Events
DateEvent
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