Events in History in 1978 (Part 2)

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• Jul 19 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Jul 21 Bolivian military coup under General Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees

• Jul 21 US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
• Jul 21 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
• Jul 23 Franklin Bradshaw is murdered in Salt Lake City by his grandson Marc Schreuder at the instigation of his mother Frances Schreuder
• Jul 23 Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
• Jul 25 The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs.
• Jul 26 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll

• Jul 28 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time
• Jul 28 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Jul 29 American Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7 hrs, 40 min; record holds until 1995
• Jul 31 Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris
• Aug 1 Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
• Aug 3 11th Commonwealth Games open in Edmonton, Canada

• Aug 8 Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
• Aug 9 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
• Aug 10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya

• Aug 11 Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
• Aug 12 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
• Aug 12 China & Japan sign peace treaty
• Aug 12 International Cometary Explorer (ICE) spacecraft launched - to study solar wind
• Aug 13 Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed
• Aug 15 US House of Representatives approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
• Aug 17 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
• Aug 18 Memphis Tenn settles with striking police officers & firefighters
• Aug 20 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
• Aug 20 Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
• Aug 20 Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
• Aug 21 1st gay theme telefilm - Matlovich vs US Air Force
• Aug 22 Left-wing Sandinistas revolutionaries occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua
• Aug 23 Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
• Aug 24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Aug 26 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
• Aug 26 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
• Aug 28 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
• Aug 28 Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
• Aug 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Aug 31 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka

• Aug 31 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 1 #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064
• Sep 1 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
• Sep 2 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
• Sep 3 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
• Sep 3 Pope John Paul I officially installed as 263rd supreme pontiff

• Sep 6 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• Sep 9 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an uprising in the Iranian army
• Sep 10 Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30")
• Sep 11 The last known person dies of smallpox - medical photographer Janet Parker through infection in a laboratory, in Birmingham, England

• Sep 13 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
• Sep 14 Portugal government of Da Costa falls
• Sep 14 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people
• Sep 16 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar, Iran

• Sep 18 All four Kiss members release solo albums
• Sep 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Sep 20 Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany
• Sep 21 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs at the RAF airfield near Eglinton, County Londonderry; the terminal building, two aircraft hangars and four planes are destroyed
• Sep 22 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
• Sep 23 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Anwar Sadat home from Camp David peace summit
• Sep 24 Dutch women hockey team wins world championship
• Sep 24 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 25 PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
• Sep 26 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
• Sep 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 28 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
• Sep 28 Syrians & Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon
• Oct 1 Comoros adopts constitution
• Oct 1 The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
• Oct 1 Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from UK
• Oct 2 Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
• Oct 3 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
• Oct 4 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
• Oct 4 Pier 39 opens in San Francisco
• Oct 5 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature
• Oct 5 Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare that has widespread, long-lasting or severe effects
• Oct 5 Sweden's Fälldin government falls
• Oct 6 Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university (Chicago)
• Oct 6 Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
• Oct 7 USSR performs nuclear test
• Oct 8 Ken Warby sets world water speed record at 275.97 knots (511.10 km/h; 317.58 mph) on Blowering Dam, Tumut River NSW, Australia

• Oct 10 Steve Perry joins Journey

• Oct 11 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
• Oct 11 Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
• Oct 12 Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington
• Oct 13 Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties
• Oct 13 Tiros N, US's 1st third generation weather satellite, is launched

• Oct 14 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Oct 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 16 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Herbert A Simon

• Oct 17 President Jimmy Carter signs bill restoring US citizenship to Jefferson Davis
• Oct 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Oct 18 US 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
• Oct 20 Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
• 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 Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
• Oct 26 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named joint winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
• 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 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 University
• Nov 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Nov 5 Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
• Nov 6 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi places the country under military rule; General Gholām Reza Azhāri 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 10 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
• 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 18 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Nov 18 Leo J Ryan, American politician, and 4 others, killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members of the religious cult

• Nov 26 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
• Nov 26 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "A Question of Love"
• 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 performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Dec 1 US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
• Dec 2 Protesters chant "Allah is great" at an Anti-Shah protest in Tehran, Iran
• Dec 4 Dianne Feinstein is named as San Francisco's 1st female and Jewish mayor

• 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 $5.8m in cash & jewelry
• Dec 14 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Dec 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Dec 15 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W. James
• Dec 16 Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.

• Dec 17 OPEC raises oil prices by 18% and agrees on a 14.5% petroleum price increase for 1979, to be implemented quarterly
• Dec 17 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
• Dec 17 The Workers' Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe
• Dec 18 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Dec 18 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Dec 19 France performs nuclear test

• Dec 22 Thailand adopts constitution
• Dec 26 India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi is released from jail
• Dec 27 Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship as King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution
• Dec 29 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
• Dec 29 Spain constitution goes into effect
• Dec 30 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
• Dec 31 CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy
• Dec 31 Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier
• Dec 31 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US

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