From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

Since 1979, there have been concerted efforts by international bodies to end the practice, including sponsorship by the United Nations of an International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, held each 6 February since 2003.

No really adequate recording has been made of Schmidt's second and last opera Fredigundis, of which there has been but one " unauthorized " release in the early 1980s on the Voce Label of an Austrian Radio broadcast of a 1979 Vienna performance under the direction of Ernst Märzendorfer.

However, there is a body of case law governing the civil commitment of individuals under the Fourteenth Amendment through U. S. Supreme Court rulings beginning with Addington v. Texas in 1979 which set the bar for involuntary commitment for treatment by raising the burden of proof required to commit persons from the usual civil burden of proof of " preponderance of the evidence " to the higher standard of " clear and convincing " evidence.

Jacksonville attempted to lure the Baltimore Colts in 1979 ; Colts owner Robert Irsay famously landed a helicopter in the stadium as thousands of Jacksonville citizens urged him to move the team there.

In early 1979, the system prescribed by law still included nine officer grades and five enlisted ranks ; there were no warrant officer equivalents.

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.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

Sometimes called " The Sport of Kings ", it was started by Persians, and was popular in Iran until 1979, after which its popularity there declined sharply due to the Iranian Revolution.

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.

By the end of 1979, there were twice-weekly showings at over 230 theatres.

Grundy's Prisoner began screening in the United States in 1979 and achieved high ratings in many regions there, however only the first three years of the series would be screened in that country.

Although there are many descriptions of people becoming dizzy and fainting while taking in Florentine art, especially at the Uffizi, dating from the early 19th century on, the syndrome was only named in 1979, when it was described by Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini, who observed and described more than 100 similar cases among tourists and visitors in Florence.

By June 1979, it was again mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters ( known as a boilerplate configuration ) and tested in a launch configuration at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A for a series of fit checks of the facilities there.

The oldest hominid fossils ever discovered in Tanzania also come from Laetoli and are the 3. 6 to 3. 8 million year old remains of Australopithecus afarensis — Louis Leakey had found what he thought was a baboon tooth at Laetoli in 1935 ( which was not identified as afarensis until 1979 ), a fragment of hominid jaw with three teeth was found there by Kohl-Larsen in 1938 – 39, and in 1974 – 75 Mary Leakey recovered 42 teeth and several jawbones from the site.

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

Relations with China remained hostile, and there were frequent border skirmishes, although none were comparable to the 1979 conflict.

The club's notable achievements including winning promotion to the Football League First Division for the first time in 1979, staying there for four seasons, during the last of which they reached the FA Cup final and took Manchester United to a replay before losing 4 – 0.

Between 1979 and 1989, it was estimated that there were over 2, 000 leveraged buyouts valued in excess of $ 250 million

In 1979, there were five films nominated.

Historically, there have been three major periods of declaring independence: the years from 1776 to the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe ; the immediate aftermath of the First World War with the breakup of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires ; and the decades from to 1945 to 1979, when seventy newly independent states emerged from the wreckage of the European colonial empires.

The California Angels finally made the playoffs in Ryan's eighth and final year there in 1979.

Pope John Paul II visited the shrine in the course of his first journey outside Italy as Pope from 26 to 31 January 1979, and again when he beatified Juan Diego there on May 6, 1990.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.

In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

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

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.

This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

The dawning of a newly successful era in Roma's footballing history was brought in with another Coppa Italia victory, they beat Torino on penalties to win the 1979 – 80 cup.

In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world's first portable music player.

An orchestration was therefore commissioned in secret from Friedrich Cerha and premièred in Paris ( under Pierre Boulez ) only in 1979, soon after Helene Berg's own death.

In 1979, the Yale biologist Arthur Galston, who specialized in herbicide research, published a review of what was known at the time about the toxicity of TCDD.

Atari's management decided to enter this market, and the new technology was repackaged into the Atari 400 and 800, hitting the market in 1979.

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.

* In 1979, an asteroid — 1979 Sakharov — was named after him.

The WHO calls alcoholism " a term of long-standing use and variable meaning ", and use of the term was disfavored by a 1979 WHO Expert Committee.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

; AIM-54A: The original model that became operational with the U. S. Navy in about 1974, and it was also exported to Iran in modest numbers before the Iran hostage crisis beginning in 1979.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science ( 1975 ) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a Ph. D. in computer science ( 1979 ) from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was a student at Churchill College.