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 ).

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.

" Even Thatcher herself wrote in her 1995 memoirs, which charted her beginnings in Grantham to her victory in the 1979 General Election, that she admired Attlee, writing: " Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer.

She later moved to Russellville, Arkansas with her family, where she graduated from Russellville High School in 1979.

When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were tragically changed, and she refused him.

Until her death in 1979 she participated in the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation that she founded.

In late 1979, she released the album I Have a Right which contained her next disco hit, " Let Me Know ( I Have a Right )", which featured Doc Severinsen of The Tonight Show fame, on trumpet solo.

An Anglican Christian, she played a considerable part in the drafting of the 1979 American Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.

Robinson's early political career included election to Dublin City Council in 1979, where she served until 1983.

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.

In 1971 she joined the Social Democratic Party and worked as a lawyer in the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions until she was elected to parliament in 1979.

Additionally, in 1979 she was elected to the Parliament of Finland as a representative of the Helsinki constituency.

Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).

Anderson is perhaps best known for her role as Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie, as well as for her film roles ; as Vivian in Midnight Offerings, as Ginny in the cult classic slasher Happy Birthday to Me, and as Alex in the ABC Afterschool Special, Which Mother Is Mine ?, for which she won the Emmy Award in 1979.

Also in 1979, she played the title role of Dana Lee, a North Dakota transfer student to L. A .' s San Fernando Valley in CBS's Survival of Dana.

Model Janice Dickinson states that she coined the term " supermodel " in 1979 as a compound of Superman and model.

In 1979, she became a trainee reporter.

After Gulf Winds ( 1976 ), an album of entirely self-composed songs, and From Every Stage ( 1976 ), a live album that had Baez performing songs " from every stage " of her career, Baez again parted ways with a record label when she moved to CBS Records for Blowin ' Away ( 1977 ) and Honest Lullaby ( 1979 ).

Near the end of the decade, she starred in two films based on best-selling novels by her younger sister Jackie Collins: The Stud ( 1978 ) and its sequel The Bitch ( 1979 ).

In the later years of her career, she made guest appearances in three different series by Aaron Spelling ; The Love Boat ( 1979 ), Glitter ( 1984 ), and Hotel ( 1987 ), which would be her final screen appearance as an actress.

In 1979, a Jamaican, Maria Ziadie-Haddad, became one of the first women in the Western Hemisphere to become a commercial jet airline pilot when she was hired by Air Jamaica 1968 Ltd as a B727 Second Officer.

By the time she had completed her military service in 1979, Haza had matured as a singer and was ready to launch a solo career.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

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 ".

1979 also brought Devo to Japan for the first time, and a live show from this tour was partially recorded.

* 1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.

Gaynor also recorded a disco song called " Love Is Just a Heartbeat Away " in 1979 for the vampire movie Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula which featured a number of disco songs.

Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status.

* 1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.

Karachi's highest recorded temperature is, which was recorded on June 18, 1979, and the lowest is, recorded on 21 January 1934.

* 1979 – The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87. 0 kPa ( 870 mbar or 25. 69 inHg ), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.

*" Cricket Star " ( 1979, one sided flexi single recorded under Robert Calvert and the 1st XI )

The ' Opera in Six Scenes ' was subsequently recorded by Decca between March and June 1979 and released on the Argo label in November 1979.

This band recorded the album Rock ' N ' Roll with the Modern Lovers ( 1977 ) and toured until Keranen left to go to college and was replaced by Asa Brebner, who played on the albums Modern Lovers Live ( 1978 ) and Back in Your Life ( 1979 ).

In 1979 they recorded songs under the name of Mental Torture before finally changing their name to The Associates.

In January 1979, the Undertones recorded their eponymous debut album at Eden Studios in Acton, West London, using producer Roger Bechirian, whom the band had worked with for the first time the previous December, when Bechirian had produced the band's second single, " Get Over You ".

Nicks wrote and recorded demos for the solo project during Tusk sessions in 1979 and the Tusk world tour of 1979 – 80.

Nicks recorded the hit duets " Whenever I Call You Friend " with Kenny Loggins in 1978, and " Gold " with John Stewart in 1979.

Similarly, Saddam Hussein's formal rule of Iraq is often recorded as beginning in 1979, the year he assumed the Presidency of Iraq.

The 1979 first single " Killing an Arab " by The Cure was recorded at the same time as their first LP in the UK, Three Imaginary Boys ( 1979 ) but not included on the album.

However, his last known recorded performance of the song, at a November 1979 command performance for Queen Elizabeth II, was a complete version.

* The song was recorded in 1979 by disco group Gary's Gang for their album Gangbusters.