Horse racing athlete Robert Thornton

Events in 1978 and 14-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Robert Thornton

• 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 Robert Thornton (14-7) in history

• Day 14-7 year 1789: The storming and destruction of Bastille marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
• Day 14-7 year 1798: Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a crime to publish false, scandalous, or malicious writing about the U.S. government.
• Day 14-7 year 1881: Billy the Kid was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
• Day 14-7 year 1921: In one of the most controversial cases in U.S. history, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of two murders and sentenced to death.
• Day 14-7 year 1933: In Germany, all political parties except the Nazi party were outlawed.
• Day 14-7 year 1946: Dr. Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care was published.
• Day 14-7 year 1958: A military coup overthrew the monarchy in Iraq, killing King Faisal II. General Abdul Karim Kassem becomes Iraq's leader.