Events in History
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- Sep 21 3rd Toronto International Film Festival: "Girlfriends" directed by Claudia Weill wins the People's Choice Award
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Sep 22 Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit

Menachem Begin
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Sep 23 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Anwar Sadat home from Camp David peace summit

Anwar Sadat
- Sep 24 Dutch women hockey team wins world championship
- Sep 24 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
- Sep 24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Sep 25 PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
- Sep 26 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
- Sep 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 28 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
- Sep 28 Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa
- Sep 28 Syrians & Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon
- Oct 1 Comoros adopts constitution
- Oct 1 Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from UK
- Oct 1 The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
- Oct 2 Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
- Oct 3 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
- Oct 4 Pier 39 opens in San Francisco
- Oct 4 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
- Oct 5 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
- Oct 5 Sweden's Fälldin government falls
- Oct 5 Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare that has widespread, long-lasting or severe effects
- Oct 5 "The Boys from Brazil" debuts
- Oct 6 Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university (Chicago)
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Oct 6 Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person

Ayatollah Khomeini
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Oct 6 Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"

Mick Jagger
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Oct 10 US Congress approves dollar coin honoring women's suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony
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Oct 13 US President Jimmy Carter answers callers' questions on National Public Radio

Jimmy Carter
- Oct 13 Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties
- Oct 13 Tiros N, US's 1st third generation weather satellite, is launched
- Oct 14 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Oct 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Oct 16 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Herbert A Simon
Papal Inauguration
Oct 16 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II

John Paul II
- Oct 17 President Jimmy Carter signs bill restoring US citizenship to Jefferson Davis
- Oct 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Oct 17 Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
- Oct 18 US 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
- Oct 20 Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
- Oct 20 Police's 1st US concert (NYC's CBGBs)
- Oct 20 US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2
- Oct 21 Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
- Oct 22 Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
- Oct 22 Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope
- Oct 23 China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
- Oct 25 Israeli government approves "in principle", a draft compromise peace
- Oct 26 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named joint winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
- Oct 26 Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
- Oct 27 US President Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
- Oct 28 Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)
- Oct 30 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1
- Oct 30 Uganda troops attack Tanzania
- Oct 31 Iranian oil workers go on strike
- Oct 31 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) adopts constitution
- Nov 2 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
- Nov 2 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Nov 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 2 Arnold Shapiro's TV documentary "Scared Straight", narrated by Peter Falk as a controversial and questionable deterrent to juvenile delinquency, debuts on Los Angeles' KTLA-TV
- Nov 3 Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
- Nov 3 USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
- Nov 4 Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
- Nov 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Nov 5 Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
- Nov 5 Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
- Nov 6 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule; General Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
- Nov 7 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
- Nov 7 Marion Barry Jr. elected as Washington, D.C.'s first African American mayor
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Nov 8 Tom Stoppard's "Night & Day" premieres in London

Tom Stoppard
- Nov 9 NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
- Nov 10 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
- Nov 10 Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison & Griffin
- Nov 11 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives
- Nov 13 NASA launches HEAO 2
- Nov 15 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Nov 15 Harold Pinter's play "Betrayal" premieres in London
- Nov 18 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 26 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
- Nov 26 Christina Crawford autobiography "Mommie Dearest" reaches best-seller status
- Nov 29 UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
- Nov 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Nov 30 France performs nuclear test
- Dec 1 US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
- Dec 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 2 Anti-Shah protest in Tehran,protesters chant "Allah is great"
- Dec 4 Dianne Feinstein is named as San Francisco's 1st female and Jewish mayor
- Dec 4 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten freed
- Dec 4 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
- Dec 5 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
- Dec 5 Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" premieres in NYC