Feb 01 Harriet Tubman is first black woman honored on a US postage stamp

Feb 12 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner

Feb 12 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

Feb 15 Zaire revises constitution

Feb 20 4th People's Choice Awards Star Wars, Carol Burnett &Bob Hope

Feb 01 Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl

Feb 15 In a split decision, Leon Spinks takes the heavyweight boxing champion title away from defending champ Muhammad Ali.

Apr 07 Pres Carter defers production of the neutron bomb

Apr 26 NASA launches space vehicle S-201

Apr 03 European market & China signs trade agreement

Apr 11 E F Helin and G Grueff discovers asteroid #3101 Goldberger

Apr 13 Paul McGrath actor (The Witness), dies at 73

Apr 17 Bill Rodgers wins his 2nd Boston Marathon

Apr 19 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel

Apr 09 W Liller discovers asteroid #2449

Apr 03 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall", Rich Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win

Apr 03 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami FL to Washington DC

Apr 15 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy

Apr 25 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more

Apr 14 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2364 Seillier

Apr 22 Will Geer actor (Grandpa-The Waltons), dies at 75

Apr 18 US Senate approves transfer of Panama Canal to Panam

Nov 03 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day)

Nov 13 NASA launches HEAO

Nov 09 The U.S. Marine Corps' newest light attack aircraft, the AV-8B, flew for the first time at McDonnell Douglas Corporation in St. Louis. The AV-8B Harrier had more than double the payload and radius of its predecessor, the AV-8A.

Nov 25 Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight

Nov 26 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY

Nov 04 Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U

Nov 20 A satellite system for transmitting newspaper content was dedicated on this day in 1978. The system transmitted The Wall Street Journal from where it was typeset in Massachusetts to Orlando, Florida, at a rate of 3.5 minutes per page.

Nov 18 Mass suicide in Peoples temple in Jonestown Guyana

Nov 06 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule

Nov 05 Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Nov 29 UN observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by US andabout 20 other countries

Nov 10 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks

Nov 15 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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