In 1979, the title to the landfill was transferred from the city to the Battery Park City Authority, which financially restructured itself and created a new, more viable master plan, designed by Alex Cooper and Stanton Eckstut.

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.

In 1979, the CUNY Financing and Governance Act was adopted by the State and the Board of Higher Education officially became The City University of New York Board of Trustees.

The 1979 film La Cage aux Folles ran for well over a year at the Paris Theatre, an art house cinema in New York City, and was a commercial success at theaters throughout the country, in both urban and rural areas.

He had tried to succeed as a comedian for several years, before attending the Juilliard School in New York City, where he studied drama, between 1979 and 1981.

* 1979 – Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just two blocks away from his New York City home, prompting an international search for the child, and causing U. S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children's Day ( in 1983 ).

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

Panama City was enriched by the past century of American influences in terms of additions to the country's Latin culture, economics ( the US was involved in development of roads, schools and medical care ), and international trade by the nearby Panama Canal, once was under US jurisdiction: the Canal Zone territory from 1903 to 1979.

In 1979, he left radio and accepted a position as director of promotions with the Kansas City Royals baseball team.

* In the 1979 serial " City of Death ", Count Scarlioni's henchmen use a " sonic knife " to cut the glass in front of the Mona Lisa.

* Low Mary, Breá Juan, Red Spanish Notebook, City Light Books, Sans Francisco, 1979, ISBN 0-87286-132-5

She appeared in a number of disaster films throughout the 1970s, notably Earthquake ( 1974 ) with Charlton Heston, The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ), and the Canadian movie City on Fire ( 1979 ).

In 1979, Hanks moved to New York City, where he made his film debut in the low-budget slasher film He Knows You're Alone ( 1980 ) and got a part in the television movie Mazes and Monsters.

The largest one was held in New York City in September 1979 and involved 200, 000 people ; speeches were given by Jane Fonda and Ralph Nader.

Bron appeared in a brief scene in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who serial City of Death ( 1979 ) alongside John Cleese as art critics in Denise Rene's art gallery in Paris.

In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later ( 1978 ), as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 1979.

Since 1979 Salt Lake City has had a nonpartisan mayor-council form of government.

His last dramatic role before portraying mainly comedy roles was the 1979 Canadian disaster film City on Fire in which he played a corrupt mayor.

* The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has chapters in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world.

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.

Burr co-starred in such TV films as Eischied: Only The Pretty Girls Die and Disaster On The Coastliner ( both 1979 ), The Curse of King Tut's Tomb and The Night the City Screamed ( both 1980 ), and Peter and Paul ( 1981 ).

Subsequently in 1979, in the US, the University of California, Berkeley appointed him to two professorships ; Professor of Sociology, and Professor of City and Regional Planning.

* Kansas City 8: Get Together ( 1979, Pablo )

Since the team's move from New Orleans to Salt Lake City in 1979, the Utah Jazz have worn several uniforms throughout their franchise history.

Founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein and headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Miramax was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1993.

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the new Islamic government of Iran began an international campaign of assassination that lasted into the 1990s.

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.

So began her 40 years of research on Peirce the mathematician and scientist, culminating in Eisele ( 1976, 1979, 1985 ).

In 1980 and again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums which were virtually ignored in the United States due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979.

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

In 1979, Citybus began its operation in Hong Kong with one double-decker, providing shuttle service for the Hong Kong dockyard.

The war began when Iraq invaded Iran, launching a simultaneous invasion by air and land 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes, and fuelled by fears of Shia Islam insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority influenced by the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

The French automaker Renault began investing in AMC in 1979.

In 1979, while still owned by American Motors, AM General began the first steps toward designing the Humvee.

He quit DEC in 1979 and began writing full-time, moving to Orlando, Florida, for a year where he met his third wife Jackie.

Starting in 1979 with a 7-percent financial stake, Ford began a partnership with Mazda resulting in various joint projects.

In September 1979, Raskin began looking for an engineer who could put together a prototype.

In 1979, the Giants began the steps that would, in time, return them to the pinnacle of the NFL.

Initially equipped with ex-RAF Hawker Hunters, the air force soon began expansion with six Dassault / Dornier Alpha Jets in 1979.

In 1979 refurbishment began on Oakley Court and the building is now a luxury hotel.

In 1979, Kamal began a campaign against Soviet forces and the Soviet-supported government of Afghanistan.

The main development overseen by the Jenkins Commission was the development of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union from 1977, which began in 1979 as the European Monetary System, a forerunner of the Single Currency or Euro.

Grundy's Prisoner began screening in the United States in 1979 and achieved high ratings in many regions there, however only the first three years of the series would be screened in that country.

With the development of a more conservative Black middle class, however, the party began to steadily lose support, until it collapsed after a rout in the 1979 elections.

In 1979 and 1980, former Somoza supporters and ex-members of Somoza's National Guard formed irregular military forces, while the original core of the FSLN began to splinter.

In 1979, construction on the Eric Williams Plaza began.

Following the ' You Got My Number tour ' of October 1979, the Undertones began recording the songs for their second album at Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands.

After moving to London, Vangelis signed with RCA Records, set up his own studio, Nemo Studios, and began recording a string of electronic albums, such as Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), Albedo 0. 39 ( 1976 ), Spiral ( 1977 ), Beaubourg ( 1978 ), and China ( 1979 ).

MicroPro began selling the product, now renamed WordStar, in June 1979.

In 1979, Sony began selling the popular Walkman in Japan, and in 1980 started legal talks with Pavel regarding a royalty fee.