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Billboard Top Hits: 1979

The track lineup includes six songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the No. 1 song of 1979, "My Sharona" by The Knack.

# "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" – Rupert Holmes


A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979

A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979 is a composition for piano, written by American composer George Crumb, written in 1980.

This private chapel, painted by Giotto (finished in 1305), traces, through a series of separate panels, the lineage and conception of Jesus Christ, incidents in his life and his crucifixion and resurrection.

Anthony Abbott

From 1978 until the defeat of the Trudeau government in the 1979 election, he was Minister of National Revenue.

Australian Press Council

In 1979, during the run-up to the South Australian state election, the Murdoch owned The News campaigned against the Australian Labor Party in South Australia.

Billboard Top Hits: 1975

The track lineup includes seven songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the No. 1 song of 1975, "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tennille.

Billboard Top Hits: 1984

#"What's Love Got to Do With It" — Tina Turner – 3:48

Billboard Top Hits: 1988

#"Anything for You" — Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine 4:05

Billboard Top Hits: 1990

The track lineup includes four songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the No. 1 song of 1990, "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips.

Billboard Top Hits: 1995

However, each of the songs peaked in the top 5 of Billboards other charts, for instance the dance, adult contemporary and rhythm and blues charts.

Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election, 2004

Stechford returned to Labour at the 1979 general election.

Birmingham Stechford by-election, 1977

The Conservative candidate Andrew MacKay won the election with a majority of nearly 2000, although ultimately he would only hold the seat until 1979 when it was regained for Labour.

Canadian federal election, 1979

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 that includes the chorus, "C'est votre tour, de vous laisser parler d'amour".

Clive Betts

At the 1979 general election he stood for election to the House of Commons in the safe Conservative seat of Louth against the Conservative MP Michael Brotherton and lost.

Colin Kenny

Following the Liberal government's defeat in the 1979 election, he worked as an executive with Dome Petroleum, until being appointed to the Senate on the recommendation of Trudeau in 1984.

Communist Party of Denmark

DKP fell out of parliament once again in the 1979 Folketing election, and suffered several high-profile defections in the waning years of the Soviet Union, including from party Chairman Ole Sohn, who was expelled in 1991 and later join the Socialist People's Party.

European Parliament election, 1979

The following were elected as Vice-Presidents: Danielle De March, Basil de Ferranti, Bruno Friedrich, Guido Gonella, Gérard Jacquet, Hans Katzer, Poul Møller, Pierre Pflimlin, Bríd Rodgers, Marcel Albert Vandewiele, Anne Vondeling and Mario Zagari.

Before that could happen however, she immediately had to deal with Ian Paisley MEP who, in the first speech of the session, protested that the British flag outside the building was flying upside down.

Finnish parliamentary election, 1979

Holkeri declined to form a government, but Sorsa refused to continue as Prime Minister, due to the unpopularity that he had suffered amid the recession's lingering effects, his role in the establishment of the soon-to-be-bankrupt television cathode-ray tube factory Valco, his alleged belittling of family violence in a television interview, and his health problems (back pain).

Geoff Pearsall

After Max Bingham stepped down as Leader of the Opposition following the July 1979 election, which had seen a swing to the incumbent Labor Party in Premier Doug Lowe's first election as leader, Pearsall was elected unopposed as leader on 7 August, with Robin Gray as deputy leader.

Gordon Gibson

He was defeated in both the 1979 and 1980 federal elections.

History of Guam

Although Public Law 94-584 established the formation of a "locally drafted" constitution (later known as the "Guam Constitution"), the proposed document was rejected by Guam residents in an August 4, 1979 referendum.

Iraqi Partisan movement, 1979–88

Headquarters of the partisan units were established in Kirkuk and as-Sulemaniyah, and bases were established in Irbil.

Italian general election, 1979

This formula became possible because Bettino Craxi's Italian Socialist Party and Valerio Zanone's Italian Liberal Party accepted to form their first republican government together, moderating their positions and passing the opposition that had always divided them.

John Maxton

He was selected to oppose the sitting MP, the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, Teddy Taylor, at the 1979 election in the Glasgow Cathcart seat.

Kelly Marie

After another absence from recording, Marie cut a new version of "Feels Like I'm in Love" in 1997, and continued recording with dance versions of "Rescue Me", "I'm in the Mood For Dancin'", "Blanket on the Ground", "Runaway", "Millennium", "I Need a Man" and "River Deep - Mountain High" as well as a new version of "Hot Love".

Manchester Central by-election, 1979

Litherland held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1997 general election.

Marcel-Claude Roy

He was re-elected at Laval (subsequently Laval West) in the 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1980 federal elections but was defeated by Guy Ricard of the Progressive Conservative party.

Maureen Colquhoun

At the 1979 general election, she lost her seat to the Conservative Antony Marlow on an 8% swing.

Nick Ternette

He campaigned for the leadership of the Manitoba New Democratic Party in 1979, but withdrew before the party's leadership convention and backed rival candidate Muriel Smith.

Pat Arrowsmith

She stood against the then Prime Minister, James Callaghan, in his constituency of Cardiff South-East in the General election of 1979.

Progressive Conservative leadership election, 1976

He was defeated in the 1979 election, and was later appointed to the board of directors of the Canadian National Railway when Trudeau was returned to power in 1980.

Reality Effect

Reality Effect is the second album by the British band The Tourists, released in 1979.

Reckless: 1979–1995

Reckless: 1979–1995 is a compilation album of songs by Australian rock band Australian Crawl and the band's lead singer, James Reyne, from his solo career.

Roman Catholicism in Ireland

For instance the Health (Family Planning) Act, 1979 showed the ability of the Catholic Church to force the government into a compromise situation over artificial contraception, though unable to get the result it wanted; contraception could now be bought, but only with a prescription from a doctor and supplied only by registered chemists.

San Francisco mayoral election, 1979

Feinstein, with (46.63%) was tied in the November 6 election with Quentin L. Kopp (44.72%), both of whom beat out musician Jello Biafra, drag-queen activist Sister Boom Boom, Sylvia Weinstein, Cesar Ascarrunz, Steve L. Calitri, Tibor Uskert, Joe Hughes and Patricia Dolbeare.

Sid Parker

His first campaign against Stan Graham of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1979 federal election was unsuccessful.

Sidney Fraleigh

Fraleigh won the seat for the Lambton—Middlesex electoral district in the 1979 federal election but lost there in the 1980 federal election to Ralph Ferguson of the Liberal party.

Stan Graham

He was elected at the Kootenay East—Revelstoke electoral district in the 1979 federal election, but was defeated in the 1980 election by Sid Parker of the New Democratic Party.

The History Man

At the end there is a caption stating that in the 1979 General Election Howard Kirk voted Conservative.

Zimbabwe Rhodesia general election, 1979

The United Nations Security Council passed several resolutions against the "illegal" election, including Resolution 445 and Resolution 448, both of which argued that the election was not representative of the Zimbabwean people and was designed to entrench white minority rule.


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