1978 in History (Part 4)

Events in History

Events 301 - 391 of 391

• Oct 11 Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
• Oct 12 Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington

• 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

• Oct 17 President Jimmy Carter signs bill restoring US citizenship to Jefferson Davis
• Oct 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Oct 18 US 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
• Oct 20 Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
• 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 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 6 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi places the country under military rule; General Gholām Reza Azhāri 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

• Nov 10 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
• 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 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 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "A Question of Love"
• 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 Protesters chant "Allah is great" at an Anti-Shah protest in Tehran, Iran
• Dec 4 Dianne Feinstein is named as San Francisco's 1st female and Jewish mayor

• 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
• Dec 6 Spain adopts constitution
• Dec 9 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
• Dec 10 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
• Dec 11 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NYC Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8m in cash & jewelry
• Dec 14 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Dec 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Dec 15 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James

• Dec 16 Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.
• Dec 17 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
• Dec 17 The Workers' Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe.
• Dec 17 OPEC raises oil prices by 18% and agrees on a 14.5% petroleum price increase for 1979, to be implemented quarterly
• Dec 18 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Dec 18 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Dec 19 France performs nuclear test

• Dec 22 Thailand adopts constitution
• Dec 26 India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi is released from jail
• Dec 27 Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship as King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution
• Dec 29 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
• Dec 29 Spain constitution goes into effect
• Dec 30 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
• Dec 31 CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy
• Dec 31 Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier
• Dec 31 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US

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