At the fourth conference, held in Lagos, Nigeria, in August 1979, the Lagos Accord was signed.

For eleven weeks, between August and October 1979, industrial action forced Coronation Street and the whole of the ITV network ( apart from the Channel Islands ) off the air.

In August 1979, Hurricane David, packing winds of, struck the island with devastating force.

The most recent hurricanes of note were David and Frederic in August 1979 and Allen in August 1980.

In August 1979 Macias ' nephew from Mongomo and former director of the infamous Black Beach prison, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, led a successful coup d ' état ; Macias was arrested, tried, and executed.

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Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

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.

Gilbert Cesbron ( 13 January 1913, Paris – 13 August 1979, Paris ) was a French novelist.

Some people credit the band Bauhaus ' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released August 1979, with the start of the goth subculture, though many prior art house movements influenced gothic fashion and style, the illustrations and paintings of Swiss artist, H. R. Giger being one of the earliest.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of the first additions to the cast, and an unofficial replacement for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, who were both leaving the show.

* 1897 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer ( b. 1897 )

On 8 June 1979 Pope John Paul II prayed at her sarcophagus ; and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments officially affirmed her beatification on 8 August 1986.

From January 1976 to August 1979, Jones served in the Officer Assignments Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. During this assignment, he was promoted to major in July 1977.

In August 1979, after two warm-up shows in Copenhagen, Led Zeppelin headlined two concerts at the Knebworth Music Festival, playing to a crowd of approximately 104, 000 on the first night.

Life of Brian opened on 17 August 1979 in five North American theatres, and grossed $ 140, 034 USD ($ 28, 007 per screen ) in its opening weekend.

In August 1979, after suffering military losses, Mauritania renounced its claim to Western Sahara and signed a peace treaty with the Polisario.

* Parametric adjustment circuit, issued August 1979

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

By 1 August 1979, hundreds of high-ranking Ba ' ath party members had been executed.

Mauritania, under pressure from Polisario guerrillas and his formal Army, abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979, with Morocco moving to annex that sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative control over the majority of the territory.

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

* August 10 – David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York, after over a year of murders in New York City as the Son Of Sam.

* August 9 – Vietnam War – Operation Cochise: United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley.

* August 11 – Hamnet Shakespeare, Son of William Shakespeare

* Kingdom of Cambodia ( Cambodia, March – August 1945 ) – King Norodom Sihanouk's regime with Son Ngoc Thanh as Prime Minister after proclaiming independence from France.

The album Blue on Blue was released by Nettwerk Records under Nash's own imprint, One Son Records and the album's official release date was August 15, 2006, she also released a Christmas EP Wishing For This on 14 November 2006.

* Dorpsbelang Son & Breugel: 5 seats ( 4 seats since August 2006-see below )

* Lijst Van Aken: 1 seat ( In August 2006 one seat out of Dorpsbelang Son en Breugel started his own List )

The Delta blues fiddler, Henry " Son " Sims, who worked with Charlie Patton and Muddy Waters, was born in Anguilla in August 1890.

461st TFS North American F-100D-25-NA Super Sabre 55-3602 Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam, August 1965

* The Prodigal Son ( August 15, 1983 )

* Masayoshi Son AXA Talents ( www. axa-im-talents. com ) ( August 1, 2006 )

Wilson has also authored the book Second Banana: The Bittersweet Memoirs of the Sanford & Son Years, which was scheduled for release on August 31, 2009.

A second single, " Summer Son ", was released in August 1999, reaching No. 5, the band's seventh UK Top 10 single at that point.

Wilco began rehearsing a few days after the final Uncle Tupelo concert, and by August 1994 they were in the recording studio for their first album, A. M .. Farrar asked Jim Boquist to join his new band, Son Volt ; Boquist was a multi-instrumentalist who had performed with Joe Henry as the opening act on Uncle Tupelo's last tour.

Arak, Son of Thunder, created by Roy Thomas and Ernie Colón, first appeared in a special insert in Warlord # 48 ( August 1981 ).

By August 1985, when the ' retirement ' of Pol Pot was officially announced, Son Sen assumed supreme command of the National Army of Democratic Kampuchea, as it was now called.

In early August Major General Don Robertson, commanding the 1st Marine Division, turned his attention to the Que Son Valley following several major operations around Da Nang.

She has also provided backing vocals to U2's cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Fortunate Son " ( B-side of 1992 " Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses " single from their Achtung Baby album ), as well as to the Counting Crows ' 1993 debut August and Everything After on " Sullivan Street " and " Mr. Jones ".

Louis de France, Son of France, Duke of Burgundy ( duc de Bourgogne ), and later Dauphin of France ( 16 August 1682 – 18 February 1712 ) was the eldest son of Louis, Dauphin of France, known as le Grand Dauphin and, as such, was known as le Petit Dauphin.

* Thor: Son of Asgard, collects issues # 1-12, August 2010, ISBN 978-0-7851-4156-3

Masayoshi Son ( Japanese: 孫正義, Korean: 손정의 Son Jeong-ui ; born August 11, 1957 in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, Japan ), born a Zainichi Korean and now a naturalized Japanese citizen, is a businessman and the founder and current chief executive officer of Softbank, and the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile ( the renamed, effective October 1, 2006, Vodafone K. K. ).

McManaman made his debut for Madrid on 22 August 1999 in the 2 – 1 La Liga win over RCD Mallorca at the Son Moix stadium, Mallorca, where he assisted Fernando Morientes in scoring the injury time winner.

* 52 Plus Joker's website displays a vintage Tarock deck designed for use in the United States, and has four colored suits, following a traditional no revoke pattern and was published in 1922 by August Petryl & Son.