Classical studies were Making news – A study in the construction of reality by Gaye Tuchman ( 1978 ), Deciding what ’ s news ( at CBS & NBC, Time and Newsweek ) by Herbert J. Gans ( 1979 ) in the U. S., and Putting ‘ reality ’ together – BBC news by Philip Schlesinger ( 1987 ).

In December 1979, ground was broken for construction of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis.

Although construction was planned to begin in 1941, due to geo-political factors, the Bucharest Metro was only opened in 1979.

Also, Columbia was the female symbol of the U. S. After construction, the orbiter arrived at Kennedy Space Center on March 25, 1979, to prepare for its first launch.

Immediately following Skylab's launch, Pad A at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 was deactivated, and construction proceeded to modify it for the Space Shuttle program, originally targeting a maiden launch in June 1979.

In 1979, construction on the Eric Williams Plaza began.

* March 1, 1979: Groundbreaking and construction begins

In 1979 the then bishop, the Right Reverend Paul Moore, Jr., decided that construction should be continued, in part to preserve the crafts of stonemasonry by training neighborhood youths, thus providing them with a valuable skill.

This led to the construction of the shopping mall Hoog Catharijne, music centre Vredenburg ( Hertzberger, 1979 ), and conversion of part of the ancient canal structure into a highway ( Catherijnebaan ).

From 1963 – 1979, the number of reactors under construction globally increased every year except 1971 and 1978.

In 1979, the Salmon River Fish Hatchery began construction in Altmar.

The partial meltdown of TMI-2 in 1979 essentially ended the growth in new construction of nuclear power plants in the United States.

By 1979 Exidy had already decided to give up on the machine, but sales in Europe were strong enough that CompuData decided to license the design for local construction in the Netherlands.

As superintendent from 1957 to 1979, Grisham oversaw the consolidation of RRISD and Pond Springs School District — located in the west side of Round Rock — and the construction of more than ten of the district's schools.

* Line C ( along the Left Bank of the Seine ) was added in 1979, involving the construction of a link between Invalides and Musée d ' Orsay.

The Kirkland Campus closed in December 1979, and the construction and renovations were completed in 1981.

It then selected 102. 5, and was eventually given a construction permit in 1979 for that frequency.

Jackson was mayor when the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority ( MARTA ) obtained a large amount of Federal funding for a rapid-transit rail-line system, when its construction began, and when MARTA began its first rail transit service in Atlanta and in DeKalb County in 1979, and during its continual expansion thereafter.

In 1979, Abram took a construction job building a small barn in the backyard of the television producer Russell Morash, the creator of public television's This Old House.

From 1903 to 1979 the territory was controlled by the United States, which had built the canal and financed its construction.

Syracuse also played two home games at Giants Stadium during the 1979 season, against West Virginia and Penn State, while the Carrier Dome was under construction.

During the initial construction phase, Nuckolls found an error in his calculations, and an October 1979 review chaired by John Foster Jr. of TRW confirmed that there was no way Nova would reach ignition.

Although no federal funds were used for its construction, the United States Congress designated the facility as the " national aquarium " in 1979.

* 1973 New World Centre begins construction on the Holt's Wharf site-phase 1 completed in 1979

On January 10, 1979, after the Vietnamese army and the KUFNS invaded Cambodia, the new People's Republic of Kampuchea ( PRK ) was established with Heng Samrin as head of state.

* Centennial ( 10 episodes, 1978 – 1979 )

Despite security advice and warnings from the Garda Síochána, on 27 August 1979 Mountbatten went lobster-potting and tuna fishing in a thirty-foot ( 10 m ) wooden boat, the Shadow V, which had been moored in the harbour at Mullaghmore.

On May 10, 1979, four of the Trust Territory districts ratified the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia.

* Stein, Gabriele ( 1979 ), “ Nuclear English: Reflections on the Structure of Its Vocabulary ”, Poetica ( Tokyo ) 10: 64-76.

After " Get Up Offa That Thing ", thirteen of Brown's late 1970s recordings for Polydor, failed to reach the Top 10 of the R & B chart, with only " Body Heat " in 1976 and the disco-oriented " It's Too Funky in Here " in 1979 reaching the R & B Top 15 and the ballad " Kiss in ' 77 " reaching the Top 20.

The Kaohsiung Incident took place in Kaohsiung on December 10, 1979.

The Basij militia founded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in November 1979 is composed of 10, 000 regular soldiers, and ultimately draws from about 11 million members, and is subordinate to their Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

They were called " Saturday Night Specials ", in a derisive nod to cheap handguns then called by that name and were worn for the first and last time on May 19, 1979, a 10 – 5 loss to the Expos.

There were around 3, 000, 000 shareholders in Britain when Thatcher took office in 1979, but the subsequent sale of state-run firms saw the level of shareholders double to 6, 000, 000 by 1985 and by the time of her resignation as prime minister in 1990 there were more than 10, 000, 000 shareholders in Britain.

* Curtis Williams ( December 11, 1934-August 10, 1979 ) ( bass-baritone )

Their version attracted a good deal of attention, not least from David Bowie, as it was released in June 1979 just six weeks after Bowie's version had hit the UK Top 10 in April.

Assuming Chavez was approximately 10 years old in 1979, that places the events of Debt of Honor to be in or near 2000, although the overall technology presented in the novel and its successive novels Executive Orders and Rainbow Six ( especially in regards to the sophistication of internet technology ) are more consistent with the mid-1990's.

On Gretzky's 18th birthday, January 26, 1979, Pocklington signed him to a 10-year personal services contract ( the longest in hockey history at the time ) worth C $ 3 million, with options for 10 more years.

They opened the 1979 season 6 – 2 and were 10 – 5 heading into the season finale at Texas Stadium, against whom a win would assure a playoff spot and a possible NFC East title.

Khan was finally released after Bhutto's death in 1979, by General Fazle Haq, and died on August 10, 1980 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

* April 10 – Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1979 )

* December 10 – Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia ( d. 1979 )

* May 10 – Sid Vicious, English rock bassist ( Sex Pistols ) ( d. 1979 )

** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.

* 10 ( 1979 )

Ross Powers ( born February 10, 1979 ), is an American world champion halfpipe snowboarder from South Londonderry, Vermont.

When Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, won the 1979 general election defeating the incumbent Labour Party led by James Callaghan, Britain had endured several years of severe inflation, which was rarely below 10 % and by the time of the election in May 1979 stood at 10. 3 %.