May 13 Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran

May 01 Elton John becomes first pop star to perform in Israel

May 25 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt

May 16 FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel

May 23 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president

May 05 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter

May 28 European Market accepts Greece as member

May 01 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)

May 27 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop

May 04 The first woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) is elected

May 22 The first of two McDonnell Douglas AV-8C Harriers arrived at NATC, Patuxent River for service acceptance trials

May 04 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2

May 25 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275

Jan 08 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up

Jan 27 36th Golden Globes Midnight Express, Jon Voight &Jane Fonda

Jan 02 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spingen begins

Jan 05 Jazz bassist Charles Mingus dies of a heart attack at age 56.

Jan 29 Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping is welcomed to the White House by U.S. President Jimmy Carter Carter, as the two countries re-establish formal relations.

Jan 01 International Year of the Child begins

Jan 04 An out-of-court settlement awards $675,000 to the victims of the Kent State massacre of 1970 (made famous by the CSNY song Ohio).

Jan 14 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday

Jan 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test

Jan 01 US & China (People's Republic) begin diplomatic relations

Jan 01 International Year of the Child begins

Jan 30 Rhodesian whites vote to transfer to majority rule

Jan 09 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses

Jan 10 Entertainer of the Year Awards

Jan 12 Los Angeles's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham

Jan 07 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

Jan 08 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh

Jan 29 Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington DC

Jan 12 6th American Music Award Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win

Jan 16 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt

Jan 27 36th Golden Globes Midnight Express, Jon Voight &Jane Fonda

Jan 08 Today Show gets a new theme song

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