Winter of Terror
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1977 Eruption of Nyiragongo in AFR, 240 Czech intellectuals sign charter stating freedoms denied, Johnstown PA flood, Rift Valley Fever emerges in Egypt, volcano erupts in Zaire * Gerald and Betty Ford visit Utah and are given books, President Tanner attends Inauguration and LDS Senator Cannon from NV asked to chair the event, President Kimball meets with Carter, presents Carter with genealogy, scant few Mormons in Carter White House, Reagan visits Utah on political visit, Jan - Snow falls in Miami, major citrus damage, Mar - first use of man-made snow in CO as high pressure in UT deflects storms around, Romania quake kills 1500, Alex Haley’s Roots miniseries debuts, Toni Morrison publishes, the Gossamer Condor flown, first coronary angioplasty accomplished, US backs military ruler of El Salvador in coup that kills 70k Salvadorans and four American nuns, Yves St. Laurent launches “Opium” perfume, death of Sir Charles (Charlie) Chaplan, death of Robert Anthony Eden first Earl of Avon, death of Greek-Italian opera singer Maria Callas, in exchange for 20k salary cut George Lucas retains merchandising rights to all Star Wars films, films: “Annie Hall”, death of Ethiopian leader Teferi Bante, Ethiopia’s ruling military council names Mengistu Haile Mariam head of state, President Carter grants pardon to draft evaders, death of Tom Clark US Supreme Court justice, New human rights manifesto signed by Czechoslovakian activists – harassed by police, death of former British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, death of Lebanese politician Kamal Jumblatt, Angolan forces invade Shaba (formerly Katanga), Russian Helsinki accord monitoring group (many from Israel) arrested by Soviet authorities, Carter warns that energy crisis in US could bring a national catastrophe amd calls for changes in oil consumption, First black mayor of Los Angeles reelected, Indire Gandhi resigns as prime minister of India- Morarji Desai rules, Palistinian National Council calls for independent state, Jacques Chirac former French Premier elected Mayor of Paris, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns and Menahem Begin becomes sixth, French territory of Afars and Issas becomes Republic of Djibouti, US Justice Department looks for South Korean lobbyist coverup, death of W German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, US Dept. of Energy established, Pakistan’s army overthrows government and imposes martial law, Turkey’s government divided – minority government setps down and Suleyman Demirel becomes Premier until his coalition falls, death of President of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios III, Leonid Brezhnev elected Soviet president, Ethiopians halt Somali=backed guerrillas in Ogaden, Pol Pot named Secretary General of Cambodia’s Communists, G Gordon Liddy released from prison, Nobel Peace Prize to Amnesty International, Panama chief Omar Torrijos and Carter sign new Panama Canal treaties, Egypt’s Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel – first visit by Arab leader, Edward I Koch elected Mayor of NYC, Military junta takes control in Thailand, Chancellor of Austria Kurt von Schuschnigg dies, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith announces government will work out political settlement with black majority, Socialist minority government of Premier Mario Soares falls in Portugal, President for life Jean Bedel Bokassa of Central African Empire crowns self Emperor Bokassa I, South Africa declares black homeland of Bophuthatswana independent, death of former US ambassador David KE Bruce, WRITE: Richard Wright (posth), Richard Eberhart, Wallace Stegner, James Merrill, Vicente Aleixandre (ESP), Didier Decoin, Jerzy Kosinski, John Cheever, John Le Carre, JRR Tolkien (posth), John Fowles, Colleen McCullough (The Thorn Birds), John Toland, Simon Gray, Bert Brecht-Kurt Weill, Martin Charnin (Annie musical), David Mamet, Michael Christofer, Bruno Bettelheim, Raoul Berger, Deaths: Konstantin A Fedin (RUS), Vladimir Nabokov (RUS-USA), James Jones (USA), Jacques Prevert (FRA), John Dickson Carr (USA), Anais Nin (FRA-USA), Carl Zuckmayer (GER-SWI), Sir Terence M Rattigan (ENG), Mackinlay Kantor *USA), Robert Lowell (USA), Ethel Waters (USA), Mark Schorer (USA), Zero Mostel (USA), Alfred Lunt (USA), Louis Untermeyer (USA), Dennis Y Wheatley (ENG), Cyril Ritchard (AUSTR-USA), Ernst Bloch (GER), Rev. Martin Cyril D’Arcy (ENG), William L Langer (USA), Sir Charles Petrie (ENG), Tanzanian black activist Bishop Josiah M Kibira elected head of Lutheran World Federation, John Neopomucene Neumann canonized as first male US saint, Jacqueline Means becomes first woman ordained Episcopal priest in America, SAT Scholastic Aptitude Tests show steady decline since 1963, US Orthodox Church selects first American-born prelate – Archbishop Theodosius, ARTS: Deaths: Robert Rossellini (ITA), Joan Crawford (USA), Henri-Georges Clouzot (FRA), Peter Finch (ENG), Henri Langlois (FRA), William Gropper (ISA), Jan Zrzavy (CZE), Uday Shanker (IND), John N Nash (ENG), Naum Gabo (RUS-USA), Groucho Marx (USA), Joe Musial (Katzenjammer Kids USA), Howard Hawks (USA), Charlie Chaplin (ENG), Andre Eglevsky (RUS-USA), Television: Miniseries Roots draws audience of 130 million, “Three’s Company” and “60 Minutes” among top shows, Film: “Rocky” “Star Wars” “Annie Hall” (Woody Allen), “Julia” “Saturday Night Fever” “Oh, God!” “New York, New York” MUSIC: Australians choose “Advance Australia Fair” as national song, Rudolf Barshai the Russian conductor emigrates to Israel, Deaths: Leopold Strokowski (USA), Elvis Presley, Nunnally Johnson (USA), E Power Biggs (USA), Sidney Foster (USA), Erroll Garner (USA), Thomas Schippers (USA), Richard Addinsell (ENG), Bing Crosby (USA), Maria Callas (GRE-USA), Bruce Hungerford (USA), USSR adopts new text for national anthem, Popular Songs: artists include Abba, Queen, Commodores, Marvin Gaye, The Trammps, Eagles (Hotel California), SCIENCE: US space shuttle “Enterprise” makes first manned flight, US probes atmosphere of Venus, US scientists note rings around Uranus, British scientists report first complete genome of an organism, Nobel Prizes in science: Rosalyn S Yalow, Roger CL Guillemin, Andrew V Schally, John H Van Vleck, Philip W Anderson, Sir Neville F Mott, Ilya Prigogine, Bertil Ohlin, James E Meade, US Voyager I and II begin journeys to explore outer solar system, US confirms neutron bomb which kills with massive radiation and leaves buildings intact, discovery of methanogens (first archaea), possible discovery of quark – one third electron charge, sun’s magnetic field determined by Pioneer II spacecraft, King Philip II of Macedon’s tomb discovered in N Greece, discovery of mini-planet between Saturn and Uranus, US National Institute of Health reports successful treatment of herpes encephalitis, Deaths: Wernher von Braun (GER), George C Cotzias (USA – L-Dopa research), American polar explorer Rear Admiral George J Dufek, Edgar D Adrian (ENG), Peter C Goldmark (USA), Jean Rostand (FRA), Jacob Marschak, Worst aviation disaster when two plains collide on runway of Los Rodeos Airport on Canary Island of Tenerife, death of NYC celebrity confidant Bernard “Toots” Shor, death of US Selective Service leader General Lewis B Hershey, Offshore Norwegian oil well in North Sea capped after blowing for eight days – 8.2 million gallons spilled, US seizes two Soviet fishing vessels for violating 200 mile zone, Massive blackout in NYC leaves 9 million without electricity for up to 25 hours – 3700 arrested for criminal activity, death of leader of women’s movement in US Alice Paul, death of Romanian adventruess Magda Lupescu, trans-Alaska pipeline ships from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez port, Queen Elizabeth II of England celebrates Silver Jubilee, Volcanoes in Japan Italy and HI, Sadaharu Oh of Japan hits 756th home run, “Seattle Slew” wins Triple Crown, death of South African black leader Steven Biko, French adopted as official language of Quebec, Cyclone kills 20k and leaves 2 million homeless in India, earthquake devastates NW Argentina, typhoons in Taiwan and N Philippines, Pele (BRA) plays last professional soccer game, Canadian Cindy Nichold completes round-trip swim across English Channel, Janelle Penny Commissiong of Trinidad-Tobago becomes first black Miss Universe, regular passenger service begins on Concorde between US and Europe, Submersible Alvin reveals deep-sea vent creatures, Studio 54 opens in New York to host disco scene, Plato’s Retreat opens in New York as a swinger’s club, Jim Vicks starts running – loses 60 pounds and creates running craze and jogging suit popularity, New York has major power outage and looting and killings ensue 4500 looters arrested and 515 police injured – occurs during Son of Sam killings – David Berkowitz arrested, Jim Jones followers move to Guyana to build utopia, Anita Bryant leads anti-gay protest sparking boycott of orange juice which she had been spokesperson, inflation and unemployment high, Saturday Night Fever released making disco more popular and also starting the end of disco with increased popularity and over-commercialism, Poland dedicated, Conference shortened from 3 days to 2, Mexico City temple announced, Last execution by guillotine, Cannibal declares self emperor of Central African Republic, Sadat of Egypt and Begin of Israel begin negotiations 1978 Camp David Summit between Israel and Egypt, first “test-tube” baby born in England, Earthquake in Iran 7.7* Ford visits Utah and President Kimball’s biography is presented – FHE with Dallin H. Oaks family, Carter concerned with LDS opinion of Panama Canal treaties due to outspoken Ezra Taft Benson , but Church proclaims neutrality, Carter sends congratulatory telegram to Church regarding Priesthood to all worthy males, Carter speaks in Tabernacle during National Family Week, last Carol Burnet Show broadcast, Jan - Hartford CT coliseum collapses under snow - stadium was empty, Feb - Great Blizzard of '78 in New England, "Garfield" comic strip begins, King Juan Carlos I ratifies Spain’s democratic constitution, Louise Brown – first test-tube baby- born, Prozac approved by FDA, Velcro hits the market, death of American heavyweight champion George Tuney, death of Italian author Ignazio Silone, British Prime Minister James Callaghan decides against holding elections – despite his likelihood to win… eventually leading to Margaret Thatcher, Georgi Markov the Bulgarian dissident shot by ricin pellet by modified umbrella, Emanuel David cult commits suicide in Salt Lake as children thrown off SLC building then mother (11th floor) – one child survives severely injured, film: “The Deer Hunter” Violence sweeps Nicaragua as Sandinista guerrillas try to overthrow the government of President Anastasio Somoza, Prime Minister Junius Richard Jayawardene becomes President of Sri Lanka under new presidential system, Sprtos Kyprianou the Cypariot lawyer becomes president of Cyprus, Hubert H Humphrey dies, Bulent Ecevit named president of Turkey, Wadi Haddad the PLO leader dies (terrorist), Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped and murdered by Red Brigades group, Military junta takes power in Afghanistan, US senate ratifies Panama Canal treaties, death of President of Ireland Cearbhall O’ Dalaigh, Premier Chiang Ching-kuo elected president of China, US and China announce full democratic relations, Antonio Guzman elected President of Dominican Republic – first peaceful transfer in Dominican history, Zaire’s Shaba (Katanga) province invaded – Europeans evacuate – US airlifts troops fromMorocco to help repel invaders from Angola Cuba and Russia, death of Philibert Tsiranana president of Malagasy Republic, President Giovanni Leone of Italy resigns and Pertini elected, Peace Prizes to Israeli Menahem Begin and Egyptian Anwas Sadat, Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala elected president of Colombia, President Ferdinand E Marcos of Philippines becomes Premier, Former Prime Minister of Australia Robert Gordon Menzies dies, Solomon Islands of Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) and Dominica beome independent, Russian Yuri Orlov Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and convicted, South Yemen’s President deposed and blown up by pro-Soviet faction, President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania ousted, Red Brigades members convicted in Torino Italy, Arab League separate Syrian and Christian militias and restore peace to Lebanon, John Vorster resigns as Prime Minister of South Africa and Pieter Willem Botha rules, death of Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Military junta takes control of Honduras, US House Committee investigates Korean lobbying scandal, Discord between Portugal’s political parties brings vote of no confidence, Army ousts Bolivia’s president 0 200th coup in 158 years of independence, Soviet Union and Vietnam sign 25 years of friendship, Begin and Sadat agree on framework for mideast peace negotiated by Carter, death of Algerian ruler Houari Boumedienne, Japanese Premier Takeo Fukuda and Chinese Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-ping attend signing of Japanese-Chinese treaty of peace and friendship, death of Golda Meir of Israel, Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlavi imposes martial rule to end anti-government demonstrations (religious riots) in Iran – Iranian oil industry shut down by striking workers and self-exiled Moslem leader Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini appeals for labor strife to topple the Shah – modern reforms result in revolt – Abadan movie theater torched killing 377 – martial law, Soviet fighter attacks Korean jet over Russian territory, Foreign Intelligence Surveliance Act becomes law by Carter – Ethics in Government Act results in partisan fights – Presidential Records Act calls for release of Presidential papers 12 years after administration – should go into effect 1981 but 2001 repealed, Guatemalans elect new president but Lucas Garcia continues brutal dictatorship, Rhodesian civil war continues, death of presidents of Guinea-Bissau and Kenya and South Africa and Paraguay, Namibia planned as independent government from South Africa, Sino-Japanese treaty protested by Moscow – Washington recognizes China and announces it will sever ties with Taiwan although it negates a 1954 treaty, Vietnamese invade Cambodia to stop Khmer Rouge, Lawyer Smauel S Leibowitz dies, US Supreme Court upholds reverse-discrimination ruling, South Africa jails Helen Joseph for refusing to testify against Winnie Mandela, NY Times strike due to sex discrimination, WRITE: James Joyce (posth), Joyce Carol Oates, Herman Wouk, Mario Puzo, Hugh Leonard, Mary Lee Settle, Howard Memerov, James Alan McPherson, DL COvurn, Michael Bennett, William Manchester, Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch, John Updike, Barbara Tuchman, James A Michener, Richard Maltby Jr. (Ain’t Misbehavin’), Isaac Bashevis Singer, Betty Comden, Liza Minelli wins third Tony, Theodore H White, Hannah Arendt, Deaths: John Hall Wheelock (USA), Faith Baldwin (USA), Harry E Martinson (SWE), Freda Utley (ENG-USA), Leon Damas (FRA-Guiana), Phyllis McGinley (USA), Sylvia Townsend Warner (ENG), Ignazio Silone (ITA), Janet Flanner (USA), Robert Shaw (ENG), Louis Zikofsky, Jamed Gould Cozzens (USA), Bruce Catton (USA), Frank Raymond Leavis (ENG), Mario Pei (ITA-USA), Margarete BIeber (GER), Bergen Evans (USA), James B Conant (USA), Jacques Chastenet (FRA), Gilbert Highet (USA), Margaret Mead (USA), Etienne Gilson (FRA), Pope Paul VI dies and Cardinal Albino Luciani becomes Pope John Paul I – dies and Cardinal Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II – first non-Italian in 456 years, death of Kuo Mo-jo Chinese scholar, Pakistan president resigns and General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq rules, ARTS: US television drama “Holocaust”, Deaths: Charles Boyer (FRA actor), Edward Durell Stone (US architect), Duncan Grant (ENG painter), Karl Wallenda (GER high-wire), Peggy Wood (US actress), Ilka Chase (US actress), Abraham Rattner (US painter), Dan Dailey (US entertainer), Giorgio de Chirico *(ITA painter), Norman Rockwell (US painter), Television: “Mork and Mindy” “The Ropers” among top shows, Movies: Annie Hall, Grease, “National Lampoon’s Animal House”, “Interiors”, “Coming Home” “Autumn Sonata” “A Dream of Passion” “The Deer Hunter” and “The Goodbye Girl”, MUSIC: Soviet Union rescinds citizenships of musicians Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya (wife), Krzysztof, Deaths: Alexander Kipnis (UKR-USA), Aram Khachaturian (URS), Ray Noble (ENG), Nicholas Nabokov (RUS-USA), Alex Bradford (USA), Carlos Chavez (MEX), Howard Swanson (USA), TIbor Serly (HUN-USA), William Steinberg (USA), William Grant Still (USA), Disco comes into vogue, 29 Italian opera houses investigated for corruption, Popular Songs: artists include Donna Summer, Trammps (Disco Inferno) Eric Clapton, Meatloaf, Billy Joel, SCIENCE: Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler first climb Everest without oxygen, Japanese explorer Naomi Uemura makes first solo journey to North Pole, Thor Heyerdahl sails from Iraq to Djibouti, Soviet cosmonauts orbit for over 139 days, first birth of “test-tube baby” in England – gril to Lesley Brown, Oil drilling begins off New Jersey shore, discovery of Charon – Pluto’s moon, Deaths French economist Jacques Leon Rueff, Dutch-US physicist Samuel A Goudsmit, English economist Roy F Harrod, US doctor of blood diseases Armand J Quick, American mathematician Kurt Godel, Isador Lubin US economist, Rinald GW Norrish ENG chemist, RUS mathematician Mstislav V Keldysh, Willy Messerschmitt GER aircraft, Swedish inventor Victor Hasselblad, Italian Arctic explorer Umberto Nobile, Crown of St. Stephen returned to Hungary after 32 years in US, death of US billionaire John D MacArthur, Air India crash kills 213, David R Berkowitz “Son of Sam” reveibes life in prison, US dollar plunges in value, Longest US coal strike ends after 110 days, “Chicago Daily News” closes, Leon Spinks wins heavyweight boxing and Mohammed Ali beats Spinks to win title third time, Supertanker “Amoco Cadiz” breaks apart off of France spilling 220,000 tons of oil, Brigadeer General Margaret A Brewer first female general in US Marines, death uf US Mafia leader Joseph Colombo Sr., death of American general anda businessman Lucius D Clay, Stock Market volume increases, US Congress extends ERA (Rights Amendment) ratification date until 1982, US Supreme Court votes to undo “reverse discrimination”, death of Gene Tunney the boxer, Earthquakes in Greece Japan Mexico Iran and central Europe, CA votes to lower property taxes, King Hussein of Jordan marries Elizabeth Halaby – Princess Caroline of Monaco marries Philippe Junot – Princess Margaret of Britain and Anthony Armstrong-Jones divorce, Christina Onassis and Sergei Kausov marry, Jetliner collides with small plane over San Diego and 144 die, Chris Evert and Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors lead tennis, First trans-atlantic crossing by balloon by US, Unions shut down NY Post Times and Daily News – London’s Times and Sunday Times suspend publication, five Americans shot in Guyana by members of the Peoples temple (California cult) – Jim Jones and 917 others die in murder-suicide, “Affirmed” wins Triple Crown, CA rejects initiative (Prop 6) that would have made it illegal for homosexual proponents to teach in schools, John D MacArthur dies – philanthropist – John D Rockefeller III killed, Philanthropist E Roland Harriman dies, Unemployment at 6 percent, mandatory retirement raised to 70, Carter authorizes Susan B Anthony dollars, 401k retirement started, US inflation rises but stocks rise, - Carter lowers taxes, Tokyo Nikkei Dow Jones averages closes above 6000, Banks allowed to charge interest rates depending on their home state, death of Radio Shack founder Howard Tandy, Princeton’s Torus test reactor experiments with fusion and reaches temp of 60 million degrees F for 1/20 of a second, protests of nuclear reactors on the coasts, Opec starts raising oil prices, end production of Volkswagen “Beetle”, death of power-steering inventor Francis W Davis, Firestone recalls steelbelted radials tires – 10 million, Ford Pinto explodes after being struck and complaints rise that Ford knew, Tokyo airport opens amid protests, William Lear (jet designer) dies, US airline deregulation – Intel starts microchip production, Oracle Systems makes forst relational database for computers, Japanese-born MIT student creates “smart” gel polymers, Mary Leakey finds hominid footprints in Tanzania at Olduvai Gorge 3.65 mya – A afarensis, Geneticist Lewis reports experiments with Drosophila show gene layout relative to body plan, Mathematicial Godel dies in US, death: Margaret Mead US, US government starts campaign against smoking – Carter decides instead to make tobacco safer, Human insulin produced in CA from recombinant DNA, Egyptian-born Harith Hasson develops laproscopic tools, five women in WV submit to sterilization to keep jobs in lead-compound ruch workplace, Church of God radio evangelist Armstrong excommunicates son – son retorts with charges of money fraud, for first time ever women outnumber men in colleges, Beijing adopts Pinyin style of spelling names with Roman letters, Toshiba develops Japanese word processor, Hayes Corp creates modems, “Garfield” debuts, Nicaraguanpublisher Chamorro killed for political reasons, 20/20 debuts with Geraldo Rivera “The Road Less Traveled” psychology book reaches number one, Erma Bombeck publishes, “The World According to Garp” by Irving, “The Turner Diaries” Neo-Nazi work by “Andrew MacDonald (William L Pierce), Andy Warhol paints self-portrait, Christo scenic art in Kansas City, Television: Fantasy Island, Incredible Hulk, Dallas, Taxi, Mork and Mindy, Diff[rent Strokes, Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane founde beated to death in his Scottsdale apt, Films: The Deer Hunter, Woody Allen’s “Interiors”, Pretty Baby with Brooke Shields age 13, Supermandebuts, death of studio head Jack L Warner in LA, Edgar Bergen the ventriloquist dies, Grease debuts, also “The Buddy Holly Story””Ain’t Misbehavin’ debuts, Evita debuts, Songs: Billy Joel “Just the Way You Are” Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Rolling Stones, Gang of Four, Muddy Waters, Andy Gobb, Who drummer Keith Moon dies of drug overdose, Leon Spinks defeats Muhammad Ali, ”Affirmed” wins triple crown, female reporters cannot be barred from locker rooms, flying Wallendas performer Karl dies in fall, “Space Invaders” introduced, Speak and Spell usues digital speech synthesis in a toy, Versache stages first show, start of Adidas craze, Illinois prison riot, Dan White of San Francisco kills Mayor Moscone and gay supervisor Harvey Milk, Cabrillo Marine Museum in SD completed. Tornado in India kills over 600, Love Canal area evacuated, no-name brands introduced in CAN, Coke and Pepsi vie for international rights, Ben &ano; Jerry’s opens, China receives report about lowering population, Joy Louise Steptoe becomes first test-tube baby, mass exodus of “boat people” from Vietnam, Charon – Pluto’s moon discovered, small asteroid explodes over South Pacific, Mariner probe visits Mercury, Pioneer 11 visits Saturn, Pioneer 12 visits Venus, Epson introduces dot-matrix printer, TCP/IP Internet Protocol adopted, WordStar word processing leads the industry, Apple introduces disc drive, CFC sprays banned in US, Eldridge Cleaver writes “Soul on Fire” , Richard Chase “Vampire of Sacramento” arrested, Ted Bundy captured in Pensacola FLA, US Porn dealer Larry Flynt shot and paralyzed in GA, David Berkowitz “Son of Sam” sentenced, Bulgarian defector assassinated with umbrella “gun” by pellet imbedded with ricin. In Britain. Dinosaur embryos proven, death of Jonestown followers – 909 including 276 children after murder of Congressman Leo Ryan investigating the compound – 15 members return to states and Jones panics and kills 15 including Senator, South Visitor’s Center in SLC built, Priesthood extended to all men, First annual Women’s Meeting, Salt Lake mission home closed, Genealogy extraction program created, “Basic Unit” program for church growth outlines layers of development, Jordan River temple announced, Personal and family history reemphasized, friendship treaty declared between Japan and China, US and China relations restored and relations with Taiwan diminish, First person born in Antarctica was Emilio Palma, Pope John Paul II first non-Italian Pope in 450 years, 1979 Video game “Asteroids” introduced, Tsunami in San Juan (Colombia?), Chungar (Peru?) Landslide, Voyager Probe launched, Ayatollah Khomeini adopts Islamic constitution for Iran, Soviets invade Afghanistan to support communists, Britain elects first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Sandinistas take power in Nicaragua, Smallpox eradicated, Park Chung Hee- S Korean president assassinated, hurricane in Lesser Antilles, deadly tornado in Wichita Falls KS, Nauvoo stake #1000 created, Jan - Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic fails to remove New Years snowfall and because of that looses primary election to Jane Byrne, Feb - Winter of '79 reported as coldest in US recorded history, Lake Superior freezes, Jun - Kansas City arena collapses during thunderstorm, Nov - Cheyenne, WY blizzard produces 29.8 8inches of snow, Sondheim's "Sweeny Todd" and Webber's "Evita" debut, quakes in CA Croatia and Columbia/Ecuador, Nice France hit by tsunami possibly caused by construction landslide, Australia Skylab (US) crashes back to earth killing one cow, Largest oil spill – Atlantic Empress collides on Jul 19 and is towed until it sank on 3 Aug – 7 times as large at Exxon Valdes in 1989, Typhoon Tip largest cyclone on record, but had weekend by the time it reached Japan, Jesse Jackson attempts to negotiate peace in the Middle East, USSR invades Afghanistan, Camp David peace accords, Sandinistas take power in Nicaragua, Ayaatollah Khomeini takes power in Iran, US Hostage Crisis, Claude Montana opens couture house – specializes in leather, first sighting of Monster of Lough Brin in Ireland, film: “Kramer vs. Kramer”, Iran fundamentalist Islamic revolution results in turmoil – Khomeini accuses “satanic” US of causing disunity – shah moves to various countries – eventually US for surgery – Iranian terrorists take Tehran embassy taking 66 hostages – Shah departs for Panama, Yemenese border war - Carter sends arms, Terrorisst bomb in Israel – strike against Lebanon and Palestinians, Mid-East Peace Treaty met with dismay and split of PLO – boycott of Egypt by other Islamic countries, Afghan guerillas fight Sivuet troops, accidental release of anthrox spores in Soviet Union – hundreds killed – protests by other nations, Iraq president Ahmen Hassan al-Bakr resigns and Saddam Hussein leads, Britain’s prime minister James Callaghan loses with vote of no confidence – garbage strikes and unburied corpses leades to protests. Conservative Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher becomes first female Prime minister, 50-lb bomb by IRA terrorists kill cousin of Elizabeth II aboard of Lord Mountbatten’s fishing ship – also in Britain Sir Anthony Blunt revealed to be Soviet spy – remains curator but stripped of knighthood, Washington breaks ties with Taiwan in favor of China - Deng Xiaoping visits US and later cracks down on protests, Cambodia’s capital and seaport fall to Vietnamese, US senators block SALT (Arms Limitation Treaty), Rhodesian whites enfranchise all blacks and rename the country Zimbabwe Rhosedia, Uganda – guerillas and troops force Idi Amin Dada into exile, Coup in Ghana, Mauritania’s president resigns, Equatorial Guinea has bloodless coup, Central African emperor Bokassa I overthrown and Dacko regains power, Canadian Charles Joseph “Joe” Clark becomes youngest prime minister, , independence for Nevis St. Kitts St. Lucia St. Vincent in Caribbean and Kirabati (Gilbert Islands), Grenada leftist coup, Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza resigns and Sandinistas including Daniel Ortega Saavedra rules, El Salvador deposes Romero in military coup, Greeece grants non-mutual divorces, Iranian women protests revocation of Family Protection Law and forces rollbacks including wearing the chandor, Rosalynn Carter urges women to get male support for ERA, Soviets release five dissidents, death of Josef Mengele (Butcher of Auschwitz) in Brazil, Klansmen in Greensboro NC fire on Communists killing three – declared gang war and acquitted, Arthur McDuffie beaten to death by police – racism charges – some officers indicted for manslaughter for the coverup, Miami-Dade County repeals ordinance favoring homosexuals and some boycott Florida orange juice, India launches Bhaskara satellite, European monetary system goes into operation, , affirmative action upheld by Supreme Court, Sino-American pact grants China favored-nation status, inflation as gold prices rise, George Soros becomes billionaire, Home Depot founded, Three Mile Island accident results in problems with cooling – little radiation released and core does not melt down, 9 US nuclear reactors go online – because of three mile island new sites discouraged – new reactors cancelled, Carter deregulates US oil industry because of shortages, OPEC raises prices to $20 a barrel with limited production – prices rise to $24-$40, Oklahoma City jury decides Kerr-McGee must pay to the estate of Karen Silkwood, Plane crashes – Chicago O’Hare airport and Ukraine Saudi Arabia and Antarctica, Panama takes control of Panama Canal, Hong Kong’s subway opens, Renault saves American Motors form bankruptcy, Chrysler bailout loans, Segate Technology manufactures “floppy” disk drives, Japanese microchip makers begin to dominate, VisiCalc turns Apple II into business machine – soon available for Tandy Commodore and Atari, Biogen learns to sequence nucleotides, Z-DNA discovered, Rosalyn Carter testifies before congress for the mentally ill, kidney dialysis paid for through medicare, Sudan Ebola breakout, Beverly LaHaye (wife of Tim) opposes Betty Friedan’s anti-God stances – membership in her CWA organization grows, Moral Majority founded by Jerry Falwell – until 1989, Navajo elderwoman Katherine Smith fires at government crew on Navajo lands – acquitted, Sunni Muslims occupy Mecca’s Grand Mosque and 75 are killed in shootout with Saudi police, Mother Teresa receives Nobel Peace Prize, US Secretary of Education appointed increasing spending but proficiency plummets, C-SPAN broadcasts, CompuServe goes online with first commercial electronic mail, AOL begins, British Post oFficeinaugurates television information system, Bulgarian newspaper editor murdered for publishing while Bulgarian critic murdered by ricin assassination, Deng Ziaoping cracks down on dissidents in China, Morning Edition debuts on NPR, Barbara Gordon writes about valium addiction, Literature: “Sophie’s Choice” (Styron), “The Executioner’s Song (Mailer) “Sally Hemings” (Chase-Riboud – about Jefferson and slave), “The Neverending Story” (Ende), death – Peggy Guggenheim, Deaths: Nelson A Rockefeller, US ambassador Adolph Dubs (gunfire in Afghanistan), Jean Monnet (FRA) of European Community, former Czech president Ludvik Svoboda, Park Chung Hee (S Korea assassinated), Pakistan’s former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged, French military commander Maurice Challe, Angolan president Agostinho Neto, , Pedro Gerado Beltran(Peru), Gustavo Diaz Ordaz (MEX), Mamie Eisenhower, “Red Rudi” Dutschke in DEN, Reebok shoes introduced to compete with Nike Adidas and Puma, first palimony case for unmarried couple, Rubik’s Cube for sale in Budapest – next year in US, “Asteroids” game released, British Liberal Party Leader Thorpe charged with having his ex-lover killed – career ruined, Mafia boss Galante gunned down by rival group, Atlanta serial killer kills at least 20 black children (nearly all boys) – never discovered, US drug use skyrockets – NYC lowers penalties to deal with backlogued cases, Popular Songs: artists include Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Michael Jackson, Sister Sledge, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, The Eagles, 11 concertgoers crushed at “The Who” concert in Cincinnati, walkman cassette player introduced at $200, Television: “That’s Incredible” and “Alice” among top shows, with “WKRP in Cincinnati” “Duke of Hazzard” “Antiques Roadshow” “Facts of Life” “Knots Landing” ESPN begins broadcasting, Films: (Theater) Wings, On Golden Pond, Amadeus, (Films) Kramer v. Kramer, Norma rae, Apocalypse Now, Dawn of the Dead, Mad Max, premier of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Iran quake, Mexican oilwell blowout for three months results in Gulf contamination, Oil tanker crashes in Caribbean and off Texas, Carter establishes FEMA from merged units, eruption of Mount Merapi in Java, Sardines return to California after 40 year absence, dietd of low-fat and low-cholesterol foods make waves, FDA cracks down of dexadrine amphetamines as appetite suppressants (speed), Screwpull corkscrew invented, Paris drops in-restaurant breathalyzer tests, Paul Prudhomme opens restaurant in New Orleans – run on redfish in Gulf leading to regulation, start of Zagat restaurant surveys, US supreme court rules parent permission for abortions unconstitutional, China calls for one-child policy – severe penalties imposed – females aborted often, Iran bans family planning, plans for Greek temple found at Dudyma Turkey created in 334 BC, Voyager I discovers ring around Jupiter, Telescope on mauna Kea HI, first cell phines in Tokyo then Chicago, Video disk comes to market, Hayes sells modem that connects to phone lines, first handheld video games, Apple II emerges with BASIC pre-built into system, Rogun Dam started in Russia, Gaia hypothesis published by James Lovelock, Peter LeComber of SCO shows how to build transistors and LCD displays from silicon, Motorola introduces microprocessor with 16mb of memory, human insulin synthesized from E coli, Needleman shows how lead poisoning results in low IQs, gluon particle shown, Dehmelt photographs single atom, Skylab station crashes in W Australia, Maglev train exhibited in Hamburg, Bernard Pomerance writes “The Elephant Man”, Ohio begins paying for Kent State shootings, Sid Vicious of Sex Pistols dies of heroin overdose, Pluto moves inside Neptune’s orbit, Scotland votes for home rule – never implemented, first space shuttle Columbia prepares for launch, Malta declares its freedom, launch of Nickleodeon, Jimmy Carter attacked by swamp rabbit near Plains GA, birth of fictional character Bart Simpson, Micronesia has self-rule, first use of electric chair in US after death penalty reinstated – John Spenkelink of FL, first British nude beach established, Raymond Washington founder of the Crips shot, two families flee from E Germany by balloon, tsunami in Nice France kills 23, Star Trek motion picture debuts, Chinese population reaches 1 billion, Guardian Angels civilians patrol NYC, death of actress Mary Pickford, death of John Wayne, Disco becomes scapegoat for all evils and phrase “disco sucks” becomes popular, 50,000 attend disco demolition night at White Sox game – crowd tears up field and Sox forfeit, Orson Hyde garden in Jerusalem made, LDS King James Version of the Bible established, Stake Conference frequency reduced to 2x per year, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown and flees ahead of Tanzanian and Ugandan troops, Islamic Republic in Iran as Shah ousted and Ayatollah Khomeini rules, Joseph Mengele drowns in Brazil under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, Russian forces move into Afghanistan, General Amin flees from Uganda, first direct elections held in European Parliament for 9 EEC members, Camp David Accords ISR EGY in Washington, illegal for kindergarteners to ask whose birthday is celebrated for Christmas Directory: lifeboat -> PEACH-PROGRESS -> alreadyDone lifeboat -> February 2010 vol. 2: 93 lifeboat -> October 2005 vol. 2: 42 lifeboat -> The Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund lifeboat -> Selsey rnli's Lifeboat Week ended on a high note when the weather held fair for launch day lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station june 2006 vol. 2: 50 newbiggin’S 155th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station july 2009 vol. 2: 87 newbiggin’S 158th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station april 2007 vol. 2: 60 newbiggin’S 156th year of lifesaving lifeboat -> Newbiggin Lifeboat Station march 2010 vol. 2: 94 newbiggin’S 159th year of lifesaving PEACH-PROGRESS -> 1800 earthquake in California est at 6 Download 334.74 Kb. 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