Year 1978 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1978

The year 1978 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1978 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
17 May	The stolen coffin of famous comedian Charlie Chaplin was discovered. Charlie died in Switzerland in 1977 and is buried near Lake Geneva. But two thieves stole his coffin and demanded four lakh pounds in exchange for it.
07 July	The Solomon Islands gained independence from Britain. The islands were discovered in 1567 by Europeans.
28 July	The Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test in northeast Kazakhstan.
16 September	The 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Tabar, Iran, killed 25,000 people.
29 September	Pope John Paul I died in mysterious circumstances. He was elected pope only 33 days ago.
10 October	Rohini Khadilkar became the first woman to win the national chess competition.
15 October	The Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test in the eastern Kazakhstan region.
10 November	Rohini Khandilkar became the first woman to win the National Chess Championship.
15 November	A plane carrying from Mecca to Indonesia succumbed to an accident in Sri Lanka. In which 183 people died.
17 August	For the first time, three Americans successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean via balloon.
19 August	422 died due to fire in Iran's cinema house.
22 August	First President of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta died at the age of 83.
06 December	The citizens of Spain voted to establish democracy after 40 years of dictatorial rule.
13 January	NASA selected the first American female astronaut.
26 January	American conspiracies resulted in a shameful agreement called Camp David. On the basis of this agreement, the overbearing Israel returned Egypt to the Sina Peninsula, and Egypt in turn formally acknowledged the existence of Israel.
03 February	Mahakavi Shankar Kurup died.
08 February	US Senate proceedings were first broadcast on radio.
11 February	China lifted the ban on the works of Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
19 February	Pankaj Malik, a famous singer, composer and actor of Bengali and Hindi films, passed away.
11 March	The terrorist attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv killed 45 people.
18 March	It was decided to hang former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
21 March	Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee was born.
19 January	Judge William H. Webster of the Federal Court of Appeal was appointed FBI Director.
11 February	The wedding of sixteen Unification Church couples was held in New York City.
15 March	Somalia and Ethiopia signed a ceasefire to end the Ethio-Somali War.
08 April	Regular radio broadcasts of Parliament proceedings were started in the British.
04 May	Communist activist Henri Curiel was killed in Paris.
01 June	The 1978 FIFA World Cup began in Argentina.
07 July	Great Britain granted independence to the Solomon Islands.
19 August	Omani entrepreneur Kayes Al Khonji was born.
16 September	General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumed the presidency of Pakistan.
10 October	Daniel Arap Moi was elected President of Kenya.
25 December	Vietnam launched a major offensive against the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
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.
19 March	In response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon, the United Nations called on Israel to withdraw its forces immediately, and established the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
23 March	The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was sent to support Israel's withdrawal following 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 Philippinement of Commerce become a puppy.
14 April	Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tabilisi to change the constitutional status of Georgian language by the highest Soviet of Georgian SSR.
20 April	Soviet fighter aircraft killed the Korean Air Lines Flight 902 after blowing up Soviet aircraft.
03 May	Gary Thukar, a marketing representative of the Digital Equipment Corporation, sent the first unwanted commercial e-mail referring to 600 people from the west coast of ARPANET US on 3 May 1978. Sending junk email from the existence of the Internet is prohibited.
08 May	Reneled Masonar and Peter Habeller climbed the world's highest mountain Everest on 8 May 1978. This was the first time someone climbed Mount Everest without complementary oxygen.
13 June	The Israel defense force was removed from Lebanon. The South Lebanon struggle was an invasion of Lebanon to the Litni River, which was carried out by the Israel defense forces in 1978 in response to the coastal road massacre. As a result of this conflict, 1,100–2,000 Lebanese and Palestine, 20 Israel, 100,000 to 250,000 people died in the north of Lebanon and the PLO forces died.
15 June	Raja Hussain of Jordan married American Lisa Halabi, who is known as Rani Noor of Jordan.
19 June	Garfald made his debut. The Garfield, the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, is the holder of the Guinness World Record, a thick N lazy cat named Garfield, its owner John and a partner pet dog OD. As of 2013, it was syndicated in about 2,580 newspapers and magazines worldwide.
19 June	Garfield made by American cartoonist Jim Davis made his debut, eventually one of the world's most wide syndicated strips.
22 June	Charon, a satellite of dwarf planet Pluto, American astronomer James W. Was discovered by Christie. Charon is the largest satellite in the dwarf planet Pluto. It was discovered at the United States Navy observatory at Washington, DC. It is a much larger moon than its original body Pluto. Its gravitational effect is such that the pluto-chronic system is located outside the duplex Pluto.
22 June	Working at the US Navy Observatory, American astronomer James W. Christie discovered Charon, then he was considered the only moon in Pluto.
25 June	The rainbow flag representing gay pride first flew into Sanfrancisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
06 July	A sleeping car train caught fire in Tuntan, England, killing 12 people and the British Rail had to provide state -of -the -art fire -resistant measures.
07 July	Solomon Islands got their freedom from the United Kingdom. It is an autonomous country that includes a group of many islands. This Papua is located near New Guinea. It is a constitutional monarchy.
14 July	Alan Ginsberg completed the 'Plutonian Aud'. This prevents the train load of fishing material which led to the atomic bomb trigger factory of Rockwell located in Colorado.
25 July	Two Puerto Rickon freedom-supportive activists were killed in a by-election in Sero Maravilla in Willba.
25 July	Lewis Brown, the first girl in the world, who was conceived through in vitrofortylization, was born in Oldham, England.
07 August	Two years after the discovery of toxic waste, which was disposed off, US President Jimmy Carter announced a federal level emergency in the Niagara Falls, New York's Love Canal neighborhood.
23 August	In New Delhi, Indira Gandhi was facing allegations of fraud. Gandhi was warned by the judge to stay in the country and was released on bail of $ 1,875. Fraud he and his companions were cheating businessmen to get the use of free cars for the 1977 election.
08 September	Following the Shah's government of Irandclare in response to the Iranian revolution, the Iranian army shot at least 88 protesters in Tehran on Black Friday.
16 September	7.7 Earthquake of Magnitude, Iran. It killed more than 20,000 people and dropped the city to the ground. The rescue operations continue in the hope of finding the remaining people which are buried under the rubble but can still be alive.
17 September	Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menecim (painted with both Jimmy Carter) signed Camp David Accords after the Camp David's twelve days of secret talks.
28 September	Pope John Paul I died only 33 days later as a clear myocardial infarction after his Pope election, resulting in the recent most years of pops.
16 October	Karol, Poland's Cardinal Karol Joseph Wijtila became a non-Italian Pope for the first time from the Slavic country before the 16th century.
21 October	After reporting contact with the unknown aircraft, Sesna 182L disappeared in vague conditions while climbing 182L light aircraft from Frederick Valentric Bus Strait, Australia.
27 November	The Kurdistan Workers Party, which was in a struggle with Turkey on the formation of an autonomous Kurdish kingdom, was established.
27 November	San Francisco Mayor George Moskon and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk was assassinated by supervisor Dan White.
06 December	The people of Spain voted in favor of democracy and projected a new constitution to end the 40 -year autocratic rule in the referendum.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
01 October	The minimum age of girls for marriage in India was increased from 14 to 18 and that of boys from 18 to 21 years.
03 October	The first test tube baby was born in the Indian state of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and the second in the world.
07 October	India's famous fast bowler Zaheer Khan was born.
20 October	India's aggressive batsman Virender Sehwag was born. He scored 8,586 runs in 104 Tests and 8,273 runs in 251 ODIs in his career.
26 December	Former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi was released from prison.
01 January	213 people died in Air India's Jumbo Jet Boeing-747 aircraft crash in Bombay (now Mumbai).
12 April	To mark 125 years of Indian Railways, the country's first double-decker train was run from Victoria Terminal of Sinhagad Express (now Bombay) to Pune.
07 November	Indira Gandhi was re-elected to the Indian Parliament.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
20 October	Virender Sehwag / Player / India
23 Farbury	Kiran Baluch / Player / Pakistan
03 March	Tanisha Mukherjee / Actress / India
04 August	Sandeep Naik / Politician / India
07 October	Zaheer Khan / Cricketer / India
10 September	Manju / Actress / India
13 March	Anusha Rizvi / Director / India
13 January	Ashmit Patel / Actor / India
16 April	Lara Dutta / Actress / India
16 February	Wasim Jaffer / Cricketer / India
17 August	Disha Vakani / Actress / India
17 December	Riteish Deshmukh / Actor / India
18 October	Jyothika / Actress / India
18 October	Kunal Kapoor / Actor / India
20 October	Virender Sehwag / Cricketer / India
20 October	Virender Sehwag / Player / India
25 November	Koel Purie / Actress / India
28 March	Nafisa Joseph / Model / India
NA NA	Shanti tigga / Soldier / India

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