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Albert Kivikas
1978May, 19

Albert Kivikas

Albert Kivikas, Estonian-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1898)
Albert Kivikas (18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1898 in Groß-St. Johannis, Livonia, Russian Empire – 19 May 1978 in Lund) was an Estonian writer and journalist. He is best known as the author of the book Names in Marble (Estonian: "Nimed marmortahvlil"), the subject of which is the Estonian War of Independence.

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    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.