Pop - Singer Sam Moran

Events in 1978 and 4-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Sam Moran

• 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 Sam Moran (4-4) in history

• Day 4-4 year 1818: Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.
• Day 4-4 year 1841: President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.
• Day 4-4 year 1905: Earthquake in Kangra, India, killed more than 20,000.
• Day 4-4 year 1945: The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.
• Day 4-4 year 1949: The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.
• Day 4-4 year 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.
• Day 4-4 year 1973: The ribbon was cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City.
• Day 4-4 year 1979: Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed by the military.
• Day 4-4 year 1981: Henry Cisneros became the mayor of San Antonio, Texas: the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city.
• Day 4-4 year 1983: Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.