Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.

In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

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.

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

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

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.

The dawning of a newly successful era in Roma's footballing history was brought in with another Coppa Italia victory, they beat Torino on penalties to win the 1979 – 80 cup.

In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world's first portable music player.

An orchestration was therefore commissioned in secret from Friedrich Cerha and premièred in Paris ( under Pierre Boulez ) only in 1979, soon after Helene Berg's own death.

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.

Atari's management decided to enter this market, and the new technology was repackaged into the Atari 400 and 800, hitting the market in 1979.

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.

* In 1979, an asteroid — 1979 Sakharov — was named after him.

The WHO calls alcoholism " a term of long-standing use and variable meaning ", and use of the term was disfavored by a 1979 WHO Expert Committee.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

; AIM-54A: The original model that became operational with the U. S. Navy in about 1974, and it was also exported to Iran in modest numbers before the Iran hostage crisis beginning in 1979.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

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.

The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979, and was selected at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d ' Or, along with The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

In November 1976, Major was selected by the Huntingdonshire Conservatives as its candidate, winning in the 1979 general election.

In a separate study to demonstrate how unexpected frustration leads to increased aggression, Kulik & Brown ( 1979 ) selected a group of students as volunteers to make calls for charity donations.

In the 1979 NBA Draft, Los Angeles selected point guard Magic Johnson from Michigan State with the first overall pick.

In 1979, Ringwald appeared in the TV series Diff ' rent Strokes and was selected to become a cast member of the spin-off Facts of Life.

Onizuka was selected for the astronaut program in January 1978, and completed one year of evaluation and training in August 1979.

* Das Alfred Andersch Lesebuch ; selected works, 1979

The selection was something of a surprise, as Arthur Latham ( defeated in 1979 at Paddington by 106 votes, and former Chairman of the Tribune Group ) was expected to be selected ( Tatchell defeated him by 37 to 30 ).

It then selected 102. 5, and was eventually given a construction permit in 1979 for that frequency.

He was selected 41st overall by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft and played seven seasons in Quebec.

In the 1979 NFL Draft, the San Francisco 49ers selected Montana at the end of the third round with the 82nd overall pick.

Each winner of the 1979 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

) Also an accomplished baseball player, Elway was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the 18 < sup > th </ sup > round of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft.

He was selected to oppose the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Teddy Taylor at the 1979 election in the Glasgow Cathcart seat.

The GLC selected the Pear Tree House bunker as the South East group war HQ and although not ideal it was converted in 1979.

Hastings served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1979 to 1987, where he was selected by his colleagues to be Assistant Majority Leader and Republican Caucus Chairman.

He was selected to contest the safe Labour seat of Birkenhead at the 1979 General Election on the retirement of the sitting MP Edmund Dell.

He was selected to contest the Chingford constituency at the 1979 general election but was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Norman Tebbit by 12, 383 votes.

Robinson was selected as DUP candidate for Belfast East during the 1979 general election, a seat which previously had a big Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP ) majority.

On August 9, 1979, the Department of the Army announced that Fort Irwin had been selected as the site for the National Training Center.

In 1979, Hawerchuk was selected 6th overall by the Cornwall Royals of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and became somewhat of a rarity ; a Toronto-born player starring in the QMJHL.

Hershiser was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 17th round of the 1979 amateur draft and was assigned to their Class A farm team, Clinton Dodgers.

Buchli became a NASA astronaut in August 1979, selected as part of Group 8.

One of 35 candidates selected by NASA in January 1978 for the new Space Shuttle program, Walker became an astronaut in August 1979.