TV actor Joshua Jackson

Events in 1978 and 11-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Joshua Jackson

• 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 Joshua Jackson (11-6) in history

• Day 11-6 year 1509: King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon. She was the first wife of the king.
• Day 11-6 year 1770: Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.
• Day 11-6 year 1919: Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to capture the Triple Crown.
• Day 11-6 year 1963: Vivian Malone and James Hood successfully enrolled at the University of Alabama following Gov. George Wallace’s famous "stand in the schoolhouse door."
• Day 11-6 year 1977: Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
• Day 11-6 year 2001: Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber, was executed.