1978

1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was .
Events
January 14 - The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Francisco's Winterland
April 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 perform "Hey Bartender"
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 Harrison provides the narration
May 8 - Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler are the first humans on the Mount Everest without oxygen tanks
July 25 - First human birth from in vitro fertilization
August 6 - Pope Paul VI dies at the age of 80. Albino Luciani become the new pope, Pope John Paul I
August 17 - Double Eagle II becomes the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
August 26 - The first Canada Jam Festival is held in Ontario, featuring sets by the Doobie Brothers, the Commodores, Kansas, Dave Mason, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section
September 28 - Pope John Paul I dies after 34 days in office
October 1
Vietnam attacks Cambodia
Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom
October 16 - Karol Wojtyla elected pope, and calls himself Pope John Paul II
November 18 - Jim Jones and his followers commit suicide
November 27 - San Francisco politician Dan White assassinates Harvey Milk and George Moscone
December 21 - John Wayne Gacy is arrested for the killings of 33 boys and young men.
Garfield, a comic strip, debuts
Space Invaders is created by the Taito Corporation
Births
January
January 13 - Tinga, Brazilian footballer
January 25 - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 6th President of Ukraine
January 28 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
January 30 - Daniel Lindstrom, Swedish singer
February
February 7 - Ashton Kutcher, American actor
March
March 7 - Azis, Bulgarian singer
March 11 - Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
March 21 - Kevin Federline, American doofus
April
April 4 - Sam Moran, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
April 6 - Myleene Klass, English musician
April 30 - Tom Fulp, Newgrounds creater
May
May 22 - Katie Price, English model and singer
June
June 9 - Matthew Bellamy, English singer
June 9 - Miroslav Klose, Polish footballer
June 11 - Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
June 19 - Dirk Nowitzki,
June 21 - Frank Lampard, English footballer
June 29 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
July
July 19 - Chiara Zanni, Canadian actress
August
August 22 - Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician
August 23 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player (d. 2020)
September
September 25 - Rafal Wiechecki, Polish politician
September 28 - Bushido, German singer
September 30 - Candice Michelle, American model and wrestler
October
October 2 - Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
October 6 - Carolina Gynning, Swedish model
October 5 - Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
October 7 - Alesha Dixon, English singer
October 26 - CM Punk, American professional wrestler
November
November 25 - Ringo Shiina, Japanese singer
December
December 2 - Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer
December 2 - Chris Wolstenholme, English musician
December 18 - Katie Holmes, American actress
Deaths
January
January 1 - Nicolae Simatoc, Romanian football player (b. 1920)
January 5 - Sally Eilers, American actress (b. 1908)
January 8 - Andre Francois-Poncet, French politician (b. 1887)
January 13 - Hubert Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
January 14 - Kurt Godel, Czech mathematician (b. 1906)
January 28 - Greta Johansson, Swedish diver (b. 1895)
February
February 2 - Wendy Barrie, English actress (b. 1912)
February 9 - Hans Stuck, German racing driver (b. 1900)
March
March 21 - Cearbhall O Dalaigh, 5th President of Ireland (b. 1911)
April
April 16 - Philibert Tsiranana, 1st President of Madagascar (b. 1912)
May
May 1 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b. 1903)
May 2 - Vong Savang, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Laos (b. 1931)
May 9 - Aldo Moro, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
May 13 - Sisavang Vatthana, 3rd Prime Minister of The Kingdom of Laos (b. 1907)
May 14 - Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
May 17 - Armin T. Wegner, German writer (b. 1886)
May 24 - Cyrille Adoula, 4th Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1921)
May 30 - Tetsu Katayama, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1887)
May 31 - Jozsef Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
June
June 2 - Santiago Bernabeu Yeste, Spanish footballer (b. 1895)
June 12 - Guo Moruo, Chinese politician (b. 1892)
June 24 - Ahmad al-Ghashmi, President of North Yemen (b. 1941)
July
July 26 - Mary Blair, American artist (b. 1911)
August
August 6 - Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
August 6 - Edward Durrell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
August 22 - Jomo Kenyatta, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
August 26 - Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
August 26 - Jose Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
September
September 7 - Keith Moon, English drummer (b. 1946)
September 28 - Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
October
October 9 - Jacques Brel, Belgian musician (b. 1929)
October 17 - Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of Italy (b. 1887)
November
November 15 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)
November 19 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (b. 1931)
December
December 3 - Golda Meir, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
December 10 - Ed Wood, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
December 11 - Raul Alberto Lastiri, 39th President of Argentina (b. 1915)
December 27 - Houari Boumediene, 2nd President of Algeria (b. 1932)
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize in Physics - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
Chemistry - Peter D Mitchell
Medicine - Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O Smith
Literature -Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polnish writer and journalist
Peace - Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat and Menachem Begin
Economics - Herbert Simon
References