In 1961, Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the bill that formally created the City University of New York to integrate these institutions, and a new graduate school, together into a coordinate system of higher education for the city, and by 1979, the Board of Higher Education had become the Board of Trustees of the CUNY.

: 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.

The United States gave up its claims to 14 islands of the Line and Phoenix chains ( previously asserted under the Guano Islands Act ) in the 1979 Treaty of Tarawa.

The US Guano Islands Act claim was formally ceded by the Treaty of Tarawa between the U. S. and Kiribati, signed in 1979 and ratified in 1983.

The Norfolk Island Act 1979, passed by the Parliament of Australia in 1979, is the Act under which the island is governed.

* 1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.

** Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 ( ASIO Act )

* PDF Document: Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 ( Commonwealth )

* PDF Document: Statement of Procedures – warrants issued under Division 3 of Part III of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979.

Results from the other reports included the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 and the establishment of the Office of National Assessments ( ONA ) and the passage of the Office of National Assessments Act 1977.

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.

The Taiwan Relations Act ( TRA ; ; ) is an act of the United States Congress passed in 1979 after the establishment of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and the breaking of relations between the United States and the Republic of China ( ROC ) on the island of Taiwan by President Jimmy Carter.

When President Jimmy Carter in 1979 broke off relations with the ROC in order to establish relations with the PRC, Congress responded by passing the Taiwan Relations Act that maintained relations, but stopped short of full recognition of the ROC.

These measures were further strengthened by the 1979 Packwood-Magnuson Amendment to the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976.

Recreated by the Department of Education Organization Act ( Public Law 96-88 ) and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1979, it began operating on May 4, 1980.

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 the 1979 Act, a monument cannot be a structure which is occupied as a dwelling, used as a place of worship or protected under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973.

Scheduled Monuments are defined in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.

In England, Scotland and Wales, protection of monuments can also be given by another process, additional to or separate from scheduling, taking the monument into state ownership or placing it under guardianship, classifying it as a Guardianship Monument under the terms of Section 12 of the 1979 Act ( as amended by the National Heritage Act 1983 in England, and by the Historic Environment ( Amendment ) ( Scotland ) Act 2011 ( reference below )) ( e. g. St Rule's Church in St Andrews ).

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.

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.

In 1979, because of the difficulties in realizing a Planck radiator at high temperatures and the new possibilities offered by radiometry, the 16th CGPM adopted the modern definition of the candela.

The People's Bank of China evolved its role as a central bank starting in about 1979 with the introduction of market reforms, which accelerated in 1989 when the country adopted a generally capitalist approach to its export economy.

More generations of English speakers have learned about China through Wade – Giles ( proposed in 1859, revised in 1892 ) than through Pinyin ( approved in 1958, adopted in 1979 ).

As a result, L ( uppercase letter L ) was adopted as an alternative symbol for litre in 1979.

In 1979, at the 16th CGPM conference, the alternative symbol L ( uppercase letter L ) was adopted.

Four of the five Marshallese presidents who have been elected since the Constitution was adopted in 1979 have been traditional paramount chiefs.

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.

Callaghan himself had adopted policies echoing monetarism while serving as prime minister from 1976 to 1979, adopting deflationary policies and reducing public spending in response to high inflation and national debt.

The bill was adopted by the Senate by a unanimous vote on September 6, 1979, and remained essentially intact until it was signed in 1980.

After changes in membership that saw charter members Pittsburgh and Villanova leave and new members St. Bonaventure ( 1979 ), Rhode Island ( 1980 ), Saint Joseph's ( 1982 ) and Temple ( 1982 ) enter, establishing the league with 10 members, the conference adopted the current Atlantic 10 name in 1982.

The current St. Louis County Charter was adopted by the voters on November 6, 1979.

This legislation is called the Habitats Directive and complements the Birds Directive adopted in 1979.

In 1979 the town adopted off leash use times at all community parks in the town code when they adopted the county and state standards for dog laws.

Between 1975 – 76 and 1979 – 80, ties would still be replayed, but a penalty shoot-out would be used to settle ties that could not be decided after a replay ; replays of two-legged matches were finally abolished for 1980 – 81, with the away goals rule and penalties being adopted instead.

Dickerson ( who had not worked with War since 1979 ) adopted a name which referenced one of War biggest hits: Lowrider Band.

Women ’ s suffrage is explicitly stated as a right under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted by the United Nations in 1979.

The logo was adopted on 8 November 1979, and it shows the god Ullr of Norse mythology holding a bow and three arrows.

From their first gig, opening for The Jam at Reading University in February 1979, the band was adopted by a group of East End Mods, who readily embraced Page ’ s Glory Boy concept.

In 1979, its congress adopted a new programme, Our Future, which did not commit the group to Marxism and removed the policy of democratic centralism.

Iran adopted it after the 1979 Iranian Revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty.

The GRS-80 ( Geodetic Reference System 1980 ) as approved and adopted by the IUGG at its Canberra, Australia meeting of 1979 is based on the equatorial radius ( semi-major axis of Earth ellipsoid ), total mass, dynamic form factor and angular velocity of rotation, making the inverse flattening a derived quantity.

The Philippines adopted electrocution in 1924 under US occupation, and used it until 1979.

On October 17, 1979, a meeting of 22 Kuomintang security agencies adopted a proposal to ban the magazine after a protest from the Korean Embassy over an article in the 2nd issue titled " Unveil the Myth of the Korean Economic Miracle " ( 揭發韓國經濟奇蹟的神話 ).