On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

The KGH monopolies were ended in 1950 ; Greenland was made an equal part of the Danish Kingdom in 1953 and Home Rule granted in 1979.

In May 1979, they were granted their official exit visas and were allowed to leave the country.

Licensing rights were also granted to Mattel Electronics for two educational based video games for the Intellivision console in 1979.

Shortly before independence was granted in 1979, a local competition was held to choose a new national flag, and a design based on the colonial coat of arms was submitted to the College of Arms.

Dr. Welch was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979, and he is the recipient of the 2003 Claude E. Shannon Award – the highest honor granted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ’ Information Theory Society.

Home rule was granted by Danish parliament in 1979.

They were granted on 24 August 1979.

The coat-of-arms was granted on 8 November 1979.

They were granted on 4 May 1979.

They were granted on 29 June 1979.

They were granted on 2 February 1979.

They were granted on 9 February 1979.

The coat-of-arms is from modern times ; they were granted on 8 November 1979.

However Time magazine points out those such as Adolf Hitler in 1938, and Joseph Stalin in 1939 and again in 1942, and the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 have also been granted the title.

Britain's Crime Writers Association awarded him its Gold Dagger Award for fiction in 1979 and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989. he was granted another Lifetime Achievement Award.

The ones that stand out are: John Scott Prize 1979, granted by Philadelphia ; the creation of the Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery " Dr René G. Favaloro " ( Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1980 ); the distinction of the Fundación Conchita Rábago de Giménez Díaz ( Madrid, Spain, 1982 ); the Teacher Prize of Argentinian Medicine ( 1986 ); the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation ( 1987 ); The Gairdner Foundation International Award, granted by the Gairdner Foundation ( Toronto, Canada, 1987 ); the René Leriche Prize 1989, granted by the International Surgery Society ; the Gifted Teacher Award, granted by the American College of Cardiology ( 1992 ); the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement ( 1993 ); the Prince Mahidol Prize, granted by His Majesty the King of Thailand ( Bangkok, Thailand, 1999 ).

In 1979 the U. S. Supreme court sided against the FCC in the case FCC v. Midwest Video Corp., 440 U. S. 689 ( 1979 ), determining that the FCC's new requirements exceeded the agency's statutory powers as granted to them by Congress.

The Cunninghame District Council was granted a coat of arms by Lord Lyon King of Arms in 1979.

In August 1979, Hurricane David, packing winds of, struck the island with devastating force.

* 1979 – The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from United Kingdom.

The airstrip constructed on the island by the Royal Engineers in 1956-57 remained usable in July 1979.

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

Following victories in the 1967 and 1974 elections, the SVLP led the island to independence, winning the first post-independence election in 1979.

On 1 April 1979 the last British forces left the island after the end of the economic pact to stabilise the Maltese economy.

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.

In 1979, control of the island was transferred to the local Aboriginal Town Council.

The country had a close call with powerful Hurricane David in 1979, which devastated the nearby island of Hispaniola.

The event on December 10, 1979 started out as the first major Human Rights Day celebration on the island.

Two leaders from the opposing parties, the Popular Democratic Party and the Puerto Rican Independence Party, charged that after a December 1979 meeting between the two, the Governor, then considered as a lifelong Republican, began campaigning to deliver the 41 Democratic Party convention votes of the island for President Jimmy Carter ’ s ( D ) nomination for the presidency ( ironically, Carter ’ s opponent for the nomination was Senator Kennedy ).

Between 1936 and 1979 he performed ten times in Japan ( a small Japanese island was named Kenpu-san in his honor ).

The island of Fernando Pó had its name Africanized after him to Masie Ngueme Biyogo Island ; upon his overthrow in 1979, its name was again changed to Bioko.

The museum covers the past and present of the island and houses Odin's Raven, a two-thirds scale replica of a Viking longship which had been built in and sailed from Norway, arriving on July 4, 1979 to celebrate the millennium of the High Court of Tynwald, the legislature of the Isle of Man.

It was opened on 5 July 1979 by Queen Elizabeth II, during her visit to the island to celebrate the millennium of Tynwald, and since then has grown to about 850 pupils with about 50 staff.

The Freedom Monument commemorates the departure of British forces from the island in 1979.

In November 1978, the government of Fidel Castro met in the City of Havana with a group of Cubans living in exile, where the government acceded, among other important decisions, to start authorizing Cuban exiles to visit their relatives on the island as early as January 1979.

The flag of the Marshall Islands, an island nation in the Pacific, was adopted upon the start of self-governance, May 1, 1979.

With the independence of Kiribati from Britain in 1979, the Anglo-American condominium was formally terminated, and the island transferred to Kiribati sovereignty.

Gilbert made landfall for a second time on the island of Cozumel, and subsequently made landfall on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula on September 14 as a Category 5 hurricane, making it the first Category 5 to make landfall in the Atlantic basin since Hurricane David hit Hispanola in 1979 ; the minimum pressure at landfall in Cozumel was estimated to be 900 mbar ( 26. 6 inHg ).

Bardsey Island Trust () bought the island in 1979, after an appeal supported by the Church in Wales and many Welsh academics and public figures.

* The Barbuda People's Movement has ruled the island of Barbuda since 1979, and has won every election for the island's seat in the national House of Representatives.

In 1979, while filming Somewhere in Time, a car was brought on the island for Christopher Reeve's character to drive.