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Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers.
Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (born 1903)
William Randall Downs, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He worked for CBS News from 1942 to 1962 and for ABC News beginning in 1963. He was one of th…
Bill Downs, American journalist (born 1914)
Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato, was an Italian political activist who opposed the Mafia, which ordered his murder in 1978.
Giuseppe Impastato, Italian journalist and activist (born 1948)
Aldo Moro was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy for five terms from December 1963…
Aldo Moro, Italian lawyer and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1916)
Mortimer Weisinger was an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' Superman during the mid-1950s to 1960s, in the Silver Age of comic books. He als…
Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author (born 1915)
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. He held office as the …
Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1894)
Albert Kivikas was an Estonian writer and journalist. He is best known as the author of the book Names in Marble, the subject of which is the Estonian War of Independence.
Albert Kivikas, Estonian-Swedish journalist and author (born 1898)
Cybele Andrianou was a Greek actress.
Cybele Andrianou, Greek actress (born 1887)
Jean Deslauriers was a Canadian conductor, violinist, and composer. As a conductor he had a long and fruitful partnership with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; conducting orc…
Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1909)
József Bozsik was a Hungarian footballer who played as a central midfielder. He spent his entire club career at his hometown club, Budapest Honvéd. Bozsik was a key member of the l…
József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1925)
Santiago Bernabéu de Yeste was a Spanish football player, coach, and administrator who played for Real Madrid as a forward, later serving as the club's manager and then president. …
Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and coach (born 1895)
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from Paris to Seoul via Anchorage. On 20 April 1978, the Soviet air defense shot down the aircraft serving the f…
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 was shot down after violating Soviet airspace and was forced to make an emergency landing
Annie is a musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan. It is based on the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray. The…
Annie opens on Broadway
On the evening of May 28, 1977, a fire occurred at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky. With a total of 165 deaths and over 200 injuries, it is history's seventh-d…
The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, is engulfed by fire, killing 165 people inside
Karl Fredrik Ljungberg is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a winger. He is also a former manager, and was most recently an assistant coach, and interim head c…
Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers are widely used in fiber-optic communication…
Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic
The Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang, was a West German far-left militant group founded in 1970, active until 1998, and formally desi…
The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of m
Dan-Air was an airline based in the United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of London-based shipbroking firm Davies and Newman. It was started in 1953 with a single aircraft. …
A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia,
Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American businessman and electrical engineer. He established Atari, Inc., and the Chuck E. Cheese chain. He has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of F…
Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E
Likud, officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement, is a major right-wing political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon in an allia…
Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election, with Menachem Begin, its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of
Chad Hedrick is an American inline speed skater and ice speed skater. He was born in Spring, Texas.
Chad Hedrick, American speed skater
Gyula Koi is a Hungarian legal scholar and lecturer. His main research fields are administrative law, and theory of public administration. His Chinese name is Guo Yi.
Gyula Koi, Hungarian scholar and educator
Jamie Rae Salé is a Canadian former competitive pair skater. With her former husband David Pelletier, she is the 2002 Olympic Champion and 2001 World Champion. The Olympic gold med…
Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater
John Felix Anthony Cena is an American actor, retired professional wrestler, and former rapper. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all-time, he is sig…
John Cena, American professional wrestler and actor