* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.

* 1980 – President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U. S. economy rebound.

* 1977 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.

* 1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.

Clinton, as the newly elected Governor of Arkansas, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in 1978

The election gave Democrats full control of the United States Congress, the first time one party controlled both the executive and legislative branches since Democrats held the 95th United States Congress during the Jimmy Carter presidency in the late 1970s.

Clinton received 41 % of the vote, while George W. Bush received 15 %, George H. W. Bush received 7 %, and Jimmy Carter received 5 %.

Jimmy Carter had made a similar visit in 1994.

" The term was sufficiently prevalent that during the year's Presidential campaign, most notably with Democratic party nominee Jimmy Carter describing himself as " born again " in the first Playboy magazine interview of an American Presidential candidate.

The first born-again President of the United States was Jimmy Carter in 1976.

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

Prime Minister of Israel | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, President of Egypt | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and President of the United States | U. S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978

* Jimmy Carter brokered the Camp David Accords there in September 1978 between Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Image: Begin, Carter and Sadat at Camp David 1978. jpg | Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, and Anwar Sadat at Camp David, September 7, 1978.

Image: Sadat Carter Begin, Camp David 1978. gif | Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin meet on the Aspen Lodge patio of Camp David on September 6, 1978.

Image: Carter and Sadat. jpg | President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, and Jimmy Carter meet at the beginning of the Camp David Summit in 1978.

* Cyrus Vance, U. S. Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter had officially ended the policy of Détente, by financially aiding the Mujahideen movement in neighboring Afghanistan, which served as a pretext for the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan six months later, with the aims of supporting the Afghan government, controlled by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and cut off all relations with Taiwan

Initially, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter tried to operate without a chief of staff but both eventually appointed one.

In 1979, Parton hosted the NBC special The Seventies: An Explosion of Country Music, performed live at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D. C., and whose audience included President Jimmy Carter.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* 1996 – Jimmy Snyder, American sports commentator and bookie ( b. 1919 )

* 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American musician, composer, and bandleader ( The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers ) ( b. 1904 )

* 1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian ( b. 1893 )

* 2012 – Jimmy Bivins, American boxer ( b. 1919 )

* 2012 – Jimmy Tansey, English footballer ( b. 1929 )

* 1972 – Jimmy Rushing, American singer ( Oklahoma City Blue Devils ) ( b. 1901 )

* 1995 – Jimmy McShane, Irish singer ( Baltimora ) ( b. 1957 )

* 1953 – Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor ( b. 1887 )

* 1997 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer ( b. 1920 )

** Jimmy Roberts, American singer ( b. 1924 )

* September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer and World War II United States Army Air Forces general ( b. 1896 )

* September 17 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist and composer ( b. 1898 )

** Jimmy Dorsey, American jazz musician ( b. 1904 )

* May 23 – Jimmy McHugh, American composer ( b. 1894 )

* July 30 – Jimmy Blanton, American bassist ( b. 1918 )

* June 15 – Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager ( b. 1896 )

* December 22 – Jimmy Wallington, American radio personality ( b. 1907 )

** Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish Guitarist ( Paul McCartney & Wings ) ( b. 1953 )

* September 23 – Jimmy Wakely, American Country-Western singer and actor ( b. 1914 )

* May 19 – Jimmy Lyons, American musician ( b. 1931 )

* Jimmy Kirkwood ( b. 1962 ), Irish athlete in field hockey

* Jimmy C. Newman singer ( b. 1927 )

* Jimmy Greenhoff ( b 1946 – present ), footballer, Manchester United and Leeds United

* Jimmy Slyde ( b. James T. Godbolt, 1927-2008 ), world-renowned tap dancer, famous for his innovative tap style mixed with jazz.

* 1959: Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster ( with Ben Webster ( t. sax ), Jimmy Rowles ( p ), Leroy Vinnegar ( b ), Mel Lewis ( d ).