Having ascertained that an uprising against the Soviet-backed communists would be supported by the people, Massoud, on July 6, 1979, started an insurrection in the Panjshir which initially failed.

On July 19 1979, as Sandinista forces entered the capital, a U. S. plane disguised with Red Cross markings had evacuated remaining members of the National Guard to Miami.

On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called " Disco Demolition Night " had shown that an angry backlash against disco and its culture had emerged in the United States.

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

On July 21, 1979, six days after the riot, the top six records on the U. S. music charts were disco songs.

The European Democratic Group ( ED ) was formed on 17 July 1979 by British Conservative, Danish Conservative and other MEPs after their success in the 1979 elections.

Akuffo, the new SMC chairman, promised publicly to hand over political power to a new government to be elected by 1 July 1979.

GMUSL began operations in that building on July 1, 1979 and received provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1980.

Herbert Marcuse (; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979 ) was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

On July 29, 1979, ten days after his eighty-first birthday, Marcuse died after having suffered a stroke during a visit to Germany.

The Intel 8088 microprocessor was a variant of the Intel 8086 and was introduced on July 1, 1979.

On 12 July 1937 he married Simone Melchior, with whom he had two sons, Jean-Michel ( born 1938 ) and Philippe ( 1940 – 1979 ).

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.

The islands formally became an independent nation on 12 July 1979 under the name of Kiribati.

The constitution promulgated at independence on 12 July 1979, establishes the Republic of Kiribati as a sovereign democratic republic and guarantees the fundamental rights of its citizens.

Kaohsiung was upgraded to a special municipality on July 1, 1979, by the Executive Yuan, which approved this proposal on November 19, 1978.

The airstrip constructed on the island by the Royal Engineers in 1956-57 remained usable in July 1979.

On July 19, 1979, a new government was proclaimed under a provisional junta headed by 35-year-old Daniel Ortega and including Violeta Chamorro, Pedro's widow.

The Saint Lucia Labour Party ( SLP ) won the first post-independence elections in July 1979, taking 12 of 17 seats in parliament.

An early indication of the central role that the DGI would play in the Cuban-Nicaraguan relationship is a meeting in Havana on July 27, 1979, at which diplomatic ties between the two countries were re-established after more than 25 years.

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti ( Arabic: ; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006 ) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.

He forced the ailing al-Bakr to resign on 16 July 1979, and formally assumed the presidency.

Shortly afterwards, he convened an assembly of Ba ' ath party leaders on 22 July 1979.

He stepped down on 30 July 2007.

It was announced on 2 July 2008 that Sugar had stepped down as Chairman of Amstrad, which had been planned since BSkyB took over in 2007.

After attacks rose again in the first half of 2004, the Indonesian and Singaporean navies stepped up their patrols of the area in July 2004.

When he stepped down on July 7, 2006, he was the longest serving Secretary of Transportation since the position's inception in 1967.

On his return to Strasbourg, he stepped up his attacks on Catholic rites and ceremonies, and on 2 July published the Ein Summarischer vergriff der Christlichen Lehre und Religion ( Concise Summary of Christian Doctrine and Religion ), a confessional statement calling on Strasbourg to repent and to defend reformed principles outlined in twenty-nine articles.

* July 20 – A live transmission from the Moon is viewed by 720 million people around the world, with the landing of Apollo 11: at 10: 56 p. m. EDT on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the surface of the Moon, broadcast live.

* The UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( originally comprising Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau ), after Allied military occupations, since 18 July 1947, had a dozen high commissioners, also presiding over the splitting off of Palau and Marshall Islands in 1980 and the 10 May 1979 granting of autonomy to the Federated States of Micronesia ( former Ponape, Truk and Yap districts of the Trust Territory ) until on 3 November 1986 the Trust Territory was dissolved by the U. S. ( a single Director of the Office of Transition, Charles Jordan, stepped in from 3 November 1986 – 30 September 1991, a while after the 22 December 1990 proclamation of final independence as the UN Security Council ratified the termination of US trusteeship ).

Town mayor Vera Danyluk stepped down in July 2010 due to illness.

When the July Revolution of 1830 resulted in the downfall of the elder Bourbon branch, the Orléanists stepped in.

Nesbitt stepped down in January 2008, and was replaced by Thomas Kloet on July 14, 2008.

On July 16, 1979, the 65-year-old Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr stepped down, ostensibly on health grounds, and Saddam assumed the presidency in a move that was widely regarded as a formality.

James Hamilton, who had served as DPP for 12 years, announced in July 2011 that he will be taking early retirement and stepped down in November 2011.

Larsen stepped down as publisher in July 2008 and executive director Eric Stephenson was promoted to the position.

McClellan replaced Ari Fleischer, who stepped down as White House Press Secretary on July 15, 2003.

In 1980, Thomas made his first Broadway appearance in more than twelve years when he stepped in as a replacement in Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July.

In July 2012, the Gold Coast announced that Blight had stepped down from the board to take up a part-time advisory role to Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna, following a similar growing trend where former coaches ( among them Mark Williams, Dean Laidley and Mark Harvey ) have been employed as advisors to other head coaches.

After PAICV decided to introduce multiparty democracy in February 1990, Pereira stepped down as General Secretary of PAICV in July 1990 and was succeeded in that post by Pires.

On July 11, 2008, the CEO of Fortis, Jean Votron, stepped down after the ABN AMRO deal had depleted Fortis ' capital.

In July 2001, the second AL government stepped down, becoming the first elected government in Bangladesh to serve a full term in office.

On January 1, 2001, Drew Gilpin Faust became the Institute's first permanent dean ; she stepped down in July 2007 to become President of Harvard University.

" Nazi racial pseudo-science was couched in Völkisch terms, as when Eugen Fischer stepped into the vacuum, as other scholars withdrew from the University of Berlin in 1933, and delivered his inaugural address as Nazi rector, " The Conception of the Völkisch state in the view of biology " ( 29 July 1933 ).

" In July 1995, however, another company stepped in and acquired the naming rights, and the stadium became known as North AmeriCare Park.

Steve Davis stepped down as CEO, and Gary Shenk was named as the new CEO as of July 1.