* 1979 – Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.

He was a central figure in the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war.

After the Soviet occupation of 1979, his role as an insurgence leader earned him the nickname of " Lion of Panjshir " ().

Following the 1979 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet troops, Massoud devised a strategic plan for expelling the invaders and overthrowing the communist regime.

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.

Indeed, in the largest biological weapons accident known – the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city ( known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today, see Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak ).

Karmal would remain in exile until December 1979, when the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan ( with the consent of the Afghan government ) to stabilise the situation in the country, they killed Amin, the leader of the PDPA and the Afghan government.

* Sivachev, Nikolai and Nikolai Yakolev, Russia and the United States ( 1979 ), by Soviet historians

Population censuses have been taken in Azerbaijan under Russian / Soviet rule in 1897, 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

* 1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

The 1979 Soviet invasion and ensuing civil war destroyed much of the country's limited infrastructure, and disrupted normal patterns of economic activity.

In the year of the 60th anniversary of the Soviet cinema ( 1979 ), on April 25, a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR established a commemorative " Day of the Soviet cinema ".

After the December 1979 Soviet invasion, Afghanistan's foreign policy mirrored that of the Soviet Union.

US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, known for his hardline policies on the Soviet Union, initiated in 1979 a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain's MI6.

To bolster the Parcham faction, the Soviet Union decided to intervene on December 24, 1979, when the Red Army invaded its southern neighbor.

This event marked the opening salvo of the rebellion which led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.

* 1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, on December 24, 1979, the Red Army occupied the capital.

After the December 1979 Soviet invasion, KAM was renamed and came under the control of the KGB.

* Anatoly Vasilievich Kuznetsov ( 1929 – 1979 ), Soviet writer, author of Babi Yar

The last version of the Auto Union Combi / Pick-up ( DKW F1000 L ) launched in 1969, survives a few months and is bought out by IME which continued production until 1979.

* Scott, P. H. 1707: The Union of Scotland and England: In Contemporary Documents ( 1979 ), primary sources

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

Mazar-e Sharif remained peaceful for the next one hundred years until 1979, when then neighboring Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

In 1979, the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan to secure the communist regime there, though the act was seen as an invasion by Afghans opposed to Afghanistan's communist regime and by the West.

* Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT II ) 1979: Replacing SALT I, SALT II limited both the Soviet Union and the United States to an equal number of ICBM launchers, SLBM launchers, and heavy bombers.

The parties entered into a contract dispute before the 1980 season, and when negotiations lasted into spring training, the Padres renewed Smith's contract at his 1979 salary of $ 72, 500 Angered by the Padres ' attitude during those contract talks, Gottlieb took out a help-wanted ad in the San Diego Union, part of which read, " Padre baseball player wants part-time employment to supplement income.

Post-independence, it has fought three wars against India, several border skirmishes with Afghanistan and against the Soviet Union which occupied Afghanistan in 1979, and an extended border skirmish with India in 1999 ( Kargil War ) and is currently conducting anti-terrorist operations along the border areas 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.

* Book of Prayer: According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews David de Sola Pool, New York: Union of Sephardic Congregations, 1979

In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan which led to an ongoing war for ten years.

President of the United States | United States President Jimmy Carter and Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks | SALT II treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna, Austria.

Indeed, in the largest biological weapons accident known – the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city ( known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today, see Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak ).

The Soviet Union intervened, supported by the Afghan government, in December 1979, and on 27 December Amin was assassinated by Soviet military forces.

The Soviet Union declared its plan to intervene in Afghanistan on 12 December 1979, and the Soviet leadership initiated Operation Storm-333 ( the first phase of the intervention ) on 27 December 1979.

Trident I ( designated C4 ) was deployed in 1979 and retired in 2005.

Even in videotex networks where third-party companies could post their own content and operate special services like forums, a single company usually owned and operated the underlying communications network, developed and deployed the necessary hardware and software, and billed both content providers and users for access. The exception was the transaction processing videotex system developed in the UK by Michael Aldrich in 1979, which brought teleshopping ( or online shopping as it was later called ) into prominence and was the idea developed later through the Internet.

These aircraft were deployed to the United Kingdom from 21 August through 12 September 1979 for NATO operation CORNET Stallion.

SS-N-16 Stallion refers to a Soviet 650 mm anti-ship missile that was deployed between 1979 and 1981.

First deployed in 1979, the Trident I replaced the Poseidon missile.

The PLA deployed the Type 62 light tank to Vietnam during the 1979 Sino-Vietnam conflict.

Dutch army troops have deployed to Lebanon as part of an international protection force since 1979 War in Lebanon, 1979 – 1985 UNIFIL.

It was provoked by NATO ’ s decision in December 1979 to respond to a Soviet upgrading of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe with its own nuclear modernisation – cruise and Pershing II missiles to be deployed in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.

Reassigned to VMFA-323 in December 1978, he deployed with the squadron in November 1979 for 7 months aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea to the Western Pacific and Persian Gulf.

The second United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF II ) deployed from October 1973 to July 1979.

This initial research was followed by the formation of Interscan International limited in Sydney, Australia in 1979 who manufactured MLS systems that were subsequently deployed in the US, EU, Taiwan, China and Australia.