Radio program host Nigel Stewart Mitchell

Events in 1978 and 19-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Nigel Stewart Mitchell

• 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 Nigel Stewart Mitchell (19-9) in history

• Day 19-9 year 1881: President James Garfield died of a gunshot wound inflicted by a disappointed office seeker the previous July 2.
• Day 19-9 year 1934: Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for the Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder.
• Day 19-9 year 1955: President Juan Peron of Argentina was deposed and exiled after a military coup.
• Day 19-9 year 1957: The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert.
• Day 19-9 year 1962: Gov. Ross Barnett blocked James Meredith from enrolling in the University of Mississippi.
• Day 19-9 year 1985: The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed thousands of lives. The second earthquake hit 36 hours later.
• Day 19-9 year 1994: U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
• Day 19-9 year 2001: The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.