Events in History
Events 401 - 427 of 427
- Dec 9 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin
- Dec 11 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NYC Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M 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% petrolium 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
Event of Interest
Dec 19 Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
Indira Gandhi
- Dec 20 H. R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House Chief of Staff released from jail
Murder of Interest
Dec 21 Police in Des Plaines, Illinois, arrest John Wayne Gacy for murder
John Wayne Gacy
- Dec 22 Thailand adopts constitution
- Dec 26 India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi is released from jail
- Dec 27 King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution
- Dec 27 Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship
- Dec 29 Shah of Iran, 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
- Dec 31 The Runaways' band's last ever concert at Daly City, CA.'s Cow Palace