Costas later did play-by-play for Chicago Bulls broadcasts on WGN-TV during the 1979 – 1980 NBA season.

The Bulls joined the Central Hockey League for the 1979 – 80 season and became a minor league affiliate of the NHL's Atlanta Flames.

* Cortez Collins, Drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 1979

In 1979 Sloan became the Bulls ' head coach.

The Belleville Bulls started in 1979 as a Junior Tier II team in the OHA.

Timothy Filiga " Tim " Cahill ( born 6 December 1979 ) is an Australian footballer who plays for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer and the Australian national football team.

The Bulls were not included in the WHA-NHL merger of 1979.

After the WHA ceased operations in 1979, the Birmingham Bulls joined the Central Hockey League, playing during the 1979 – 80 and 1980 – 81 seasons.

Teemu Tainio (, born 27 November 1979 in Tornio ) is a Finnish footballer, who currently plays for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.

* 1979 – John Brophy, Birmingham Bulls

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

FAT lost its status as the legal state army when Malloum's civil and military administration disintegrated in 1979.

The Christian Democrat group was the biggest group at formation, but as time wore on it lost support and was the second-biggest group by the time of the 1979 elections.

In 2001, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now as Apocalypse Now Redux, restoring several sequences lost from the original 1979 cut of the film, thereby expanding its length to 200 minutes.

Sales of the Commodore also fell, with the effects of the 1979 energy crisis lessening, and for the first time the Commodore lost ground to the Ford Falcon.

At the height of the strikes, nearly 30, 000, 000 working days were lost in Britain during 1979, but that had fallen dramatically to some 5, 000, 000 during 1981 as a result of the Thatcher government's union reform policies.

In 1979, they advanced to the final of the European Cup defeating AS Monaco, Dynamo Kiew, Wisla Krakow and Austria Vienna but lost in the final at the Munich Olympic Stadium against Nottingham Forest by a single goal just before half time scored by Trevor Francis.

Despite major signings, including Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Gary Bailey, and Ray Wilkins, the team failed to achieve any significant results ; they finished in the top two in 1979 – 80 and lost to Arsenal in the 1979 FA Cup Final.

In 1979, one of the Stranglers ' two managers advised them to break up as he felt that the band had lost direction, but this idea was dismissed and they parted company with their then current management team.

Anderson postponed his decision to run, lost his campaign manager, and struggled to raise money, but in late April 1979 he made the decision to enter the Republican primary anyway, joining a crowded field that included Robert Dole, John Connally, Howard Baker, George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

In the third ballot on 5 April, Callaghan defeated Foot in a parliamentary vote of 176 to 137, thus becoming Wilson's successor as Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party, and remained prime minister until May 1979, when Labour lost the general election to the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister.

At the 1979 general election the party's vote share declined from 10. 8 % to 8. 1 % and Carmarthen was again lost to Labour.

Chatham lost its independence as a borough under the Local Government Act 1972, by which, on 1 April 1974, it became part of the Borough of Medway, a non-metropolitan district of the county of Kent ; under subsequent renaming the Borough became the Borough of Rochester-upon-Medway ( 1979 ); and, from 1982, the City of Rochester-upon-Medway.

Clark's reputation as a leader had taken a beating when, as Prime Minister, he carelessly lost a non-confidence motion over his minority government's budget in December 1979, leading to the fall of his government ; the PCs subsequently lost the federal election held two months later when Trudeau rescinded his announced retirement, and returned to lead the Liberals to a majority.

He became shadow Attorney-General under the leadership of Frank Wilkes, but when Wilkes lost the 1979 election to the Liberal premier, Dick Hamer, Cain challenged him for the leadership, becoming leader in September 1981.

The Belgian Government reacted with poor macroeconomic policies to the 1973 and 1979 oil price hikes by hiring the redundant work force into the public sector and subsidizing industries like coal, steel, textiles, glass, and shipbuilding, which had lost their international competitive edge.

The 1979 – 80 team lost its last 14 games of the season which, when coupled with the seven losses at the start of the 1980 – 81 season, comprised a then-NBA record losing streak of 21 games ( since broken ).

In the 1979 election, Sauvé won the riding of Laval-des-Rapides, but the Liberals lost their majority in the commons to the Progressive Conservative Party, and Sauvé thus lost her cabinet position.

The Liberals lost the federal election, of May, 1979 to a minority Conservative government led by Joe Clark.

The NAACP lost its suit against the city, but this decision was remanded and reversed in 1979 by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

With the advent of Conservative governments in Britain after the 1979 general election, trades union banners lost their popularity, and many languished in damp cellars or lofts.

This huge success of the Krugerrand encouraged other gold-producing countries to mint and issue gold bullion coins of their own, including the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf in 1979, the Australian Nugget in 1981, the Chinese Gold Panda in 1982, the American Gold Eagle in 1986, and the British Britannia coin in 1987.

A twelve sided 50 ngwee coin was introduced in 1979 to replace the 50 ngwee note and featured commemorative FAO themes.

When West Germany replaced the silver 5 mark coin with a copper-nickel one in 1975, the silver 5 mark commemoratives also reverted to copper-nickel ( in 1979 ).

The popularity of coin operated arcade games in 1979 spurred the company to shift its focus from pinball games to arcade games.

Richard Corbett's activities in the European Students at Oxford led on to him being elected first to the youth board of the European Movement in Britain and then to the international presidency of the youth wing of the European Movement and of the Union of European Federalists, the Young European Federalists ( JEF ), a post he held from 1979 to 1981, drafting their Manifesto which was the first to coin the phrase " democratic deficit " in relation to the European Parliament's then lack of any power over European legislation.

The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a United States coin minted from 1979 to 1981, and again in 1999.

The coin was released July 2, 1979.

The reverse design was recycled ( in shrunken form ) for the Susan B. Anthony dollar in 1979 and remained on the dollar coin until 1999, when that dollar was replaced by the Sacagawea dollar in 2000, which did not continue the design.

In film, Andy Voda made a movie in 1979 called " Chance Chants " which he produced by a flip of a coin, or roll of a dice.

A large sized $ 1 coin was first released for circulation in 1969 and again in 1979 before being replaced with a smaller sized version in 1995 more regularly minted.

Its dimensions and appearance were the same as the British coin of the same denomination as the pounds of Britain and Ireland were pegged until 1979.

It was first Irish decimal coin that was of a different size to the corresponding British coin, as the Irish pound had not been pegged to the British pound since 1979.

It was of the same shape and size of the British coin of the same denomination, as both nations ' pounds were pegged until 1979.

The Lakers won the coin toss and selected Earvin " Magic " Johnson, who had just led Michigan State University to the NCAA championship, and was along with Indiana State University forward Larry Bird one of the top prospects in the 1979 draft.

* James Berry ( artist ) ( 1906 – 1979 ), New Zealand artist, stamp and coin designer