Football player Victor Ruben Lopez

Events in 1978 and 19-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Victor Ruben Lopez

• 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 Victor Ruben Lopez (19-12) in history

• Day 19-12 year 1732: America's founding father, Benjamin Franklin began publishing the book poor richard's almanack.
• Day 19-12 year 1776: Philosopher Thomas Paine published his first essay on The Crisis in America, in which he wrote, "These are times that test men's souls."
• Day 19-12 year 1843: Writer Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol."
• Day 19-12 year 1946: War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.
• Day 19-12 year 1972: Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
• Day 19-12 year 1984: Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.
• Day 19-12 year 1998: President Bill Clinton impeached on two counts by the House of Representatives.
• Day 19-12 year 2003: Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction.