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Events on the year of 1978 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1978 Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213
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01 Jan 1978 President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
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01 Jan 1978 The Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands becomes effective.
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01 Jan 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.
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02 Jan 1978 Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"
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03 Jan 1978 Chandrasekar takes 6-52 and 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
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06 Jan 1978 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
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06 Jan 1978 US hand over St. Stephan crown to Hungary
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06 Jan 1978 The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
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07 Jan 1978 Angola revises its constitution
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09 Jan 1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
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10 Jan 1978 Soyuz 27 carring 2 Cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
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11 Jan 1978 Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
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11 Jan 1978 Governor Askew dedicates the RCUC solar office building
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13 Jan 1978 United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
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14 Jan 1978 Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, San Francisco)
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15 Jan 1978 Super Bowl XII Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, Defensive Tackle
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15 Jan 1978 Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
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16 Jan 1978 5th American Music Award Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & Conway Twitty
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16 Jan 1978 Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
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18 Jan 1978 The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
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18 Jan 1978 The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
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18 Jan 1978 Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, vs Pakistan Karachi
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18 Jan 1978 Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
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18 Jan 1978 Roof of 3-year-old Civic Center in Hartford CT collapses (no injuries)
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19 Jan 1978 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
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19 Jan 1978 Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
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19 Jan 1978 Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame
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20 Jan 1978 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"
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21 Jan 1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
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23 Jan 1978 8th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 14-13
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23 Jan 1978 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
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24 Jan 1978 Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
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24 Jan 1978 31st NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo
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24 Jan 1978 Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (#12036)
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25 Jan 1978 Muriel Humphrey (D-MN) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
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25 Jan 1978 Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award)
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26 Jan 1978 Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void"
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26 Jan 1978 The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US until October 2010, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
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26 Jan 1978 International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit
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26 Jan 1978 Mario Soares forms Portuguese government
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26 Jan 1978 Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40
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28 Jan 1978 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
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28 Jan 1978 Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
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28 Jan 1978 Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
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29 Jan 1978 Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
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30 Jan 1978 Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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30 Jan 1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
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31 Jan 1978 "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 101 performances
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31 Jan 1978 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements
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31 Jan 1978 "Elvis The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater New York City NY for 101 performances
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01 Feb 1978 Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
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01 Feb 1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
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03 Feb 1978 Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
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03 Feb 1978 India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
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05 Feb 1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
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06 Feb 1978 Muriel, Wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office
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06 Feb 1978 Snowstorm hits New England, parts of RI (54" (137cm))
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06 Feb 1978 The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.
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07 Feb 1978 Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert
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08 Feb 1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait
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08 Feb 1978 Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
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10 Feb 1978 Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
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11 Feb 1978 Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
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11 Feb 1978 16 Unification church couples wed in New York NY
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11 Feb 1978 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
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11 Feb 1978 China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
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11 Feb 1978 EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
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12 Feb 1978 "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 performances
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12 Feb 1978 Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
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12 Feb 1978 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
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12 Feb 1978 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
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13 Feb 1978 Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
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13 Feb 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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14 Feb 1978 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
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14 Feb 1978 In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
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15 Feb 1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida
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15 Feb 1978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for world heavyweight crown
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15 Feb 1978 England all out 64 for 1st loss to New Zealand in cricket (Boycott Captain)
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15 Feb 1978 Zaire revises constitution
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16 Feb 1978 The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
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16 Feb 1978 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
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17 Feb 1978 The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
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18 Feb 1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
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18 Feb 1978 The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu and is won by Gordon Haller.
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19 Feb 1978 "On the 20th Century" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 460 performances
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19 Feb 1978 Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
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19 Feb 1978 Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 meter indoor (2:34.8)
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19 Feb 1978 Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in New York NY
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20 Feb 1978 The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.
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20 Feb 1978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
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20 Feb 1978 4th People's Choice Awards Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope
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20 Feb 1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion
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20 Feb 1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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22 Feb 1978 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tennessee
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23 Feb 1978 20th Grammy Awards Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone win
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24 Feb 1978 Kevin Porter, New Jersey, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
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25 Feb 1978 Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 vs New Zealand Christchurch
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26 Feb 1978 Ira Levin's "Deathtrap" premieres in New York NY
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26 Feb 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
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01 Mar 1978 "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances
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02 Mar 1978 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV
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02 Mar 1978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 Cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
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02 Mar 1978 Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
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04 Mar 1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
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05 Mar 1978 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances
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05 Mar 1978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
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05 Mar 1978 The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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06 Mar 1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot and crippled by a sniper in Georgia
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07 Mar 1978 Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
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07 Mar 1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
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08 Mar 1978 The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
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09 Mar 1978 Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk and Karponosov
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09 Mar 1978 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina andZaitsev (URS)
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09 Mar 1978 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR)
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10 Mar 1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
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11 Mar 1978 Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
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11 Mar 1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
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11 Mar 1978 University of San Francisco-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust North Carolina
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12 Mar 1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:14.99)
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12 Mar 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
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13 Mar 1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
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14 Mar 1978 The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
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14 Mar 1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
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14 Mar 1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
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15 Mar 1978 Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
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15 Mar 1978 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
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15 Mar 1978 Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
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15 Mar 1978 People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
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16 Mar 1978 US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
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16 Mar 1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
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16 Mar 1978 Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
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16 Mar 1978 Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors.
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16 Mar 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 68.7 million gallons of oil off French coast
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16 Mar 1978 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
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16 Mar 1978 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
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16 Mar 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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16 Mar 1978 US Senate accepts Panam
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17 Mar 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
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17 Mar 1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" premieres in Stockholm
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17 Mar 1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
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18 Mar 1978 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario, California
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18 Mar 1978 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
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19 Mar 1978 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
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19 Mar 1978 Sally Little wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
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20 Mar 1978 Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
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21 Mar 1978 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
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22 Mar 1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm and Market, SF, dedicated
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22 Mar 1978 Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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22 Mar 1978 France performs nuclear test
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22 Mar 1978 Robert Frost Plaza, Drumm & Market, San Francisco CA, dedicated
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22 Mar 1978 Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is shown on NBC-TV
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23 Mar 1978 The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
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24 Mar 1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck"
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24 Mar 1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck"
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26 Mar 1978 Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails.
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27 Mar 1978 Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
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27 Mar 1978 Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 performances
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28 Mar 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.
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30 Mar 1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 performances
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31 Mar 1978 Wings release "London Town" album
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31 Mar 1978 Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National & retires
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31 Mar 1978 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
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31 Mar 1978 Wings release "London Town" album
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01 Apr 1978 The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
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02 Apr 1978 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
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02 Apr 1978 TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
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02 Apr 1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
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03 Apr 1978 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall, " Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win
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03 Apr 1978 European market and China signs trade agreement
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03 Apr 1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington DC
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06 Apr 1978 Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn and 193 to win Ranji Trophy
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07 Apr 1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in New York City
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07 Apr 1978 President Carter defers production of neutron bomb
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07 Apr 1978 Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
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09 Apr 1978 42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277
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09 Apr 1978 Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, and 13-5 (each with a grand slam)
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09 Apr 1978 David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73
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10 Apr 1978 Formation of the Major Indoor Soccer League is announced
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13 Apr 1978 Jackson slugs a 3-run HR in the 1st inning, and the field is showered
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13 Apr 1978 New York Yanks defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day
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13 Apr 1978 New York Yankees defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day; Jackson slugs a 3-run homerun in the 1st inning, & the field is showered
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14 Apr 1978 WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
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14 Apr 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
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14 Apr 1978 David Hare's "Plenty", premieres in London
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14 Apr 1978 Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
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15 Apr 1978 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna Italy
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15 Apr 1978 Great Britain performs nuclear test
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16 Apr 1978 "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 performances
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16 Apr 1978 St Louis Cardinal Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0
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16 Apr 1978 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
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17 Apr 1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden"
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17 Apr 1978 Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
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17 Apr 1978 63,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)
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17 Apr 1978 7th Boston Women's Marathon won by Gayle Barron of Georgia in 2:44:52
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17 Apr 1978 82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Massachusetts in 2:10:13
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18 Apr 1978 Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999
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18 Apr 1978 Senate votes to turn Panam
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19 Apr 1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th President of Israel
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20 Apr 1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
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20 Apr 1978 Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
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22 Apr 1978 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony
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22 Apr 1978 'The Blues Brothers' (Dan Akroyd and John Belushi) make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live
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23 Apr 1978 Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
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23 Apr 1978 Cincinnati Red Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd
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23 Apr 1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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24 Apr 1978 Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game
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25 Apr 1978 Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance
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25 Apr 1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more
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26 Apr 1978 NASA launches space vehicle S-201
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26 Apr 1978 France sends troops to Chad
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27 Apr 1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51
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27 Apr 1978 Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
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27 Apr 1978 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, New York Yankees beat New York Mets 4-3 in 11
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27 Apr 1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston WV, kills 51
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27 Apr 1978 Afgh
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28 Apr 1978 President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
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30 Apr 1978 "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 performances
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30 Apr 1978 Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic
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01 May 1978 1st black Mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
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01 May 1978 MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht
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01 May 1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
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01 May 1978 Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
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02 May 1978 NBA championship: Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games
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03 May 1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
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03 May 1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II
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03 May 1978 The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (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.
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04 May 1978 Russian President Brezhnev visits West-Germany
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05 May 1978 Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits
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06 May 1978 104th Kentucky Derby: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:01.2
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06 May 1978 South Africa military goes into Angola
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08 May 1978 ABC TV airs "Stars Salute Israel at 30"
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08 May 1978 The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
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09 May 1978 Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found
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09 May 1978 Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
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09 May 1978 PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth
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10 May 1978 "Angel" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
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10 May 1978 Liverpool wins 23rd Europe Cup I
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11 May 1978 Margaret A Brewer is 1st female general in the US Marine Corps
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12 May 1978 Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female
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12 May 1978 In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order.
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12 May 1978 Commerce Department announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female
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13 May 1978 "Angel" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
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13 May 1978 "Runaways" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 199 performances
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13 May 1978 Musical "Runaways" with Elizabeth Swados premieres in New York City
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13 May 1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 meter steeplechase (8:05.4)
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13 May 1978 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
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13 May 1978 Musical "Runaways" with Elizabeth Swados premieres at Plymouth Theater NYC for 199 performances
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14 May 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
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17 May 1978 Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit homerun
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18 May 1978 Italy legalizes abortion
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18 May 1978 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
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20 May 1978 104th Preakness: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 1:54.4
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20 May 1978 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris France
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20 May 1978 US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus
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21 May 1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
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21 May 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
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21 May 1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
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23 May 1978 AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M
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23 May 1978 American League approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15 million
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23 May 1978 General strike in Peru
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24 May 1978 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
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25 May 1978 "Star Wars" released
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25 May 1978 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
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25 May 1978 "Star Wars" released
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25 May 1978 Stanley Cup: Montr
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26 May 1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
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28 May 1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
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28 May 1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500 (average speed of 161.363 mph), 3 times
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29 May 1978 1st class postage now 15 cents (13 cents for 3 years)
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29 May 1978 1st class postage now 15
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29 May 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
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29 May 1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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01 Jun 1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
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01 Jun 1978 The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
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03 Jun 1978 Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year
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04 Jun 1978 "Working" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 25 performances
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04 Jun 1978 6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner
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04 Jun 1978 Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections
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06 Jun 1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
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07 Jun 1978 32nd NBA Championship: Washington Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3
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07 Jun 1978 Emmy 5th Daytime Award presentation
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08 Jun 1978 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification
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08 Jun 1978 Braves draft Bob Horner #1
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08 Jun 1978 Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery
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09 Jun 1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood
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09 Jun 1978 Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London
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09 Jun 1978 Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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09 Jun 1978 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
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10 Jun 1978 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8
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10 Jun 1978 Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
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11 Jun 1978 "Grease" starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John opens
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11 Jun 1978 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
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11 Jun 1978 Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title
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11 Jun 1978 Joseph Freeman Jr is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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11 Jun 1978 Altaf Hussain founds the students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
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12 Jun 1978 David Berkowitz sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life
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12 Jun 1978 US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
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12 Jun 1978 David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
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13 Jun 1978 Israel Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
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14 Jun 1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
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14 Jun 1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
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15 Jun 1978 Belgian government resigns
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15 Jun 1978 King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
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15 Jun 1978 Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American
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15 Jun 1978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
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16 Jun 1978 Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0
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16 Jun 1978 Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
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17 Jun 1978 "Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32
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17 Jun 1978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs
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18 Jun 1978 78th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill Country Club - Denver
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18 Jun 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
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18 Jun 1978 Victor de la Torre wins Peru election
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19 Jun 1978 "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St. NYC for 1577 performances
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19 Jun 1978 Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
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19 Jun 1978 Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
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20 Jun 1978 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa,
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22 Jun 1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois
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22 Jun 1978 Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy.
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22 Jun 1978 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced
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22 Jun 1978 Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy
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25 Jun 1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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25 Jun 1978 The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
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25 Jun 1978 Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires
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26 Jun 1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
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26 Jun 1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
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27 Jun 1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1
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27 Jun 1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
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27 Jun 1978 US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit
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28 Jun 1978 Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
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28 Jun 1978 The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
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28 Jun 1978 UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill
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29 Jun 1978 VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East
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30 Jun 1978 English Prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
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30 Jun 1978 Larry Doby becomes manager of the Chicago White Sox
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30 Jun 1978 Willie McCovey becomes the 12th to hit 500 HRs
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01 Jul 1978 "Act" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 233 performances
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01 Jul 1978 Former President Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
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01 Jul 1978 Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
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01 Jul 1978 The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
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02 Jul 1978 Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
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03 Jul 1978 Establishment Amazon Pact
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03 Jul 1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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04 Jul 1978 Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
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05 Jul 1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
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06 Jul 1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
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07 Jul 1978 Solomon Islands declares independence from the UK
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07 Jul 1978 The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom
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08 Jul 1978 Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy
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08 Jul 1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus
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09 Jul 1978 "Hello, Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 152 performances
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09 Jul 1978 American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago
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09 Jul 1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
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09 Jul 1978 Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington DC for ERA
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10 Jul 1978 Bloodless military coup in Mauritania
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10 Jul 1978 Military coup in Mauritania, President Moktar flees
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10 Jul 1978 ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
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10 Jul 1978 President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
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10 Jul 1978 E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484
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10 Jul 1978 Military coup in Mauritania
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11 Jul 1978 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium
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11 Jul 1978 All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
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11 Jul 1978 Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain, 160 killed
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11 Jul 1978 Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
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11 Jul 1978 NL beats AL 7-3 in 49th All Star Game (San Diego Stadium)
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12 Jul 1978 Sun Bank Building opens
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13 Jul 1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
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13 Jul 1978 Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motors President by Chairman Henry Ford II
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13 Jul 1978 Russian dissident Ginsburg / Piatkus / Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
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13 Jul 1978 Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR
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13 Jul 1978 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
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13 Jul 1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
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13 Jul 1978 Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
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14 Jul 1978 Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
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14 Jul 1978 Anatoly Shcharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
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15 Jul 1978 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St. Andrews
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16 Jul 1978 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
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17 Jul 1978 New York Yank manager Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson fight in dug out
0
17 Jul 1978 Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
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18 Jul 1978 Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting
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18 Jul 1978 Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
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19 Jul 1978 Yanks start 14
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21 Jul 1978 Bolivia milt coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees
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21 Jul 1978 US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
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21 Jul 1978 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
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23 Jul 1978 Reggie Jackson returns and helps Yankees win their 5th straight
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23 Jul 1978 Israeli cabinet rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
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23 Jul 1978 Phillies Steve Carlon becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
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24 Jul 1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson
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24 Jul 1978 Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
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24 Jul 1978 Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
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24 Jul 1978 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premeirs in NYC
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24 Jul 1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "the one is a born liar
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25 Jul 1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
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25 Jul 1978 John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
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25 Jul 1978 Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
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25 Jul 1978 Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
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25 Jul 1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
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25 Jul 1978 Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
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26 Jul 1978 Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run
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27 Jul 1978 Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs. Yanks)
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27 Jul 1978 Portuguese President Eanes fires Premier Soares
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28 Jul 1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York
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28 Jul 1978 At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees
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28 Jul 1978 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3188 & #3422
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28 Jul 1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time
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29 Jul 1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York
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29 Jul 1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY
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29 Jul 1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m
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29 Jul 1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
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30 Jul 1978 Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits and NL-record-tying 8 HRs
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30 Jul 1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
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30 Jul 1978 The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
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31 Jul 1978 Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44
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31 Jul 1978 Gunman shoots his way into the Iraqi Embassy in Paris
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31 Jul 1978 NY Yanks now 7
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01 Aug 1978 Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
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01 Aug 1978 Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)
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05 Aug 1978 New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo)
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06 Aug 1978 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
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06 Aug 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open
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07 Aug 1978 Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame
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07 Aug 1978 Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI
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07 Aug 1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.
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08 Aug 1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
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09 Aug 1978 Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7
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10 Aug 1978 Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
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11 Aug 1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI
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12 Aug 1978 China and Japan sign peace treaty
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12 Aug 1978 The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.
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12 Aug 1978 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
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12 Aug 1978 ICE is launched
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13 Aug 1978 Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed
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13 Aug 1978 Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
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13 Aug 1978 Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted and thus score goes back to previous inning, Baltimore wins 3-0
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13 Aug 1978 One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
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14 Aug 1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleonic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)
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15 Aug 1978 House of Reps approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
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17 Aug 1978 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
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17 Aug 1978 1st manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
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18 Aug 1978 Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers & firefighters
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19 Aug 1978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
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20 Aug 1978 Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
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20 Aug 1978 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
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20 Aug 1978 Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
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21 Aug 1978 1st gay theme telefilm - Matlovich vs. US Air Force
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22 Aug 1978 Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua
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23 Aug 1978 Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
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25 Aug 1978 Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
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26 Aug 1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
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26 Aug 1978 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
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27 Aug 1978 Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
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27 Aug 1978 Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
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27 Aug 1978 Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
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27 Aug 1978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
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28 Aug 1978 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
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29 Aug 1978 USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing, New York
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31 Aug 1978 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
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31 Aug 1978 Emily and William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
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31 Aug 1978 Symbionese Liberation Army founders William & Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst
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01 Sep 1978 #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid and #8064
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01 Sep 1978 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
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01 Sep 1978 Last broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV
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02 Sep 1978 George Harrison marries Olivia
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02 Sep 1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
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02 Sep 1978 Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
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02 Sep 1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
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02 Sep 1978 Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
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03 Sep 1978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
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03 Sep 1978 Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5)
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03 Sep 1978 Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
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04 Sep 1978 New York Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season)
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04 Sep 1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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05 Sep 1978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
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05 Sep 1978 Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
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06 Sep 1978 Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
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07 Sep 1978 1st game of Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3
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07 Sep 1978 While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
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08 Sep 1978 2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
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08 Sep 1978 Irani army shoots on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed
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08 Sep 1978 Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, provoked 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran
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09 Sep 1978 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0
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09 Sep 1978 92nd US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64)
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09 Sep 1978 Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs. Toronto)
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09 Sep 1978 Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army
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09 Sep 1978 Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979
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10 Sep 1978 "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 performances
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10 Sep 1978 Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different surfaces
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10 Sep 1978 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
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10 Sep 1978 Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30")
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10 Sep 1978 4th game of the Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9
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11 Sep 1978 Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak.
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12 Sep 1978 Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba
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12 Sep 1978 Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television
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13 Sep 1978 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
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13 Sep 1978 New York Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back
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14 Sep 1978 Portugal government of Da Costa falls
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15 Sep 1978 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
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15 Sep 1978 Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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15 Sep 1978 Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
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15 Sep 1978 Muhammad Ali beats WBA heavyweight champion Leon Spinks
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15 Sep 1978 Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2
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16 Sep 1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran
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16 Sep 1978 Grateful Dead perform in Cairo Egypt
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16 Sep 1978 An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
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16 Sep 1978 Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2
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17 Sep 1978 30th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Ed Asner and Sada Thompson win
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17 Sep 1978 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
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17 Sep 1978 Red Sox finally beat Yanks in September 1978, 7-3
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17 Sep 1978 The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
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17 Sep 1978 Begin, Sadat & Carter sign the Camp David accord
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19 Sep 1978 The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
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20 Sep 1978 "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 439 performances
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20 Sep 1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany
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22 Sep 1978 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
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23 Sep 1978 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit
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24 Sep 1978 Donna Caponi Young / Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team Golf Classic
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24 Sep 1978 Dutch women hockey team wins world championship
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24 Sep 1978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
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25 Sep 1978 PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
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25 Sep 1978 PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
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26 Sep 1978 New York District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
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26 Sep 1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
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28 Sep 1978 Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as Premier of South Africa
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28 Sep 1978 Syrians and Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon
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28 Sep 1978 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
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29 Sep 1978 "Flying High, " debuts on CBS
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29 Sep 1978 "For Richer, For Poorer, " TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV
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30 Sep 1978 Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
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30 Sep 1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati
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30 Sep 1978 Phillies clinch NL East title
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30 Sep 1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
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01 Oct 1978 Comoros adopts constitution
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01 Oct 1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
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01 Oct 1978 Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from the UK
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01 Oct 1978 Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox
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01 Oct 1978 The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
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02 Oct 1978 Syrian and Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
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03 Oct 1978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
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04 Oct 1978 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
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05 Oct 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
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06 Oct 1978 Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US university (Chic)
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06 Oct 1978 Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
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06 Oct 1978 Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"
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07 Oct 1978 LA Dodgers win the pennant
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08 Oct 1978 Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 km/h)
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08 Oct 1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
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08 Oct 1978 Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
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09 Oct 1978 12th Country Music Association Award
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10 Oct 1978 British pop magazine "Smash Hits, " 1st published
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10 Oct 1978 Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar
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10 Oct 1978 Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as President of Kenya
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10 Oct 1978 Steve Perry joins Journey
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10 Oct 1978 Yanks and Dodgers play in World Series # 75
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10 Oct 1978 Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B Anthony dollar
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10 Oct 1978 Yanks & Dodgers play in 75th World Series
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11 Oct 1978 Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
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11 Oct 1978 Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th
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11 Oct 1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
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12 Oct 1978 Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancyh Spungen
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12 Oct 1978 Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington
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13 Oct 1978 President Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio
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13 Oct 1978 James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu
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13 Oct 1978 Tiros N, US's 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched
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13 Oct 1978 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
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14 Oct 1978 New York Yank Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st and deflects the ball away
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14 Oct 1978 1st TV movie from a TV series-"Rescue from Gilligan's Island"
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14 Oct 1978 Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10, making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1
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15 Oct 1978 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
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16 Oct 1978 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon
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16 Oct 1978 Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs. Pakistan at Faisalabad
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16 Oct 1978 Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
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16 Oct 1978 Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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16 Oct 1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II
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17 Oct 1978 New York Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
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17 Oct 1978 New York Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series
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17 Oct 1978 President Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship
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17 Oct 1978 Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
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18 Oct 1978 New York Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs. LA Kings
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18 Oct 1978 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
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20 Oct 1978 Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
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21 Oct 1978 Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
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22 Oct 1978 "King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
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22 Oct 1978 9th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12
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22 Oct 1978 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs
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22 Oct 1978 Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8)
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22 Oct 1978 Pope John Paul II installed
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22 Oct 1978 Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
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22 Oct 1978 Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
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23 Oct 1978 CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
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23 Oct 1978 China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
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24 Oct 1978 Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto
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24 Oct 1978 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs. New York Islanders
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25 Oct 1978 Israeli Government approves "in principle, " a draft compromise peace
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25 Oct 1978 Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL)
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25 Oct 1978 Israeli Cabinet approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace
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26 Oct 1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
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27 Oct 1978 Begin & Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize
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27 Oct 1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
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28 Oct 1978 Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)
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28 Oct 1978 Donald Ritchie ran the fastest 100 Km ever, doing it in 7.2722
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30 Oct 1978 Uganda troops attack Tanzania
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30 Oct 1978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1
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31 Oct 1978 Iranian oil workers go on strike
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01 Nov 1978 New York Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
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02 Nov 1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
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03 Nov 1978 Dominica gains independence from the UK and adopts constitution
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03 Nov 1978 Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
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03 Nov 1978 USSR and Vietnam sign peace and friendship treaty
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03 Nov 1978 Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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04 Nov 1978 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, and Darrell Evans, available
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04 Nov 1978 Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran University
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05 Nov 1978 Iranian Prime Minister Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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05 Nov 1978 Khomeini followers attack British embassy / El Al office in Iran
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06 Nov 1978 Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
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06 Nov 1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
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07 Nov 1978 Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
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07 Nov 1978 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
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09 Nov 1978 NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
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10 Nov 1978 Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
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10 Nov 1978 Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath and Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison and Griffin
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10 Nov 1978 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
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11 Nov 1978 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes President of Maldives
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12 Nov 1978 "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
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12 Nov 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
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13 Nov 1978 NASA launches HEAO
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15 Nov 1978 Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP
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15 Nov 1978 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
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16 Nov 1978 Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft
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17 Nov 1978 Gerald Lascelles (under English Princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin
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21 Nov 1978 Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award
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25 Nov 1978 Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight
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25 Nov 1978 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
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26 Nov 1978 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, New York
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26 Nov 1978 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love"
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26 Nov 1978 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13
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27 Nov 1978 In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
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27 Nov 1978 The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.
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28 Nov 1978 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB)
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28 Nov 1978 Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years
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29 Nov 1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people, " boycotted by US and about 20 other countries
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01 Dec 1978 President Carter more than doubles national park system size
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02 Dec 1978 Chanting "Allah is great, " anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
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03 Dec 1978 "King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
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04 Dec 1978 Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
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04 Dec 1978 Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed
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04 Dec 1978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
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04 Dec 1978 Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor. (She will serve until January 8, 1988.)
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05 Dec 1978 EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System
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05 Dec 1978 Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies
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05 Dec 1978 Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player
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05 Dec 1978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
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05 Dec 1978 The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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06 Dec 1978 Spain adopts constitution
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06 Dec 1978 Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
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09 Dec 1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
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10 Dec 1978 "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
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10 Dec 1978 Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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10 Dec 1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1978 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadiens
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10 Dec 1978 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)
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11 Dec 1978 The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
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11 Dec 1978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 million in cash & jewelry
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13 Dec 1978 Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
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14 Dec 1978 "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances
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14 Dec 1978 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
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15 Dec 1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan
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15 Dec 1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
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15 Dec 1978 Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs India at Bangalore
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16 Dec 1978 Cleveland, Ohio, becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
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16 Dec 1978 Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China People's Republic
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17 Dec 1978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
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17 Dec 1978 OPEC raises oil prices 18%
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18 Dec 1978 Dominica joins the United Nations.
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18 Dec 1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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18 Dec 1978 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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19 Dec 1978 France performs nuclear test
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19 Dec 1978 Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
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20 Dec 1978 H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
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21 Dec 1978 "Broadway Musical" opens / closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater, New York City
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21 Dec 1978 "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC
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21 Dec 1978 Police in Des Plaines IL, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for murder
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22 Dec 1978 The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.
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22 Dec 1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
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22 Dec 1978 Thailand adopts constitution
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23 Dec 1978 Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against New York Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs. Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period
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26 Dec 1978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
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27 Dec 1978 Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.
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27 Dec 1978 King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution
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28 Dec 1978 With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 runs out of fuel and crashes in Portland, Oregon, killing ten. As a result, United Airlines instituted the industry's first crew resource management program.
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28 Dec 1978 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
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29 Dec 1978 Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
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29 Dec 1978 Spain constitution goes into effect
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29 Dec 1978 Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, vs England at the MCG
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30 Dec 1978 "King & I" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 719 performances
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30 Dec 1978 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
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31 Dec 1978 "Magic Show" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 1859 performances
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31 Dec 1978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US
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31 Dec 1978 CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy
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31 Dec 1978 Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier
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