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Clockwise from top-left: the Jonestown massacre occurs, leaving 909 people dead; Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 collides with a private Cessna 172 light aircraft, killing 146 people; an earthquake in Tabas kills around 25,000 people; the 1978 FIFA World Cup is held in Argentina; the Saur Revolution marks the end of power of the Barakzai ...
- United Kingdom
6 July – Eleven people are killed in the Taunton train fire....
- Great Blizzard of 1978
The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that...
- Air India Flight 855
Air India Flight 855 was a scheduled passenger flight from...
- 1978 in the United States
February 5–7 – The Northeastern United States blizzard of...
- List of American films
Highest-grossing films of 1978 Rank Title Distributor...
- Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles
This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of...
- United Kingdom
February 5–7 – The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area, killing about 100 and causing over US$520 million in damage. February 6 – The first Home Depot opens in Marietta, Georgia .
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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 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 journalistHighest-grossing films of 1978 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Grease: Paramount: $159,978,870 2 Superman: Warner Bros. $134,218,018 3 National Lampoon’s Animal House: Universal: $120,091,123 4 Every Which Way but Loose: Warner Bros. $85,196,485 5 Heaven Can Wait: Paramount: $81,640,278 6 Hooper: Warner Bros. $78,000,000 7 Jaws 2 ...
OpeningOpeningTitleProduction CompanyJ A N U A R Y6J A N U A R Y6J A N U A R Y11Compagnie Commerciale Française / ...J A N U A R Y25Circuit FilmsThis is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1978. The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 23, 1978.
6 July – Eleven people are killed in the Taunton train fire. 7 July – Solomon Islands are annexed to the Crown and become independent from the United Kingdom. 15 July – The Picnic at Blackbushe Aerodrome, Camberley, Surrey, a concert featuring Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Joan Armatrading, attracts some 200,000 people.
