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1978 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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9 February – Gordon McQueen, 25-year-old Scotland central...
- 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...
- Music
May 6 – The Knack is formed (first album released in 1979).;...
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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 terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) [a] are used when designating years in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. The term anno Domini is Medieval Latin and means "in the year of the Lord" [1] but is often presented using "our Lord" instead of "the Lord", [2][3] taken from the full original phrase " anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi ...
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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 journalist1978 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.
As the name suggests, BC or Before Christ refers to the number of years before Christ was born. AD or Anno Domini is the period after Christ was born. BCE and CE stand for 'Before Common Era' and 'Common Era' and are alternatives to BC and AD respectively.
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Aug 27, 2017 · AD (or A.D.) is an abbreviation for the Latin expression "Anno Domini", which translates to "the Year of Our Lord", and equivalent to C.E. (the Common Era). Anno Domini refers to the years which followed the supposed birth year of the philosopher and founder of Christianity, Jesus Christ.
