Football player Paul Robinson

Events in 1978 and 14-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Paul Robinson

• Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on transfer to black majority rule (Feb. 15).
• US Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty (March 16); votes treaty to turn canal over to Panama by year 2000 (April 18).
• Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards (March 16); he is found slain (May 9).
• Pope Paul VI , dead at 80, mourned (Aug. 6); new Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office (Sept. 28); succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II (Oct. 16).
• "Framework for Peace" in Middle East signed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin after 13-day conference at Camp David led by President Jimmy Carter (Sept. 17).
• Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana (Nov. 18).

Birthday Paul Robinson (14-12) in history

• Day 14-12 year 1799: The founder of the United States, George Washington, passed away at the age of 67.
• Day 14-12 year 1819: Alabama became the 22nd state in the United States.
• Day 14-12 year 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole, beating an expedition led by Robert F. Scott.
• Day 14-12 year 1939: The Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations.
• Day 14-12 year 1967: DNA synthesized for the first time.
• Day 14-12 year 1981: Israel formally annexed the Golan Heights.
• Day 14-12 year 1985: Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe as she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
• Day 14-12 year 1989: Nobel Peace laureate Andrei D. Sakharov died in Moscow at age 68.
• Day 14-12 year 2012: Adam Lanza, age 20, forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 26 people. The victims included 20 children between the ages of six and seven.