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| 02 - President Jimmy Carter tells the Senate it should not ratify the SALT nuclear arms treaty
with the USSR until the Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan |
| 02 - The Nuclear Regulatory
Commission reports that 38 of the 68 functioning nuclear power plants
in the US have failed to meet the January 1 deadlines for changes in
equipment and procedures. These improvements were mandated in
response to the accident at Three Mile Island |
| 02 - Early Rock and Roll
artist Larry Williams is the victim of a single gunshot through his
right temple. Police say Williams committed suicide, but friends
think he was murdered (b. May 10 1935) |
| 03 - Author of Born Free
& naturalist Joy Adamson is murdered at a game park near Nairobi,
Kenya |
| 04 - President Carter
responds to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by reneging on a deal
to send 17,000,000 metric tons of grain to Russia |
| 07 - Indira Gandhi is
re-elected in India |
| 08 - Soviet troops
reportedly in control of most of
Afghanistan. President Carter describes the situation as the greatest threat to peace since World
War II |
| 09 - 63 people are beheaded
in Saudi Arabia for attacking the Grand Mosque in Mecca last November |
| 14 - Two hijackers hold
hostages aboard an Alitalia airliner in Palermo |
| 16 - Paul McCartney begins
ten days in a Japanese prison after half a pound of marijuana was
found in his suitcase at Tokyo airport. After the ten days behind
bars he is deported back to Britain |
| 17 - IRA claims
responsibility for the bombing of a commuter train near Belfast |
| 19 - On trial for printing
$1 million in counterfeit $100 US bills, Sunny Brunson swears he
intended to wallpaper his bathroom walls with the funny money, not
spend it |
| 20 - The Pittsburgh
Steelers defeat the Los Angeles Rams 31-19 in Super Bowl XIV.
Steelers QB Terry Bradshaw is named MVP |
| 20 - President Carter announces a US
boycott of the Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
| 20 - Yugoslav President
Tito has left leg amputated |
| 22 - Dissident Russian
physicist Andrei Sakharov is stripped of honours and exiled from
Moscow after criticising the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
| 23 - Yuri Stefanov of the
Soviet Gitilis Academic Ballet defects during performance in Italy |
| 25 - Several men claiming
to be Black Muslims hijack Delta Flight 1116 from Atlanta to New York
City and reroute plane to Cuba, where they are arrested |
| 26 - Frank Sinatra performs
in Rio de Janeiro to a crowd of 175,000 |
| 29 - After hiding for three
months, six Americans escape Tehran, Iran. The US Embassy had been
seized leaving the Americans trapped in Iran. In collaboration with
the Canadian Embassy, the Americans were able to leave posing as
Canadian diplomats |
| 29 - Comedian Jimmy Durante
dies at age 86 |
| 30 - Professor Longhair,
King of New Orleans piano, dies (b. December 19 1918) |
| 31 - Terrorists seize the
Spanish embassy in Guatemala City. 41 are killed when police storm
the compound and fire sweeps through building |
| 01 - After a drug overdose,
Ann Beverly (mother of Sid Vicious) is hospitalised |
| 02 - A Senator from New
Jersey, a representative from Pennsylvania, and the governor-elect of
Louisiana are among the politicians accused of accepting bribes in
two FBI undercover operations known as Abscam and Brilab |
| 04 - Studio 54 owners Rubell and Schrager enjoy a big farewell bash before surrendering to
authorities to begin 3½ year prison sentences for tax evasion |
| 05 - An avalanche buries
the Italian alpine village of Cervinia |
| 06 - Bolshoi Ballet teacher
Sulamith Messener and son Mikhail defect while on tour in Japan |
| 07 - Already convicted of
two murders, Ted Bundy is convicted today of murder of Kimberly Diane
Leach |
| 08 - Two small planes
collide in midair over LAX |
| 08 - David Bowie and his
wife Angie are granted a divorce under Swiss law after 10 years of
marriage. Angie's settlement is $750,000 over ten years |
| 10 - Police raid the
Queen's Hotel in Southsea (UK) where The
Clash are staying. They take
away various 'substances' for analysis. Joe Strummer is found in bed
reading The bible! |
| 12 - US Serial killer Ted Bundy is given a third death sentence by an Orlando judge |
| 12 - In Italy, the Red
Brigade murder Judge Vittorio Bachelet after he gives a lecture on
terrorism |
| 12 - Actress Christina
Ricci is born |
| 13 - Thin Lizzy leader Phil
Lynott marries Caroline Crowther, daughter of entertainer Leslie
Crowther |
| 13 - Actor David Janssen,
star of The Fugitive and Harry O, dies |
| 13 - The Winter Olympics at
Lake Placid, NY, formally open |
| 13 - Kristy Powell,
American Olympic gymnast, is born |
| 14 - Vocalist Lou Reed
marries Sylvia Morales in Greenwich Village, NY |
| 17 - Buddy Baker wins the
Daytona 500 |
| 17 - Composer Jerry
Fielding dies |
| 18 - PM Pierre Trudeau
retains power in Canada |
| 18 - Alison Rachel Fitch,
New Zealand Olympic swimmer, is born |
| 19 - AC/DC vocalist Bon
Scott, dies in London. He had spent the night on a drinking spree
watching Protex at
a Camden Town Music Machine gig and had fallen asleep in a car in
Dulwich, South London. Cause of death was given as "acute alcoholic poisoning".
Scott was flown back to Australia and cremated |
| 20 - Alice Roosevelt
Longworth, daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt, dies at age 96 |
| 21 - 13 killed in crash at
Sydney Airport |
| 22 - Martial law is
declared in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, following protests against
the Soviet invasion |
| 23 - Canadian Olympic
gymnast Yvonne Tousek is born |
| 23 - Jacob "killer" Miller,
vocalist with reggae band Inner Circle, dies in a car accident |
| 24 - Greek tanker explodes
and sinks in the Aeolian Sea, spilling 37 million gallons of oil |
| 27 - A Boeing 707 crashes
and explodes at Manila airport |
| 27 - Chelsea Clinton,
daughter of future President Bill Clinton, is born |
| 29 - Buddy Holly's glasses,
worn when his plane crashed in 1959, are discovered in old police
files by the sheriff of Mason City, Iowa |
| 04 - Robert Mugabe elected
PM of Zimbabwe |
| 10 - "Scarsdale Diet"
doctor, Herman Tarnower is murdered |
| 20 - The boat from which
Radio Caroline, Britain's first
Pirate Radio station in the 1960's,
transmitted its illegal programs, sinks |
| 24 - Archbishop Oscar
Romero, a vocal defender of human rights in strife-torn El Salvador
is assassinated while saying mass in a San Salvador church. Over
30
people are killed by bombs and sniper fire during his funeral six
days later |
| 24 - The Italian Consulate
in London is destroyed by fire, following an explosion |
| 25 - Jean Harris,
headmistress of a US private school, is indicted for murder of
Scarsdale Diet Dr. Herman Tarnower |
| 27 - 100 die in North Sea
oil rig tragedy off the coat of Norway |
| 27 - British Royal family
receives increases in income |
| 30 - Shooting breaks out at
the funeral mass for Archbishop Romero in San Salvador. 39 people are
killed |
| 31 - Olympic gold medallist
Jesse Owens dies, age 66 |
| 02 - Black youths riot
after a raid on a club in the St Paul's district of Bristol, England |
| 05 - The world's rarest
stamp, the 1c black on magenta British Guiana of 1856, is sold in New
York for $850,000 (approximately £500,000) |
| 07 - President Carter
breaks off diplomatic relations with Iran and bans trade between the
two countries |
| 07 - A flood of Cuban
refugees leave their homeland, with Fidel Castro's blessing. Over the
next two months, over 100,000 enter the US, most of them through
Florida. The US initially welcomes them, then - fearing Castro is
using the exodus as a means to empty out his prisons - takes steps to
screen the refugees |
| 10 - Soviet cosmonauts dock
Soyuz 35 with Salyut 6 space station |
| 18 - Britain's last colony
in Africa, Southern Rhodesia, becomes independent as Zimbabwe led by
prime minister Robert Mugabe |
| 21 - Rosie Ruiz breaks
marathon record for women in Boston Marathon |
| 24 - Desert fiasco ends
failed hostage rescue bid in Iran as a helicopter collides with a
C-130 troop transport. Eight troops die in the accident, and five are
injured |
| 26 - US Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance resigns in opposition to the military rescue attempt of
the hostages. Senator Edmund Muskie takes his place |
| 29 - Rosie Ruiz stripped of
her Boston Marathon title after investigation shows she did not run
the entire race. Jacqueline Gereau is named the new winner |
| 27 - The siege in the
Dominican embassy ends when 16 guerrillas are flown to Havana with 11
diplomats, who are then released |
| 29 - A "Washington for
Jesus" rally brings 200,000 evangelical Christians to the nations
capital |
| 29 - Alfred Hitchcock,
master of suspense, dies aged 88 |
| 30 - Princess Beatrix is
crowned Queen of the Netherlands |
| 30 - Terrorists seize the
Iranian embassy in London and hold 26 people hostage, demanding the release of political
prisoners in Iran |
| 03 - Richard Carter
attempts robbery across street from a Detroit police station and is
promptly arrested |
| 03 - 'Genuine Risk' wins
the 106th Kentucky Derby |
| 04 - Yugoslav President
Marshal Tito dies at the age of 87 |
| 05 - The British SAS successfully storm
the
Iranian embassy in London to free hostages. Four terrorists die
during the rescue, another dies later, and one is captured |
| 08 - The World Health
Organisation formally declares that smallpox has been eradicated |
| 10 - A Bahamas gunboat
detains a Cuban fishing boat and is then attacked by Cuban fighter
planes which sink the gunboat, killing 4 people |
| 11 - Two men arrested after
climbing Statue of Liberty in protest on behalf of convicted murderer
and Black Panther Geronimo Pratt |
| 13 - A military coup in
Uganda ousts President Godfrey Binaisa |
| 16 - L.A. Lakers win NBA
Championship over Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2 |
| 17 - EPA says some
residents of Love Canal, NY may have suffered chromosome damage (and
higher risk of birth defects and cancer) due to toxic waste dumping
there |
| 17 - Drummer Peter Criss
leaves KISS (of which he was a founder-member). He is replaced by
Eric Carr |
| 17/19 - Race riots in the
Liberty City area of Miami, Florida leave fourteen dead, 300 injured,
and cause $100 million in damage. The riots erupt after an all-white
jury acquits four former Miami policemen in the fatal beating of a
black man |
| 18 - Mt St Helens, a
Washington State volcano dormant since 1857, erupts. The blast blows
the top of the mountain completely off, and sets off a series of
fires, mudslides and floods in the 120-square-mile-area surrounding
the volcano. Fifteen people are killed, and at least 40 are listed as
missing |
| 18 - Ian Curtis, vocalist
with Joy Division, hangs himself in his Manchester (UK) home |
| 20 - Irate residents of
Love Canal, NY briefly take two federal officials hostage |
| 21 - President Carter
declares Love Canal a disaster area and EPA proceeds with evacuation
of residents |
| 21 - New government headed
by Park Choong Hoon named in South Korea, as violence continues |
| 22 - Phil Donahue marries
Marlo Thomas |
| 23 - Mt. St. Helens erupts
again, an explosion compared to a hydrogen bomb blast |
| 23 - Four men break into
prison at Lorton, VA and kill inmate Douglas Boney |
| 24 - New York Islanders
defeat Philadelphia Flyers to win pro hockey's Stanley Cup, 4 games
to 2 |
| 25 - Johnny Rutherford wins
the Indianapolis 500 for the third time |
| 07 - US writer Henry Miller
dies |
| 10 - Comedian Richard Pryor
almost dies in a freebasing accident after a mixture of cocaine and
ether explodes in his face |
| 12 - Japanese Prime
Minister Masayoshi Ohira dies |
| 13 - Mt. St. Helens in
Washington state erupts for third time |
| 17 - US Cruise Missiles are
to be based at a US Air Force airfield at Greenham Common, near
Newbury in Berkshire and at Molesworth |
| 17 - Tennis star Venus
Williams is born |
| 21 - Bert Kaempfert dies |
| 23 - Sanjay Gandhi (son and
heir of Indira Gandhi) dies in an air crash in India |
| 27 - President Carter signs
a law requiring draft registration by men nineteen to twenty years of
age, although no draft is actually contemplated. |
| 28 - Fred Astaire weds
jockey Robyn Smith |
| 04 - Evonne Goolagong
Cawley defeats Chris Evert Lloyd to win Wimbledon women's singles
title |
| 05 - Bjorn Borg of Sweden
becomes the first tennis player to win five successive men's singles
titles at Wimbledon |
| 05 - John and Tracy Austin
become first brother-sister team to win Wimbledon mixed doubles title |
| 11 - One American hostage
in Teheran is freed on medical grounds |
| 14 - The Republican
National Convention nominates Ronald Reagan for president, and George
Bush for vice-president |
| 14 - President Carter's
brother Billy becomes a registered foreign agent of the Libyan
government after receiving a $220,000 "loan" from the Libyans. Two
weeks later the president admits having given Billy classified
information dealing with Libya |
| 17 - Zenko Suzuki is new
Japanese prime minister |
| 19 - XXII Olympic games
open in Moscow. The games are boycotted by the USA and 64 other
nations in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
| 21 - Heat wave blankets
much of USA from New York City to the Southwest |
| 22 - Delta Airlines jet
hijacked to Cuba, then proceeds to Puerto Rico |
| 24 - Peter Sellers dies a
fortnight after his latest film Being There was hailed as one
of his finest comedy performances |
| 25 - Violinist Helen
Mintiks, a member of the Berlin Symphony, is murdered while leaving
New York City's Metropolitan Opera House |
| 26 - Deadly fire breaks out
in Chicago's Union Station |
| 27 - The former Shah of
Iran dies in a Cairo military hospital, aged 60 |
| 29 - USS Midway
and Panamanian freighter collide near Philippines |
| 30 - Israeli Knesset
formally declares all of Jerusalem the nation's capital |
| 30 - Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
gains independence from Britain and France |
| 01 - Passenger train
derails enroute from Dublin to Cork, Ireland. 17 people are killed |
| 02 - A terrorist bomb blast
kills 84 at Bologna Station, Italy |
| 04 - Queen Mother is 80
years old |
| 04 - Hurricane Allen hits
Haiti and Puerto Rico |
| 04 - Senate subcommittee
hearings on Billy Carter's ties with Libya begin |
| 07 - Hurricane Allen,
second strongest hurricane since record-keeping began, heads across
Gulf of Mexico for Texas coast |
| 09 - Hurricane Allen hits
Texas coast north of Brownsville, tornados and flooding reported |
| 10 - Air Florida airliner
hijacked to Cuba |
| 11 - Carter and Mondale are
nominated for re-election by the Democratic National Convention |
| 11 - Reggie Jackson hits
his 400th home run |
| 12 - Ted Kennedy withdraws
from presidential race |
| 13 - Air Florida jet
hijacked to Cuba by refugees, second hijacking in four days |
| 14 - National Airlines jet
hijacked to Cuba, third such hijacking this week |
| 14 - Polish workers seize
Gdansk shipyard, fighting for the right to have free trade unions |
| 14 - Playboy
centrefold Dorothy Stratten murdered by estranged husband Paul
Snider, who kills himself |
| 16 - Cuban refugees hijack
Delta, Eastern and Republic passenger jets |
| 16 - USAF F-4 plane crashes
near Cairo |
| 17 - Baby Azaria
Chamberlain disappears at Ayers Rock in Australia. Parents claim a
dingo took their baby |
| 19 - Riot breaks out in
Amsterdam when police evict urban squatters |
| 20 - Father of Anne Frank,
last surviving member of family, dies in Switzerland |
| 20 - Italy's Reinhold
Messner makes first solo ascent of Mt. Everest |
| 21 - Soviet nuclear
submarine catches fire near Okinawa, Japan, with the loss of nine
lives. It refuses help from a Japanese rescue team |
| 26 - Actor Macauley Culkin
is born |
| 27 - Gen. Chun Doo Kwan
named president of South Korea |
| 27 - Another jet is
hijacked to Cuba, the seventh in three weeks |
| 30 - Lech Walesa signs an
agreement with the Polish government allowing the formation of
independent trade unions |
| 05 - The world's longest
road tunnel opens in Switzerland, running over ten miles (16km) under
the St Gotthard range |
| 05 - Australia defeats
France and earns right to face USA in America's Cup yacht race |
| 06 - Chris Evert Lloyd
defeats Hana Mandlikova to win US Tennis Open |
| 07 - John McEnroe defeats
Bjorn Borg to win US Open in five sets |
| 08 - An Eastern Airlines
flight bound for Florida from New York is hijacked to Cuba |
| 11 - Drug raid in San
Francisco involves seizure of Franklin Roosevelt's yacht Potomac |
| 12 - Passengers and
stewardess of Eastern Airlines flight foil another hijacking attempt |
| 12 - Following a military
coup in Turkey, General Evren takes power |
| 13 - Actor Ben Savage is
born |
| 17 - Delta Airlines jet
hijacked to Cuba |
| 21 - Crash occurs at
airbase at Biggin Hill in the UK during air show celebrating the
RAF's role in The Battle of Britain |
| 22 - Creation of
Solidarnosc (Solidarity) union in Poland, with Lech Walesa, the
Gdansk shipyard worker, as its leader |
| 22 - Iraqi aircraft attack
Iranian bases after fighting for some weeks has taken place on the
Iran/Iraq border |
| 24 - Iraq invades Iran to
gain control of the Shatt-al-Arab waterway |
| 25 - Led Zeppelin drummer,
John Bonham, dies |
| 25 - USA wins America's Cup
yacht race, defeating Australia |
| 26 - Neo-Nazi Terrorist bombing at
Munich's Oktoberfest kills 12. 200 others are injured |
| 26 - First Cuban cosmonaut
returns to Earth after visit to Salyut 6 space station |
| 30 - Martina Hingis, tennis
star, is born |
| 02 - Actor Steve McQueen
diagnosed with rare form of lung cancer |
| 02 - Larry Holmes defeats Muhammad Ali in Las Vegas boxing match. It is the first time
Ali has been knocked out in a fight |
| 05 - Peter Brock becomes
the first driver to win the Australian Hardie Ferodo 1000 motor race
at Bathurst five times |
| 08 - British Leyland
introduces its new car, the Austin Mini Metro |
| 18 - Malcolm Fraser scrapes
in with Liberal victory in Australia |
| 24 - SBS Television starts
in Sydney & Melbourne |
| 26 - Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship suffers a stroke during recording sessions for
Modern Times. He recovers completely after some time in hospital |
| 04 - Republican Ronald
Reagan defeats Carter and is elected as the 40th president. The
Republicans win control of the Senate for the first time in 26 years |
| 07 - Amtrak and Conrail
trains collide near Dobbs Ferry station, New York |
| 07 - Actor Steve McQueen
dies of cancer at age 50 |
| 10 - Michael Foot named new
head of British Labour Party |
| 12 - Voyager I space
probe passes within 77,000 miles of Saturn |
| 15 - Two members of Harlem Globetrotters arrested in Sao Paulo, Brazil on drug charges |
| 19 - Yorkshire Ripper
claims 13th victim, Jacqueline Hill, in Leeds (England) |
| 19 - The Brooke Shields
"Nothing comes between me and my Calvins" jeans ad is banned by CBS |
| 20 - In China, the trial
begins of the "Gang of Four" |
| 21 - 84 die in huge fire at
the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas |
| 22 - Actress Mae West dies
aged 87 |
| 23 - Severe earthquake hits
southern Italy killing 3,000 |
| 01 - Female IRA prisoners
in Northern Ireland begin hunger strike |
| 02 - Police and urban
squatters clash in Amsterdam |
| 04 - Three US nuns and a
lay worker found shot dead in El Salvador |
| 04 - Portugal's Premier
Francisco Sa Carneiro killed in a plane crash at Lisbon. Six others
die also |
| 04 - Polish airliner
hijacked on way to West Berlin |
| 06 - Boston's transit
system shut down due to lack of funds |
| 06 - UN workers perish in
plane crash in Tanzania |
| 08 - John Lennon is shot
dead outside his home in New York City, aged 40 |
| 11 - NATO warns USSR not to
intervene in Poland's affairs |
| 14 - Elston Howard,
American pro baseball catcher, dies |
| 15 - Dave Winfield becomes
highest-paid player in US baseball history after signing with New
York Yankees |
| 16 - Suez Canal, widened
and deepened, is reopened to supertanker traffic |
| 16 - A sad day for chicken
lovers everywhere as Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky
Fried Chicken, leaves for the great chicken shack in the sky. He was
aged 90 |
| 17 - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rejects appeal to save 43 IRA members on
52-day-long hunger strike |
| 17 - Turkish Consul-General
shot dead in Sydney, Australia |
| 18 - Seven IRA members in
Belfast's Maze Prison end hunger strike after one is taken to
hospital and given last rites |
| 23 - Mark David Chapman
indicted for 2nd degree murder in death of John Lennon |
| 24 - Dr. Christian Barnard
leads medical team transplanting heart of white woman into black man
in Cape Town, South Africa |
| 25 - Grand Admiral Karl
Doenitz, head of Nazi Germany's navy during WWII, dies aged 89 |
| 26 - American figure skater
Serena Phillips is born |
| 27 - President Carter
breaks his collarbone in a skiing accident and is treated at Bethesda
Naval Hospital |
| 28 - President-Elect Ronald
Reagan is named Time's Man of the Year |
| 29 - Four Soviets are shot
for collaborating with Nazis at Dachau concentration camp during
World War II |
| 29 - 80 injured in New York
City commuter train accident |
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31 - Police General Enrico
Calvaligi assassinated in Rome |
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31 - A bomb explosion at the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya,
kills 15 people |
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Jan 08 - Soviets invade Afghanistan
May 05 - SAS storm Iranian Embassy in London
May 18 - Mt St Helens erupts in Washington State
Jul 05 - Bjorn Borg is first to win five successive men's singles titles
at Wimbledon
Sep 22 - Solidarity union formed in Poland
Sep 24 - Iraq invades Iran
Nov 04 - Ronald Reagan is 40th US President
Dec 08 - John Lennon shot dead in New York
 The first
Australian 'State of Origin' rugby league series is played
Quote of the Year
"The lady's not for turning"
Margaret Thatcher, at the Conservative Party Conference, October 10, 1980
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