Guitarist Andreas Oberg

Events in 1978 and 6-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Andreas Oberg

• 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 Andreas Oberg (6-8) in history

• Day 6-8 year 1806: Emperor Francis II abdicated, marking the end of the Roman Empire.
• Day 6-8 year 1825: Bolivia declared its independence from Peru.
• Day 6-8 year 1926: Gertrude Ederle became the first U.S. woman to swim across the English Channel.
• Day 6-8 year 1945: The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
• Day 6-8 year 1962: Jamaica gained its independence within the Britain Commonwealth.
• Day 6-8 year 1965: President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed the poll taxes and literacy tests that had restricted black voter registration in the South.
• Day 6-8 year 1997: British prime minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams meet—the first time in 76 years that a British leader and an IRA ally meet.
• Day 6-8 year 2003: Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.
• Day 6-8 year 2012: Curiosity, a SUV-size rover, successfully landed on Mars. The rover's research has been planned for the next two years, but since Curiosity's electricity is powered by plutonium, it could be operational and provide insight into Mars for decades to come