Oct 04 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke

Oct 10 NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens

Oct 26 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa

Oct 15 The first debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)

Oct 16 Soyuz 23 (Russian) returns to Earth

Oct 26 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic

Oct 30 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of the Today Show

Oct 15 Ringo releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"

Oct 25 Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape

Oct 24 First Jewish film and TV festival

Jul 13 Courtmartial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin

Jul 16 Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years

Jul 18 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut

Jul 12 Ted Mack TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72

Jul 02 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual

Jul 17 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montréal

Jul 07 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars

Jul 20 On the seventh anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the Viking 1 lander, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe

Jul 06 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station

Jul 14 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NY

Jul 28 Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph

Jul 21 The first outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila

Jul 03 103 hostages were rescued by an Israeli commando unit in a raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. 106 hostages had been taken from a hijacked Air France airliner on its way to Paris from Tel Aviv. Seven pro-Palestinian guerrilla hijackers, 20 Ugandan soldiers and 3 hostages were killed in the raid.

Jul 03 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers

Jul 01 Kenneth Gibson, is first black president of US Conference of Mayors

Jul 19 Rock group Deep Purple disbands

Jul 27 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese

Jul 15 36-hr kidnap of 26 schoolchildren & their bus driver in Calif

Jul 28 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake

Jul 27 Ray Brennan becomes first to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease"

Jul 06 First women enter Naval Academy.

Jul 20 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, first Martian landing

Jul 11 In the Panama-Colombia Border Region, The foreshock, a magnitude 6.7, was followed by a major earthquake of magnitude 7.0 four hours later. Several injured and10 houses and 1 bridge were destroyed in the area

Jul 02 Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam

Jul 21 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Brit ambassador to Ireland is assassinated

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