Events in History
Events 301 - 370 of 370
- Oct 25 Governor Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape
- Oct 26 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
- Oct 26 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
- Oct 28 Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die
- Oct 30 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
- Oct 30 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
- Nov 1 Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
- Nov 1 W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis
Election of Interest
Nov 2 Democrat candidate Jimmy Carter is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Gerald Ford
- Nov 5 New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters
- Nov 5 Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to A's for mgr Chuck Tanner
- Nov 5 USSR performs nuclear test
- Nov 6 Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
- Nov 8 A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated
- Nov 9 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
- Nov 10 Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
Event of Interest
Nov 14 War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing

Pieter Menten
- Nov 15 Syrian army conquers Beirut
- Nov 16 René Levesque's Parti Québécois wins elections in Quebec
- Nov 17 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Nov 18 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
- Nov 19 Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
- Nov 19 Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
- Nov 22 Algeria Constitution goes into effect
- Nov 22 Comic strip "Cathy" by Cathy Guisewite debuts
- Nov 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Nov 23 Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.
- Nov 25 Viking 1 radio signals from Mars help prove the general theory of relativity
- Nov 25 NYPD officer Robert Torsney shoots unarmed youth Randolph Evans while answering response at youth's Brooklyn home
Music Single
Nov 26 Ringo Starr releases "Hey Baby" single

Ringo Starr
Election of Interest
Nov 26 Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is elected chairman of the Socialist International (1976-92)

Willy Brandt
Event of Interest
Dec 2 Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado

Fidel Castro
- Dec 3 Patrick J Hillery elected President of Ireland
- Dec 6 War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
Event of Interest
Dec 7 UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for second 5 year term

Kurt Waldheim
- Dec 8 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim Secretary-General
- Dec 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 10 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Samuel C. C. Ting is the first person to deliver a Nobel Prize lecture in Mandarin, during the ceremony to award him and Burton Richter the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the J/ψ particle

Samuel C. C. Ting
- Dec 13 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
- Dec 13 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h 14m)
- Dec 14 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws
- Dec 15 Oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the Nantucket Shoals, spilling 7.6 m million gallons of fuel oil - one of the largest oil spills at sea
- Dec 15 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
- Dec 15 Samoa becomes a member of the UN
- Dec 16 Andrew Young named Ambassador & Chief US Delegate to UN
- Dec 16 Government halts swine flu vaccination program following reports of paralysis
- Dec 16 Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea
- Dec 17 Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
- Dec 18 Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
Event of Interest
Dec 19 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev receives his 5th Order of Lenin

Leonid Brezhnev
Event of Interest
Dec 20 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns

Yitzhak Rabin
- Dec 21 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
- Dec 21 Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD
- Dec 21 UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child
- Dec 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 22 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC
- Dec 25 Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
- Dec 25 Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier
- Dec 26 The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
- Dec 27 Albania constitution goes into effect
- Dec 28 Genie Francis joins "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
- Dec 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Event of Interest
Dec 28 Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa

Winnie Mandela