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Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1979. "My Sharona" by The Knack (singer Doug Fieger pictured) was the number one song of 1979. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1979. [ 1][ 2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 22, 1979. "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
H-Hour. The specific time at which an operation or exercise commences, or is due to commence (this term is used also as a reference for the designation of days/hours before or after the event). (NATO); also known as 'Zero Hour'. I-Day. Used informally within the U.S. military bureaucracy to variously designate the "Implementation Day" or the ...
Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s.. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early ...
AD 79 ( LXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Titus and Vespasianus (or, less frequently, year 832 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination AD 79 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno ...
The modern 24-hour clock is the convention of timekeeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours. This is indicated by the hours (and minutes) passed since midnight, from 00 (:00) to 23 (:59), with 24 (:00) as an option to indicate the end of the day. This system, as opposed to the 12-hour clock, is the ...
Today, more than 250,000 women serve on active duty in the military. The question whether or not women will be required to register for the selective service system is still up in the air.
1600: Battle of Sekigahara in Japan. End of the Warring States period and beginning of the Edo period. 1600: The Portuguese win a major naval battle in the bay of Ambon. [19] Later in the year, the Dutch join forces with the local Hituese in an anti-Portuguese alliance, in return for which the Dutch would have the sole right to purchase spices ...
Now, the 79-year old serves as the chairman, president, and CEO of Air Products, an energy company founded in 1940 that engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's largest industrial ...