Reality star Leslie Ramsue

Events in 1978 and 3-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Leslie Ramsue

• 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 Leslie Ramsue (3-12) in history

• Day 3-12 year 1818: Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
• Day 3-12 year 1833: Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.
• Day 3-12 year 1910: Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
• Day 3-12 year 1919: French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
• Day 3-12 year 1967: Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant.
• Day 3-12 year 1984: A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4,000 people.