| Date | Event |
|---|
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1978 |
Nilo Alcala Was Born |
|
1978 |
Jacque Armand Died |
|
1978 |
Maria Bach Died |
|
1978 |
Jacques Brel Died |
|
May
20
1978 |
Bjarne Brustad Died |
|
1978 |
Carlos Chávez Died |
|
1978 |
Don Ellis Died |
|
1978 |
Jacobo Ficher Died |
|
1978 |
Don Gillis Died |
|
May
01
1978 |
Aram Khachaturian Died |
|
1978 |
Chris Opperman Was Born |
|
1978 |
Tarik O'Regan Was Born |
|
1978 |
Willem van Otterloo Died |
|
1978 |
William Grant Still Died |
|
1978 |
Phil Thurston Was Born |
|
1978 |
Pancho Vladigerov Died |
|
January
01
1978 |
Plane Crash Off Bombay, 213 Killed |
|
January
01
1978 |
Mariana Islands Constitution Becomes Effective |
|
1978 |
Kerry Andrew Was Born |
|
1978 |
Martin Kennedy Was Born |
|
1978 |
Jimmy Lopez Was Born |
|
January
06
1978 |
US Returns Crown Of St. Stephen To Hungary |
|
January
13
1978 |
U.S. FDA Requires Blood Donor Labeling |
|
January
18
1978 |
UK Guilty Of Prisoner Mistreatment |
|
January
18
1978 |
The Roof Of The Hartford Civic Center Collapses |
|
January
19
1978 |
Last Volkswagen Beetle Produced In Germany |
|
January
24
1978 |
Soviet Satellite Burnds Up In Atmosphere |
|
January
26
1978 |
The Great Blizzard Strikes In Ohio |
|
February
01
1978 |
Roman Polanski Skips Bail |
|
February
06
1978 |
New Englands Worst Blizzard Of 1978 |
|
February
08
1978 |
First Radio Broadcast Of Senate Proceedings |
|
February
11
1978 |
China Lifts Ban On American Authors |
|
February
13
1978 |
3 Killed In Sydney Hotel Bombing |
|
February
16
1978 |
CBBS Created In Chicago |
|
February
17
1978 |
IRA Deonates Bomb In Belfast Killing 12 |
|
February
18
1978 |
Oahu: Haller Wins First Ironman Triathlon |
|
February
19
1978 |
Egyptian Forces Intervene In Larnaca Hijacking |
|
February
20
1978 |
Brezhnev Receives The Last Order Of Victory |
|
March
02
1978 |
Vladimir Remek Launches Into Space |
|
March
05
1978 |
Landsat 3 Launches In California |
|
March
08
1978 |
Hitchhiker's Guide Transmitts First Radio Episode |
|
March
11
1978 |
Israeli Bus Hijacked, 37 Dead |
|
March
14
1978 |
Israeli Forces Occupy Southern Lebanon, Operation Litani |
|
March
15
1978 |
Truce Ends Ethio-Somali War |
|
March
16
1978 |
Prime Minister Moro Kidnapped And Killed |
|
March
16
1978 |
Cadiz Splits, Very Large Oil Spill |
|
March
22
1978 |
Karl Wallenda Falls From Tightrope, Dies |
|
March
23
1978 |
UNIFIL Troops Arrived In Lebanon Along Blue Line |
|
March
26
1978 |
Protestors Destroy Equipment In Control Tower |
|
March
28
1978 |
Stump V. Sparkman Rulling |
|
April
01
1978 |
Phillipine College Of Commerce Now Polytechnic University |
|
April
07
1978 |
President Carter Cancels Neutron Bomb Development |
|
April
14
1978 |
Georgians Protest Attempted Language Status Change |
|
April
17
1978 |
Khyber Assassinated, Provoking Afghanistan Coup D'etat |
|
April
20
1978 |
Korean Flight Shot By Soviet Union |
|
April
27
1978 |
Aide Released After Watergate-related Prison Sentence |
|
April
28
1978 |
Rebels Assassinated The President Of Afghanistan |
|
May
01
1978 |
Naomi Uemura Reaches North Pole Alone |
|
May
03
1978 |
First Unsolicited Bulk Commercial E-mail Sent |
|
May
08
1978 |
Messner And Habeler: Ascend Mt. Everest Without Oxygen |
|
May
12
1978 |
Zaire Requests International Help In Rebellion |
|
June
01
1978 |
The Patent Co-op Treaty The First Internationl Application |
|
June
09
1978 |
LDS Church Opens Priesthood To 'all Worthy Men' |
|
June
11
1978 |
Political Insurgency Group APMSO Founded In Karachi |
|
June
12
1978 |
'Son Of Sam' Sentenced 365 Years |
|
June
13
1978 |
Israeli Defense Forces Withdraw From Lebanon |
|
June
15
1978 |
King Hussein Marries American Lisa Halaby |
|
June
19
1978 |
Garfield The Comic Holds Guinness World Record |
|
June
22
1978 |
Christy Discovers Pluto's Satellite, Charon |
|
June
25
1978 |
Rainbow Flag Flown For First Time |
|
June
28
1978 |
Supreme Court Bars Quotas In Colleges |
|
July
01
1978 |
Australia's Northern Territory Granted Self-government |
|
July
07
1978 |
Solomon Islands Gains Independence |
|
July
10
1978 |
World News Tonight Premieres On ABC |
|
July
10
1978 |
Daddah Outsted In Bloodless Coup |
|
July
11
1978 |
Explosion In Tarragona Kills 216 Tourists |
|
July
25
1978 |
Police Assassinate Nationalists In Maravilla Murders |
|
July
25
1978 |
World's First 'test Tube Baby' Lives |
|
July
30
1978 |
From Right To Left In Okinawa Traffic |
|
August
07
1978 |
President Carter Declares Love Canal Federal Emergency |
|
August
10
1978 |
Urlich Family Accident Leads To Ford Pinto Lawsuit |
|
August
12
1978 |
Japan And China Sign Peace Treaty |
|
August
13
1978 |
150 Palestinians Killed By Terrorist Attack In Lebanese Civil War |
|
August
17
1978 |
First Atlantic Balloon Crossing By Double Eagle II |
|
August
22
1978 |
The FLSN Occupied Nicaraguan Palace |
|
August
26
1978 |
Luciani Elected Pope John Paul I |
|
August
26
1978 |
Sigmund Jähn Becomes First German Cosmonaut |
|
September
05
1978 |
Begin And Sadat Talk Peace In MA |
|
September
07
1978 |
Ricin Loaded Umbrella Takes Down Markov |
|
September
11
1978 |
Janet Parker Dies Of Smallpoxes |
|
September
15
1978 |
Muhammad Ali Outpoints Spinks |
|
September
16
1978 |
Earthquake In Tabas, Iran Kills About 25000 |
|
September
17
1978 |
Israel And Egypt Sign Camp David Accords |
|
September
19
1978 |
Solomon Islands Join United Nations |
|
September
25
1978 |
144 Dead As Two Planes Collide Mid-air |
|
October
01
1978 |
Tuvalu Gains Independence From U.K |
|
October
01
1978 |
Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party Founded |
|
October
08
1978 |
Ken Warby Sets World Water Speed Record |
|
October
16
1978 |
Wojtyla Elected Pope John Paul II |
|
October
16
1978 |
Rutkiewicz: First Female European To Reach Everest Summit |
|
October
21
1978 |
Australian Pilot Fredrick Valentich Disappears |
|
October
22
1978 |
Papal Inauguration Of Pope John Paul II |
|
November
03
1978 |
Dominica Independent From United Kingdom |
|
November
12
1978 |
Pope John Paul II Takes Possession |
|
November
15
1978 |
A Plane Crash Kills 183 Near Sri Lanka |
|
November
18
1978 |
Jonestown Mass Murder-suicide Claims 918 Lives |
|
November
23
1978 |
Cyclone Kills 1000 In Lanka |
|
November
27
1978 |
Mayor Of San Francisco And City Supervisor Assassinated |
|
November
27
1978 |
Kurdistan Workers' Party Founded In Tukey |
|
December
04
1978 |
Moscone Murdered, Feinstein Becomes San Francisco Mayor |
|
December
05
1978 |
Soviets And Afghans Sign ""friendship Treaty"" |
|
December
06
1978 |
Spain Vote Approves Constitution |
|
December
10
1978 |
Begin, Sadat Share Nobel Peace Prize |
|
December
11
1978 |
Lufthansa Heist Largest Robbery Committed American Soil |
|
December
15
1978 |
President Carter Announces U.S. Recognizes China |
|
December
16
1978 |
Cleveland Defaults On Financial Obligations, First Since Depression |
|
December
18
1978 |
Dominica Joins The United Nations |
|
December
22
1978 |
Deng Initiates Chinese Economic Reform |
|
December
27
1978 |
Spain Becomes A Democracy |
|
December
28
1978 |
United's Crew Resource Management Program Begins |