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| 01 - Air India Jumbo
explodes killing 213 |
| 03 - Indira Gandhi expelled
from India's Congress Party |
| 05 - The Sex Pistols make
their US concert debut with a gig in Atlanta, Georgia |
| 13 - Former US Vice
President Hubert Humphrey dies |
| 23 - Founder member of the
group Chicago, Terry Kath, dies after accidentally shooting himself
in the head. He is 31 |
| 26 - The Aboriginal Land
Rights Act is proclaimed in Australia, restoring some land to the
Aborigines |
| 29 - Sweden bans
ozone-unfriendly aerosol spays |
| 08 - Egyptian president
Anwar Sadat visits the US urging the country to exert pressure on
Israel to negotiate a Middle East peace settlement |
| 12 - Hilton Hotel is bombed
during CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads Of Government) Conference in Sydney,
Australia. The blast kills a policeman guarding the entrance to the
hotel lounge and a garbage collector |
| 13 - Anna Ford becomes
first woman newsreader on UK TV (for ITN) |
| 19 - Egyptian commandos
storm a hijacked DC-8 at Larnaca airport in Cyprus. All hostages are
released but 15 commandos are killed by Greek Cypriot national
guardsmen |
| 02 - Czech Vladimir Remek
is the first man in space from neither the USSR or the USA |
| 03 - Southern Rhodesian
leader Ian Smith signs an agreement for power sharing with three
moderate black leaders. Nkomo and Mugabe denounce the agreement and
the UN Security Council declares it illegal |
| 05 - Ethiopian forces,
supported by Russians and Cubans, retake the town of Ogaden, seized
by Somalia in September |
| 11 - Palestinian terrorists
land on the Israel coast near Tel Aviv. 32 Israelis are killed and
over 70 injured. Nine terrorists are killed and 2 taken prisoner |
| 14 - Israeli troops invade
southern Lebanon and destroy five Palestinian bases in response to
the recent terrorist raid on Israel |
| 15 - Somalia accepts defeat
in the Ogaden war and withdraws troops |
| 16 - Former Italian prime
minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped in Rome by Red Brigade terrorists.
His five body guards are shot dead |
| 16 - Supertanker Amoco
Cadiz runs aground off Brittany, France, spilling over 220,000
tonnes of oil and contaminating the coastline |
| 18 - Red Brigade terrorists
release a picture of kidnapped former PM Moro and threaten to put him
on trial |
| 18 - Former Pakistani prime
minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is sentenced to death for ordering the
assassination of an opponent |
| 21 - Rhodesia's first three
black government ministers are sworn in |
| 25 - Oxford wins the Boat
Race after the Cambridge boat sinks a mile from the finish |
| 29 - French Naval
helicopters in the English Channel fail to sink the Amoco Cadiz
with depth charges |
| 01 - 'Lucius' wins Grand
National |
| 02 - The first episode of Dallas
is screened on US television |
| 07 - President Carter
postpones production of the neutron bomb, pending further research |
| 27 - A Soviet-backed
military coup in Afghanistan establishes an Islamic government |
| 20 - A South Korean Boeing
707, 1000 miles off course, is fired at by a Soviet fighter aircraft
and forced to land at Murmansk. Two passengers are killed and 13
others injured |
| 21 - Fairport
Convention vocalist Sandy Denny
dies aged 31 of a brain hemorrhage after falling down a flight of
stairs |
| 08 - Donny Osmond gets
married at the age of 21, breaking the hearts of thousands of fans |
| 09 - In Italy, senior
statesman Aldo Moro is found dead in a car in Rome after the Italian government
refuses to capitulate to his captors, the Red Brigade |
| 15 - Former Australian
Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies dies at 83 |
| 17 - Swiss police find
stolen coffin belonging to Charlie Chaplin |
| 18 - Abortion is legalised
in Italy |
| 19 - French troops
parachute into Zaire to rescue 2000 Europeans held hostage by rebels.
100 Europeans are found to have been massacred |
| 20 - Five terrorists and
two policemen are killed at Orly Airport in Paris, after terrorists
fired at passengers boarding an Israeli plane |
| 24 - Princess Margaret and
Lord Snowdon divorce |
| 26 - The first legal casino
in the US outside of Nevada opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| 06 - Proposition 13, a
controversial California constitutional amendment to cut state
property taxes by 57% wins over California voters. Amendment reduces
the state's revenues from $12 billion to $5 billion |
| 15 - Italian president
Giovanni Leone resigns after allegations of fiscal misconduct |
| 24 - The president of North
Yemen is killed by a bomb |
| 25 - Argentina wins the
(soccer) World Cup, beating Netherlands 3-1 |
| 26 - The president of South
Yemen is killed by the same faction that murdered the North Yemeni
president two days earlier |
| 28 - In the case of Bakke v
the University of California, the US Supreme Court rules that the
college has to admit white applicant Allan Bakke to its medical
school. Bakke claimed his civil rights had been violated by the
school's minority-student admission quota |
| 03 - China cancels all aid
to Vietnam |
| 05 - The Australian
government lifts the five year ban on the export of live Merino rams |
| 07 - The Solomon Islands
gain independence from British rule |
| 07 - Martina Navratilova
beats Chris Evert for the women's singles title at Wimbledon |
| 08 - Sandro Pertini is
elected Italy's first socialist President |
| 08 - Joe
Strummer and Paul Simonon of The Clash are arrested in Glasgow for being drunk and
disorderly |
| 11 - 200 die in Spanish
campsite explosion |
| 18 - In South Africa,
Nelson Mandela is refused the thousands of cards he has received for
his 60th birthday |
| 25 - Louise Brown, the
world's first Test Tube baby, is born in Manchester, England,
weighing five pounds-twelve ounces |
| 28 - Passenger train
services in Tasmania are discontinued due to lack of demand |
| 31 - Gough Whitlam resigns
from Australian federal parliament |
| 04 - Having recently
discovered that their land was used as a toxic waste dump between
1947 and 1952, the residents of New York's Love Canal community begin
to evacuate their homes |
| 06 - Pope Paul VI dies |
| 10 - The American Chrysler
car company announces it is selling its European manufacturing
operations to the French Peugeot-Citroën group |
| 22 - In Nicaragua,
Sandinista guerrillas seize the parliament building in Managua and
take 1,500 hostages |
| 22 - Kenyan President Jomo
Kenyatta dies, aged 84 |
| 26 - Cardinal Albino
Luciani is elected Pope and is to be known as John Paul I |
| 03 - An Air Rhodesia
Viscount is shot down by Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front. It crashes
near Lake Kariba, with the loss of 38 lives. Of the 18 survivors, 10
are shot dead by Nationalist guerrillas |
| 05/17 - Talks between
Egypt, the US and Israel at Camp David lead to the Camp David
Accords, which end 30 years of hostility between Egypt and Israel |
| 08 - Wild drummer of The Who, Keith Moon dies of a drug overdose, aged 32, in the same London
apartment where Mama Cass Elliott overdosed in 1974 |
| 08 - Martial law is imposed
in Iran by the Shah in Teheran, after demonstrations against his
regime left 58 die in the rioting |
| 15 - German Baader-Meinhof
terrorist Astrid Proll is arrested in London |
| 15 - German aircraft
engineer, Willy Messershmidt (b. 1898) dies |
| 16 - For the second year in
a row, the Australian Rugby League Grand Final is a draw. This time
between Manly (11) and Cronulla (11) |
| 16 - 20,000 are feared dead
in Iran after a minute-long earthquake |
| 17 - Muhammad Ali beats
Leon Spinks in New Orleans, to win the world heavyweight championship
a record third time |
| 19 - Manly beat Cronulla
16-0 in the Australian Rugby League Grand Final replay |
| 20 - South African Prime
Minister Vorster announces his resignation "for health reasons" |
| 25 - 150 people die when a
light aircraft collides with an airliner over San Diego and both
crash onto houses |
| 28 - New Pope John Paul
I dies of heart attack after only 33 days in office (born Albino Luciani, 1912) |
| 29 - P W Botha elected PM
in South Africa |
| 29 - Bulgarian defector
Gerogi Markov dies after being stabbed by a poison-tipped umbrella at
a London bus stop |
| 29 - Geoff Boycott is
sacked as captain of Yorkshire Cricket Club |
| 30 - Hawthorn 18.13 (121)
defeat North Melbourne 15.13 (103) in the Australian VFL |
| 03 - Australian Lynette
Phillips, a member of the Ananda Marga sect, burns herself to death
in Geneva in protest against "injustice in the world" |
| 04 - Emily and William
Harris are jailed for ten years for kidnapping Patty Hearst |
| 06 - Benny Andersson and
Anni-Frid Lyngstad of Swedish pop quartet
ABBA, marry in a private
ceremony after living together for nine years |
| 08 - Mario Andretti becomes
world Formula One motor racing champion |
| 08 - Wild man of Australian
rock & roll, Johnny O'Keefe (43) dies after a massive heart attack
at his Double Bay home |
| 08 - The Australian Wran
government has a landslide victory in the NSW state election |
| 11 - Nancy Spungen,
American girlfriend of Sex Pistols'
bassist Sid Vicious, is found dead from
multiple stab wounds at New York's Chelsea Hotel. Sid Vicious is
charged with murder but claims to remember nothing about the night |
| 12 - Sydney rugby player
Paul Hayward, Warren Fellows and William Sinclair are arrested in
Bangkok for heroin smuggling |
| 16 - Polish Cardinal
Karol Wojtyla, Archbishop of Cracow, becomes Pope John Paul II. He is
the first non-Italian Pope for 400 years |
| 24 - Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones is convicted in Canada of heroin possession. He
receives a one-year suspended sentence and is ordered to play a
charity concert for the blind |
| 27 - The UN military
command in South Korea discover an invasion tunnel beginning in North
Korea |
| 29 - Chairman Mao's
Little Red Book is denounced by the Communist Party in China |
| 02 - A new British
newspaper, The Daily Star, is published by Express Newspapers |
| 03 - The Caribbean island
of Dominica becomes an independent republic |
| 04 - Australian Bakers'
strike leads to panic buying and bread rationing |
| 05 - Fierce fighting in
Teheran causes Iranian prime minister Sharif-Emami to resign |
| 18 - 913 followers of Jim
Jones commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. After ordering the
murder of California Representative Leo J Ryan who has gone to the
commune on a fact-finding mission, Reverend Jim Jones orders the
commune's members to drink poisoned Flavoraid |
| 27 - San Francisco Mayor
George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk are shot dead at City
Hall by disgruntled former supervisor Dan White. White later pleads
"Twinkie insanity" (ie: he had been eating too much junk food in the
weeks leading up to the attack) and actually receives a reduced
sentence |
| 01 - Guerrillas kidnap two
British bankers in El Salvador |
| 06 - USSR signs a 20 year
pact with Afghanistan |
| 08 - Former Israeli prime
minister Golda Meir (b. 1898) dies in Jerusalem |
| 10 - Begin and Sadat share
Nobel Peace Prize |
| 19 - Indira Gandhi is
expelled from the Indian Parliament and imprisoned on charges of
conspiracy and electoral misconduct |
| 25 - Vietnam begins a
full-scale invasion of Cambodia |
| 26 - Indira Gandhi is
released after a week in jail for refusing to testify on a corruption
charge |
| 27 - Spain becomes a
democracy after 40 years of dictatorship |
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May 09 - Aldo Moro murdered by Red Brigade
July 07 - Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert for the women's singles
title at Wimbledon
Nov 18 - Massive cult suicide in Jonestown, Guyana
 First "Gay
Mardi Gras" held in Sydney
' Arwon' wins
Melbourne Cup
New 3 Bedroom
house in Sydney's West selling for $21,000 - $45,000
Quote of the Year
"I think Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader. I mean
Fascist in its true sense - not Nazi"
David Bowie
Wimbledon 1978 Final Navratilova vs Evert
Region 1 (USA) DVD
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