1979 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Passing efficiency rating
1. Art Schlichter, Ohio State (145.9)2. Mark Carlson, Minnesota (125.7)3. Tim Clifford, Indiana (Indiana	124.1)4. Mark Herrmann, Purdue (120.0)5. Phil Suess, Iowa (118.0)


1979 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Rushing yards per attempt
1. Garry White, Minnesota (6.4)2. Ben McCall, Purdue (5.6)3. Lawrence Reid, Michigan (5.4)4. Mike Holmes, Illinois (5.4)5. Derek Hughes, Michigan State (5.3)


1979 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Yards per reception
1. Doug Donley, Ohio State (21.6)2. Gary Williams, Ohio State (19.2)3. Eugene Byrd, Michigan State (18.6)4. Doug Marsh, Michigan (18.5)5. Tom Stauss, Wisconsin (17.4)


1979 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Points scored
1. Vlade Janakievski, Ohio State (97)2. Dennis Mosley, Iowa (96)3. Butch Woolfolk, Michigan (78)4. Marion Barber, Jr., Minnesota (72)5. Derek Hughes, Michigan State (66)


1979 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Big Ten honors
The following players were picked by the Associated Press (AP) and/or the United Press International (UPI) as first-team players on the 1979 All-Big Ten Conference football team.


1979 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors
At the end of the 1979 season, two Big Ten players were consensus first-team picks for the 1979 College Football All-America Team. The Big Ten's consensus All-Americans were:


1979 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors
Other Big Ten players who were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector were:


1979 Big Ten Conference football season, 1979 NFL Draft
The 1980 NFL Draft was held in New York on April 29-30, 1979. The following players were among the first 100 picks:


1979 Birmingham WCT
The 1979 Birmingham WCT was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the seventh edition of the Grand Prix Birmingham, and part of the 1979 Colgate Palmolive Grand Prix. It took place in Birmingham, Alabama, United States from January 15 through January 21, 1979. First-seeded Jimmy Connors won the singles title, his fifth at the event.


1979 Birmingham WCT, Finals, Doubles
Stan Smith /  Dick Stockton defeated  Ilie Năstase /  Tom Okker 6–2, 6–3


1979 Birthday Honours
The Queen's Birthday Honours 1979 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the Queen. They were published for the United Kingdom in two tranches, first on 15 June 1979 and second on 25 June 1979. Other countries' lists were published on 15 June 1979: Australia, New Zealand, Barbados, Mauritius, Fiji, Bahamas, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Saint Lucia.


1979 Birthday Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1979 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The 1979 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 16 June 1979.


1979 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1979 Blue Swords
Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles and pair skating.


1979 Boise State Broncos football team
The 1979 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University in the 1979 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Broncos competed in the Big Sky Conference and played their home games on campus at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho. They were led by fourth-year head coach Jim Criner and an offensive backfield of juniors: quarterback Joe Aliotti, fullback David Hughes, halfback Cedric Minter, with halfback Terry Zahner in reserve.


1979 Boise State Broncos football team
The Broncos were 10–1 and undefeated in the Big Sky, but were on probation for a scouting violation in November 1978; they were ineligible for the league title or I-AA playoffs in 1979 and were not allowed to scouting films of upcoming opponents.


1979 Boise State Broncos football team
Senior quarterback Hoskin Hogan dropped out of school and junior college transfer Aliotti won the starting job.


1979 Boise State Broncos football team
After an opening two-point loss at home, BSU won ten straight; the league opener in late September set a Big Sky attendance record at 20,712. A 14–0 shutout win for BSU, it was the only blemish for Montana State (6–1) in conference play, but three non-conference losses kept them out of the four-team I-AA playoffs; the western postseason bid went again to fifth-ranked Nevada-Reno (8–3), who finished their first season in the Big Sky at 5–2.


1979 Boise State Broncos football team, All-conference
Halfback Cedric Minter was a repeat selection to the all-conference team, joined by quarterback Joe Aliotti, wide receiver Kipp Bedard, guard Shawn Beaton, defensive tackle Doug Scott, linebacker Ralph Esposito, and safety Rick Woods. Second team selections were fullback David Hughes, halfback Terry Zahner, wide receiver Mike Brady, defensive tackle Randy Trautman, nose guard Willie Tufono, linebacker Dan Williams, and cornerback Chris Bell.


1979 Bolivian general election
General elections were held in Bolivia on 1 July 1979. As no candidate in the presidential elections received a majority of the vote, the National Congress was required to elect a President. However, the Congress failed to elect a candidate after three ballots and instead selected Senate leader Wálter Guevara to serve as Interim President for a year on 8 August. Guevara was later overthrown by a military coup led by Alberto Natusch on 31 October. Fresh elections were held in June 1980.


1979 Bolivian general election
Although the Democratic and Popular Union received the most votes in the Congressional elections, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement-Alliance (MNR–A) won the most seats, largely as a result of the electoral system giving more seats to sparsely populated rural areas where the MNR–A was more popular.


1979 Bolivian general election, Background
General elections had previously been held on 9 July 1978, the first since 1966, with several military coups taking place during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although Juan Pereda of the Nationalist Union of the People won the presidential elections, more votes were cast than there were registered voters. After examining a number of allegations of fraud and other irregularities, the Electoral Court decided to annul the results on 20 July. The following day, Pereda was installed as president following a military coup. Pereda himself was overthrown by yet another military coup in November, which saw General David Padilla assume the presidency, promising to hold fresh elections in July the following year.


1979 Bolivian general election, Campaign
In contrast to previous military governments, General David Padilla came to power as the leader of a group of democratically oriented officers committed to returning the country to democratic rule in as short a period of time as possible. As such, Padilla did not use his newfound position to run for election in his own right and instead committed himself to the transfer of power to whoever won the upcoming presidential elections and effect a retreat of the military from government. For this reason, Padilla was remarkably popular during his short (nine-month) stay at the Palacio Quemado. Given the neutrality of the executive, the electoral process had a character of greater freedom though the tense electoral climate was characterized by bitterness and accusations among the various candidates.


1979 Bolivian general election, Campaign
The election saw the return of the two ever-present figures in Bolivian politics, Hernán Siles Zuazo of the Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNRI) in alliance with the Democratic and Popular Union (UDP) and Víctor Paz Estenssoro of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) in alliance with the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement–Alliance (MNR–A). In addition to Siles Zuazo and Paz Estenssoro was Hugo Banzer who just the previous year had seen his 7-year dictatorship come to an end. Banzer ran as a member of the Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN) formed by him on 23 March of that year. The final major candidate was Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz of the Socialist Party-1 (PS-1) who in the previous election had achieved a minuscule 0.43% of the vote. However, since then Quiroga had begun to rise in electoral favor.


1979 Bolivian general election, Campaign
Other candidates included René Bernal Escalante of the Popular Alliance for National Integration (APIN) made up of the Bolivian Socialist Falange (FSB), the Revolutionary Agrarian Movement of the Bolivian Peasantry (MARC), and the Christian Democratic Union (UDC). Bernal had received 8.63% of the vote (4th place) in 1978 as a member of the alliance between the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and the Barrientista Revolutionary Party (PRB). However, in this election, the PDC opted to join in alliance with the MNR–A with only a right-wing splinter group, the UDC, remaining.


1979 Bolivian general election, Campaign
In turn, the PRB had joined in alliance with the Bolivian Union Party of Walter Gonzáles Valda which positioned itself as a 'revolutionary democratic centre-left nationalist' party. Also in contention were Luciano Tapia Quisbert, the founder and leader of the indigenous political party Indian Movement Túpac Katari (MITKA), and the Workers' Vanguard Party (VO) a small Trotskyist party led by Ricardo Catoira.


1979 Bolivian general election, Campaign
A total of 1,378 candidates contested the 144 seats in Congress.


1979 Bolivian general election, Campaign, Multi-color ballot
An important novelty of the 1979 electoral process was the introduction of the multi-color and multi-sign ballot. Previously, each political party had its own ballot, which opened up wide possibilities for manipulation  by simply removing ballots for opposition candidates. The multi-color ballot, still in use in Bolivian elections today, is a single ballot sheet presenting segments divided by party colors with symbols of parties and pictures of candidates running for office.


1979 Bolivian general election, Results
The result was a virtual tie between Siles Zuazo of the UDP and Paz Estenssoro of the MNR-A. As such, the MNR and its splinters returned to being the primary protagonists of Bolivian politics, a fact which had not been the case since the deposition of Paz Estenssoro in 1964. The MNR and MNRI received a collective 71.88% of the vote almost evenly divided between Siles Zuazo's 35.99% and Paz Estenssoro's 35.89% with Siles Zuazo taking the plurality by just 0.10% and 1,512 votes.


1979 Bolivian general election, Results
Banzer emerged with 14.88% of the vote, a margin considered a triumph for the ex-dictator. Quiroga was also an indisputable victor, rising from 8th place in 1978 to 4th place in 1979 and expanding his vote margin by almost ten times from 8,323 to 70,765. Despite not being elected president, Quiroga and 4 other members of the PS-1 would enter Congress, a position he would use just a  month after the election on 30 August to initiate a "trial of responsibilities" to impeach former president Banzer for crimes of state violence and economic malfeasance. Bernal, in turn, fell from 167,131 votes and an 8.63% margin in 1978 to 60,262 votes and a 4.10% margin, a loss of half of his support.


1979 Bolivian general election, Aftermath
As no party reached an absolute majority, Congress was tasked with electing a president from the top three contenders. Hernán Siles Zuazo had won the plurality of the popular vote but not by a clear enough amount to be the obvious choice for president. While Víctor Paz Estenssoro failed to win the plurality by a razor-thin margin, the MNR-A as a whole won a majority in both chambers of Congress with 48 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 16 seats in the Chamber of Senators, double the number of the next largest party. However, it was the presence of the ADN, which had no feasible path to victory and yet uncompromisingly decided to vote entirely for their candidate Hugo Banzer, and the decision of the minor parties to abstain which ultimately cost Paz Estenssoro the presidency by just 5 votes.


1979 Bolivian general election, Aftermath
After a total of six ballots, no candidate was able to achieve the majority. In light of the uncompromising situation, on 6 August, the MNR proposed that Congress elect Wálter Guevara, the President of the Senate, to hold the position of interim president until new elections could be called the following year. Guevara was not a member of any of the three parties in contention, instead being the leader of the Authentic Revolutionary Party (PRA), an offshoot of the MNR which had both opposed and supported Paz Estenssoro in various elections. The proposal was accepted by all parties except the PS-1 and MITKA.


1979 Bolivian general election, Aftermath
On 8 August 1979 Padilla handed his mandate to Guevara with new elections scheduled for 29 June 1980. However, Guevara's mandate would be cut short before that date as his government was deposed on 1 November by Alberto Natusch, who himself would last only until 16 November when he agreed to resign on the basis that Guevara did not return to his position as president. President of the Chamber of Deputies Lidia Gueiler Tejada would be subsequently elected interim president and would oversee the 1980 elections.


1979 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 3 May 1979 on the same day as the General Election. The Conservatives retained control of the Council by a majority of 1 seat.


1979 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election
24 seats were contested, with 14 being won by the Labour Party, 9 by the Conservatives and 1 by the Liberal Party.


1979 Bombay International
The 1979 Gaware Paints Bombay International was a professional invitational snooker tournament held in February 1979 in Bombay (modern-day Mumbai), India. This was the first professional snooker tournament to be held in India.


1979 Bombay International
Six professionals played in a round-robin format, with John Spencer emerging as the winner.


1979 Bordeaux Open
The 1979 Bordeaux Open also known as the Grand Prix Passing Shot was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at Villa Primrose in Bordeaux, France that was part of the 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. The tournament was held from 1 October until 7 October 1979. Singles matches were best of five sets and doubles best of three. Fourth-seeded Yannick Noah won the singles title.


1979 Bordeaux Open, Finals, Singles
Yannick Noah defeated  Harold Solomon 6–0, 6–7, 6–1, 1–6, 6–4


1979 Bordeaux Open, Finals, Doubles
Patrice Dominguez /  Denis Naegelen defeated  Bernard Fritz /  Iván Molina 6–4, 6–4


1979 Borno State gubernatorial election
The 1979 Borno State gubernatorial election occurred on July 28, 1979. GNPP's Mohammed Goni won election for a first term to become Borno State's first executive governor, defeating main opposition NPN's Kam Salem in the contest.


1979 Borno State gubernatorial election
Mohammed Goni emerged the GNPP candidate after being elected in absentia, defeating Abba Jiddum Gana over a wide margin. Goni polled 166 and Gana 18. Goni's running mate was Ibrahim Anas.


1979 Borno State gubernatorial election, Electoral system
The Governor of Borno State is elected using the plurality voting system.


1979 Borno State gubernatorial election, Results
There were five political parties registered by the Federal Electoral Commission (FEDECO) to participate in the election. Mohammed Goni of the GNPP won the contest by polling the highest votes, defeating NPN's Kam Salem.


1979 Boston City Council election
The Boston City Council election was held on November 6, 1979, with preliminary elections on September 25, 1979.


1979 Boston City Council election, Candidates
All nine incumbents (Lawrence DiCara, Raymond Flynn, Louise Day Hicks, Christopher A. Iannella, Frederick C. Langone, Patrick F. McDonough, Dapper O'Neil, Rosemarie E. Sansone, and Joseph M. Tierney), ran for reelection.


1979 Boston City Council election, Results
The top 18 candidates in the preliminary election moved on to the November general election. The top nine candidates in the November election were seated on the city council.


1979 Boston College Eagles football team
The 1979 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College as an independent during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its second season under head coach Ed Chlebek, the team compiled a 5–6 record, scored 215 points, and allowed 215 points. On September 22, the team's 34-7 victory over Villanova ended a 16-game losing streak dating back to the 1977 season.


1979 Boston College Eagles football team
The team's statistical leaders included Jay Palazola with 747 passing yards, Dan Conway with 856 rushing yards, and Rob Rikard with 603 receiving yards.


1979 Boston College Eagles football team
The team played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.


1979 Boston Red Sox season
The 1979 Boston Red Sox season was the 79th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished third in the American League East with a record of 91 wins and 69 losses, 11 1⁄2 games behind the Baltimore Orioles, who went on to win the AL championship.


1979 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season
The Red Sox only played 160 games, as a home game scheduled against the Milwaukee Brewers on August 12, and an away game scheduled against the Chicago White Sox on August 29, were rained out and not rescheduled.


1979 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season, Highlights
Fred Lynn had a league-leading .333 batting average and had 39 home runs and 122 RBIs, while Jim Rice batted .325 with 39 homers and 130 RBIs. On the pitching staff, Dennis Eckersley was 17–10, down from 20–8 the prior season, and Mike Torrez was 16–13, matching his record of the previous year.


1979 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season, Highlights
The season also featured Carl Yastrzemski's 3,000th hit and his 400th home run. His 400th home run came off of Mike Morgan of the Athletics on July 24. Yaz became the seventh AL player and 18th MLB player to collect 400 home runs. He joined the 3,000 hit club with a single off of Jim Beattie of the Yankees on September 12. Yaz was the 15th player to collect 3,000 major league hits, and the first AL player to have both 3,000 hits and 400 home runs.


1979 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1979 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1979 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1979 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1979 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1979 Boston University Terriers football team
The 1979 Boston University Terriers football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1979 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their third season under head coach Rick Taylor, the Terriers compiled an 8–1–1 record (4–1 against conference opponents), tied for the conference championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 209 to 120.


1979 Boston University strike
The 1979 Boston University strike was a labor strike involving employees at Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The strike, involving faculty members, clerical workers, and librarians, began on April 5 and was fully ended by April 23.


1979 Boston University strike
The strike has its background in the presidency of John Silber, who became president of the university in 1971. Over the next few years, Silber made many changes that proved unpopular with the university's faculty, and in 1975, the university's chapter of the American Association of University Professors (BU-AAUP) voted to act as a collective bargaining unit. Silber initially challenged the legality of the union, but by 1978, a court ruling mandated that the university commence negotiations with the union.


1979 Boston University strike
Over the next few months, neither side come to a solid agreement, with pay increases being a particular point of contention. In early 1979, the union began preparing for strike action, and on April 5, following a disagreement over a tentative agreement that had previously been reached, the union went on strike. That same day, clerical workers and librarians (unionized under the Distributive Workers of America and the Service Employees International Union, respectively) also voted to go on strike, partially in an act of solidarity with the AAUP and partially as a way to receive union recognition.


1979 Boston University strike
The strike resulted in the cancellation of several hundred classes and particularly affected the College of Liberal Arts. On April 14, the faculty voted to end the strike after the university agreed to the previous tentative agreement, with the provision that they not perform any sort of sympathy strike with other unions. The clerical workers and librarians remained on strike for several more days despite this, and some professors tried to hold classes on locations away from the university as a show of solidarity with the strikers. They finally ended their strike on April 23 after the university agreed to recognize the two unions.


1979 Boston University strike
A year after the strike, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that faculty at private universities were not protected to unionize under the terms of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, and as a result, when the BU-AAUP's contract expired in 1982, the union became decertified. For this reason, historian Gary Zabel calls the strike a Pyrrhic victory for the faculty.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, President Silber and opposition from faculty
In 1971, academic John Silber became the president of Boston University (BU). Silber had previously worked at the University of Texas at Austin, where he had established a reputation as a New Deal liberal. However, by the late 1960s, Silber had grown hostile to the New Left and student activist groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society and embraced a more rigidly conservative stance on politics. Early in his presidency at BU, Silber made a series of decisions that proved unpopular with members of the university's faculty.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, President Silber and opposition from faculty
In particular, he pushed for university department's to hire friends of his at inflated pay and vetoed some recommendations for academic tenure, especially for professors who had expressed a left-leaning political stance. By 1976, the faculty senate for BU voted 377–117 in a vote of no confidence, asking Silber to resign, while eight members of the BU board of trustees also called on him to resign.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, President Silber and opposition from faculty
Additionally, the Massachusetts branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused Silber in 1979 of violating academic freedom and basic civil liberties, stating that they had never received so many complaints targeting a single institution as they had received with regards to Silber's administration at BU. Regardless of all this, Silber managed to solidify his power amongst the university's administration and remained the university's president until retiring from that position in 2000.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, President Silber and opposition from faculty
Around the same time that Silber joined BU, there had been a nationwide push for unionization among professors at American universities. In 1967, the first labor union representing professors at a bachelor degree granting college was established as a local union of the American Federation of Teachers at what is now the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. By 1975, dozens of universities and over 200 two-year colleges were unionized, representing approximately 15 percent of all professors in the United States.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, President Silber and opposition from faculty
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a professional association that primarily concerned itself with defending academic freedom, also became involved in this wave when several of its university chapters began to engage in collective bargaining with their universities. In May 1975, the BU chapter of the AAUP (which represented 440 of BU's almost 850 fulltime professors) held a representation election, supervised by the National Labor Relations Board, that lead to the BU-AAUP becoming a collective bargaining union.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, President Silber and opposition from faculty
However, the university refused to recognize the union and engaged in a legal dispute that led to an April 1978 order by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit that the university had to recognize the union and enter into negotiations with it. While the university appealed the decision to the United States Supreme Court, they still had to commence negotiations while their appeal was pending.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, Clerical workers and librarians organize
While the faculty was organizing, so to were clerical workers and librarians employed at BU. Shortly after BU-AAUP held its representation election, these workers formed the Boston University Staff Organizing Committee, which consisted of about 800 clerical workers. This group, which published a newsletter and communicated with clerical workers at other universities such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, unionized with the New York City-based Distributive Workers of America District 65.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, Clerical workers and librarians organize
Meanwhile, a group of about 25 librarians unionized with Local 925, a joint union organized by the Service Employees International Union and 9to5, National Association of Working Women, a feminist labor organization that had been founded in Boston in 1973. Both of these unions had held representation elections of their own by 1979, but the university refused to negotiate with them and instead filed legal action wherein they questioned the legitimacy of the elections.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, Tentative agreement reached
While negotiations continued between the university and BU-AAUP, both sides began to prepare for possible strike action. The union and university were primarily at odds with regards to pay increases, highlighted by a letter released by a trustee in January 1979 that read, "More than anything else, we seek tranquility on campus. But if this university is to be shut down, it is better that it be shut down by a strike than as a bankrupt institution."


1979 Boston University strike, Background, Tentative agreement reached
At the time, the university stated that the union was seeking a 44 percent pay increase over the duration of the three year contract, which the trustees stated would seriously hurt the university financially. By March, the union had reduced this amount to 14 percent for the first year and two smaller amounts for the next two years of the contract, but the two sides remained at an impasse. That same month, the union voted to strike on March 21 and March 22 unless progress was made in negotiations, but this was called off on March 20.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, Tentative agreement reached
However, the union also voted to strike on April 4 unless an agreement had been made by March 30. On March 31, the university and union came to an agreement that would see changes in governance and tenure rules as well as a 32.4 percent salary increase over the course of the three-year contract. Additionally, the contract would expire at the beginning of that year's academic term, which the union felt increased their leverage in future contract negotiations by allowing for strike action that would affect that academic term.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, Tentative agreement reached
As part of the agreement (which was solidified with a public handshaking between Silber and negotiators), both side's bargaining units would present the agreements for deliberation amongst their respective sides for a maximum of 72 hours before a straightforward yea or nay vote. On April 2, faculty members voted 252–17 to approve the contract, while the following day the board of trustees were set to vote.


1979 Boston University strike, Background, Tentative agreement reached
However, instead of voting, the board asked for changes to the contract that would have moved the contract's expiration date to the end of the academic term and barred governance from counting towards faculty member's service requirements. The previous day, Silber had held a closed-doors meeting at the Algonquin Club with several prominent members of the board and according to historian Gary Zabel, the decision to ask for these changes had been determined then. The union was outraged with this reneging, and on April 3, BU-AAUP member and sociology professor George Psathas interrupted Silber while he was lecturing at the Boston University School of Law to announce that the faculty would strike on April 5.


1979 Boston University strike, Course of the strike
The strike commenced on the morning of April 5, with picketing occurring throughout BU's campus. About 400 professors participated, with some picketing with signs that included quotes from Paul the Apostle, William Shakespeare, and Voltaire. The Daily Free Press, BU's student newspaper, reported that many undergraduate students were supportive of the strike, while support from graduate students was even stronger, with several grad students forming the Graduate Employees Organizing Committee to coordinate support.


1979 Boston University strike, Course of the strike
By the end of the first day, the union reported that about 100 percent of the professors in the College of Liberal Arts were on strike, while a majority of the professors in both the College of Engineering and the School of Law continued to hold classes. According to The Harvard Crimson, about 80 percent of the roughly 900 professors at BU cancelled their classes for the day. Shortly after the strike began, the clerical workers and librarians voted to also go on strike, both as a representation strike as well as a solidarity action with the faculty members.


1979 Boston University strike, Course of the strike
Additional support for the strike came from some maintenance workers, whose union allowed members to participate in the strike on an individual basis. On the first day, The New York Times reported that the events at BU were "something like a general strike". On April 9, the students' union at BU announced they were filing a class-action lawsuit seeking tuition reimbursement for classes cancelled due to the strike.


1979 Boston University strike, Course of the strike
After about one week, the university moved to end the strike by approving the tentative agreement as it was originally written, though with an agreement that BU-AAUP would not participate in sympathy strikes, effectively meaning that the faculty would go back to work despite the clerical workers and librarians continuing to strike. While some faculty members wished to continue the strike in support of District 65 and Local 925, many members of the BU-AAUP were expressing a desire to return to work, and prominent member Marx W. Wartofsky urged the members to agree to the deal.


1979 Boston University strike, Course of the strike
On April 14, the union voted 271–23 to approve the contract. A majority of the professors returned to work, though some refused to hold classes and others, such as Frances Fox Piven and Howard Zinn, tried to hold classes in locations outside of the university. The Harvard Crimson reported that up to 150 professors were holding classes in this manner in order to show some solidarity with the other unions.


1979 Boston University strike, Course of the strike
Meanwhile, District 65 and Local 925 continued to strike until Silber covertly told them that the administration would agree to recognize the unions if they called off their strike and did not make public his communications with them. The unions approved and ended their strike as well, having gained recognition and new labor contracts. Their strike officially ended on April 23.


1979 Boston University strike, Aftermath
Following the strike, Silber sought to fire five professors who remained on strike in support of District 65 and Local 925, including Zinn, but a campaign organized by Nobel Prize-winner George Wald caused Silber to abandon these efforts. In December 1979, in partial response to these efforts, the faculty voted to urge for Silber's firing, as it had done in the past, but these calls were dismissed by Silber and other members of the board of trustees.


1979 Boston University strike, Aftermath
In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the court case NLRB v. Yeshiva University that professors at private universities, because they held managerial powers, were not protected to unionize under the terms of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. As a result, in 1982, when the labor contract with BU-AAUP expired, the university sought and attained decertification for the union. In retrospect, Zabel calls the strike a Pyrrhic victory and states that Silber's eventual success in breaking the union is emblematic of university administrations' efforts to "regain lost ground" following the radical period of the 1960s and 1970s.


1979 Boston mayoral election
The Boston mayoral election of 1979 occurred on Tuesday, November 6, 1979, between Mayor Kevin White and state senator Joseph F. Timilty. This was the second election in a row between White and Timilty. White once again defeated Timilty and was elected to a fourth term.


1979 Boston mayoral election
The nonpartisan municipal preliminary election was held on September 25, 1979.


1979 Botswana general election
General elections were held in Botswana on 20 October 1979. The result was a fourth successive landslide victory for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which won 29 of the 32 elected seats, including two in which they were unopposed.


1979 Botswana general election, Campaign
A total of 69 candidates contested the election. The BDP was the only party to run a full slate of 32 candidates, with the Botswana National Front putting forward 16 candidates, the  Botswana People's Party 14 and the Botswana Independence Party five. There were also two independents. The BDP campaigned on opposition to apartheid in South Africa and a call for economic sanctions against Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.


1979 Botswana general election, Campaign
Prior to the elections, the voter roll was completely revamped. The revision was accompanied by a vigorous radio and press campaign by the government to encourage registration. Although the number of registered voters increased by only 6,635 compared to the 1974 elections, this was deemed to be due to the 1974 voter roll having numerous duplications.


1979 Bowling Green Falcons football team
The 1979 Bowling Green Falcons football team was an American football team that represented Bowling Green University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third season under head coach Denny Stolz, the Falcons compiled a 4–7 record (3–5 against MAC opponents), finished in eighth place in the MAC, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 265 to 194.


1979 Bowling Green Falcons football team
The team's statistical leaders included Mike Wright with 1,148 passing yards, Kevin Folkes with 696 rushing yards, and Dan Shetler with 502 receiving yards.


1979 Brazilian Grand Prix
The 1979 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Interlagos on 4 February 1979. It was the second race of the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1979 International Cup for F1 Constructors.


1979 Brazilian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
The Ligier team dominated the race weekend with their superior ground-effect JS11. Frenchman Jacques Laffite dominated the race weekend and made the most of his superbly set-up Ligier by taking pole position, smashing Jean-Pierre Jarier's 1975 pole time by 7 seconds, setting fastest lap and leading every lap of the race up to the finish. Laffite's teammate Patrick Depailler started and finished 2nd. Laffite and the Ligier team completed their domination of the South American fortnight, Laffite also dominantly won in Argentina.


1979 Brisbane Rugby League season
The 1979 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 72nd season of Brisbane's semi-professional rugby league football competition. Eight teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Fortitude Valley and Southern Suburbs clubs.


1979 Brisbane Rugby League season, Season summary
Teams played each other three times, with 21 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top four of Fortitude Valley, Eastern Suburbs, Southern Suburbs and Western Suburbs.


1979 Brisbane Rugby League season, Grand Final
Fortitude Valley 26 (Tries: C. Close, V. Wieland, P. McWhirter, J. McLeod. Goals: M. Neill 6. Field Goals: W. Lewis, R. Strudwick.)


1979 Bristol City Council election
The 1979 Bristol City Council election took place on 3 May 1979 to elect members of Bristol City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections and the 1979 general election. In contrast to the Conservative landslide in the national election, the Conservatives in Bristol lost 6 seats to Labour, who maintained overall control of the council.


1979 British Columbia general election
The 1979 British Columbia general election was the 32nd general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 3, 1979. The election was held on May 10, 1979, and the new legislature met for the first time on June 6, 1979.


1979 British Columbia general election
The governing Social Credit Party of British Columbia of Bill Bennett was re-elected with a majority government, and won almost half of the popular vote. The electorate was polarized between the Socreds and the social democratic New Democratic Party of former premier Dave Barrett, which won just under 46% of the popular vote and all of the remaining seats in the legislature. The NDP made up much of the ground it had lost in its severe defeat of four years earlier. However, the Socreds dominated the Fraser Valley and the Interior, allowing Bennett to cling to government by three seats.


1979 British Columbia general election
Of the other parties only the Progressive Conservatives won over 1% of the popular vote, but their 5% of the vote did not enable them to hold on to their single seat in the legislature. Party leader Victor Stephens complained during the campaign that the federal PC Party was providing no assistance to the provincial party, favouring Social Credit instead. The caused embarrassment for federal party leader Joe Clark, who was leading his own election campaign for the May 22, 1979 federal election.


1979 British Columbia general election, Results
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.


1979 British Formula One Championship
The 1979 British Formula One Championship (formally the 1979 Aurora AFX F1 Championship) was the second season of the British Formula One Championship. It commenced on 1 April 1979 and ended on 7 October after fifteen races. The Drivers' Championship was won by Englishman Rupert Keegan who drove an Arrows A1 entered by Charles Clowes.


1979 British Formula One Championship, Results and standings, Drivers' standings
Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers using the following structure:


1979 British Formula Three Championship
The 1979 British Formula Three season was the 29th season of the British Formula Three Championship.


1979 British Formula Three Championship
Only Project Four Racing and Team Tiga appeared properly prepared for the 1979 season, with respective drivers Chico Serra and Andrea de Cesaris. It would be Serra’s consistency that saw him take the BARC/BRDC Vandervell British Formula 3 Championship after a number of avoidable accidents and mistakes from de Cesaris, dropped him from contention. The Kiwi teenage sensation, Mike Thackwell was also very consistent, winning four of the last eight races for the works March Racing team.


1979 British Grand Prix
The 1979 British Grand Prix (formally the XXXII Marlboro British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at Silverstone on 14 July 1979. It was the ninth race of the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1979 International Cup for F1 Constructors.


1979 British Grand Prix
The 68-lap race was won by Clay Regazzoni, driving a Williams-Ford. It was the first Formula One victory for the Williams team. René Arnoux finished second in a Renault, with Jean-Pierre Jarier third in a Tyrrell-Ford.


1979 British Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report
Qualifying saw Alan Jones take his and the Williams team's first pole position by 0.6 seconds from Jean-Pierre Jabouille in the Renault; the Williams FW07 had been modified by engineers Patrick Head and Frank Dernie to correct some aerodynamic problems on the car. Nelson Piquet took third in the Brabham with the second Williams of Clay Regazzoni alongside him on the second row, while René Arnoux in the second Renault and Niki Lauda in the second Brabham made up the third row. Completing the top ten were John Watson in the McLaren, the Lotuses of Carlos Reutemann and Mario Andretti, and Jacques Laffite in the Ligier. The Ferraris disappointed, with championship leader Jody Scheckter only managing 11th and Gilles Villeneuve 13th.


1979 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report
At the start of the race, Regazzoni charged into the lead, but was repassed by team-mate Jones and Jabouille before the end of the first lap. Andretti and the Ferraris also made fast starts, running close to Piquet, Lauda and Arnoux. At the end of lap 2, Piquet made a mistake at Woodcote and spun off, before Andretti dropped out with a broken wheel bearing on lap 4. Then Lauda encountered brake problems which eventually led to his retirement on lap 13, leaving Arnoux fourth with Scheckter fifth and Villeneuve dutifully following the South African.


1979 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report
Up at the front, Jones established a commanding lead over Jabouille, who was struggling on Michelin tyres that were wearing quickly. On lap 17, the Frenchman pitted for new tyres, promoting Regazzoni to second. However, disaster struck for Jabouille when, after a long stop, part of his front wing got caught in an air hose that had not been removed from under the car and was broken off as he accelerated. He was forced to return to the pits for repairs, during which his turbo overheated.


1979 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report
At half-distance, Jones still led comfortably, with Regazzoni still second and well clear of Arnoux, and Laffite moving ahead of the Ferraris into fourth. Then, approaching Woodcote at the end of lap 39, Jones's engine failed, a water pump problem causing it to overheat. Six laps later, Laffite also retired with engine trouble. This left only four drivers on the lead lap - Regazzoni, Arnoux, Scheckter and Villeneuve - with Jean-Pierre Jarier up to fifth in his Tyrrell and Watson sixth.


1979 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report
The Ferraris were also struggling on Michelins, and Villeneuve pitted for new tyres on lap 50, before stopping with fuel vaporization problems five laps from the end. Scheckter, meanwhile, was lapped by Regazzoni on lap 56, before Jarier and Watson passed him in the closing laps.


1979 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report
Regazzoni eventually took the chequered flag 24 seconds ahead of Arnoux, giving Williams their first Formula One victory. It was also Regazzoni's fifth and final win and, to date, the last win in F1 for a Swiss driver. After Jarier, Watson and Scheckter came Jacky Ickx, taking the final point in the second Ligier.


1979 British Grand Prix, Race, Race report
This was the first Grand Prix on which James Hunt, who had retired from racing the previous month, commentated alongside Murray Walker for the BBC's Grand Prix programme.


1979 British League season
The 1979 Gulf British League season was the 45th season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the 15th season known as the British League.


1979 British League season, Summary
The league was sponsored by Gulf Oil for a fifth season. It comprised 18 teams - one fewer than the previous season. White City Rebels had folded and their riders became Eastbourne Eagles assets as Eastbourne were promoted from the National League. Bristol Bulldogs also dropped out after only two seasons back in the top flight.


1979 British League season, Summary
Coventry Bees won the league for the second year running. Hull Vikings' second place was their best ever finish. The Coventry Bees team was similar to the previous season with a young 18 year-old Danish newcomer Tommy Knudsen replacing Jiří Štancl from the previous season. Alan Molyneux once again backed up the Coventry overseas contingent with a solid average. Cradley Heath won the Knockout Cup mainly thanks to their USA superstar Bruce Penhall. The Cradley team also had their own young Danish newcomer in 20 year-old Erik Gundersen and 20 year-old Hans Nielsen posted a 10 plus average for the season riding for Wolves. The future looked extremely bright for Denmark.


1979 British League season, Summary
During the new British League Fours tournament a horrific accident took place at Hackney Wick Stadium on Friday 8 June. In the final heat between Hackney and Eastbourne all four riders were competing when Hackney's Vic Harding and Eastbourne's Steve Weatherley touched and their bikes became locked together. They were both thrown from their bikes into the fence and the metal post supporting one of the track lights. Both riders were taken to hospital but Harding died later that night and Weatherley was left paralysed. Further bad news filtered though in December after the season had finished, when Poole Pirate's Christer Sjösten died following serious injuries sustained in a race in Australia.


1979 British League season, Final table
M = Matches; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; Pts = Total Points


1979 British League season, Top Ten Riders
The top ten averages recorded at the end of the season.


1979 British League season, British League Knockout Cup
The 1979 Speedway Star British League Knockout Cup was the 41st edition of the Knockout Cup for tier one teams. Cradley Heath were the winners.


1979 British League season, British League Knockout Cup, Final, Second leg
Cradley Heath were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 120-96.


1979 British National Track Championships
The 1979 British National Track Championships were a series of track cycling competitions held from late July to early August 1979 at the Leicester Velodrome.


1979 British Rowing Championships
The 1979 National Rowing Championships was the eighth edition of the National Championships, held from 20–21 July 1979 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham.


1979 British Saloon Car Championship
The 1979 British Saloon Car Championship was the 22nd season of the championship. Richard Longman successfully defended his drivers title with his Mini 1275 GT.


1979 British Saloon Car Championship, Calendar & Winners
All races were held in the United Kingdom. Overall winners in bold.


1979 British Speedway Championship
The 1979 British Speedway Championship was the 19th edition of the British Speedway Championship. The Final took place on 20 June at Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England. The Championship was won by Peter Collins, who scored a 15-point maximum. Former two-time champion Michael Lee finished as the runner-up, with Dave Jessup in third.


1979 British Speedway Championship, Final
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •  t - exclusion for touching the tapes •  x - other exclusion •  e - retired or mechanical failure •  f - fell •  ns - non-starter •  nc - non-classify


1979 British Virgin Islands general election
General elections were held in the British Virgin Islands on 12 November 1979. The result was a victory for the opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) led by former Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt over the incumbent United Party (UP) led by Willard Wheatley. The newly formed Virgin Islands National Movement (VINM), led by Elvin Stoutt, also contested the elections but did not win any seats.


1979 British Virgin Islands general election
The supervisor of elections was Trevor A.F. Peters. Voter turnout was 74.8%.


1979 British Virgin Islands general election
The 1979 general election was the first election to be conducted after the Legislature had been expanded from seven to nine elected seats. Three of the nine seats were not contested, with only a single candidate standing in the 3rd, 7th and 8th Districts. For the 3rd District, this was the second consecutive general election where the seat was uncontested.


1979 British Virgin Islands general election
The Virgin Islands Party won the election despite receiving only 733 votes in aggregate across all seats, and just 27.8% of the vote. This low figure was in part was caused by the high number of uncontested seats, but also reflected significant voter disenchantment with the political process.


1979 British Virgin Islands general election, Background
By 1979 internal fighting had severely limited the capability of almost every political party in the British Virgin Islands. After internal fighting, the VI Democratic Party (VIDP) was left with just one candidate: its founder, Q.W. Osborne. The United Party fared little better: it was able to field two candidates. Neither party would win a contested seat, although Willard Wheatley would win the 7th District by default for the United Party as he was unopposed. The newly created Virgin Islands National Movement fielded the second most candidates with three, and even the Virgin Islands Party could only muster four.


1979 British Virgin Islands general election, Results
The Virgin Islands Party won all four of the seats it contested. Still short of being able to form a government, they moved to secure the loyalty of Oliver Cills (who had previously been a member of the VI Democratic Party), giving them a majority with which to form a government.


1979 British Virgin Islands general election, Results
The victory of the Virgin Islands Party with just 733 votes and a 27.8% share of the vote are both record lows for a general election in the British Virgin Islands.


1979 British Virgin Islands general election, Results
Candidates who were elected for the first time included future Chief Minister, Cyril Romney, and future Minister, Omar Hodge, who would hold his seat for the next 32 years (the third longest such span in British Virgin Islands politics).


1979 British Virgin Islands general election, Results
The defeat of Q.W. Osborne in the 5th District signalled the end of the VI Democratic Party. Following the elections, the United Party was the only party left in existence from the 1967 general election.


1979 British motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1979 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 1979 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 10-12 August 1979 at the Silverstone Circuit.


1979 British motorcycle Grand Prix, Race summary
The 500cc British Grand Prix would be one of the closest races in Grand Prix history. The race began with Barry Sheene, Kenny Roberts and Wil Hartog breaking away from the rest of the field. At the midpoint of the race, Hartog fell off the pace as Sheene and Roberts continued to battle for the lead. They continued to swap the lead throughout the 28 lap event with Roberts winning ahead of Sheene by a narrow margin of just three-hundreds of a second.


1979 British motorcycle Grand Prix, Race summary
Minutes before the start of the race, Roberts' Yamaha blew a seal and sprayed the bike with oil. His crew managed to replace the seal in time but, Roberts went to the starting line with his gloves coated with oil, causing his hand to slip on the throttle during the race.


1979 British motorcycle Grand Prix, Race summary
After an eleven-year absence from world championship racing, Honda returned to competition with the exotic, four-stroke NR500 ridden by riders Mick Grant and Takazumi Katayama. The motorcycle featured an engine with oval-shaped cylinders as well as a monocoque chassis. Both bikes retired from the race, Grant crashing out on the first turn after the bike spilled oil onto his rear tire. Katayama retired on the seventh lap due to ignition problems.


1979 Brown Bears football team
The 1979 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. Brown tied for second place in the Ivy League.


1979 Brown Bears football team
In their seventh season under head coach John Anderson, the Bears compiled a 6–3 record and outscored opponents 197 to 129. J. Hickey and J. Sinnott were the team captains.


1979 Brown Bears football team
The Bears' 5–2 conference record tied for second in the Ivy League standings. They outscored Ivy opponents 159 to 102.


1979 Brown Bears football team
Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.


1979 Brownlow Medal
The 1979 Brownlow Medal was the 52nd year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Peter Moore of the Collingwood Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-two votes during the 1979 VFL season.


1979 Brownlow Medal, Leading votegetters
* The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the AFL Tribunal during the year.


1979 Broxbourne Borough Council election
The Broxbourne Council election, 1979 was held to elect council members of the Broxbourne Borough Council - the local government authority of the borough of Broxbourne,  Hertfordshire, England.


1979 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary
An election was held in 14 wards on 3 May 1979.


1979 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary
The political balance of the council following this election was:


1979 Brussels bombing
The 1979 Brussels bombing was an attack carried out by volunteers belonging to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against a British Army band on the Grand Place, the central square of Brussels in Belgium on 28 August 1979. The bombing injured seven bandsmen and eleven civilians, and caused extensive damage.


1979 Brussels bombing, Background
The bombing was part of the IRA's European continental campaign against British targets in its fight to force the British out of Northern Ireland, in a protracted armed conflict known as the Troubles. The attack in Brussels was one of numerous ones from the IRA on the continent at the time. Earlier that year, Richard Sykes, British ambassador to the Netherlands was assassinated in Amsterdam. A Brussels explosion on 25 June, narrowly missing American Alexander Haig, was intended for a British general. A bomb attack in Belgium's Antwerp targeted the British consulate building on 6 July 1979.


1979 Brussels bombing, Background
In the two days before the 29 August bombing, 18 British soldiers had been killed in Northern Ireland in the Warrenpoint ambush, and Lord Mountbatten had been assassinated in the Republic of Ireland, both by the IRA.


1979 Brussels bombing, Bombing and aftermath
The band, from the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment based in Osnabrück, West Germany, was about to perform a concert as the bomb was planted underneath the open-air stage. Only some of the band's 30 members had already arrived, as the others were lucky enough to have been stuck in city traffic. Also, injuries were lessened and fatalities avoided since the band's members were dressing, away from the stage, at the time of the explosion.


1979 Brussels bombing, Bombing and aftermath
The bombing happened during while the city was celebrating its millennium.


1979 Brussels bombing, Bombing and aftermath
The IRA claimed responsibility in a telephone call to the city hall, according to Mayor Pierre Van Halteren. According to West German intelligence, the IRA possibly planned the attack in co-ordination with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).


1979 Bucknell Bison football team
The 1979 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1979 NCAA Division I-AA football season.


1979 Bucknell Bison football team
In their fourth year under head coach Bob Curtis, the Bison compiled a 4–4–2 record. John Campana and Mike McDonald were the team captains.


1979 Bucknell Bison football team
Bucknell played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.


1979 Buffalo Bills season
The 1979 Buffalo Bills season was the franchise's 10th season in the National Football League, and the 20th overall.


1979 Buffalo Bills season
Head coach Chuck Knox spent his second season with the Bills in 1979, improving on 1978's record by two games. The Bills were 7–6 with three games left to play, but they lost their final three games to finish with a losing record. (Even if Buffalo had won their final three games, they still would have lost the head-to-head tiebreaker to the Miami Dolphins (who finished 10–6) for the division title.)


1979 Buffalo Bills season
Buffalo's loss to Miami in Week Seven was their 20th straight loss to the Dolphins, an NFL record.


1979 Buffalo Bills season
The 1979 Bills were dead-last in rushing yards in the NFL, with only total 1,621 yards on the ground. Buffalo's 268 points scored was 23rd of the league's 28 teams.


1979 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL Draft
Three of Buffalo's first four picks made at least one Pro Bowl: wide receiver Jerry Butler, nose tackle Fred Smerlas, and linebacker Jim Haslett. Haslett was named 1979 AP Rookie of the Year. Smerlas made five Pro Bowls: in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 & 1988.


1979 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL Draft
Defensive end Ken Johnson, center Jon Borchardt, and defensive backs Jeff Nixon and Rod Kush all played for the Bills for six years each, from 1979–1984.


1979 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Tom Cousineau
Ohio State linebacker Cousineau was drafted first overall in the 1979 NFL Draft by the Bills, who acquired the pick from the San Francisco in a trade for O. J. Simpson. Cousineau never played a game with the Bills. He instead signed with the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes where they offered double the money that the Bills originally offered. Cousineau became a star there, becoming the Grey Cup Most Valuable Player in the 1979 season.


1979 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL Draft, Tom Cousineau
Cousineau wanted to return to the NFL, and in 1982 the Houston Oilers attempted to sign him, but the Bills (who still held Cousineau's NFL rights) matched the offer. He was then traded from the Bills to the Cleveland Browns for a first-round draft choice (14th overall) in the 1983 NFL Draft. That pick was used on future Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly. Cousineau signed a five-year contract for 2.5 million dollars, the most ever for a Cleveland Brown player at the time. [ 5]


1979 Bulgarian Cup Final
The 1979 Bulgarian Cup Final was the 39th final of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Cup of the Soviet Army), and was contested between Levski Sofia and Beroe Stara Zagora on 23 May 1979 at Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia. Levski won the final 4–1.


1979 CARIFTA Games
The 8th CARIFTA Games was held in Kingston, Jamaica on April 20–22, 1979.


1979 CARIFTA Games, Participation (unofficial)
Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 183 athletes (131 junior (under-20) and 52 youth (under-17)) from about 14 countries:  Antigua and Barbuda (1), Bahamas (36), Bermuda (23), British Virgin Islands (2), Cayman Islands (3), Grenada (3), Guadeloupe (4), Guyana (10), Jamaica (44), Lesser Antilles (1), Martinique (10), Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (2), Trinidad and Tobago (20).


1979 CARIFTA Games, Austin Sealy Award
The Austin Sealy Trophy was awarded to JonJones from Jamaica. He won 4 gold medals (100m, 200m, long jump, triple jump) in the youth (U-17) category, and therefore was described as the most outstanding athletes of the 39 stagings of the games.


1979 CARIFTA Games, Medal summary
Medal winners are published by category: Boys under 20 (Junior), Girls under 20 (Junior), Boys under 17 (Youth), and Girls under 17 (Youth). Complete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.


1979 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1979 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the eighth CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 2 and March 10, 1979. All games were played at BGSU Ice Arena in Bowling Green, Ohio, the home venue of the Bowling Green Falcons. By winning the tournament, Bowling Green received the Central Collegiate Hockey Association's invitation to play in a first round game created to allow entrance into the tournament for the CCHA.


1979 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured two rounds of play. Only the top four teams in the conference standings were eligible for postseason play. Each of the two rounds were structured so that the two teams facing one another would play two games and the winner would be decided by the goal differential totals of the combined scores. In the semifinal the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds were matched as opponents. The victorious teams would then compete in the finals for the conference championship. The tournament champion was invited to play in a first round game in the 1979 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1979 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1979 CECAFA Cup
The 1979 CECAFA Cup was the 7th edition of annual CECAFA Cup, an international football competition consisting of the national teams of member nations of the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA). The tournament was held in Kenya from November 3 to November 17 and saw seven teams competing in the competition. It was held in Kenya, and was won by Malawi.


1979 CECAFA Cup, Group B
It is unclear why Zanzibar was placed the second over Sudan; probably by drawing lot


1979 CFL Draft
The 1979 CFL Draft composed of seven rounds where 81 Canadian football players were chosen from eligible Canadian universities and Canadian players playing in the NCAA. A total of 18 players were selected as territorial exemptions, with all nine teams making at least one selection in this stage of the draft.


1979 CFL Draft, 3rd Round
20. British Columbia Lions                       Kevin Aver  DB  St. Francis Xavier


1979 CFL Draft, 6th Round
51. Ottawa Rough Riders                          Scott Spurgeon      DB                         St. Francis Xavier


1979 CFL season
The 1979 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 26th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 22nd Canadian Football League season.


1979 CFL season, CFL News in 1979
The Edmonton Eskimos establishes a single season attendance record with 340,239 fans — the most by any Western Conference team.


1979 CFL season, Regular season standings, Final regular season standings
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points


1979 CFL season, Grey Cup playoffs
The Edmonton Eskimos are the 1979 Grey Cup champions, defeating the Montreal Alouettes, 17–9, in front of their home crowd at Montreal's Olympic Stadium. This was Edmonton's second-straight championship. The Alouettes' David Green (RB) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Offence and Tom Cousineau (LB) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Defence, while Don Sweet (K) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian.


1979 CFU Championship
The 1979 CFU Championship was the second edition of the CFU Championship, the football championship being held in the Caribbean. It was in Suriname between the 11–18 November 1979 and saw Haiti taking out the title after winning all three of their final round games.


1979 CFU Championship, Qualifying tournament, First round
The following are known result only; there may be more matches (given that Saint Vincent and the Grenadines appeared in the second round but not in the first round).


1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
The 1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 15th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region and was played from 20 May till 29 December 1979.


1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
The teams were split in 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, where the winners of the North and Central zones played a semi-final to decide who was going to play against the Caribbean champion in the final. All the matches in the tournament were played under the home/away match system.


1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Salvadorean Club Deportivo FAS won the two-legged series final v Antillean team Jong Colombia (8–2 on aggregate), becoming CONCACAF champions for the first time in their history.


1979 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
The 1979 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic State University during the 1979 NCAA Division II football season.


1979 Cal Poly Mustangs football team
Cal Poly competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The Mustangs were led by 12th-year head coach Joe Harper and played home games at Mustang Stadium in San Luis Obispo, California. They finished the regular season as champion of the CCAA, their fourth in what would be five consecutive conference championships. The team finished with a record of seven wins and three losses (7–3, 2–0 CCAA).


1979 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Team players in the NFL
No Cal Poly Mustang players were selected in the 1980 NFL Draft.


1979 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team
The 1979 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team represented California State Polytechnic University, Pomona during the 1979 NCAA Division II football season.


1979 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team
Cal Poly Pomona competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). Cal Poly Pomona was led by third-year head coach Jim Jones. They played home games at Kellogg Field in Pomona, California. On the field, the Broncos finished the season with a record of three wins and eight losses (3–8, 0–2 CCAA). However, it was later determined that the team had used ineligible players during the season so they were required to forfeit all three of their victories. The adjusted record becomes (0–11, 0–2 CCAA). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 200–287 for the season.


1979 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team, Team players in the NFL
No Cal Poly Pomona players were selected in the 1980 NFL Draft.


1979 Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team
The 1979 Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team represented California State University, Fullerton in the 1979 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Titans played their home games at Titan Field. The team was coached by Augie Garrido in his 7th season at Cal State Fullerton.


1979 Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team
The Titans won the College World Series, defeating the Arkansas Razorbacks in the championship game.


1979 Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team, Titans in the 1979 MLB Draft
The following members of the Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball program were drafted in the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft.


1979 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team
The 1979 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team represented California State University, Fullerton during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1979 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team
The Titans competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Jim Colletto, and played only two home games for the second year in a row, both at Falcon Stadium on the campus of Cerritos College in Norwalk, California. On the field, they finished the season with a record of three wins and eight losses (3–8, 1–4 PCAA). However, San Jose State was found to have used an ineligible player in three of their victories and one tie, and had to forfeit those games. One was the win was against Cal St Fullerton, so the Titans record is adjusted to (4–7, 2–3 PCAA).


1979 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team, Team players in the NFL
No Cal State Fullerton Titans were selected in the 1980 NFL Draft.


1979 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their college career in 1979, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.


1979 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team
The 1979 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team represented California State University, Hayward in the 1979 NCAA Division II football season. Cal State Hayward competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC).


1979 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team
The Pioneers were led by fifth-year head coach Tim Tierney. They played home games at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward, California. On the field the Pioneers finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2–8, 1–4 FWC). They were outscored by their opponents 90–203 for the 1979 season.


1979 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team
After the season ended, it was discovered that the Pioneers had used an ineligible player for part of the season. They were forced to forfeit their conference victory against San Francisco state, bringing their adjusted record to one win and nine losses (1–9, 0–5 FWC).


1979 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team, Team players in the NFL
No Cal State Hayward Pioneers players were selected in the 1980 NFL Draft.


1979 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team
The 1979 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team represented Cal State Northridge during the 1979 NCAA Division II football season.


1979 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team
Cal State Northridge competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The 1979 Matadors were led by first-year head coach Tom Keele. They played home games at North Campus Stadium in Northridge, California. Cal State Northridge finished the season with a record of three wins and seven losses (3–7, 1–1 CCAA). The Matadors were outscored by their opponents 144–239 for the season.


1979 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL
No Cal State Northridge players were selected in the 1980 NFL Draft.


1979 Calder Cup playoffs
The 1979 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 11, 1979. The top three teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. The two division winners earned byes for the Division Semifinals while the other two teams in each division played best-of-five series. The winners played best-of-seven series with the team that received the first round bye in their division. The winners of each Division Final played a best-of-seven series for the Calder Cup. The Calder Cup Final ended on May 11, 1979, with the Maine Mariners defeating the New Haven Nighthawks four games to zero to win the Calder Cup for the second consecutive year, and the third time in team history. Maine also beat new Haven in the 1978 Calder Cup Final.


1979 Calder Cup playoffs
In game three of the Southern division final, New Haven scored 15 goals against Binghamton to set an AHL record for most goals scored by one team in one playoff game.


1979 Calder Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds
After the 1978–79 AHL regular season, the top three teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. The Maine Mariners finished the regular season with the best overall record for the second consecutive year. The two division champions earned byes to the Division Finals.


1979 Calder Cup playoffs, Bracket
In each round, the team that earned more points during the regular season receives home ice advantage, meaning they receive the "extra" game on home-ice if the series reaches the maximum number of games. There is no set series format due to arena scheduling conflicts and travel considerations.


1979 Calgary Stampeders season
The 1979 Calgary Stampeders finished in 2nd place in the Western Conference with a 12–4 record. They appeared in the Western Final where they lost to the Edmonton Eskimos. This would mark the last season in which the Stampeders won a playoff game until 1991; they were the only CFL team during the 1980s that did not win a single playoff game.


1979 California Angels season
The 1979 California Angels season was their 19th in Major League Baseball. The Angels reached the postseason for the first time by winning the American League West with a record of 88-74, three games ahead of the Kansas City Royals in Jim Fregosi's first full season as manager. The Angels were defeated by the Baltimore Orioles 3-1 in the 1979 American League Championship Series.


1979 California Angels season
Don Baylor had an outstanding season, playing in all 162 games, scoring 120 runs (tops in the American League), hitting 36 home runs and driving in 139 runs (also leading the American League) on his way to being named the American League Most Valuable Player, gaining 20 of 28 first place votes.


1979 California Angels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1979 California Angels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1979 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1979 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1979 California Angels season, ALCS
The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Angels, three games to one.


1979 California Golden Bears football team
The 1979 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1979 California Golden Bears football team
Cal claims a loss to Oregon as a victory, as "Oregon forfeited due to ineligible player."


1979 California Golden Bears football team, Schedule
Note: Oregon forfeited victory due to use of ineligible player.


1979 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, at Stanford
Cal stopped Stanford on the two-yard line with 40 seconds left to claim victory.


1979 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby
The Campeonato Argentino de Rugby 1979 was won by the selection of Buenos Aires that beat in the final the selection of Unión de Rugby de Rosario


1979 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Final
Rosario: 15.Baetti, 14.Nogués, 13.Trini, 12.Escalante (cap. ), 11.Basilico, 10.Dip, 9.Niccia, 8.Marengo, 7.Imhoff, 6.Poet, 5.Milano, 4.Mangiamelli, 3.Sandionigi, 2.Cristini, 2.Fernández. Buenos Aires: 15.Argerich, 14. Ramallo, 13.Beccar Varela, 12.Jacobi, 11.Puccio, 10. Sanguinetti, 9. Nicholson, 8. García Terán, 7.Negri, 6. Glastra, 5.Minguez, 4.Bottarini, 3.Devoto, 2.Sartori, 1.Ventura (cap.)


1979 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The 1979 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, (officially the V Copa Brasil) was the 23rd edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.


1979 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Overview
In the First phase, 80 clubs were divided into 8 groups of 10 clubs.in the groups A, B, C, D, E and F, the four first clubs qualified to the Second phase, while in the groups G and H, eight clubs qualified.


1979 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Overview
An edition of the Rio-São Paulo tournament was slated to happen in 1979 (it never came to fruition), and because of that, six clubs from Rio de Janeiro (Botafogo, Vasco da Gama, Goytacaz, Americano, Fluminense and Flamengo) and ten from São Paulo (Corinthians, Santos, Portuguesa, São Paulo, Francana, São Bento, XV de Piracicaba, XV de Jaú, Inter de Limeira and Comercial-SP) were to enter in the Second phase, joining the 40 teams that had qualified in the First phase. These teams would be divided in 7 groups of 8 teams, in which the two top-placed teams in each group qualified to the Third phase.


1979 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Overview
In the Third phase, the 14 qualified teams joined Guarani and Palmeiras, finalists of the previous year's championship, and were divided into four groups of four teams, in which the first-placed teams in each group qualified to the semifinals.


1979 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Overview
However, Corinthians, Portuguesa, Santos and São Paulo demanded to enter only in the third phase instead of the second. When CBD refused, the four teams withdrew from the championship. In order to replace them in the second phase, four berths were opened to the four best teams out of the 40 teams that had been eliminated in the first phase.


1979 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Overview
Internacional won the championship undefeated, becoming the only team to win the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in this way.


1979 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Second phase, Group J
ABC withdrew from its last two matches against Grêmio Maringá and Figueirense


1979 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Third phase, Group S
Atlético Mineiro withdrew after the match against Cruzeiro, that ended in a 0-0 draw, and the points of the remaining matches were awarded to Goiás and Internacional.


1979 Campeonato Carioca, Special Championship
The first edition was the first championship organized by the recently founded FFERJ. It would include ten clubs; the six best teams of the 1978 City qualification and the four best teams of the 1978 State qualification. The championship would actually count for the 1978 season, and would be played in a double round-robin system. However, little less than two weeks before the beginning of the championship, the qualifications were acknowledged as the official Fluminense and Carioca championships of that year, and what would be the 1978 championship was turned into a "Special Championship" for 1979. Flamengo won its 19th title.


1979 Campeonato Carioca, Championship
The championship began on May 5, 1979 and ended on November 4, 1979, and was disputed by the twelve teams of the 1978 Campeonato Carioca and the six teams of the 1978 Campeonato Fluminense. Flamengo won its 20th title.


1979 Campeonato Gaúcho
The 59th season of the Campeonato Gaúcho kicked off on March 7, 1979, and ended on December 16, 1979. Twenty teams participated. Grêmio won their 21st title. 14 de Julho de Passo Fundo and Cachoeira were relegated.


1979 Campeonato Gaúcho, Championship, Torneio de Descenso, Torneio da Morte
Key: * = Play-off winners, (a) = Wins because of away goals rule, (e) = Wins after extra time in second leg, (p) = Wins after penalty shoot-out.


1979 Campeonato Gaúcho, Championship, Torneio de Descenso, Torneio da Morte
14 de Julho de Santana do Livramento promoted; Cachoeira relegated


1979 Campeonato Paulista
The 1979 Campeonato Paulista da Divisão Especial de Futebol Profissional was the 78th season of São Paulo's top professional football league. Corinthians won the championship by the 17th time. Velo Clube was relegated.


1979 Campeonato Paulista, Championship
The twenty teams of the championship were divided into four groups of five teams, with each team playing twice against all other teams, and the three best teams of each group passing to the Second phase, and the team with the fewest points out of all the twenty being relegated, while the team with the second-fewest points would dispute a playoff against the runner-up of the Second level.


1979 Campeonato Paulista, Championship
In the second phase, the twelve remaining teams would be divided into two groups of six, each team playing once against the teams of its own group and the two best teams of each group qualifying to the Semifinals.


1979 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia
The 1979 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, also known as the Palermo Grand Prix or Palermo Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Palermo, Italy that was part of the 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and took place from 17 September until 23 September 1979. First-seeded Björn Borg won the singles title.


1979 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, Finals, Doubles
Peter McNamara /  Paul McNamee defeated  Ismail El Shafei /  John Feaver 7–5, 7–6


1979 Can-Am season
The 1979 Can-Am season was the twelfth running of the Sports Car Club of America's prototype-based series and the third running of the revived series. Formula One legend Jacky Ickx was declared champion, winning five of the ten rounds and finishing second at Road Atlanta. Chevrolet again dominated the season. The top chassis builders were Lola, Prophet, and Spyder, with Vern Schuppan finishing third at Watkins Glen in an Elfin and Al Holbert finishing third at Road America in a Hogan.


1979 Can-Am season
1979 would also mark the introduction of a second class for prototypes with engines under 2000cc. That class was won by Tim Evans in his Lola T290.


1979 Canada rugby union tour of England, Wales and France
The 1979 Canada rugby union tour of England, Wales and France was a series of six matches played by the Canada national rugby union team in England, Wales and France in September 1979. The Canadian team won three of their tour matches, drew one and lost the other two. The team designated France 'A' was effectively the France national rugby union team.


1979 Canadian Grand Prix
The 1979 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 30 September 1979 at the Circuit Île Notre-Dame, Montreal.


1979 Canadian Grand Prix
During practice Niki Lauda announced his retirement from Formula One. The Brabham team, who had replaced their Alfa Romeo-engined BT48 with the Cosworth DFV-engined BT49, recruited Argentine newcomer Ricardo Zunino as Lauda's replacement.


1979 Canadian Grand Prix
The organizers would not let the Alfa Romeo factory team compete unless they pre-qualified. They refused to do so but a compromise was reached where one of their drivers would be allowed to take part in practice. The other, Bruno Giacomelli, was not allowed to enter the race.


1979 Canadian Grand Prix
The race turned into a close duel between Alan Jones and Gilles Villeneuve that continued the entire race.


1979 Canadian Open
The 1979 Canadian Open was the sixth edition of the snooker tournament the Canadian Open, which took place in September 1979.


1979 Canadian Open
Cliff Thorburn won the title for the fourth time, beating Terry Griffiths 17–16 in the final.


1979 Canadian Open, Summary
The event was held at the Canadian National Exhibition Stadium and was open to any player who paid the $30 entry fee. The top eight seeds were placed into the seventh round.


1979 Canadian Open, Summary
Thorburn led Griffiths 10–3 in the final, before winning in the deciding frame, 17–16. Thorburn received $6,000 as winner, with Griffiths taking $2,000 as runner-up.


1979 Canadian Open, Other events
There were two additional events run alongside the main snooker tournament.


1979 Canadian federal budget
The 1979 Canadian federal budget was presented by Minister of Finance John Crosbie in the House of Commons of Canada on 11 December 1979. It was the first and only Canadian federal budget presented under the premiership of Joe Clark. The budget was never adopted, as the government was defeated in a vote of confidence on a budget subamendment on December 13, 1979.


1979 Canadian federal budget, Background
The budget is tabled six-and-a-half months after the 1979 Canadian federal election where the Progressive Conservatives led by Joe Clark won 136 seats, falling 6 seats short of a majority. On paper, support from either one of the three other official status parties (Liberal, NDP or Social Credit) would be enough to pass a budget should all the PC MPs vote likewise.


1979 Canadian federal budget, Background
The economic climate was still precarious with a series of mixed signals during 1979:


1979 Canadian federal budget, Taxes
Despite having campaigned on tax cuts during the 1979 Canadian federal election, Joe Clark's first budget contained several measures that departed from that. The budget included an 18-cent per gallon tax increase on gasoline, a 10 percent tax increase tobacco products, and a corporate surtax amounting to 1 percent of their income taxes. Farmers, Fishermen, and public urban transit were to receive a 10 percent gasoline tax rebate.


1979 Canadian federal budget, Taxes, Other taxes, Gasoline tax
The Gasoline tax (officially designated Energy Tax in the budget speech) was implemented at midnight between December 11 and December 12, the night the budget was announced. This led many Canadians to rush to the gas stations to buy "cheap gas" before the gas tax came into effect at midnight that night. However, when the government fell on December 13, the gas tax was rolled back, along with other budgetary measures that were provisionally implemented.


1979 Canadian federal budget, Legislative history
The day following the presentation of the budget, the Liberals and the New democrats vowed to do everything they could to bring down the government. The Social Credit Party also announced that they would not support the budget. Before the no-confidence vote, Joe Clark entered negotiations with Socred leader Fabien Roy to obtain their support for the budget. Clark offered to double the energy tax credit proposed in the bill, but to no avail. Roy believed Joe Clark had come to him too late to obtain their support for the budget, and thus left too little time for negotiations. The government was ultimately defeated 139 to 133 on a confidence vote of an NDP motion proposed by Bob Rae condemning the budget.


1979 Canadian federal budget, Aftermath
Following the fall of the government, Pierre Elliot Trudeau decided to walk back his resignation from the leadership of the Liberal Party. Trudeau ended up defeating Joe Clark and in the 1980 Canadian federal election as the Liberals were swept back in power with a majority government.


1979 Canadian federal election
The 1979 Canadian federal election (formally the 31st Canadian general election) was held on May 22, 1979, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 31st Parliament of Canada. It resulted in the defeat of the Liberal Party of Canada after 11 years in power under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Joe Clark led the Progressive Conservative Party to power but with only a minority of seats in the House of Commons. The Liberals, however, beat the Progressive Conservatives in the overall popular vote by more than 400,000 votes (40.11% to 35.89%). At 39, Clark became the youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history.


1979 Canadian federal election, Overview
The PC Party campaigned on the slogans, "Let's get Canada working again", and "It's time for a change – give the future a chance!" Canadians were not, however, sufficiently confident in the young Joe Clark to give him a majority in the House of Commons. Quebec, in particular, was unwilling to support Clark and elected only two PC Members of Parliament (MPs) in the province's 75 ridings. Clark, relatively unknown when elected as PC leader at the 1976 PC Party convention, was seen as being bumbling and unsure. Clark had had problems with certain right-wing members of his caucus.


1979 Canadian federal election, Overview
In particular, when Clark's riding was merged into the riding of another PC MP during a redistribution of ridings, the other MP refused to step aside, and Clark ended up running in another riding. Also, when Clark undertook a tour of the Middle East to show his ability to handle foreign affairs issues, his luggage was lost, and Clark appeared to be uncomfortable with the issues being discussed.


1979 Canadian federal election, Overview
The Liberals tried to make leadership and Clark's inexperience the issue by arguing in their advertising, "This is no time for on-the-job training" and "We need tough leadership to keep Canada growing. A leader must be a leader."


1979 Canadian federal election, Overview
The Social Credit Party of Canada, which had lost its mercurial leader, Réal Caouette, who died in 1976, struggled to remain relevant. After a series of interim leaders, including Caouette's son, the party turned to Fabien Roy, a popular member of the National Assembly of Quebec, who took the reins of the party just before the beginning of the campaign. The party won the tacit support of the separatist Parti Québécois, which formed the government of Quebec.


1979 Canadian federal election, Overview
Social Credit attempted to rally the separatist and nationalist vote: Canadian flags were absent at its campaign kick-off rally, and the party's slogan was C'est à notre tour ("It's our turn"), which was reminiscent of the popular separatist anthem Gens du pays, which includes the chorus, "C'est votre tour, de vous laisser parler d'amour". The party focused its platform on constitutional change, which promised to fight to abolish the federal government's constitutional power to disallow any provincial legislation and stated that each province has a "right to choose its own destiny within Canada."


1979 Canadian federal election, Overview
The Socreds' support from the Parti Québécois was not welcome by everyone; for instance, Gilles Caouette publicly denounced what he called péquistes déguisés en créditistes ("péquistes disguised as Socreds"). What remained of its support outside Quebec virtually disappeared, and while the party only suffered a marginal loss in its overall Quebec vote share, its support was much less efficiently distributed than before. The party managed some increase of votes in péquiste areas, but also lost many votes in areas of traditional Socred strength while much of the reduced PC vote share went to the Liberals. The end result was a drop from eleven to six seats. (See also: Social Credit Party candidates, 1979 Canadian federal election.)


1979 Canadian federal election, Overview
Clark's minority government lasted less than nine months. Clark required support from the Socreds to pass the 1979 budget but refused to work with them on ideological grounds, opting instead to "govern as though he had a majority." None of their demands being met, the Socreds refused to prop up the government. That resulted in the 1980 election in which the PCs were defeated by the resurgent Trudeau Liberals.


1979 Canadian federal election, National results
Clark won the popular vote in seven provinces, while losing the popular vote nationwide, and because his party won only two seats in Quebec, he won only a minority government. The Liberals won only one seat west of Manitoba. The election was the last in which the Social Credit Party of Canada won seats. An unusual event occurred in the Northwest Territories: the Liberals won the popular vote in the territory but won neither seat.


1979 Canarian Island Cabildo elections
The 1979 Canarian Island Cabildo elections were held on Tuesday, 3 April 1979, to elect the 1st Island Cabildos of El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife. All 137 seats in the seven Island Cabildos were up for election. The elections were held simultaneously with local elections all throughout Spain.


1979 Canarian Island Cabildo elections, Island Cabildo control
The following table lists party control in the Island Cabildos.


1979 Cannes Film Festival
The 32nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 10 to 24 May 1979. The Palme d'Or went to Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola, which was screened as a work in progress, and Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) by Volker Schlöndorff.


1979 Cannes Film Festival
The festival opened with Hair, directed by Miloš Forman and closed with À nous deux, directed by Claude Lelouch.


1979 Cannes Film Festival
Françoise Sagan, the President of the Jury raised a controversy as she complained that Robert Favre Le Bret, director of the Festival, had stepped out of his role and had put pressure on the jury for the choice of Coppola's film, while she had defended The Tin Drum to the last minute of the competition. Finally the Palme d'Or was given to both films.


1979 Cannes Film Festival, Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1979 feature film competition:


1979 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Un Certain Regard
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:


1979 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:


1979 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:


1979 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, International Critics' Week
The following feature films were screened for the 18th International Critics' Week (18e Semaine de la Critique):


1979 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1979 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):


1979 Cannes Film Festival, Awards, Official awards
The following films and people received the 1979 Official selection awards:


1979 Cardiff City Council election
The 1979 Cardiff City Council election was held on Thursday 3 May 1979 to elect councillors to Cardiff District Council (later to become known as Cardiff City Council) in Cardiff, Wales. It took place on the same day as other council elections in the United Kingdom.


1979 Cardiff City Council election
The previous Cardiff City Council elections took place in 1976 and the next full elections took place in 1983.


1979 Cardiff City Council election
The 1979 election saw the Conservative Party lose their majority to the Labour Party.


1979 Cardiff City Council election, Background
199 Candidates from 5 parties ran. 1 Independent also ran in the Riverside ward was who was formerly of the Ratepayers Association. Despite being an incumbent Councillor he lost.


1979 Cardiff City Council election, Background
The Conservative party ran a full slate of candidates. The Labour Party ran 69 candidates, Plaid Cymru ran 33 candidates and the Liberal Party ran 19 candidates.


1979 Cardiff City Council election, Results
Contests took place in all except two of the wards at this election.


1979 Caribbean Series
The twenty-second edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was played in 1979. It was held from February 4 through February 9 with the champions teams from Dominican Republic (Aguilas Cibaeñas), Mexico (Mayos de Navojoa), Puerto Rico (Criollos de Caguas) and Venezuela (Navegantes del Magallanes). The format consisted of 12 games, each team facing the other teams twice. The games were played at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which boosted capacity to 18.000 seats.


1979 Caribbean Series, Summary
Navegantes de Magallanes of Venezuela clinched its second team Caribbean Series title and second as a country with a 5-1 record. Guided by manager/DH Willie Horton (.261 BA, .414 OBP) and Series Most Valuable Player Mitchell Page (.417 BA, two home runs, 11 RBI, six runs, .875 SLG), the Venezuelan club took the top spot despite a 1–0 defeat to Dominican Republic in Game 1. The rest of the way, the team won the next five games outscoring their rivals 38-13.


1979 Caribbean Series, Summary
Center fielder Jerry White, who was the only player in the series with at least one hit in each game, led the hitters with a .522 BA and a .607 OBP, including five runs, four RBI, a .783 SLG and 1.370 OPS. Other contributions came from outfielder Oswaldo Olivares (.435 BA, .536 OBP, seven RBI), infielder Dave Coleman (four runs, six RBI, .357 OBP), catcher Bo Díaz (.273 BA, four RBI, .429 OBP) and second baseman Rodney Scott (.308, eight runs).


1979 Caribbean Series, Summary
The strong pitching staff was led by Mike Norris, who posted a 2-0 record with a 0.00 ERA and 13 strikeouts (including a one-hit shutout and three innings of relief), while reliever Manny Sarmiento went 2-0 with a 2.16 in 8 ⅓ of work and Ben Wilbank won his only start in 8.0 scoreless innings. Larry Rothschild, Jim Umbarger and Alan Wirth also bolstered the staff.