Notable Historical Events - 1978
1978 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
"Your Arm's Too Short..." closes at Lyceum NYC after 429 perfs |
Jan 1 |
Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213 |
Jan 1 |
Pres Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909 |
Jan 1 |
Newspaper editor Donald Woods arrives in London after fleeing South Africa's apartheid regime |
Jan 2 |
Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey |
Jan 2 |
Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania" |
Jan 3 |
Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win |
Jan 6 |
1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp) |
Jan 6 |
US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary |
Jan 7 |
Angola revises its constitution |
Jan 8 |
Israeli government votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai |
Jan 8 |
Harvey Milk becomes the 1st openly gay person elected to public office in California |
Jan 9 |
Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established |
Jan 10 |
Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched |
Jan 11 |
Gov Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building |
Jan 11 |
Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link) |
Jan 13 |
NASA select its first American women astronauts |
Jan 14 |
Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF) |
Jan 15 |
Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman |
Jan 15 |
Super Bowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, DT |
Jan 16 |
5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & C Twitty |
Jan 16 |
Soyuz 27 returns to Earth |
Jan 18 |
Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pak Karachi |
Jan 18 |
Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries) |
Jan 18 |
Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB |
Jan 19 |
Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 19 |
Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI |
Jan 19 |
The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003. |
Jan 20 |
Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie" |
Jan 21 |
Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks |
Jan 23 |
Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris |
Jan 23 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13 |
Jan 23 |
Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's ozone layer. |
Jan 24 |
31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo |
Jan 24 |
Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036) |
Jan 25 |
Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat |
Jan 25 |
Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award) |
Jan 26 |
Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void" |
Jan 26 |
International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit |
Jan 26 |
Mario Soares forms Portuguese government |
Jan 26 |
Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40 |
Jan 28 |
"Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV |
Jan 28 |
Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders |
Jan 28 |
Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife |
Jan 29 |
Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship |
Jan 29 |
Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban. |
Jan 30 |
Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 30 |
Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio |
Jan 31 |
"Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 101 perfs |
Jan 31 |
Israel turns 3 milt outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements |
Feb 1 |
Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp |
Feb 1 |
Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl |
Feb 3 |
Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test |
Feb 3 |
India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445 |
Feb 5 |
Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded |
Feb 6 |
Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office |
Feb 6 |
Snowstorm hits New England, parts of Rhode Island (54" (137cm)) |
Feb 7 |
Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert |
Feb 8 |
Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait |
Feb 8 |
Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time. |
Feb 10 |
Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA |
Feb 11 |
16 Unification church couples wed in NYC |
Feb 11 |
25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin |
Feb 11 |
China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens |
Feb 11 |
EOKA disbands in Cyprus |
Feb 12 |
"Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 perfs |
Feb 12 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic |
Feb 12 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
Feb 12 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
Feb 13 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 14 |
1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments |
Feb 14 |
In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George |
Feb 15 |
England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Boycott capt) |
Feb 15 |
Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla |
Feb 15 |
Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Feb 15 |
Zaire revises constitution |
Feb 16 |
1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago) |
Feb 17 |
La Mon restaurant bombing: 11 civilians and 1 RUC officer are killed and 30 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army incendiary bomb at the La Mon Restaurant near Belfast |
Feb 18 |
1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii |
Feb 19 |
"On the 20th Century" opens at St James Theater NYC for 460 perfs |
Feb 19 |
Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8) |
Feb 19 |
Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in NYC |
Feb 20 |
4th People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and James Garner & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV) |
Feb 20 |
Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ |
Feb 20 |
Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus |
Feb 20 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
Feb 22 |
2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn |
Feb 23 |
20th Grammy Awards: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone wins |
Feb 24 |
Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game |
Feb 25 |
Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 v NZ Christchurch |
Feb 26 |
Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in NYC |
Feb 26 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
Feb 27 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Mar 1 |
"Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances |
Mar 1 |
Charlie Chaplin's coffin and remains are stolen from a Swiss cemetery |
Mar 2 |
1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV |
Mar 2 |
Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6 |
Mar 3 |
1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia) |
Mar 4 |
Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue |
Mar 5 |
"Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 perfs |
Mar 5 |
Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif |
Mar 6 |
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga |
Mar 7 |
Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped |
Mar 7 |
Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders |
Mar 7 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb |
Mar 8 |
The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4. |
Mar 9 |
Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk & Karponosov |
Mar 9 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS) |
Mar 9 |
Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR) |
Mar 9 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA) |
Mar 10 |
Soyuz 28 returns to Earth |
Mar 10 |
"The Incredible Hulk", starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS |
Mar 11 |
Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed |
Mar 11 |
USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC |
Mar 12 |
Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99) |
Mar 12 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic |
Mar 13 |
Moluccan "suicide commandos" occupies Province house |
Mar 14 |
Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead) |
Mar 14 |
NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge) |
Mar 15 |
-21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon |
Mar 15 |
A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000 |
Mar 15 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Mar 16 |
Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast |
Mar 16 |
Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed |
Mar 16 |
Soyuz 26 returns to Earth |
Mar 16 |
US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty |
Mar 16 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 17 |
Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast |
Mar 17 |
Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm |
Mar 17 |
Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day |
Mar 18 |
250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario Calif |
Mar 18 |
Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death |
Mar 19 |
50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb |
Mar 19 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic |
Mar 20 |
Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders |
Mar 21 |
Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training) |
Mar 22 |
France performs nuclear test |
Mar 22 |
Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, SF, dedicated |
Mar 22 |
Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is show on NBC-TV |
Mar 22 |
Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
Mar 23 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 24 |
Wings release "With a Little Luck" |
Mar 27 |
40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88 |
Mar 27 |
Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 perfs |
Mar 27 |
Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV |
Mar 30 |
"History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 perfs |
Mar 31 |
Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National & retires |
Mar 31 |
USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite |
Mar 31 |
Wings release "London Town" album |
Apr 1 |
Philippine College of Commerce becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines by presidential decree |
Apr 2 |
7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post |
Apr 2 |
Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, v Aust Georgetown |
Apr 2 |
TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series) |
Apr 2 |
Velcro was 1st put on the market |
Apr 3 |
50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall", Richard Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win |
Apr 3 |
European market & China signs trade agreement |
Apr 3 |
Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington DC |
Apr 6 |
Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn & 193 to win Ranji Trophy |
Apr 7 |
Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC |
Apr 7 |
Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb |
Apr 7 |
US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976 |
Apr 9 |
42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277 |
Apr 9 |
Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, & 13-5 (each with a grand slam) |
Apr 9 |
David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73 |
Apr 9 |
Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points & San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points in separate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter) |
Apr 10 |
Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced |
Apr 13 |
Jackson slugs a 3-run HR in the 1st inning, & the field is showered |
Apr 13 |
NY Yanks defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day |
Apr 14 |
David Hare's "Plenty" premieres in London |
Apr 14 |
Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia |
Apr 14 |
WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM |
Apr 14 |
1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language. |
Apr 15 |
43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy |
Apr 15 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test |
Apr 16 |
"History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 performances |
Apr 16 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
Apr 16 |
St Louis Card Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0 |
Apr 17 |
63,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record) |
Apr 17 |
7th Boston Women's Marathon won by Gayle Barron of Ga in 2:44:52 |
Apr 17 |
82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:10:13 |
Apr 17 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden" |
Apr 18 |
Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999 |
Apr 19 |
Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel |
Apr 22 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony |
Apr 23 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic |
Apr 23 |
Reds Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd |
Apr 23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 24 |
Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game |
Apr 25 |
Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance |
Apr 25 |
Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more |
Apr 26 |
France sends troops to Chad |
Apr 26 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-201 |
Apr 27 |
14th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 4-3 in 11 |
Apr 27 |
Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51 |
Apr 27 |
Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup |
Apr 30 |
"Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 perfs |
Apr 30 |
Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic |
May 1 |
1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated |
May 1 |
MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht |
May 1 |
Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone |
May 2 |
NBA championship: Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games |
May 3 |
"Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US |
May 3 |
Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II |
May 3 |
Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston |
May 3 |
WI all set to lose cricket test v Aust at Kingston till riots end game |
May 3 |
First unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail ("spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the US west coast |
May 4 |
Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany |
May 5 |
Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits |
May 6 |
104th Kentucky Derby: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:01.2 |
May 6 |
South Africa military goes into Angola |
May 8 |
ABC TV airs "Stars Salute Israel at 30" |
May 8 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament |
May 9 |
"Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 1604 perfs |
May 9 |
Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found |
May 9 |
Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage |
May 9 |
PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth |
May 10 |
"Angel" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances |
May 10 |
Liverpool wins 23rd European Cup |
May 11 |
Margaret A Brewer is 1st female general in the US Marine Corps |
May 12 |
US Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female |
May 13 |
"Angel" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances |
May 13 |
Musical "Runaways" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 199 performances, with Elizabeth Swados |
May 13 |
Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4) |
May 13 |
Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels |
May 14 |
"Working" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 25 performances |
May 14 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
May 14 |
First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. |
May 17 |
Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run |
May 18 |
Italy legalizes abortion |
May 18 |
Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work |
May 20 |
104th Preakness: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 1:54.4 |
May 20 |
3 PFLP members kill a police officer near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris |
May 20 |
US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus |
May 21 |
118 Unification church couples wed in England |
May 21 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
May 21 |
Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect |
May 23 |
AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M |
May 23 |
General strike in Peru |
May 24 |
Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect |
May 25 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2 |
May 26 |
1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City |
May 28 |
Indianapolis 500: Al Unser became 5th to win the race 3 times |
May 28 |
Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana. |
May 29 |
US 1st class postage rises to 15 cents (13 cents for 3 years) |
May 29 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
May 29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jun 1 |
Cricket Test debut of David Gower, v Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58 |
Jun 1 |
High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten |
Jun 1 |
The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed. |
Jun 3 |
Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year |
Jun 4 |
"Working" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 25 performances |
Jun 4 |
32nd Tony Awards: Da & Ain't Misbehavin' win |
Jun 4 |
6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner |
Jun 4 |
Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections |
Jun 6 |
Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57% |
Jun 7 |
32nd NBA Championship: Wash Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3 |
Jun 7 |
Emmy 5th Daytime Award presentation |
Jun 8 |
51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification |
Jun 8 |
Braves draft Bob Horner #1 |
Jun 8 |
Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery |
Jun 9 |
Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London |
Jun 9 |
Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 9 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood |
Jun 10 |
110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8 |
Jun 10 |
Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis |
Jun 10 |
Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
Jun 11 |
"Grease" starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John opens |
Jun 11 |
24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
Jun 11 |
Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title |
Jun 11 |
Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24½ hrs of hula-hoop |
Jun 11 |
Joseph Freeman Jr is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
Jun 12 |
David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life |
Jun 12 |
US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage |
Jun 13 |
Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon. |
Jun 14 |
Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR |
Jun 14 |
Sierra Leone adopts constitution |
Jun 15 |
Belgian government resigns |
Jun 15 |
Italy's pres Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair |
Jun 15 |
Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days |
Jun 16 |
Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 |
Jun 16 |
Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough" |
Jun 17 |
"Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32 |
Jun 17 |
Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs |
Jun 17 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army kill an RUC officer and kidnap another near Crossmaglen, County Armagh |
Jun 18 |
78th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver |
Jun 18 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic |
Jun 18 |
Victor de la Torre wins Peru election |
Jun 19 |
"Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St NYC for 1577 perfs |
Jun 19 |
Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip |
Jun 19 |
Ian Botham takes 8-34 v Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling |
Jun 20 |
1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota & Dayton |
Jun 21 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber & Rice's musical "Evita" premiers in London |
Jun 21 |
The British Army shoot dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack |
Jun 22 |
James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced |
Jun 22 |
Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill |
Jun 22 |
Pluto's satelite Charon is discovered |
Jun 23 |
33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
Jun 25 |
Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires |
Jun 25 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jun 26 |
Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France |
Jun 26 |
First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched |
Jun 26 |
Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish. |
Jun 27 |
Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1 |
Jun 27 |
Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station |
Jun 27 |
US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit |
Jun 28 |
UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill |
Jun 28 |
Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected |
Jun 29 |
VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East |
Jun 30 |
Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs |
Jun 30 |
Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox |
Jul 1 |
"Act" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 233 performances |
Jul 1 |
Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974 |
Jul 1 |
Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing |
Jul 2 |
Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start |
Jul 3 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jul 3 |
US Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words" |
Jul 4 |
Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order |
Jul 5 |
Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan |
Jul 5 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 6 |
Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut |
Jul 6 |
The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people. |
Jul 7 |
85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75) |
Jul 7 |
Solomon Islands declares independence from UK |
Jul 8 |
92nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Jimmy Connors (62 62 63) |
Jul 8 |
Alessandro Pertini elected pres of Italy |
Jul 8 |
Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus |
Jul 9 |
"Hello, Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 152 perfs |
Jul 9 |
American Nazi Party holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago |
Jul 9 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
Jul 9 |
Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA |
Jul 10 |
Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, President Moktar flees |
Jul 10 |
World News Tonight premieres on ABC. |
Jul 11 |
49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium |
Jul 11 |
All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers) |
Jul 11 |
Auto with liquid gas crashes & explodes in Spain, 160 killed |
Jul 12 |
Sun Bank Building opens |
Jul 12 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 13 |
Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR |
Jul 13 |
Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years |
Jul 13 |
BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent" |
Jul 13 |
Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II |
Jul 13 |
Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp |
Jul 13 |
Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida |
Jul 14 |
Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation |
Jul 14 |
Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls |
Jul 14 |
Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode" - blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado |
Jul 15 |
107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St Andrews |
Jul 16 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
Jul 17 |
NY Yank manager Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson fight in dug out |
Jul 17 |
Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him |
Jul 18 |
Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks |
Jul 19 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 19 |
Yanks start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win |
Jul 21 |
Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, president Hugo Banzer flees |
Jul 21 |
US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike |
Jul 21 |
World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m |
Jul 23 |
33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
Jul 23 |
Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas |
Jul 23 |
Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200 |
Jul 23 |
Reggie Jackson returns & helps Yankees win their 5th straight |
Jul 24 |
"Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in NYC |
Jul 24 |
Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe |
Jul 24 |
Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games |
Jul 24 |
Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson |
Jul 25 |
Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar |
Jul 25 |
Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager |
Jul 25 |
Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games |
Jul 25 |
John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image |
Jul 25 |
The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs. |
Jul 25 |
Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby is born at Oldham General Hospital England |
Jul 26 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 26 |
Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run |
Jul 27 |
Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yanks) |
Jul 27 |
Portuguese pres Eanes fires premier Soares |
Jul 28 |
600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY |
Jul 28 |
At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees |
Jul 28 |
Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time |
Jul 28 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 29 |
600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY |
Jul 29 |
Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m |
Jul 29 |
Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings |
Jul 29 |
On Old Timer's Day, NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as NY Yankee manager in 1980 & Bob Lemon will become GM |
Jul 30 |
Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs |
Jul 30 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
Jul 31 |
Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris |
Jul 31 |
NY Yanks now 7½ out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks |
Jul 31 |
Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44 |
Aug 1 |
Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games |
Aug 1 |
Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead |
Aug 5 |
New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo) |
Aug 6 |
60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA |
Aug 6 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open |
Aug 7 |
Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, & Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame |
Aug 7 |
Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI |
Aug 8 |
Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus |
Aug 9 |
USSR performs (underground) nuclear test |
Aug 9 |
Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7 |
Aug 10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Aug 11 |
Funeral of Pope Paul VI |
Aug 11 |
Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta |
Aug 12 |
Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours |
Aug 12 |
China & Japan sign peace treaty |
Aug 12 |
ICE is launched |
Aug 13 |
Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed |
Aug 13 |
Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin |
Aug 13 |
Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted & thus score goes back to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0 |
Aug 14 |
French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%) |
Aug 15 |
US House of Representatives approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA |
Aug 17 |
1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans) |
Aug 18 |
Memphis Tenn settles with striking police officers & firefighters |
Aug 19 |
422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran |
Aug 20 |
Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London |
Aug 20 |
Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds |
Aug 20 |
Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open |
Aug 20 |
Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6) |
Aug 21 |
1st gay theme telefilm - Matlovich vs US Air Force |
Aug 22 |
Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua |
Aug 23 |
Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar |
Aug 24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Aug 25 |
Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike |
Aug 26 |
Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I |
Aug 26 |
Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6 |
Aug 27 |
Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion |
Aug 27 |
Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases |
Aug 27 |
Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
Aug 27 |
Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978 |
Aug 28 |
Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph |
Aug 28 |
Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran |
Aug 29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 29 |
USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY |
Aug 31 |
Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka |
Aug 31 |
Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst |
Aug 31 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 1 |
Indians' Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts (vs Balt) |
Sep 1 |
Last broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV |
Sep 1 |
Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia |
Sep 1 |
#4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064 |
Sep 2 |
Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man |
Sep 2 |
John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston |
Sep 2 |
Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years |
Sep 3 |
Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29 |
Sep 3 |
Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5) |
Sep 3 |
Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff |
Sep 4 |
Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405 |
Sep 4 |
NY Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season) |
Sep 4 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 5 |
Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md |
Sep 6 |
Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace |
Sep 6 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 7 |
1st game of Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3 |
Sep 8 |
2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 |
Sep 8 |
Iranian army fires on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed |
Sep 9 |
3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0 |
Sep 9 |
92nd US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64) |
Sep 9 |
Balt Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto) |
Sep 9 |
Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army |
Sep 9 |
Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979 |
Sep 10 |
"Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 perfs |
Sep 10 |
98th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 62 62) |
Sep 10 |
Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30") |
Sep 10 |
Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different surfaces |
Sep 10 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
Sep 10 |
4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9 |
Sep 12 |
Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba |
Sep 12 |
Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television |
Sep 13 |
1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet |
Sep 13 |
NY Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back |
Sep 14 |
Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970 |
Sep 14 |
Portugal government of Da Costa falls |
Sep 14 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people |
Sep 15 |
Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans |
Sep 15 |
Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 15 |
Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2½ games |
Sep 16 |
25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran |
Sep 16 |
Filming on Monty Python's Life of Brian, begins |
Sep 16 |
Grateful Dead perform in Cairo Egypt |
Sep 16 |
Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2 |
Sep 17 |
30th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Ed Asner & Sada Thompson win |
Sep 17 |
Begin, Sadat & Carter sign Camp David accord |
Sep 17 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
Sep 17 |
Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept 1978, 7-3 |
Sep 18 |
All four Kiss members release solo albums |
Sep 20 |
"Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 439 performances |
Sep 20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 20 |
Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany |
Sep 21 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode bombs at the RAF airfield near Eglinton, County Londonderry; the terminal building, two aircraft hangars and four planes aree destroyed |
Sep 22 |
Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit |
Sep 23 |
100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit |
Sep 24 |
Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team Golf Classic |
Sep 24 |
Dutch women hockey team wins world championship |
Sep 24 |
Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74 |
Sep 24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 25 |
PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die |
Sep 26 |
RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service |
Sep 26 |
NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms |
Sep 27 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 28 |
Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord |
Sep 28 |
Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa |
Sep 28 |
Syrians & Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon |
Sep 29 |
"Flying High," debuts on CBS |
Sep 29 |
"For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV |
Sep 30 |
Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati |
Sep 30 |
Phillies clinch NL East title |
Sep 30 |
Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title |
Oct 1 |
Comoros adopts constitution |
Oct 1 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
Oct 1 |
Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from UK |
Oct 1 |
Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox |
Oct 1 |
The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded. |
Oct 2 |
Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed |
Oct 2 |
Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding |
Oct 3 |
Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London |
Oct 4 |
Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I |
Oct 5 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature |
Oct 5 |
Sweden's Fälldin government falls |
Oct 5 |
Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits environmental modification techniques |
Oct 6 |
Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university (Chicago) |
Oct 6 |
Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person |
Oct 6 |
Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls" |
Oct 6 |
Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5 |
Oct 7 |
LA Dodgers win the pennant |
Oct 7 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Oct 8 |
Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph) |
Oct 8 |
Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City |
Oct 9 |
12th Country Music Association Award: Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle & Don Williams wins |
Oct 9 |
John Kander & Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom" premieres in NYC |
Oct 10 |
Aerosmith's Steve Tyler & Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb |
Oct 10 |
British pop music magazine "Smash Hits" first published |
Oct 10 |
US Congress approves Dollar coin honoring women's suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony |
Oct 10 |
Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya |
Oct 10 |
Steve Perry joins Journey |
Oct 10 |
Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75 |
Oct 11 |
Aristides Royo elected president of Panama |
Oct 11 |
Belgium government of Tindemans resigns |
Oct 11 |
Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th |
Oct 12 |
Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington |
Oct 12 |
Sid Vicious charged with murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen |
Oct 13 |
US President Jimmy Carter answers callers' questions on National Public Radio |
Oct 13 |
Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties |
Oct 13 |
Tiros N, US's 1st third generation weather satellite, is launched |
Oct 13 |
Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4 |
Oct 14 |
1st TV movie from a TV series-"Rescue from Gilligan's Island" |
Oct 14 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Oct 14 |
NY Yank Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st & deflects the ball away |
Oct 14 |
Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1 |
Oct 15 |
Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open |
Oct 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 16 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon |
Oct 16 |
Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II |
Oct 16 |
Test debut of Kapil Dev, India v Pakistan at Faisalabad |
Oct 17 |
NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8) |
Oct 17 |
NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series |
Oct 17 |
Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship |
Oct 17 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Oct 17 |
Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year |
Oct 18 |
1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance |
Oct 18 |
NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings |
Oct 20 |
Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government |
Oct 20 |
Police's 1st US concert (NY's CBGBs) |
Oct 20 |
US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2 |
Oct 21 |
Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. |
Oct 22 |
"King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances |
Oct 22 |
8th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30 |
Oct 22 |
9th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12 |
Oct 22 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs |
Oct 22 |
Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8) |
Oct 22 |
Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession |
Oct 22 |
Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope |
Oct 23 |
CBS raises LP prices to $8.98 |
Oct 23 |
China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension |
Oct 23 |
Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC |
Oct 24 |
Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto |
Oct 24 |
NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders |
Oct 25 |
Israeli government approves "in principle", a draft compromise peace |
Oct 25 |
Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL) |
Oct 25 |
"Halloween", starring Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut, is released |
Oct 26 |
Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat named joint winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 26 |
Independent Counsel Act is signed into law. |
Oct 27 |
Begin & Sadat win Nobel Peace prize |
Oct 27 |
President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill |
Oct 28 |
Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20) |
Oct 28 |
Bobby Orr scores his last career NHL goal (vs Detroit Red Wings) |
Oct 30 |
Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1 |
Oct 30 |
Uganda troops attack Tanzania |
Oct 31 |
Iranian oil workers go on strike |
Oct 31 |
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution |
Nov 1 |
NY Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award |
Nov 2 |
Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31 |
Nov 2 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Nov 2 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 3 |
First broadcast of "Diff'rent strokes" on NBC TV |
Nov 3 |
Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution |
Nov 3 |
Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic |
Nov 3 |
USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty |
Nov 4 |
Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U |
Nov 4 |
Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) |
Nov 4 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Nov 4 |
3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, & Darrell Evans, available |
Nov 5 |
Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi |
Nov 5 |
Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran |
Nov 5 |
Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games |
Nov 6 |
Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government |
Nov 6 |
Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule |
Nov 7 |
Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP |
Nov 7 |
CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past |
Nov 8 |
Tom Stoppard's "Night & Day" premieres in London |
Nov 9 |
NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions |
Nov 10 |
Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks |
Nov 10 |
Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
Nov 10 |
Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison & Griffin |
Nov 11 |
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives |
Nov 12 |
"Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances |
Nov 12 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
Nov 13 |
NASA launches HEAO |
Nov 15 |
183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Nov 15 |
Harold Pinter's "Betrayal" premieres in London |
Nov 15 |
Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP |
Nov 16 |
Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft |
Nov 18 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 18 |
In Jonestown Guyana 918 members of Peoples Temple are murdered/commit suicide under leadership of cult leader Jim Jones |
Nov 19 |
Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time |
Nov 19 |
"The Miracle at the Meadowlands", Eagles Herman Edwards returns a fumble for a touchdown with 31 seconds left to give Philadelphia a 19-17 victory over the rival New York Giants |
Nov 21 |
Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award |
Nov 26 |
10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY |
Nov 26 |
1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love" |
Nov 26 |
66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13 |
Nov 28 |
44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB) |
Nov 28 |
Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years |
Nov 29 |
UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries |
Nov 29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Nov 30 |
France performs nuclear test |
Dec 1 |
Pres Carter more than doubles national park system size |
Dec 1 |
Test Cricket debut of Rodney Hogg, v England at the Gabba |
Dec 1 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 2 |
Chanting "Allah is great", anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran |
Dec 2 |
Neil Diamond & Barbra Striesand's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1 |
Dec 2 |
Streisand & Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" goes #1 |
Dec 3 |
"King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances |
Dec 3 |
Pat Bradley/Lon Hinkle wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
Dec 4 |
Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor |
Dec 4 |
Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten freed |
Dec 4 |
Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus |
Dec 5 |
EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System |
Dec 5 |
Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies becoming highest paid baseball player |
Dec 5 |
Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus |
Dec 5 |
Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" premieres in NYC |
Dec 5 |
Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders |
Dec 6 |
Spain adopts constitution |
Dec 7 |
Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick |
Dec 8 |
Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park |
Dec 9 |
Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus |
Dec 9 |
1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does |
Dec 10 |
"Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances |
Dec 10 |
67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1) |
Dec 10 |
In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize |
Dec 10 |
Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians |
Dec 11 |
6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry |
Dec 14 |
"Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances |
Dec 14 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Dec 14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Dec 15 |
Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James |
Dec 15 |
Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore |
Dec 16 |
Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR |
Dec 16 |
Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks. |
Dec 17 |
OPEC raises oil prices 18% |
Dec 17 |
Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda |
Dec 17 |
The Workers Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe. |
Dec 17 |
OPEC decides on a 14.5 percent petrolium price increase for 1979, to be implemented quarterly |
Dec 18 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Dec 18 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Dec 19 |
France performs nuclear test |