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.

They lived comfortably at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, where Helen Beatrix was born on 28 July 1866 and her brother Walter Bertram on 14 March 1872.

Ernst Walter Mayr ( July 5, 1904 – February 3, 2005 ) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.

He shared the Walter Knox Prize for Chemistry on Foundation Day, Friday, 7 July 1933.

When the Archbishop of Canterbury, Hubert Walter, died on 13 July 1205, John became involved in a dispute with Pope Innocent III that would lead to the king's excommunication.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

Askin quickly rose through party ranks, eventually becoming Deputy Leader following Walter Howarth's resignation in July 1954.

With confidence in his leadership demolished, Treatt's Liberal Party descended into factional in-fighting culminating in the resignation of Deputy Leader Walter Howarth on the 22 July 1954, who publicly announced it on 4 July citing that he felt that Treatt doubted his loyalty.

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius ( May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969 ) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.

* July 5 – William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain announce the invention of the junction transistor.

* July 15 – Walter Ruttmann, German director ( b. 1887 )

* July 8 – Walter Scheel, President of Germany

* July 30 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic ( b. 1839 )

* July 23 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( d. 1976 )

* June 24 – Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau is assassinated ; the murderers are captured July 17.

* July 17 or July 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh is arrested for treason.

Walter F. Hellman ( June 15, 1916 – July 28, 1975 ) was the longest reigning world American checkers champion.

Portrait of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, Castlecrag, Sydney, 27 July 1930, National Library of Australia

On 4 September he recalled Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt from retirement, in which condition he had been since Hitler had dismissed him as Wehrmacht Commander-in-Chief West on 2 July, and reinstated him in his former command, replacing Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model, who had taken command just 18 days previously and would henceforth command only Army Group B. Rundstedt immediately began to plan a defence against what Wehrmacht intelligence judged to be 60 Allied divisions at full strength, although Eisenhower in fact possessed only 49 divisions.

The modern era of the NCAA began in July 1952 when its executive director, Kansas City, Missouri native Walter Byers, moved the organization's headquarters from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago ( where its offices were shared by the headquarters of the Big Ten Conference ) to the Fairmount Building at 101 West 11th Street in Downtown Kansas City.

* Walter Ulbricht ( July 1950 – May 3, 1971 )

Walter Matthau ( October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000 ) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears.

Senator Walter F. Mondale, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, went to Uvalde on July 30, 1970, and criticized city officials in an interview published in the Uvalde Leader News.

The statue of Captain Burns was given to the county on July 5, 1909, by Walter Francis Burns, a grandson of the sea captain.