History Corner

"History Corner for October of 1978 and 1979"

10/01/1978 - Comoros adopts constitution

10/01/1978 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship

10/01/1978 - Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from UK

10/01/1978 - Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox

10/02/1978 - Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed

10/02/1978 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding

10/03/1978 - Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London

10/04/1978 - Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I

10/05/1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature

10/05/1978 - Sweden's F„lldin govt falls

10/06/1978 - Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US university (Chic)

10/06/1978 - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person

10/06/1978 - Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"

10/06/1978 - Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5

10/07/1978 - LA Dodgers win the pennant

10/07/1978 - USSR performs nuclear test

10/08/1978 - Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)

10/08/1978 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City

10/09/1978 - 12th Country Music Assn Award

10/09/1978 - John Kander & Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom," premieres in NYC

10/10/1978 - Aerosmith's Steve Tyler & Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb

10/10/1978 - British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published

10/10/1978 - Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar

10/10/1978 - Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya

10/10/1978 - Steve Perry joins Journey

10/10/1978 - Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75

10/11/1978 - Aristides Royo elected president of Panama

10/11/1978 - Belgium govt of Tindemans resigns

10/11/1978 - Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th

10/12/1978 - Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington

10/12/1978 - Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancyh Spungen

10/13/1978 - James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu

10/13/1978 - Pres Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio

10/13/1978 - Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties

10/13/1978 - Tiros N, US's 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched

10/13/1978 - Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4

10/14/1978 - 1st TV movie from a TV series-"Rescue from Gilligan's Island"

10/14/1978 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

10/14/1978 - NY Yank Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st & deflects the ball away

10/14/1978 - Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1

10/15/1978 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open

10/15/1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

10/16/1978 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon

10/16/1978 - Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II

10/16/1978 - Test debut of Kapil Dev, India v Pakistan at Faisalabad

10/17/1978 - NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)

10/17/1978 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series

10/17/1978 - Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship

10/17/1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

10/17/1978 - Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year

10/18/1978 - 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance

10/18/1978 - NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings

10/20/1978 - Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium govt

10/20/1978 - Police's 1st US concert (NY's CBGBs)

10/20/1978 - US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2

10/22/1978 - "King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances

10/22/1978 - 8th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30

10/22/1978 - 9th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12

10/22/1978 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs

10/22/1978 - Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8)

10/22/1978 - Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession

10/22/1978 - Pope John Paul II installed

10/23/1978 - CBS raises LP prices to $8.98

10/23/1978 - China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension

10/23/1978 - Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC

10/24/1978 - Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto

10/24/1978 - NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders

10/25/1978 - Israeli Govt approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace

10/25/1978 - Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL)

10/26/1978 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

10/27/1978 - Begin & Sadat win Nobel Peace prize

10/27/1978 - President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill

10/28/1978 - Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)

10/30/1978 - Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1

10/30/1978 - Uganda troops attack Tanzania

10/31/1978 - Iranian oil workers go on strike

10/31/1978 - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution

Famous birthdays for October 1978 ..

There are no birthdays for the year 1978 in the October archives.

Famous deaths for October 1978 ..

10/08/1978 - Jim Gilliam, coach (LA Dodgers), dies at 49

10/08/1978 - Karl Swenson, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70

10/08/1978 - Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76

10/09/1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49

10/10/1978 - Gesina Van de Molen, Dutch lawyer, dies at 86

10/10/1978 - Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86

10/10/1978 - Ralph H Metcalfe, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 68

10/11/1978 - Nancy Spungen, killed by boyfriend Six Vicious in NYC

10/16/1978 - Dan Dailey, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ), dies at 63

10/17/1978 - Jean Am‚ry, [Johannes Mayer], Austr writer (Mind's Limits), dies at 65

10/18/1978 - Frank Woolley, cricketer (58,969 1st-class runs), dies

10/18/1978 - Jacques Mornard, [Ram▋ Mercader], murderer of Trotsky, dies at 64

10/19/1978 - Gig Young, kills his bride of 3 weeks & then commits suicide at 64

10/21/1978 - Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83

10/23/1978 - Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69

10/26/1978 - George Grant, cricketer (WI Test captain through early 1930's), dies

10/01/1979 - Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president

10/01/1979 - Pope John Paul II begins visit of US

10/01/1979 - RKO radio network begins operation

10/01/1979 - US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)

10/04/1979 - Hugh Leonards "Life," premieres in Dublin

10/04/1979 - USSR performs nuclear test

10/05/1979 - Luke rapes Laura on General Hospital

10/06/1979 - Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"

10/06/1979 - Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House

10/07/1979 - "1940's Radio Hour" opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances

10/07/1979 - "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances

10/07/1979 - Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns

10/07/1979 - Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic

10/07/1979 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

10/08/1979 - "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs

10/08/1979 - 13th Country Music Assn Award:[Approx]

10/08/1979 - J McHugh & A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies," premieres in NYC

10/09/1979 - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Conn

10/10/1979 - Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood

10/10/1979 - Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game

10/10/1979 - Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)

10/10/1979 - Recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC

10/11/1979 - "Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances

10/11/1979 - German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro & Nico Hbner

10/11/1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan

10/12/1979 - Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa

10/14/1979 - 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy

10/14/1979 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic

10/14/1979 - Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3

10/14/1979 - NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretzky scores his 1st NHL goal

10/15/1979 - 1st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad)

10/15/1979 - Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris

10/15/1979 - Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees

10/15/1979 - NY Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier

10/17/1979 - "Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 perfs

10/17/1979 - D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8

10/17/1979 - Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize

10/17/1979 - Pitts Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series

10/17/1979 - Pres Carter signs legislation creating Dept of Education

10/18/1979 - "Beatlemania" opens in London

10/18/1979 - Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop

10/18/1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

10/18/1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

10/20/1979 - Bob Dylan appears on SNL

10/20/1979 - John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston

10/20/1979 - John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

10/21/1979 - 10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42

10/21/1979 - 9th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:33

10/21/1979 - Greta Weitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33)

10/21/1979 - Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns

10/21/1979 - Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions

10/22/1979 - "One Mo' Time" with Vernel Bagners premieres in NYC

10/22/1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment

10/22/1979 - Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest

10/23/1979 - Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches

10/24/1979 - Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy

10/24/1979 - Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc

10/25/1979 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

10/27/1979 - Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds

10/27/1979 - St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Natl Day)

10/27/1979 - Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide

10/28/1979 - Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin

10/28/1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

10/29/1979 - Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)

10/29/1979 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open

10/30/1979 - NASA launches space vehicle S-203

10/30/1979 - Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham

10/31/1979 - Mike Flanagan, wins AL Cy Young Award

10/31/1979 - US DC-10 crashes at Mexico-City, 74 killed

Famous birthdays for October 1979 ..

There are no birthdays for the year 1979 in the October archives.

Famous deaths for October 1979 ..

10/01/1979 - Roy Harris, US composer, dies at 81

10/03/1979 - Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles

10/03/1979 - Claudia Jennings, playmate (Nov, 1969), dies in car crash at 29

10/04/1979 - Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer, dies at 56

10/05/1979 - Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 year), dies

10/06/1979 - Elizabeth Bishop, poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68

10/08/1979 - June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68

10/10/1979 - Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93

10/12/1979 - Celia Lovsky, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek), dies at 82

10/13/1979 - Clarence Muse, actor (Sam-Casablanca), dies at 90

10/13/1979 - Rebecca Clarke, composer, dies at 93

10/17/1979 - John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81

10/17/1979 - Karel Reiner, composer, dies at 69

10/17/1979 - S J Perelman, US humorist (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75

10/22/1979 - Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber

10/22/1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer (Lasir‚ne), dies at 92

10/26/1979 - Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies

10/26/1979 - Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated