January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
Day of death October 8, 1979
The temperature on October 8, 1979 was between 9.3 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
April 4 » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
May 28 » Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
November 14 » Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.
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