Dilshan Vitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
Dorake Witharanage Ashana Niroshan Dilshan Vitharana, (born May 13, 1978 in Kandy), but more commonly known as Dilshan Vitharana, is a Sri Lankan cricketer. A wicket-keeper-batsman, he made his debut in the 1997-98 season for the Sri Lankan Under-19 team during India's tour of the country, and has gone on to play First-class and/or List A cricket for Colts Cricket Club, Moors Sports Club and Burgher Recreation Club.
1978May, 13
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- 11Feb
Aristotle
Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. - 27Apr
Watergate scandal
Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes. - 25Jul
In vitro fertilisation
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. - 22Oct
Pope John Paul II
Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II. - 18Nov
Jim Jones
In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.