1978 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1978?
- January 14, 1978 – The English punk rock band Sex Pistols broke up amidst their US tour.
- January 19, 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW’s plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
- February 1, 1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
- February 7, 1978 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 23, 1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
- 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.
- April 28, 1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
- May 1, 1978 – Japan’s Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
- May 8, 1978 – First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
- June 19, 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
- June 28, 1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
- July 6, 1978 – The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
- July 10, 1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- July 25, 1978 – The Cerro Maravilla incident occurs.
- August 26, 1978 – Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.
- October 16, 1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- November 12, 1978 – Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, as the Bishop of Rome.
- November 18, 1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
- December 16, 1978 – Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.
- December 27, 1978 – Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
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