1978 in History (Part 4)

Events in History

Events 301 - 400 of 423

Oct 6 Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person

Oct 6 Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"

Oct 10 US Congress approves dollar coin honoring women's suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony

Oct 10 Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Jomo Kenyatta as President of Kenya

Oct 13 US President Jimmy Carter answers callers' questions on National Public Radio

Oct 16 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II

Oct 17 President Jimmy Carter signs bill restoring US citizenship to Jefferson Davis
Oct 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Oct 17 Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
Oct 18 US 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance

Oct 20 Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
Oct 20 Police's 1st US concert (NYC'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 Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
Oct 22 Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope
Oct 23 China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
Oct 25 Israeli government approves "in principle", a draft compromise peace

Oct 26 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named joint winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 26 Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
Oct 27 US President Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
Oct 28 Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)
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 Yemen) adopts constitution
Nov 2 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
Nov 2 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Nov 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 2 Arnold Shapiro's TV documentary "Scared Straight", narrated by Peter Falk as a controversial and questionable deterrent to juvenile delinquency, debuts on Los Angeles' KTLA-TV
Nov 3 Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
Nov 3 USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
Nov 4 Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
Nov 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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 6 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule; General Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
Nov 7 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
Nov 7 Marion Barry Jr. elected as Washington, D.C.'s first African American mayor

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 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 13 NASA launches HEAO 2
Nov 15 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nov 15 Harold Pinter's play "Betrayal" premieres in London
Nov 18 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Nov 18 In Jonestown, Guyana 918 members of the Peoples Temple are murdered or commit suicide under the leadership of cult leader Jim Jones

Nov 25 New Zealand general election won by ruling Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and the National Party

Nov 26 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
Nov 26 Christina Crawford autobiography "Mommie Dearest" reaches best-seller status
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 US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
Dec 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 2 Anti-Shah protest in Tehran,protesters chant "Allah is great"
Dec 4 Dianne Feinstein is named as San Francisco's 1st female and Jewish mayor
Dec 4 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten freed
Dec 4 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
Dec 5 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
Dec 5 Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" premieres in NYC
Dec 6 Spain adopts constitution
Dec 9 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
Dec 10 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
Dec 11 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NYC Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
Dec 14 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Dec 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR