1978
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1978th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 978th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1970s decade.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s |
| Years: | 1975 1976 1977 – 1978 – 1979 1980 1981 |
Events
- January 14 – The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Francisco's Winterland
- April 22 – The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live. The duo of Jake & Elwood Blues (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) are introduced by Paul Shaffer (as Don Kirschner) and perform "Hey Bartender"
- April 26 – Ringo Starr's, Ringo, a musical version of The Prince and the Pauper airs on American television. Starr's fellow former Beatle George Harrison provides the narration
- May 8 – Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler are the first humans on the Mount Everest without oxygen tanks
- July 25 – First human birth from in vitro fertilization
- August 6 – Pope Paul VI dies at the age of 80. Albino Luciani become the new pope, Pope John Paul I
- August 17 – Double Eagle II becomes the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
- August 26 – The first Canada Jam Festival is held in Ontario, featuring sets by the Doobie Brothers, the Commodores, Kansas, Dave Mason, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section
- September 28 – Pope John Paul I dies after 34 days in office
- October 1
- Vietnam attacks Cambodia
- Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom
- October 16 – Karol Wojtyła elected pope, and calls himself Pope John Paul II
- November 18 – Jim Jones and his followers commit suicide
- November 27 – San Francisco politician Dan White assassinates Harvey Milk and George Moscone[1]
- December 21 - John Wayne Gacy is arrested for the killings of 33 boys and young men.
- Garfield, a comic strip, debuts
- Space Invaders is created by the Taito Corporation
Births
January
- January 1 – Nicolae Simatoc, Romanian football player (b. 1920)
- January 5 – Sally Eilers, American actress (b. 1908)
- January 8 – André François-Poncet, French politician (b. 1887)
- January 13 – Hubert Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
- January 14 – Kurt Gödel, Czech mathematician (b. 1906)
- January 28 – Greta Johansson, Swedish diver (b. 1895)
February
- February 2 – Wendy Barrie, English actress (b. 1912)
- February 9 – Hans Stuck, German racing driver (b. 1900)
March
- March 21 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, 5th President of Ireland (b. 1911)
April
- April 16 – Philibert Tsiranana, 1st President of Madagascar (b. 1912)
May
- May 1 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b. 1903)
- May 2 – Vong Savang, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Laos (b. 1931)
- May 9 – Aldo Moro, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
- May 13 – Sisavang Vatthana, 3rd Prime Minister of The Kingdom of Laos (b. 1907)
- May 14 – Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
- May 17 – Armin T. Wegner, German writer (b. 1886)
- May 24 – Cyrille Adoula, 4th Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1921)
- May 30 – Tetsu Katayama, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1887)
- May 31 – József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
June
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- June 2 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (b. 1895)
- June 12 – Guo Moruo, Chinese politician (b. 1892)
- June 24 – Ahmad al-Ghashmi, President of North Yemen (b. 1941)
July
- July 26 – Mary Blair, American artist (b. 1911)
August
- August 6 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
- August 6 – Edward Durrell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
- August 22 – Jomo Kenyatta, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
- August 26 – Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
- August 26 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
September
- September 7 - Keith Moon, English drummer (b. 1946)
- September 28 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
October
- October 9 – Jacques Brel, Belgian musician (b. 1929)
- October 17 – Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of Italy (b. 1887)
November
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- November 15 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)
- November 19 – Jim Jones, American cult leader (b. 1931)
December
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- December 3 – Golda Meir, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
- December 10 – Ed Wood, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
- December 11 – Raúl Alberto Lastiri, 39th President of Argentina (b. 1915)
- December 27 – Houari Boumédiène, 2nd President of Algeria (b. 1932)
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Physics – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
- Chemistry – Peter D Mitchell
- Medicine – Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O Smith
- Literature -Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polnish writer and journalist
- Peace – Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat and Menachem Begin
- Economics – Herbert Simon
1978 Media
Clockwise from top-left: the Jonestown massacre occurs, leaving 909 people dead; Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 collides with a private Cessna 172 light aircraft, killing 146 people; an earthquake in Tabas kills around 25,000 people; the 1978 FIFA World Cup is held in Argentina; the Saur Revolution marks the end of power of the Barakzai dynasty after 152 years; Air India Flight 855 crashes around 3 km (1.9 mi) off the coast of Bandra, killing all passengers and crew aboard; Aldo Moro is kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades; the Camp David Accords are signed.
September 6: Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin meet on the Aspen Cabin patio at Camp David.
Karina Smirnoff at the Get Smart premiere, Fox Theater, Westwood, CA.
American actress and model January Jones at the 67th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. New York, NY USA. June 16, 2008.
AJ McLean walking in Malibu in february, 2008.
Kristen Schaal at the 2022 WonderCon in Anaheim, California.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Irish professional wrestler Sheamus at WrestleMania 32 Axxess in April 2016
This photo is included in my 100 People I Photographed for the Creative Commons set of my favorites shots out of the thousands of people I have photographed.
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References
- ↑ "Biography: Dan White, Government Official (1946–1985)". Bio. A&E Television Networks LLC. 2016. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved April 16, 2016.