The award's only tie occurred in the National League in 1979, when Keith Hernandez and Willie Stargell received an equal number of points.

Initially, A contains nothing but zero bytes, and B contains the number 1979.

Between April 17, and April 19, 1979 a number of elementary school students were arrested after they had protested against wearing the expensive, government-required school uniforms.

For the case of power-of-two, Papadimitriou ( 1979 ) argued that the number of complex-number additions achieved by Cooley – Tukey algorithms is optimal under certain assumptions on the graph of the algorithm ( his assumptions imply, among other things, that no additive identities in the roots of unity are exploited ).

Gloria Gaynor ( born September 7, 1949 ) is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits ; " I Will Survive " ( Hot 100 number 1, 1979 ), " Never Can Say Goodbye " ( Hot 100 number 9, 1974 ), " Let Me Know ( I Have a Right )" ( Hot 100 number 42, 1980 ) and " I Am What I Am " ( R & B number 82, 1983 ).

Gaynor also recorded a disco song called " Love Is Just a Heartbeat Away " in 1979 for the vampire movie Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula which featured a number of disco songs.

In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of being homosexual, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Giger directed a number of films, including Swiss Made ( 1968 ), Tagtraum ( 1973 ), Giger's Necronomicon ( 1975 ) and Giger's Alien ( 1979 ).

The gap in version sequence between IPv4 and IPv6 resulted from the assignment of number 5 to the experimental Internet Stream Protocol in 1979, which however was never referred to as IPv5.

Subsequent talks, called SALT II, were held from 1972 to 1979 and actually reduced the number of nuclear warheads held by the USA and USSR.

Many different jobs and a number of Apple engineers visited Xerox PARC in December 1979, three months after the Lisa and Macintosh projects had begun.

* 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.

In surveys, the number of high school students admitting to trying PCP at least once fell from 13 % in 1979 to less than 3 % in 1990.

Sakamoto was the songwriter and composer for a number of the band's hit songs, including " Yellow Magic ( Tong Poo )" ( 1978 ), " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), " Nice Age " ( 1980 ), " Ongaku " ( 1983 ), and " You've Got to Help Yourself " ( 1983 ), while playing the keyboards for many of their other songs, including international hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Rydeen " ( 1979 ), and singing in several songs such as " Kimi ni Mune Kyun " ( 1983 ).

He also wrote " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), which contributed to the development of techno, and the international hit " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), a synthpop song for which he sang the vocals through a vocoder and which would later be covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton.

The number of sunspots correlates with the intensity of solar radiation over the period since 1979, when satellite measurements of absolute radiative flux became available.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In addition to the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962, which he shared with John Kendrew for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins, Max Perutz received a number of other important honors: he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963, received the Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst in 1967, the Royal Medal in 1971, the Copley Medal in 1979, the Companions of Honour in 1975, and the Order of Merit in 1989.

On 6 May 1979 the FLNC managed to bomb 20 banks in Paris and on 30 May more banks were damaged by explosions.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

In 1979, Polisario broke off the cease-fire and unleashed a string of new attacks on military and government targets.

Saeed Abdallah Ali Sulayman al-Ghamdi (, ) ( November 21, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

Due to the hostile climate towards Baha ' is in Iran, the house has been the target of repeated attacks ; the house was destroyed in 1979, to be paved over two years later and made into a public square.

One 9-year ( 1979 – 1988 ) review of fatal dog attacks in the United States determined that, of the 101 attacks where breed was recorded, pit bulls were implicated in 42 of those attacks ( 41. 6 %).

Ali Hassan Salameh (, ) ( 1940 – January 22, 1979 ) was the chief of operations — code name Abu Hassan — for Black September, the organization responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre and other attacks.

* In 1979, two attacks were made on unarmed US Navy technicians.

As part of this work the IS system was expanded to allow attacks at higher altitudes and was declared operational in this new arrangement on July 1, 1979.

Since the Islamic revolution in 1979, and in particular following the terrorist attacks against the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in February 1992 and the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires in July 1994, in which over 100 people were killed and for Iran's leadership was accused of having masterminded, the World Jewish Congress has been vocal in denouncing what it calls the “ Iranian threat .”

Stonehouse was released early from prison in August 1979 because he had suffered three heart attacks and had undergone open heart surgery in November 1978.

Iraq's Shia population was persecuted during the presidency ( 1979 – 2003 ) of Saddam Hussein, and certain elements of the Iraqi insurgency have made a point of targeting Shias in sectarian attacks.

Action directe ( AD ) was a French revolutionary group which committed a series of assassinations and violent attacks in France between 1979 and 1987.

In 1979, it was transformed into an " urban guerrilla organization " and carried out violent attacks under the banner of " anti-imperialism " and " proletarian defence.

Action directe carried out some fifty attacks, including a machine gun assault on the employers ' union headquarters on 1 May 1979 as well as attacks on French government buildings, property management agencies, French army buildings, companies in the military-industrial complex, and the state of Israel.

Adwa was frequent target of attacks by the TPLF during the Ethiopian Civil War: in 1978 the TPLF attacked Adwa ; in 1979 it unsuccessfully tried to rob the bank.

Mohand Muhammed Fayiz al-Shehri (, ; also transliterated as Alshehri ) ( May 7, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 175 as part of the September 11 attacks.

* Abdulaziz al-Omari ( 1979 – 2001 ), Saudi aircraft hijacker in the September 11 attacks

He died following a series of heart attacks in Villeneuve-les-Avignon on October 17, 1979.

OMON originated in 1979, when the first group was founded in preparation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, to ensure that there were no terrorist attacks like the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics.

In the period between 1979 and 1983, there were over 300 attacks ; in 1984 alone, there were over 100 attacks.

There were impressive indicators of economic growth between 1972 and 1979: the government budget expanded some 540 percent, whereas exports as well as per capita income increased a full 500 percent.

The prices of all five metals increased between 1950 and 1975, but Ehrlich believes three of the five went down during the 1980s because of the price of oil doubling in 1979, and because of a world-wide recession in the early 1980s.

Reagan increased financial aid for Liberia, from the $ 20 million it had been in 1979, to $ 75 million, and later $ 95 million per year.

After substantially increased financial contributions from several NATO countries ( including the United States ), British forces remained in Malta until 1979.

The victory of the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) in 1979 brought about major changes and gains for women, mainly in legislation, broad educational opportunities, training programs for working women, childcare programs to help women enter the work force and greatly increased participation and even leadership positions in a whole range of political activities.

Since the 1979 revolution the persecution of Bahá ' ís has increased with oppression, the denial of civil rights and liberties, and the denial of access to higher education and employment.

In a separate study to demonstrate how unexpected frustration leads to increased aggression, Kulik & Brown ( 1979 ) selected a group of students as volunteers to make calls for charity donations.

enacted 1979, increased through the following years and reached its tightest point in 2010.

For example, in Canada between 1979 and 1999 the number of multiple birth babies increased 35 %.

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

There was an increased influx into Turlock in the 1970s following political strife in Iraq and in the 1980s following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

They gained national fame on the radio and increased it consistently from 1977 onwards eventually becoming TV stars with the shows Non Stop, La sberla ( 1978 ) and Luna Park ( 1979 ).

The national debt increased by £ 2 billion in the same period, protest marches by PAYE workers, an increase in electricity charges and the oil crisis of 1979 also caused problems for the government and its economic policy.

By 1979, Vauxhall had increased its market share substantially ; it was still some way behind Ford and British Leyland, but had overtaken Talbot ( the successor organisation to Rootes and Chrysler UK ).

At the time of Duncan's paper, the peak in per capita energy consumption was 11. 15 boe / c / yr ( barrels of oil equivalent per capita per year ) and occurred in 1979 ; however, since then energy use per capita has increased beyond that level, with 2006 providing a peak value of 12. 12 boe / c / yr.

* Indonesia's greatly increased export revenues after the oil booms in 1974 and 1979

After airline deregulation in 1978, passenger numbers at the terminal nearly doubled between 1978 and 1980, and a new parallel runway and control tower were opened in 1979 to handle the increased passenger loads.

Persecution and discrimination has increased among the government and society since the Revolution in 1979.

In 1979 the Territorial Army title was restored, and in the following years its size was somewhat increased, with the regimental system being progressively reinstated.

Growth was phenomenal in every dimension: the number of programming hours per week rose from 56 in 1979 to nearly 88. 5 in 1989 ; the number of television stations increased from 12 in 1979 to 78 by 1989 ; and the number of television sets grew from 4 million in 1979 to nearly 6 million in the same period.

During the same period, the growth of cities with a population over one million increased from one to five ; Kiev alone nearly doubled its policy, from 1. 1 million in 1959 to 2. 1 million in 1979.

In inflation adjusted 2004 dollars, the year the NEP took effect ( 1980 ) per capita fiscal contributions by Alberta to the federal government increased 77 % over 1979 levels-from $ 6, 578 in 1979 to $ 11, 641 in 1980.