TV actor Mathew Horne

Events in 1978 and 6-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Mathew Horne

• 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 Mathew Horne (6-9) in history

• Day 6-9 year 1901: President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley died on September 14th.
• Day 6-9 year 1941: Nazi Germany required all Jews over the age of six to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothes.
• Day 6-9 year 1995: Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr., broke Lou Gehrig's iron man record by playing in his 2,131st straight game.
• Day 6-9 year 1997: More than 2 billion people watched Princess Diana's funeral on TV.
• Day 6-9 year 1998: Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa died in Tokyo at age 88.
• Day 6-9 year 2007: Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.