TV actor Gbenga Akinnagbe

Events in 1978 and 12-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Gbenga Akinnagbe

• 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 Gbenga Akinnagbe (12-12) in history

• Day 12-12 year 1787: Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• Day 12-12 year 1870: Joseph Rainey took his seat as the first African American in the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Day 12-12 year 1913: The Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after having been stolen two years earlier (August 1911) from the Louvre.
• Day 12-12 year 1963: Kenya gained its independence from Britain.
• Day 12-12 year 1998: The House Judiciary Committee approved a fourth and final article of impeachment against President Clinton.
• Day 12-12 year 2000: The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the presidential election recount in Florida.
• Day 12-12 year 2001: Yasir Arafat closed the offices of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.