Remember A Day | A missing film star, UFOs in Hong Kong and a denture-snatching thief: headlines from 40 years ago
- A journey back through time to look at significant news and events reported by the South China Morning Post from this week in history
A jealous husband beheads a churchman in Brooklyn and UFO sightings in Hong Kong – these stories and more made the headlines four decades ago this week.
September 9, 1979
● Macau takes steps toward its own television station when two visiting Portuguese TV experts told news reporters that a project had been started to establish the Macau TV station. The Portuguese National Assembly passed a law two months before that required any TV station in Portugal or Portuguese-administered territories to be owned and operated by the government. The station would broadcast in Cantonese and Portuguese.
● French police were investigating the mysterious disappearance of American film actress Jean Seberg. The actress, 40, who rose to fame playing the title role in Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan, drove off in her Renault automobile in the early hours of August 30, 1979. She was found dead nine days later, apparently of a sleeping pill overdose. Her decomposed body was found wrapped in a blanket in the back seat of her car parked near her Paris flat.
September 10, 1979