* 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.

In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

The criteria for being charged with " caught stealing " were fine tuned in 1979, with a runner being charged with being caught if he is put out while trying to steal, oversliding a base ( otherwise successfully stolen ), or is picked off a base, and tries to advance to the next base.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

On 20 September 1979, Dacko, with French support, led a bloodless coup that overthrew Bokassa while he was out of the country.

Shark expert and underwater filmmaker Valerie Taylor was among the first to develop and test the mail suit in 1979 while diving with sharks.

For example in 1979 The Voyager 1 and The Voyager 2 spotted 9 erupting volcanoes while passing Io.

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ) transports the Gothic to the forbidding Yorkshire Moors and features ghostly apparitions and a Byronic hero in the person of the demonic Heathcliff while Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) adds The Madwoman in the Attic ( Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 1979 ) to the cast of Gothic fiction.

Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status.

In 1979, while still owned by American Motors, AM General began the first steps toward designing the Humvee.

Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.

On 28 June 1979, while the Calypso was on an expedition to Portugal, his second son, Philippe, his preferred and designated successor and with whom he had co-produced all his films since 1969, died in a PBY Catalina flying boat crash in the Tagus river near Lisbon.

By 1979, the Khmer Rouge had fled the country, while the People's Republic of Kampuchea was being established.

Sometimes, like on 23 September 1979 in the village of Spychowo ( Puppen ), the Lutheran Parish was even forcefully driven out of their Church while liturgy was held.

In 1937, Somoza assumed the presidency, while still in control of the National Guard, and established a dictatorship that his family controlled until 1979.

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 ).

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.

In the summer of 1979, while Jerry was at work, at Eilleen's insistence, her mother drove the rest of the family south to a Toronto homeless shelter for assistance.

In 1979 and 1980, former Somoza supporters and ex-members of Somoza's National Guard formed irregular military forces, while the original core of the FSLN began to splinter.

The southern, oil rich and prosperous Khuzestan and Basra area ( the main focus of the war, and the primary source of their economies ) were almost completely destroyed and were left at the pre 1979 border, while Iran managed to make some small gains on its borders in the Northern Kurdish area.

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.

In 1979, while still in Japan, Burnel also became close friends with Keith, co-founder and drummer for ARB.

World championships have been held since 1979 while European championships have been held since 1970.

Callaghan himself had adopted policies echoing monetarism while serving as prime minister from 1976 to 1979, adopting deflationary policies and reducing public spending in response to high inflation and national debt.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

Devo also appeared on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert in 1979, performing " Blockhead ", " Secret Agent Man ", and " Mongoloid ".

Left to right: Michael Bradley, Billy Doherty and Feargal Sharkey performing " Get Over You " live in the U. S. A. in 1979.

Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).

After Gulf Winds ( 1976 ), an album of entirely self-composed songs, and From Every Stage ( 1976 ), a live album that had Baez performing songs " from every stage " of her career, Baez again parted ways with a record label when she moved to CBS Records for Blowin ' Away ( 1977 ) and Honest Lullaby ( 1979 ).

In 1979, Haley was persuaded to return to performing with the offer of a lucrative contract to tour Europe.

The Symphony has been performing in Montgomery since 1979.

AC / DC performing at the Ulster Hall in August 1979

Between 1979 and 1987, Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as the vocalist performing the most songs to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song ( four times ) and to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song ( three times ).

Every year since 1979, the world ’ s top blacksmiths compete in Calgary, Alberta ; performing their craft in front of thousands of spectators to educate and entertain the public with their skills and abilities.

January 1979 saw the band performing " September " and " That's The Way Of The World " at the Music for UNICEF Concert, which was broadcast worldwide from the United Nations General Assembly by NBC.

Bret Michaels began his performing career with a basement band called Laser and, then, in 1979, joined forces with long time childhood friend Rikki Rockett to form a band called the Spectres.

Following its resounding success, she returned to the same venue in 1979, this time performing with the Wren Orchestra.

Belew toured with the Zappa band and appeared on Zappa's 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti-most notably performing a Bob Dylan impersonation on the song " Flakes ".

Jay suggested that with his love of clubs, Divine could obtain work performing in them ; as a result, Divine first appeared in 1979 at a gay club in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where his unscripted act included shouting " fuck you " repeatedly at the audience and then getting into a fight with another drag queen, a gimmick that proved popular with the club's clientele.

Mission of Burma made their debut on April 1, 1979 as a trio, performing at The Modern Theater.

Two double acts, Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall under the name " 20th Century Coyote " and Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson (" The Outer Limits "), started performing at the newly opened Comedy Store in London in mid 1980, alongside compere Alexei Sayle who had been resident there since the Comedy Store opened in 1979.

She made her performance debut at the Festival d ' Avignon, in France, in 1979, performing the lead in the opera Un Jour comme un autre, by composer Vinko Globokar, based upon Amnesty International's documentation of the arrest and torture of a Turkish woman for alleged treason.

" A later episode of Saturday Night Live, on October 20, 1979, featured guest host Eric Idle performing impersonations while strapped to a stretcher, assisted by orderlies.

Davies performing in 1979

After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, she is famously known for remaining in Iran until 2000 and not performing again due to the ban on female singers.

Johnny Thunders, performing at the VFW Post in Ann Arbor, Michigan in July 1979.

In late 1979 Thunders moved to Detroit with his wife Julie and began performing in a band called Gang War.

The singer Rasmus Lyberth did the most to change Greenlandic music by performing for simple entertainment rather than functionality ; indeed, he took part in the Danish preselection for the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest, performing in Greenlandic.