Mixed martial arts athlete MMA James Wilks

Events in 1978 and 5-4

Events in the world in the birth year of James Wilks

• 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 James Wilks (5-4) in history

• Day 5-4 year 1614: Pocahontas, the daughter of the Powhatan school prisoner (who was made into an animated movie called Pocahontas), married John Rolfe. It was a shocking event when a native married a British colonist.
• Day 5-4 year 1792: George Washington cast the first presidential veto.
• Day 5-4 year 1887: Anne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling "water" in the manual alphabet.
• Day 5-4 year 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving away atomic secrets to the Russians.
• Day 5-4 year 1955: Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain.
• Day 5-4 year 1971: Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.
• Day 5-4 year 1999: Libya gave over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.