TV actor Daniel Mays

Events in 1978 and 31-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Daniel Mays

• 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 Daniel Mays (31-3) in history

• Day 31-3 year 1492: Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain decreed the expulsion of non-Christian Jews.
• Day 31-3 year 1889: The Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opened.
• Day 31-3 year 1917: The United States took possession of the Virgin Islands.
• Day 31-3 year 1918: Daylight Saving Time went into effect in the United States.
• Day 31-3 year 1949: Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province.
• Day 31-3 year 1959: The Dalai Lama, fleeing Chinese repression of an uprising in Tibet, arrived at the Indian border and was granted political asylum.
• Day 31-3 year 1968: President Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not run for re-election.
• Day 31-3 year 1995: Major League Baseball players agreed to end the sport’s longest strike in history after a judge ordered a preliminary injunction against team owners.
• Day 31-3 year 2005: Terry Schiavo died 13 days after her feeding tube was removed.