* 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.

Published in 1979, the Cerha completion premiered on February 24 of the same year at the Opera Garnier and was conducted by Pierre Boulez, with Teresa Stratas singing the lead role ; the production ( by Patrice Chéreau ) was a sensation and the recording won the Gramophone Award for 1979.

The couple made two surprise impromptu reunion performances: the first on The Mike Douglas Show in the spring of 1979, singing a medley of " United We Stand " and " Without You ", and the second on November 13, 1987 on Late Night with David Letterman where they performed their hit song " I Got You Babe ".

The song's title was inspired by a line in the song " Her Story " ( 1979 ) by Virgin label stablemates the Flying Lizards, about bands ' selling out ' their artistic principles for commercial success (" But you can still make money, by singing sweet songs of love ... this is a love song ").

The most well known chant is probably " Hark now here, the Wednesday sing, United ran away, and we will fight forever more, because of Boxing day ", a song about the 1979 Boxing Day Massacre, or " I've never felt more like singing the blues, when Wednesday win, United lose, oh Wednesday, you've got me singing the blues – Wack a blade – Wack a blade – Wack a blade ", sung on days when Wednesday have won their game, and United have lost theirs.

The 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the U. S. also provides an " Order of Worship for the Evening " as a prelude to Evensong with blessings for the lighting of candles and the singing of the ancient Greek lamp-lighting hymn, the Phos Hilaron.

These performers refer to a former tradition collected and restored by figures like Etxahun Iruri ( 1908 – 1979 ) where singing improviser poets ( bertsolaris ) played an important role in popular culture.

The Roches were the musical guest on Nov. 17, 1979, singing Bobby's Song and their a cappella Hallelujah Chorus.

After a hit version of Sam Cooke's " Wonderful World " and " Let ’ s Go Dancing " in 1979, for many years he seemed to have dropped out of sight, with the exception of a brief resurgence in the mid-1980s with the album Here Again ( 1986 ), which was preceded by the minor UK hit, " Rock Me Baby "; however, in May 2006 he was singing again at SugarHill Recording Studios and at Tierra Studios in his native Houston.

* Thomas Jarmer ( vocals, piano, accordion, acoustic guitar, e-guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, piano, banjo, percussion, hammond, glockenspiel, singing saw * 27 / 04 / 1979 )

Her top grades in school earned her a scholarship to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, where she trained from 1975 to 1979 as a speech and drama teacher by day, while singing with a band called " Something Else " by night at local clubs.

* Was recorded for the 1979 film, Elvis The Movie, starring Kurt Russell and Ronnie McDowell as the singing voice of Elvis.

Notes for a Myth ( 1968 ) and That singing mesh, and other poems ( 1979 ) were published by Chatto and Windus in the Phoenix Living Poets series.

Beginning in 1979, the character's mouth was animated to " move " in synchronization with the voice actor's singing and / or dialogue and, by the early 1980s, the Kool-Aid Man had attained pop culture icon status.

He did notable solo singing work in productions including Much Ado About Nothing ( 1974 ), an episode of Rock Follies of ' 77 ( 1977 ), The Tempest ( 1978 – 1979 ), Piaf ( 1978 – 1980 ), Guys and Dolls ( 1982 ), A Royal Night of One Hundred Stars ( 1985 ), After Aida ( 1985 – 1986 ), Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Tim Rice's Cricket ( 1986 ), Sondheim: A Celebration ( 1988 benefit for Crusaid ), and Bent ( 1989 ).

Since then, Torry has also performed as a session singer ( singing on a number of 1970s UK TV adverts ) and as a live backing vocalist with Kevin Ayers, Olivia Newton-John, Shriekback, The Alan Parsons Project ( for which she also sang lead vocal on one track on their 1979 Eve album ), Procol Harum mainman Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, Cerrone, Culture Club ( on their hit " The War Song "), Meat Loaf and Johnny Mercer.

KFYR gained brief national notoriety in 1979, when it was sued in Federal Court by the Pointer Sisters and Elektra Records, for taking the liberty of having the Pointer Sisters ' current hit, the Bruce Springsteen penned " Fire ", re-dubbed so that the Sisters appeared to be singing " K-Fire " on the chorus ; the suit was settled out of court.

After getting a degree in commerce from Calcutta University, Sanu began performing publicly in 1979, singing at shows and restaurants around Calcutta.

Jim also sang in the Chorus, and appeared in the 1979 Spring concert at Wilde Lake singing, " Three Times A Lady ," with the Jazz Band.

When Homer and Bart hand out fliers for the upcoming garage sale, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is seen washing his car while singing Cheap Trick's 1979 song " Dream Police ".

In 1979 Pattie branched out from disco by singing " Close Enough For Love ", the title song to the Vanessa Redgrave movie Agatha.