Jun 11 ELO releases "Telephone Line"

Dec 14 Egypt and Israel reps gather in Cairo for first formal peace conference

Dec 31 Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa

Dec 05 Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen

Dec 07 Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0

Dec 20 First Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut

Dec 22 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes

Dec 30 Carter holds first news conference by US President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)

Dec 31 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado

Dec 06 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence

Dec 25 Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with Egyptian President Sadat

Dec 13 Entire University of Evansville basketball team, die in plane crash

Dec 05 The Plymouth Horizon was introduced on this day. It was the first American-made small car with front-wheel drive. Technical advances in drive technology had reduced the size and cost of front-wheel drive systems.

Dec 04 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself

Dec 10 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

Dec 22 After only ten months as a professional jockey, sixteen-year-old Steve Cauthen won his 355th race and set a new earnings record.

Dec 22 The Canadian government starts building first six new naval frigates; part of $1.5 billion naval program. (not nearly enough)

Aug 12 Space shuttle Enterprise makes first atmospheric flight

Aug 12 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit

Aug 11 The first CH-46E Sea Knight with newly developed fiberglass rotor blades was flown by Marine Corps helicopter pilots

Aug 31 Ian Smith wins the Rhodesian general election with 80 per cent of the overwhelmingly white electorate's vote.

Aug 20 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

Aug 29 Lou Brock breaks Ty Cobb's record by stealing the 893rd base of his baseball career.

Aug 03 Radio Shack announces TRS-80 computer. Within weeks thousands were ordered

Aug 31 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')

Aug 10 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer

Aug 04 Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy

Aug 23 The first man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)

Aug 13 First test glide of the shuttle

Oct 26 Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY

Oct 12 4th test of the space shuttle Enterprise

Oct 26 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise

Oct 17 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of the 4 hijackers

Oct 28 TV's Rhoda gets married

Oct 17 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament

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