1978 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1978?
- January 1, 1978 – Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing 213.
- January 14, 1978 – The English punk rock band Sex Pistols broke up amidst their US tour.
- February 7, 1978 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 18, 1978 – The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu, won by Gordon Haller.
- March 2, 1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
- March 16, 1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
- March 28, 1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
- May 3, 1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as “spam”) is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
- June 19, 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
- July 1, 1978 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
- August 12, 1978 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People’s Republic of China is signed.
- August 17, 1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
- August 22, 1978 – The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
- September 5, 1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
- October 1, 1978 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- November 27, 1978 – In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
- December 6, 1978 – Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
- December 15, 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
- December 27, 1978 – The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the South Pole recorded temperatures of 7.5 °F (−13.6 °C), making it the highest temperature to ever be recorded in the South Pole.
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