Today in History for January 1978

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 47 of 47

1st - "Your Arm's Too Short..." closes at Lyceum NYC after 429 perfs
1st - Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213
1st - Pres Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
2nd - Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
2nd - Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"
3rd - Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
6th - 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
6th - US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary
7th - Angola revises its constitution
8th - Israeli government votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai
9th - Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
10th - Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
11th - Gov Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building
11th - Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
14th - Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF)
15th - Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
15th - Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, DT
16th - 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & C Twitty
16th - Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder 18th - Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pak Karachi
18th - Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries)
18th - Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
19th - Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame
19th - Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
19th - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
20th - Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"
21st - Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
23rd - Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
23rd - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13
23rd - Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's ozone layer.
24th - 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo
24th - Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
25th - Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
25th - Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award)
26th - Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void"
26th - International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit
26th - Mario Soares forms Portuguese government
26th - Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40
28th - "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
28th - Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
28th - Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
29th - Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
29th - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
30th - Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
30th - Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
31st - "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 101 perfs
31st - Israel turns 3 milt outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 73 of 73

1st - Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritualist
1st - Nina Bott, German actress
1st - Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
1st - Tarik O'Regan, British composer
2nd - Devin Doherty, actor (Jimmy Clayton-Swan's Crossing)
2nd - Toyoguchi Megumi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
3rd - Kimberley Locke, American singer
3rd - Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
3rd - Dominic Wood, English children's television presenter and magician
3rd - Mike York, American ice hockey player
4th - Dominik Hrbatý, Slovakian tennis player
4th - Mai Meneses, Spanish singer
5th - Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
5th - January Jones, American actress
5th - Sabrina Harman, American military figure and accused torturer
6th - Steve Hartsell, Ann Arbor Mich, pairs skater (& Danielle Hartsell)
6th - Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer
6th - Casey Fossum, Major League Baseball player
6th - Tara Spencer-Nairn, Canadian actress
7th - Kevin Mench, American baseball player
8th - Petra Minarova, Miss Czech Republic Universe (1997)
8th - Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster
9th - Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
9th - Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
9th - Chad Johnson, American football player
9th - AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
9th - Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
10th - Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown)
11th - Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer
11th - Emile Heskey, English footballer
11th - Holly Brisley, Australian actress
12th - Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
12th - Amerie, American singer and songwriter
12th - Luis Ayala, Mexican baseball pitcher
12th - Jeremy Camp, American musician
12th - Kim Sa Rang, Korean actress
12th - Kris Roe, American musician (The Ataris)
14th - Just Blaze, American hip hop producer
14th - Shawn Crawford, American sprinter
15th - Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
15th - Eddie Cahill, American actor
16th - Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
17th - Irina A Borisova, Miss Universe-Ukraine (1996)
18th - Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
20th - Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
20th - Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
20th - Joy Giovanni, American actress and glamour model
21st - Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
21st - Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
21st - Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist
21st - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
22nd - Chone Figgins, American baseball player
25th - Christine Lakin, actress (Alicia Lambert-Step by Step)
25th - Mandy Carraway, Miss Kansas Teen USA (1996)
25th - Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
25th - Jason Roberts, English-born footballer
25th - Derrick Turnbow, Major League Baseball Player
26th - Reesa Starr Jr
26th - Estéban Germán, Dominican baseball player
26th - Corina Morariu, American tennis player
26th - Kelly Stables, American actress
27th - Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player
28th - Helga Bauer Salas, Miss Bolivia Universe (1997)
28th - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
28th - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
28th - Jamie Carragher, English footballer
29th - Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
29th - Rob Bironas, American football player
30th - Lnd Girchoukevitch, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Oly-98)
30th - John Patterson, American baseball player
31st - Fabián Caballero, Argentine footballer
31st - Brad Rutter, Jeopardy! champion
31st - Ray Shah, Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

24th - Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 35 of 35

4th - Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber/lumber/wood manufacturer, dies at 76
6th - John D MacArthur, US insurance billionaire, dies at 80
6th - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
8th - Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75
9th - Eddie Gilbert, cricket (Aboriginal Qld quick got Don for a duck), dies
10th - John D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71
10th - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua
10th - Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag), dies at 62
10th - Don Gillis, American composer (b. 1912)
11th - Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt & Pepper), dies at 57
11th - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
12th - Nancy Spungen, stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious
13th - Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn, VP), dies at 66 in Waverly, Minn
13th - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees), dies at 96
14th - Blossom Rock, actress (Grandmamma-Addams Family), dies at 81
14th - Robert Heger, composer, dies at 91
14th - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
14th - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
15th - Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
18th - Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 56
18th - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer, dies at 68
18th - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
18th - Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
21st - Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (b. 1898)
22nd - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (54 Tests for England 4555 runs), dies
22nd - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
23rd - Jack Oakie, actor (Great Dictator, Gang Buster), dies at 74
23rd - Terry Kath, rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in head at 32
23rd - Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
24th - Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
25th - Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse
26th - Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V), dies at 72
27th - Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87
27th - Oscar Homolka, actor (7 Year Itch, Ball of Fire), dies at 79
29th - Tim McCoy, actor (Arizona Bound), dies at 86