Jun 06 A Mrkos discovers asteroids #2199 Klet & #3339

Jun 25 Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires

Jun 06 California voters overwhelmingly approve Proposition 13, an initiative calling for major property tax cuts.

Jun 22 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced

Jun 22 Pluto's moon, Charon, discovered by James Christy

Jun 26 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched

Jun 22 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill

Jun 15 Jordan's King Hussein marries 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who becomes Queen Noor.

Jun 09 Larry Holmes wins a decision over Ken Norton for the WBC crown

Dec 04 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus

Dec 30 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach

Dec 31 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US

Dec 01 President Carter more than doubles national park system size

Dec 02 Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran

Dec 13 Susan B Anthony dollar, first US coin to honor a woman, issued

Dec 16 Cleveland, Ohio, become the first city in the post-Depression era to default on its loans.

Dec 02 Streisand and Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1

Dec 16 Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR

Dec 29 Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government

Dec 26 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail

Dec 11 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry

Dec 05 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus

Dec 18 John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires, is executed in Pennsylvania. The Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society that had allegedly been responsible for some incidences of vigilante justice in the coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania

Dec 20 H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail

Dec 08 Golda Meir served as Israel's PM (1969-74, dies in Jerusalem at 80

Dec 17 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda

Dec 21 Police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder

Dec 09 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus

Dec 04 Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco first female mayor

Dec 10 In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

Aug 22 Tear gas used to quell riot by 150 prisoners in Sydney's Long Bay Jail who set fire to their cells

Aug 26 John Paul I (formerly Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice) is elected Pope of the Roman Catholic church, following the death of Paul VI.

Aug 06 Pope Paul VI dies of heart attack at summer residence at 80

Aug 26 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I

Aug 07 Thousands of mourners file past the body of Pope Paul VI

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