Aug 28 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph

Aug 20 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London

Aug 17 The first manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)

Aug 31 Symbionese Liberation Army founders William & Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst

Aug 11 Funeral of Pope Paul VI

Aug 19 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran

Aug 18 Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers andfirefighters

Aug 26 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6

Aug 19 First transatlantic balloon crossing in history finishes in Paris

Aug 12 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours

Oct 14 First TV movie from a TV series-"Rescue from Gilligan's Island"

Oct 10 British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published

Oct 01 Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) gains independence from Britain

Oct 04 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I

Oct 05 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature

Oct 27 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill

Oct 16 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II

Oct 13 James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu

Oct 12 Representatives of Israel and Egypt open talks in Washington

Oct 25 Israeli Cabinet approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace

Oct 13 Tiros N, US's First 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched

Oct 30 Laura Nickel &Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1

Oct 22 Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession

Oct 03 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London

Oct 10 Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B Anthony dollar

Oct 11 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama

Oct 27 Begin & Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize

Jul 01 Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing

Jul 09 Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA

Jul 14 Anatoly Shcharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation

Jul 18 Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks

Jul 10 E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484

Jul 07 Martina Navratilova captures Wimbledon defeating Chris Evert

Jul 13 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years

Jul 23 Israeli cabinet rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas

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