Jan 25 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan

Jan 30 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution

Jan 07 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

Jan 09 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"

Jan 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Jan 26 Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Netherlands

Jan 16 The ruler of Iran, the Shah, leaves his country

Jan 29 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years

Jan 23 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Jan 21 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)

Jan 08 Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord

Jan 21 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce

Jan 30 Iran announces that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is returning, ending his exile in France.

Jan 26 "The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland

Jan 26 Former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller dies in New York at age 70.

Jan 29 Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"

Jan 09 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin

Jan 17 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran

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

Jan 17 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran

Jan 12 Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100

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 25 Jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture, and that federal powers be reduce

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

Jan 25 Pope John Paul II's first overseas trip as supreme pontiff

Jan 13 Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam

Jan 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test

Jan 13 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

Jan 19 John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison

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

Feb 09 Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"

Feb 18 NASA launches space vehicle S-202

Feb 11 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC

Feb 21 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters; the game was won 4-2 in the 4th overtime period

Feb 11 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation

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