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Deaths

• Ewgenju Borg
• Father Vincent Robert Capodanno

Ordinations

• Archbishop André Jean René Lacrampe
• Archbishop Angelo Amato
• Archbishop Pierre-Andre Fournier

Consecrations

• Cardinal Francis Arinze

Founded

• Diocese of Nakhon Sawan, Thailand

Elevated

• Pope Venerable John Paul II

Other Events

• Bethlehem occupied by Israeli troops
• Pope Paul VI and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny confer at the Vatican in the first meeting in history between a Roman Catholic pontiff and the head of a Communist state