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Monday, 06 July 2026
Nov 29 UN observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by US andabout 20 other countries 
Dec 01 President Carter more than doubles national park system size
Dec 02 Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran.
Dec 02 Streisand and Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1.
Dec 03 William Grant Still, composer, dies at 83
Dec 04 Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco inaugural female mayor.
Dec 04 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
Dec 04 Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Neth/US phycists, dies at 76.
Dec 05 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus.
Dec 08 Golda Meir served as Israel's PM (1969-74, dies in Jerusalem at 80
Dec 08 Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80.
Dec 09 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
Dec 10 Edward D Wood Jr, director (Plan 9), dies of heart failure at 54
Dec 10 In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.
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 12 Clifton Chenier, US accordionist (Bayou Blues), dies at 53
Dec 13 Susan B Anthony dollar, inaugural US coin to honor a woman, issued
Dec 15 Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75.
Dec 16 Blanche Calloway, US singer/dancer/radio hostess, dies at 76.
Dec 16 Cleveland, Ohio, become the inaugural city in the post-Depression era to default on its loans.
Dec 16 Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR.
Dec 17 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda.
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 21 Police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder.
Dec 26 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail.
Dec 27 Bob de Lange, Dutch actor/director (Daniel), dies at 62
Dec 27 King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution.
Dec 28 Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich and famous", dies at 82.
Dec 29 Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
Dec 30 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach.
Dec 31 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US.
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