Events in History
Events 301 - 400 of 436
Event of Interest
Sep 7 US President Jimmy Carter and Panama's General Omar Torrijos sign the Panama Canal treaties, guaranteeing Panama control of the Panama Canal after 1999
Jimmy Carter
- Sep 7 Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy is released from prison after serving 4 years and 4 1/2 months
- Sep 8 Jimmy McCulloch quits Wings
- Sep 9 1st TRS-80 computer sold
- Sep 9 Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years
- Sep 10 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France
- Sep 12 Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody from his injuries after being beaten and tortured by police
- Sep 13 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap
- Sep 13 General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
- Sep 14 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa
- Sep 15 US President Jimmy Carter meets with 15 record company executives
- Sep 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 16 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV
Event of Interest
Sep 16 Ringo Starr releases "Drowning in Sea of Love"
Ringo Starr
- Sep 16 Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games
- Sep 17 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Sep 17 Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more
- Sep 17 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week
- Sep 18 Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore
- Sep 18 US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together
- Sep 18 2nd Toronto International Film Festival opens
- Sep 20 Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN
- Sep 21 US minister of Foreign affairs Cyrus Vance dismissed
- Sep 22 Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy" premieres in NYC
- Sep 22 West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht
- Sep 23 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
- Sep 23 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
- Sep 23 "I Just Fall in Love Again" single released by The Carpenters
- Sep 26 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
- Sep 29 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
- Sep 30 Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns
- Sep 30 Ringo Starr releases "Ringo the 4th" album
- Sep 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 30 Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
- Sep 30 Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III successfully escaped from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines
- Oct 1 US Department of Energy established
- Oct 1 Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
- Oct 2 Pakistani general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition
Event of Interest
Oct 3 Indira Gandhi arrested
Indira Gandhi
- Oct 6 DL Coburns "Gin Game" premieres in NYC
- Oct 6 In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
- Oct 7 USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
- Oct 9 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
- Oct 9 Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
- Oct 11 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
Historic Invention
Oct 11 American inventor Gordon Gould issued his first US patent for a optically pumped laser amplifier, 20 years after first claiming to have invented the laser
Gordon Gould
- Oct 12 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise
- Oct 12 Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van
- Oct 12 US Supreme Court heard arguments in "reverse discrimination" case of Allan Bakke, white student denied admission to University of California Med School
- Oct 14 Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
- Oct 15 Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal
- Oct 15 Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51)
- Oct 15 "Serpentine Fire" single released by Earth, Wind & Fire (Billboard Song of the Year 1978)
- Oct 17 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
- Oct 17 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers
- Oct 18 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
- Oct 18 West German commandos liberate Boeing 737 with 86 hostages at Mogadishu
- Oct 19 Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found
- Oct 19 Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in NYC
- Oct 20 David Mamet's "Life in the Theater" premieres in NYC
- Oct 20 Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons "Dracula" premieres in NYC
- Oct 21 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
- Oct 21 The European Patent Institute is founded.
- Oct 22 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit
- Oct 23 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties
- Oct 23 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces discovery of a 3.4-billion year old one-celled fossil, the earliest life form
- Oct 25 Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
- Oct 26 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
- Oct 26 Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of New York
- Oct 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 26 Last natural case of smallpox discovered in Merca district, Somalia. Considered the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination
- Oct 27 Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
- Oct 27 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
- Oct 29 Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season
- Oct 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Oct 30 Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07
- Nov 1 Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals
- Nov 1 US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981
- Nov 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 2 Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens, a form of microbial life (Archaea) dating back some 3.5 billion years
- Nov 4 UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
- Nov 6 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga
- Nov 8 Greek Archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina
- Nov 8 Ed Koch is elected Mayor of New York (his 1st term)
- Nov 9 Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP
- Nov 10 Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider and Christof Wackernagel arrested
- Nov 12 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Nov 12 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
- Nov 13 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
- Nov 13 Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77)
Event of Interest
Nov 14 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Walter Cronkite
Anwar Sadat
Walter Cronkite
- Nov 15 US President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
- Nov 16 Rod Carew wins AL MVP award
- Nov 17 Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man" premieres in London
- Nov 17 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
- Nov 19 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
- Nov 19 Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
- Nov 20 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset