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AD 78 ( LXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Novius and Commodus (or, less frequently, year 831 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination AD 78 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno ...
1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1978th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 978th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1970s decade.
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January 19 – Federal Appeals Court Judge William H. Webster is appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. January 25–27 – The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes, causing 51 deaths in Ohio. January 28 – Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento", is arrested.
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January 14 – The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Francisco's WinterlandApril 22 – The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live. The duo of Jake & Elwood Blues (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) are introduced by Paul Shaffer (as Don Kirschner) and...April 26 – Ringo Starr's, Ringo, a musical version of The Prince and the Pauper airs on American television. Starr's fellow former Beatle George Harrisonprovides the narrationMay 8 – Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler are the first humans on the Mount Everest without oxygen tanksJanuary
1. January 13 – Tinga, Brazilian footballer 2. January 25 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 6th President of Ukraine 3. January 28 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer 4. January 30 – Daniel Lindström, Swedish singer
February
1. February 7 – Ashton Kutcher, American actor
March
1. March 7 – Azis, Bulgarian singer 2. March 11 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer 3. March 21 – Kevin Federline, American doofus
January
1. January 1 – Nicolae Simatoc, Romanian football player (b. 1920) 2. January 5 – Sally Eilers, American actress (b. 1908) 3. January 8 – André François-Poncet, French politician (b. 1887) 4. January 13 – Hubert Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911) 5. January 14 – Kurt Gödel, Czech mathematician (b. 1906) 6. January 28 – Greta Johansson, Swedish diver (b. 1895)
February
1. February 2 – Wendy Barrie, English actress (b. 1912) 2. February 9 – Hans Stuck, German racing driver (b. 1900)
March
1. March 21 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, 5th President of Ireland (b. 1911)
Nobel Prize in Physics – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow WilsonChemistry – Peter D MitchellMedicine – Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O SmithLiterature -Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polnish writer and journalistRelease. 8 January 1978. ( 1978-01-08) –. 24 December 1990. ( 1990-12-24) All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series made by the BBC and based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Set in the Yorkshire Dales and beginning in the mid-1930s, it stars Christopher ...
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1978 A.D. John Paul II is elected as the first non-Italian Pope in over 450 years. Iranian Revolution begins. 1979 A.D. Margaret Thatcher is elected the first woman prime minister of England. Shah of Iran leaves and exiled religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returns. 1980 A.D. Iran-Iraq war begins (until 1988).
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