Events in History
Events 301 - 400 of 408
Event of Interest
Oct 6 US President Gerald Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
Gerald Ford
- Oct 6 Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, explode onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, killing all 73 people on board
Event of Interest
Oct 7 Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
- Oct 9 Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
Event of Interest
Oct 10 Beijing reports arrest of Mao Zedong's widow
Mao Zedong
- Oct 10 NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
Event of Interest
Oct 11 Mao Zedong's widow Jiang Qing & "Gang of Four" arrested & charged with plotting a coup
Jiang Qing
- Oct 12 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight
- Oct 12 Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party
- Oct 13 A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
- Oct 13 First electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, working at the C.D.C.
- Oct 14 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30
Nobel Prize
Oct 14 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to American economist Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
- Oct 14 Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
- Oct 15 1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)
- Oct 16 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
- Oct 17 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Oct 18 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to American William Lipscomb
- Oct 19 US President Gerald Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
- Oct 19 Battle of Aishiya, Lebanon during Lebanese Civil War.
- Oct 20 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
Nobel Prize
Oct 21 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
- Oct 22 Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
- Oct 24 1st Jewish film & TV festival
- Oct 24 1st Toronto International Film Festival opens
- Oct 25 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight
- 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
- Oct 31 Javed Miandad, 206 v NZ, age 19 yrs 141 days (29 fours 1 six)
- 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 Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award
- 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 7 "Gone With the Wind" televised
- Nov 8 A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated
- Nov 9 Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career
- Nov 9 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
- Nov 10 Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
- Nov 14 War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing
- 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 18 Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
- 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 24 Reds Joe Morgan wins his 2nd straight NL MVP Award
- Nov 25 The Band's farewell concert at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom
- 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
- Nov 26 Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
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 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
- Dec 7 UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for second 5 year term
- 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 12 QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
- 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 Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins
- Dec 16 Government halts swine flu vaccination prog 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