Paul I succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope. September September 5 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin the peace process at Camp David, Maryland. September 7 – In London, UK, a poison-filled pellet, supposedly injected using an umbrella, fatally poisons Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov; he dies four days later. September 8 – Iranian Army troops open fire on rioters in Tehran, killing 122, wounding 4,000. September 12 – The Declaration of Alma Ata is signed and released in the Capital City of Kazakh, USSR. Known as the core document on Primary Health Care Practices and Equity in Healthcare, it paved the way for the modern-day State-sponsored Healthcare System. September 16 General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumes the post of President of Pakistan. The 7.4 Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people were killed. September 17 – The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt. September 19 Police in the West Midlands of England launch a massive murder hunt, when 13-year-old newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a burglary. The Solomon Islands join the United Nations. September 20 – General Rahimuddin Khan assumes the post of Martial Law Governor of Balochistan. September 23 – California Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock is shot to death at age 27 while visiting friends in Gary, Indiana during an Angels' road trip in Chicago, Illinois. September 24 PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed. Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one. September 27 – The last Forest Brother guerrilla movement fighter is discovered and killed in Estonia. September 28 – Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy. September 30 – Finnair Flight 405 aircraft is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland. September – Attempted poisoning of 500 members of the African National Congress by South African government infiltrators. October October 1 Vietnam attacks Cambodia. Tuvalu becomes independent from the United Kingdom. October 7 – Wranslide in New South Wales: the Wran government is re-elected with an increased majority. October 8