In history, year 1978 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1978.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 14 january | Austrian logician Kurt Gödel, who suffered from an obsessive fear of being poisoned, died of starvation after his wife was hospitalized and unable to cook for him. |
| 24 january | The Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, which used nuclear power for propulsion, burned up during reentry, scattering radioactive debris across Canada's Northwest Territories. |
| 01 february | After having served 42 days in prison for the sexual assault ofa 13-year-old girl, Polish film director Roman Polanski skipped bail andfled the United States to France. |
| 13 february | A bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, the site of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, killing three people and injuring eleven others. |
| 17 february | The Troubles-The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated abomb at the La Mon restaurant near Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
| 02 march | Aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 28, Czech Vladimír Remek became the first person not from the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space. |
| 08 march | BBC Radio 4 transmitted the first episode of English author anddramatist Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a sciencefiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a televisionseries, and other media formats. |
| 11 march | Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, with B?o ??i as its ruler. |
| 11 march | After hijacking a bus north of Tel Aviv, members of Palestine Liberation Organization faction Fatah engaged in a shootout with the Israel Police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the perpetrators. |
| 14 march | Israeli–Lebanese conflict-The Israel Defense Forces beganOperation Litani, invading and occupying southern Lebanon, and pushingPLO troops north up to the Litani River. |
| 16 march | Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by Mario Moretti and the Red Brigades. |
| 23 march | The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was dispatched toconfirm Israeli withdrawal after its invasion nine days earlier. |
| 26 march | Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protesters destroyed much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails. |
| 01 april | The President of the Philippines ordered that the Philippines College of Commerce become a pup. |
| 14 april | Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against an attempt by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language. |
| 20 april | Soviet fighters shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 902 after itviolated Soviet airspace. |
| 03 may | Gary Thuerk, marketing representative of Digital Equipment Corporation, had sent the first unsolicited commercial e-mail also referred as spam to 600 people connected with ARPANET US west coast on May 3, 1978. Sending of junk email is prohibited from the existence of internet. |
| 08 may | Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climbed the World’s highest mountain Everest on May 8, 1978. It was the first time anyone made the ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. |
| 13 june | Israel Defence Forces withdrew from Lebanon. The South Lebanon conflict was an invasion of Lebanon up to the Litani River, carried out by the Israel Defense Forces in 1978 in response to the Coastal Road massacre. The conflict resulted in the deaths of 1,100–2,000 Lebanese and Palestinians, 20 Israelis, the internal displacement of 100,000 to 250,000 people in Lebanon, and the PLO forces retreating north of the Litani River. |
| 15 june | King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan. |
| 19 june | Garfield, created by American cartoonist Jim Davis, made itsdebut, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely syndicatedcomic strips. |
| 22 june | Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, was discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy. Charon is the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto. It was discovered at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. It is a very large moon in comparison to its parent body, Pluto. Its gravitational influence is such that the barycentre of the Pluto–Charon system lies outside Pluto. |
| 22 june | Working at the US Naval Observatory, American astronomer James W. Christy discovered Charon, then considered the sole moon of Pluto. |
| 25 june | The rainbow flag representing gay pride first flew in the SanFrancisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. |
| 06 july | A sleeping car train at Taunton, England, caught fire, killing12 people and causing British Rail to install state-of-the art fireprevention measures. |
| 07 july | The Soloman islands got their independence from United Kingdom. It is an autonomous country comprised of group of many islands. It is situated near Papua New Guinea. It is a constitutional monarchy. |
| 14 july | Allen Ginsburg completes 'Plutonian Ode'. It blocks trainload of fissile material which was headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory situated in Colorado. |
| 25 july | Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists were killed bypolice at Cerro Maravilla in Villalba. |
| 25 july | Louise Brown, the world's first baby conceived through in vitrofertilisation, was born in Oldham, England. |
| 07 august | Two years after the discovery of toxic waste that had beennegligently disposed of, U.S. President Jimmy Carter declared a federalhealth emergency in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, NewYork. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 02 August | Dragan Vukmir / Footballer / Serbia |
| 02 August | Matt Guerrier / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 04 August | Karine Legault / Swimmer / Canada |
| 05 August | Rita Faltoyano / Actress / Hungary |
| 06 February | Yael Naim / Singer / Israel |
| 07 December | Shiri Appleby / Actress / United States of America |
| 07 July | Chris Andersen / Basketball Player / United States of America |
| 08 August | Natsuko Kuwatani / Actress / Japan |
| 10 September | Julia Goldsworthy / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 12 November | Alexandra Maria Lara / Actress / Germany |
| 15 January | Franco Pellizotti / Cyclist / Italy |
| 17 May | Paddy Kenny / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 17 June | Travis Roche / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 19 October | Zakhar Dubensky / Fooballer / Russia |
| 23 June | Matt Light / Footballer / United States of America |
| 26 October | Dave Zastudil / Footballer / United States of America |
| 28 November | Freddie Mitchell / Footballer / United States of America |
| 29 November | Dimitrios Konstantopoulos / Footballer / Greece |
| 30 October | Derren Witcombe / Cricketer / New Zealand |
| 30 January | John Patterson / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 17 August | Disha Vakani / Actress / India |
| 04 August | Sandeep Naik / Politician / India |
| 25 November | Koel Purie / Actress / India |
| 18 October | Kunal Kapoor / Actor / India |
| 10 December | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari / Lawyer / India |
| 07 October | Zaheer Khan / Cricketer / India |
| 18 October | Jyothika / Actress / India |
| 16 February | Wasim Jaffer / Cricketer / India |
| 16 April | Lara Dutta / Actress / India |
| 13 January | Ashmit Patel / Actor / India |
| 20 October | Virender Sehwag / Cricketer / India |
| 03 March | Tanisha Mukherjee / Actress / India |
| 17 December | Riteish Deshmukh / Actor / India |
| 20 October | Virender Sehwag / Player / India |
| 28 March | Nafisa Joseph / Model / India |
| 13 March | Anusha Rizvi / Director / India |
| 20 October | Virender Sehwag / Cricketer / India |