World singer Shekhar Ravjiani

Events in 1978 and 29-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Shekhar Ravjiani

• 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 Shekhar Ravjiani (29-11) in history

• Day 29-11 year 1924: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot.'"
• Day 29-11 year 1929: Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three became the first to fly over the South Pole.
• Day 29-11 year 1947: The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish people a homeland to be established in Palestine.
• Day 29-11 year 1963: President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
• Day 29-11 year 1986: Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
• Day 29-11 year 2001: Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.