TV show host Jonathan Wilkes

Events in 1978 and 1-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Jonathan Wilkes

• 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 Jonathan Wilkes (1-8) in history

• Day 1-8 year 1876: Colorado became the 38th state in the United States.
• Day 1-8 year 1936: Adolf Hitler presided over the opening of the Berlin Olympic Games.
• Day 1-8 year 1946: President Truman signed the congressional acts that established the Atomic Energy Commission and the Fulbright Scholarship program.
• Day 1-8 year 1981: MTV made its debut at 12:01 AM. The first video shown was Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles.