* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

Roma: Il Veltro, pp. 441 ( Translated from: The World of Aldus Manutius: Business and Scholarship in Renaissance Venice, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1979 ).

In 1979 an expert World Health Organization committee discouraged the use of " alcoholism " in medicine, preferring the category of " alcohol dependence syndrome ".

The Orioles experienced their greatest success from 1964 – 1983, as well as 1996-1997, winning eight Division Championships ( 1969 – 1971, 1973 – 1974, 1979, 1983, 1997 ), six pennants ( 1966, 1969 – 1971, 1979, 1983 ), three World Series Championships ( 1966, 1970, 1983 ), one wild card berth ( 1996 ), and five Most Valuable Player awards ( 3B Brooks Robinson 1964, OF Frank Robinson 1966, 1B Boog Powell 1970 and SS Cal Ripken Jr. 1983 & 1991 ).

Building on this first edition, in 1979, B. Dennis Sustare wrote " Different Worlds Present the World of Druid's Valley: A Bunnies & Burrows Campaign " in Different Worlds, a magazine published by Chaosium.

* Different Worlds Present the World of Druid's Valley: A Bunnies & Burrows Campaign ( B. Dennis Sustare, 1979 ).

Most scholars attribute the origins of this idea to futurologist Herman Kahn's World Economic Development: 1979 and Beyond.

The 1979 World Cup saw the introduction of the ICC Trophy competition to select non-Test playing teams for the World Cup, with Sri Lanka and Canada qualifying.

It became a member of the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in 1978 and of the World Bank and Organization of American States ( OAS ) in 1979.

Just a Gigolo ( 1979 ), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Przygodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness ( Marlene Dietrich ) and put into her Gigolo Stable.

In 1979, the World Health Organization declared smallpox an eradicated disease.

This includes manuscript material for his books Guide to Jewish Religious Practice ( 1979 ), The Ten Commandments in a Changing World ( 1963 ), The Anguish and the Ecstasy of a Jewish Chaplain ( 1974 ), and his translation of The Code of Maimonides ( Mishneh Torah ): Book 7, The Book of Agriculture ( 1979 ).

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

In 1979, Lascaux was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list along with other prehistoric sites in the Vézère valley .< ref >

* Greiner, H. ' Operation Seelowe and Intensified Air Warfare Against England up to the 30 October 1940 ', in Detweiler, D. World War II German Military Studies, Volume 7 of 24 ( New York, 1979 )

* Persico, Joseph E. Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II ( New York: Viking, 1979 )

They also won the 1971 World Series behind Roberto Clemente and the 1979 World Series under the slogan " We Are Family ", led by " Pops " Willie Stargell.

In 1979 11th World Congress of IPSA took place in Moscow.

Togo turned to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) for assistance in 1979, while simultaneously implementing a stringent adjustment effort with the help of a series of IMF standby programs, World Bank loans, and Paris Club debt rescheduling.

The commercial " Supertests " organised by Kerry Packer as part of his World Series Cricket enterprise and played between " WSC Australia ," " WSC World XI " and " WSC West Indies " from 1977 to 1979 have never been regarded as having official Test match status.

For example, in June 1979, the California Department of Health Services was permitted to use DDT to suppress flea vectors of bubonic plague.

Field trials sponsored by the U. S. National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH ) were conducted between 1977 and 1979 to test the reliability of the new diagnoses.

In 1979 the American feminist writer Fran Hosken ( 1920 – 2006 ) presented research about it — The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females — to the first Seminar on Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, sponsored by the WHO.

* 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.

A worldwide vaccination campaign led by the UN World Health Organization resulted in the eradication of smallpox in 1979.

In 1979, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was renamed the Department of Health and Human Services, and its education functions transferred to the new Department of Education.

Koizumi gained his first senior post in 1979 as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Finance, and his first ministerial post in 1988 as Minister of Health and Welfare under Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.

The Institute of Traditional Medicine was set up in 1979 with assistance from World Health Organization ( WHO ) to develop and popularise the herbal medicine, which has been used by the rural people in Bhutan for past many centuries.

Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979, it was called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare ( HEW ).

In 1979 he received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to train union shop stewards as agents of prevention for mental health disorders, and he simultaneously extended his previous study of the psychodynamics of American society.

In 1979, Novello joined the Public Health Service and received a commission in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps ( PHSCC ).

This ongoing dispute with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare ( HEW ) began to intensify in 1979 when the College filed a petition for judicial review in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, asking the court to overturn a previous decision by the Reviewing Authority, Office of Civil Rights of HEW.

Blaikie was appointed as the NDP's Social Policy Critic in 1979, and was promoted to Health Critic in 1980.

The Texas Legislature expanded the medical school charter in 1979, creating the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

These findings were disputed by the hospital and the Health Commission of Victoria ; however, in 1979 one of Crossley's students, Anne McDonald, left the hospital after successfully fighting an action for Habeas Corpus in the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Snyder earned a degree in Chemistry in 1975 from Willamette and earned his medical degree from the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center ( now Oregon Health & Science University ) in Portland, Oregon in 1979.

In 1979, he was awarded the Artois-Baillet Latour Health Prize.

His 1979 report, ' Canada's National-Provincial Health Program for the 1980s ' noted some of the areas recommended in his earlier report which had not yet been acted on, and warned that accessibility to health care was being threatened through rising user fees.

Between 1976 and 1979, he participated in the elaboration of the report about the Health in the World.

Before the Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives in 1995, Waxman was a powerful figure in the House as chair of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment from 1979.

The Young Pioneers in Cambodia between 1979 and 1993 were under the Kampuchean Revolutionary Youth Association ( KRYA ) and the Kampuchean Young Pioneers Organization ( KYPO ), branches of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation.

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.

Modern-day Vehicle Identification Number systems are based on two related standards, originally issued by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) in 1979 and 1980 ; ISO 3779 and ISO 3780, respectively.

In 1979 the Iranian People's Fedâi Guerrillas split from the Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian ( Majority ).

Both the U. S. and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD, of which the U. S. and most major industrial countries are members ) had some guidelines by 1979.

After Jorge B. Vargas, other Philippine recipients of the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, include Gabriel A. Daza in 1965, Hermengildo B. Reyes in 1967, Ambassador Antonio C. Delgado in 1971, and Jorge Maria Cui in 1979.

In 1979 he was nominated president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States.

The Organization of American States established the Court in 1979 to enforce and interpret the provisions of the American Convention on Human Rights.

The new Court first convened on 29 June 1979 at the Organization of American States Headquarters in Washington, D. C., United States.

Targeted for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) role, the 24th Division was reorganized as a mechanized division in 1979.

Under the 1979 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) Government Procurement Code, the U. S .- Israel Free Trade Agreement, the U. S .- Canada Free Trade Agreement, and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) 1996 Agreement on Government Procurement ( GPA ), the United States provides access to the government procurement of certain U. S. agencies for goods from the other parties to those agreements.

* 1979: Senator Spark Matsunaga ( D-Hawaii ) re-introduced a bill, S. 2103, " Department of Peace Organization Act of 1979 " to create a U. S. Department of Peace.

From 1974 to 1981, Peters worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, becoming a partner and Organization Effectiveness practice leader in 1979.

After the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the club was confiscated by the newly established Islamic government and put under the control of the Physical Education Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran (), a governmental organization, and change its name to Esteghlal (), ' Independence ' in Persian.

Since 1979 when the reform and open-door policy started, DMU has established cooperative relations with more than 20 internationally renowned maritime institutions like the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ), the International Labor Organization ( ILO ), the International Association of Maritime Universities ( IAMU ), the Association of the Maritime Education and Training Institutes in Asia Pacific ( AMETIAP ), the International Maritime Lecturers Association ( IMLA ), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), the International Shipping Federation ( ISF ), the International Association of Classification Societies ( IACS ), as well as some world famous shipping companies.

Active in the labor movement, he was appointed United States Ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), Paris, France, from 1977 to 1979 and served as a special assistant to President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981 .< ref >