TV show host Gethin Jones

Events in 1978 and 12-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Gethin Jones

• 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 Gethin Jones (12-2) in history

• Day 12-2 year 1554: In just nine days, Lady Jane Gray, the queen of England, was executed for high treason. She is known by the nickname "Queen of Nine Days".
• Day 12-2 year 1733: James Edward Oglethorpe led the first British colonists to Savannah, the first capital of Georgia. He later became the first governor of Georgia.
• Day 12-2 year 1818: Chile formally proclaimed its independence from Spain.
• Day 12-2 year 1870: The Utah Territory granted women the right to vote (revoked in 1887).
• Day 12-2 year 1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
• Day 12-2 year 1912: Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Manchu (Ch'ing) dynasty in China, renounced his throne following the establishment of a republic under Sun Yat-sen.
• Day 12-2 year 1973: The first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam war took place.
• Day 12-2 year 1999: The Senate voted to acquit President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
• Day 12-2 year 2002: Yugoslavian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic went on trial for war crimes.
• Day 12-2 year 2010: The 2010 Winter Olympics opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The games got off to a tragic start when a luger from the Republic of Georgia, Nodar Kumaritashvili, dies tragically in a crash during training run.