TV actor Leon Ockenden

Events in 1978 and 16-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Leon Ockenden

• 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 Leon Ockenden (16-8) in history

• Day 16-8 year 1777: American forces won the Battle of Bennington, Vermont.
• Day 16-8 year 1829: The original Siamese twins, Eng and Chang, arrived in Boston.
• Day 16-8 year 1948: Baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York City at age 53.
• Day 16-8 year 1960: Cyprus, the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, became an independent republic.
• Day 16-8 year 1962: Algeria was admitted to the Arab League.
• Day 16-8 year 1977: Elvis Presley died at Graceland, his Memphis,Tenn., home, from heart failure at age 42.
• Day 16-8 year 2003: Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin died.