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AD 78 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).
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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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 journalistFebruary 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.
1978 advertisements by country. Advertisements in the United States by year. 1970s advertisements in the United States.
Nov 8, 2023 · AD stands for Anno Domini. Anno is Latin for “in the year,” domini is Latin for “lord,” so Anno Domini translates as “in the year of our Lord.” Since Christianity maintains that Jesus is still living—ascended to heaven, at the father’s right hand—every year since his birth is a year of our Lord.
1978 in video games. Categories: 1970s. Years. Hidden categories: Category series navigation year and decade. CatAutoTOC generates no TOC.
