Milestone award with the following citation: " On 8 March 1979, N. V. Philips ' Gloeilampenfabrieken demonstrated for the international press a Compact Disc Audio Player.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

White's rework of the book was extremely well received, and further editions of the work followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999 ; an illustrated edition followed in 2005.

GMUSL began operations in that building on July 1, 1979 and received provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1980.

Single-party presidential and legislative elections were held in June 1979, and Gen. Moussa Traoré received 99 % of the votes.

Single-party presidential and legislative elections were held in June 1979, and Gen. Moussa Traoré received 99 % of the votes.

In 1979, Gorbachev was promoted to the Politburo, the highest authority in the country, and received full membership in 1980.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

In 1979 he received his Ph. D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, with a thesis entitled Secrecy, authentication and public key systems.

In 1979 he received a Ph. D. in psychology from Paideia University in California, an unaccredited institution that has since closed.

He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men ( 1946 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.

Parks received national recognition, including the NAACP's 1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall.

He remained in the area and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Hartwick College in 1979.

Le Guin has received five Hugo awards and six Nebula awards, and was awarded the Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2003.

In 1979 foreign owners were dispossessed and received compensation from their own governments and a date was set for full independence.

He has received two Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards — for playing Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman ( National Theatre, 1979 ) and as best supporting actor in a 2003 performance of The Price, also by Miller.

He received his Ph. D. from Makerere University in 1979.

In addition to the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962, which he shared with John Kendrew for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins, Max Perutz received a number of other important honors: he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963, received the Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst in 1967, the Royal Medal in 1971, the Copley Medal in 1979, the Companions of Honour in 1975, and the Order of Merit in 1989.

Everything came to a head in 1979 when Chrysler's new chairman, Lee Iacocca, requested and received federal loan guarantees from the United States Congress in an effort to save the company from having to file bankruptcy.

These films in particular, as well as others including Play Misty for Me ( 1971 ), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ( 1974 ), The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ), Tightrope ( 1984 ), Pale Rider ( 1985 ), Heartbreak Ridge ( 1986 ), In the Line of Fire ( 1993 ), The Bridges of Madison County ( 1995 ), and Gran Torino ( 2008 ), have all received commercial success and critical acclaim.

He received a BA degree in psychology at McGill University in 1976, and then went on to earn his PhD degree in experimental psychology at Harvard University in 1979.

In 1976, he received the World Science Fiction Society's Gandalf Grand Master award for lifetime achievement in fantasy writing ; he was designated a SFWA Grandmaster in 1979.

As the writer Don Atyeo has explained in his study of Violence in Sport ( 1979 ), ' Boxiana is riddled with " Fancy " slang: '" Ogles " were blackened, " peepers " plunged into darkness, " tripe-shops " received " staggerers ", " ivories " were cracked, " domino boxes " shattered, and " claret " flowed in a steady stream.

In 1979, he met Uruguayan model Alicia Muñiz, with whom he had an on-and-off relation for many years.

* Kyle Richards as Alicia ( Sanderson ) Edwards ( 1975 – 77, 1979, 1982 )

In ( 1979 ) he participated in the movie production of Jacobo Morales ' Díos los Cría ( And God created them ) alongside Norma Candal, Gladys Rodríguez, Esther Sandoval and Alicia Moreda.

Alicia Nicole Webb ( born May 4, 1979 ) is an American professional wrestling valet.

* 1979 – Corey Patterson, American baseball player

It originated in the Patterson stadium also known as " The Sugar Dome " as Dalton Hilliard led the Lumberjacks to the Louisiana State Championship game in 1979 where they lost to John Curtis 28-0. The Lumberjacks went to the Louisiana State Championship game on December 10, 2010, but lost to Parkview Baptist 24-20.

The Patterson Covered Bridge No. 112 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

On June 19, 1979, he lost the North American Championship to Pat Patterson, who unified the title with the fictional " South American Championship " to become the first ever Intercontinental Champion.

Following the title's introduction in 1979, Pat Patterson became the inaugural champion on September 15, 1979.

The inaugural champion was Pat Patterson, who became champion after unifying his North American Championship with a " South American Heavyweight Championship " in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 1979.

Patterson remained on One Life to Live until 1970, when his character Joe Riley was presumed dead ; he returned to the show in 1972 and remained the romantic lead until 1979, when he left due to his unhappiness with the direction the show took after Doris Quinlan left to produce NBC's troubled serial The Doctors.

Donald Corey Patterson ( August 13, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia ) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers organization.

It was only in 1976, under manager Jackie Hutton and his assistant Jackie Patterson, that Cliftonville experienced a " revolution in fortune " which peaked on 28 April 1979 in the Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park.

* Daniel W. Patterson ( 1979 ), The Shaker Spiritual, Princeton University Press.

The SLOSS debate ensued as to the extent to which smaller reserves shared species with one another, leading to the development of nested subset theory by Bruce Patterson and Wirt Atmar in the 1980s and to the establishment of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project ( BDFFP ) near Manaus, Brazil in 1979 by Thomas Lovejoy and Richard Bierregaard.

In 1979, Patterson debuted in the then World Wide Wrestling Federation, working as a heel, under the tutelage of manager The Grand Wizard.

In September 1979, Patterson allegedly won a tournament held in Rio de Janeiro, unifying the WWF North American Championship with the South American Championship to create the WWF Intercontinental Championship in the process.

( In later years, Patterson apparently made an inside joke for " smark " fans by wearing a T-shirt bearing the legend " Rio de Janeiro 1979 " while on camera.

Cerner was founded in 1979 by Neal Patterson, Paul Gorup, and Cliff Illig, who were colleagues at Arthur Andersen.

Patterson is best known for his prominent role in the Southern Baptist Convention conservative resurgence starting in 1979 with the election of Adrian Rogers as Convention President.