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.

Unfortunately, many of the dams were not able to withstand the extraordinarily high levels of rainfall caused by Typhoon Nina in August 1975.

* 7 August 1944, a RAF Hawker Typhoon strafed a squad from ' F ' Company / US 120th Infantry Regiment, near Hill 314, France, killing two men.

* 9 August 1944, a RAF Hawker Typhoon strafed units of the British Columbia Regiment and the Algonquin Regiment, 4th Canadian Armoured Division, near Quesnay Wood during Operation Totalize, causing several casualties.

At about 6: 43 P. M. on 22 August 1999,, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, was making its final approach to runway 25L when Typhoon Sam was 50 km NE of the airport.

The first sales occurred in September 1985 and the most recent contract for 72 Eurofighter Typhoon multirole fighters was signed in August 2006.

Fred Ottman ( born August 10, 1956 ) is a retired American professional wrestler best known as Tugboat or Typhoon, and for teaming with John " Earthquake " Tenta as The Natural Disasters in the World Wrestling Federation.

Ottman returned to the WWF as Typhoon in May 1994, primarily being used to put over other talent, before departing in August.

After leaving the WWF in August 1994, Ottman, still using the Typhoon name, began wrestling on the independent circuit in the East Coast.

Typhoon Tip was the largest tropical cyclone on record, with a diameter of — almost double the previous record of set by Typhoon Marge in August 1951.

On August 27 local time, John reached a secondary peak strength of 135 miles per hour ( 210 km / h ), and shortly thereafter it crossed the International Date Line at approximately 22 ° N and came under the surveillance of the Guam branch of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ( JTWC ).

Then on August 18, Joint Operations: Combined Arms Gold was released as a compilation of Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising and Joint Operations: Escalation which also included concept art, the soundtrack and more.

The People's Daily has maintained that the dam was designed to survive a once-in-1000-years flood ( 300 mm of rainfall per day ) but a once-in-2000-years flood occurred in August 1975, following the collision of Super Typhoon Nina and a cold front.

In August 2009, sections of the line were badly damaged by floods triggered by Typhoon Morakot.

On August 18, 2009 Novalogic released Joint Ops: Combined Arms Gold which bundled " Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising ", and its expansion pack " Joint Operations: Escalation " to make it a convenient install.

In 2012 August 20, the organization and its winners also helped in the distribution of relief goods from the aftermath of Typhoon Habagat.

After two months of improvement works and repair for the damages made by Typhoon Prapiroon in August 2006, Ngong Ping 360 resumed a trial-run of 7 days from 30 August 2006.

In August 1997, Typhoon Amber absorbed Tropical Storm Cass over Eastern China, after both storms made landfall, on August 30.

In August 2012, a Fujiwhara interaction occured between Typhoon Tembin and Bolaven.

In August 1971, Typhoon Rose passed over Hong Kong causing extensive damage, forcing the hoisting of Hurricane Signal No. 10 on 16 August.

Typhoon Sanvu ( Huaning ) formed as a tropical depression on the morning of August 10 at 0000 UTC ( 0800 PHT ) 320 nautical miles east-northeast of Borongan on Samar Island inside the Philippine area of responsibility.