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The following events occurred in February 1978:
February 1, 1978 (Wednesday)[edit]
- Film director Roman Polanski skipped bail in the United States and fled to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.[1]
February 2, 1978 (Thursday)[edit]
- Born:
- Nelson Chamisa, Zimbawean politician who was the runner up in the 2018 presidential election; in Fort Victoria, Rhodesia
- Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer with 45 caps for the Scotland national team; in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
February 3, 1978 (Friday)[edit]
- Born:
- Amal Alamuddin Clooney, Lebanese-born British lawyer and barrister; in Beirut
- Joan Capdevila Spanish footballer with 60 caps for the national team; in Tàrrega
February 4, 1978 (Saturday)[edit]
- Born: Danna Garcia, German-born Colombian telenovela actress; in West Berlin
February 5, 1978 (Sunday)[edit]
- The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 struck the New England region and the New York metropolitan area, killing about 100 people, and causing over US$520 million in damage.
- Born: Samuel Sánchez, Spanish professional bicyclist and 2008 Olympic gold medalist; in Oviedo
February 6, 1978 (Monday)[edit]
- The Prime Minister of Burma (now Myanmar), General Ne Win, targeted Muslim minorities in the village of Sakkipara.
- Born:
- Olena Zelenska, Ukrainian screenwriter and First Lady of Ukraine as wife of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy; in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
- Yael Naim, French-born Israeli singer; in Paris
February 7, 1978 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Born:
- Ashton Kutcher, American TV and film actor known for That '70s Show and Dude, Where's My Car?; in Cedar Rapids, Iowa[2]
- Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Nigerian film actress, singer and philanthropist; in Lagos State
- Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer with 83 caps for the Belgium national team; in Chimay
February 8, 1978 (Wednesday)[edit]
- The United States Senate allowed regular broadcasting its proceedings on the radio for the first time, permitting coverage of speeches on whether to ratify the Panama Canal Treaty.[3]
February 9, 1978 (Thursday)[edit]
- The Budd Company unveiled the first self-propelled railcar, the SPV-2000 at a conference in Philadelphia.[4]
February 10, 1978 (Friday)[edit]
- The crash of a Douglas C-47 military transport airplane of the Uruguayan Air Force killed all 44 people on board after going down shortly after taking off from Artigas on a flight to Montevideo.[5][6]
- The crash of a Columbia Pacific Airlines airplane killed all 17 people aboard when it crashed on takeoff from Richland, Washington. The Beechcraft 99 was making a short flight to Seattle and was "seen to begin a steep climb at an angle of 20 to 45 degrees" to an altitude of 400 feet and then "turned left and descended nose-down at a flightpath angle of about 45 degrees until it struck the ground 1,669 feet past the runway end and caught fire.[7]
- Born: Don Omar (William Omar Landron), Puerto Rican rapper and reggaeton musician; in Santurce[8]
February 11, 1978 (Saturday)[edit]
- The crash of Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314 killed 44 of the 50 people on board. The Boeing 737 went down as it was approaching Cranbrook, British Columbia on a flight from Calgary. Snow on Runway 16 was being plowed in anticipation of Flight 314's arrival scheduled for 1:05 in the afternoon, but the airplane arrived 10 minutes early while the snowplow was still on the runway. When one of the crew noticed the plow, the pilot attempted to climb again and then stalled at 400 feet.[9]
- The People's Republic of China lifted its ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.[10]
- Somalia mobilized its troops to deal with an apparent Ethiopian attack.
- Died: James B. Conant, 84, American chemist, college president and diplomat who served as President of Harvard University (from 1933 to 1953) and as the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany (from 1955 to 1957)[11]
February 12, 1978 (Sunday)[edit]
- Born: Gethin Jones, Welsh television host; in Cardiff
February 13, 1978 (Monday)[edit]
- A bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing a policeman and two civilians, and injuring several other people.
- Born: Niklas Bäckström, Finnish ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League and the Finland national ice hockey team; in Helsinki
February 14, 1978 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Born:
- Danai Gurira, American actress known for The Walking Dead TV series and the Black Panther film series; in Grinnell, Iowa
- Darius Songaila, Lithuanian pro basketball player and assistant coach in the NBA and for the Lithuania men's national team; in Kapsukas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union (now Marijampolė, Lithuania)
February 15, 1978 (Wednesday)[edit]
- Rhodesia, one of only two remaining white-ruled African nations (the other being South Africa), announced that it would implement multiracial democracy within two years.
February 16, 1978 (Thursday)[edit]
- Born:
- Tia Hellebaut, Belgian track and field athlete, and 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the women's high jump; in Antwerp
- Yekaterina Volkova, Russian long-distance runner, winner of the 2007 women's world championship in the 3000 meter steeplechase; in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
February 17, 1978 (Friday)[edit]
- Died: Artemiy Artsikhovsky, 75, Soviet Russian archaeologist who discovered the birch bark manuscripts of Novgorod
February 18, 1978 (Saturday)[edit]
- Died: Maggie McNamara, 49, American stage, film and TV actress, committed suicide with an overdose of barbiturates.[12]
February 19, 1978 (Sunday)[edit]
- A rescue attempt by Egypt's Sa'ka Forces to rescue hostages on a hijacked EgyptAir flight failed in Larnaca on the island of Cyprus. In addition to the terrorists and some hostages, 20 Egyptian commandos are injured or killed.
- Died: Pankaj Mullick, 72, Indian film composer, singer and actor
February 20, 1978 (Monday)[edit]
- Born: Julia Jentsch, German actress, winner of the Best Actress award at the 2005 European Film Awards for Sophie Scholl; in West Berlin, West Germany
February 21, 1978 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Born: Kim Ha-neul, South Korean actress, winner of the 2011 Grand Bell Award for Best Actress for Blind; in Seoul
February 22, 1978 (Wednesday)[edit]
- Navstar 1, the first satellite in the Global Positioning System (GPS), was launched into Earth orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Liftoff took place at 23:44 UTC (3:44 in the afternoon local time) from Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3. The Navstar, officially "OPS 5111" was part of "Block I", the first group of 11 GPS satellites.[13][14]
- The Istiqlal Mosque, with capacity for as many as 120,000 worshipers, was inaugurated in Jakarta by President Suharto as Indonesia's national mosque.[15][16]
- Died: Debbie Weems, 28, American singer and actress on stage and TV, best known as a recurring cast member on the children's TV show Captain Kangaroo, jumped or fell from a building in New York City.[17]
February 23, 1978 (Thursday)[edit]
- William H. Webster took office as the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), replacing Clarence M. Kelley, who had retired on February 15. Webster, who had been a federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, had been nominated by U.S. President Carter and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
- Died: John Howard, 33, Canadian mountain guide and mountaineer, was killed while climbing the Athabasca Glacier in the Joffre Group of the Lillooet Ranges of British Columbia's Coast Mountains, when he fell into a crevasse. Though climbing with a companion, the two made the journey without being linked by a rope and Howard plunged into the crevasse when a snow bridge collapsed beneath him.[18][19] The 8,369 feet (2,551 m) high Mount Howard in the Joffre Group was named in his honor on June 11, 1979.[20]
February 24, 1978 (Friday)[edit]
- Born: Gary (stage name for Kang Hee-gun), South Korean rapper and record producer; in Jamsil-dong, Seoul
- Died: Alma Thomas, 86, African-American painter[21]
February 25, 1978 (Saturday)[edit]
- The first Legislative Assembly election was held in the newly-admitted Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
- The owner of the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, Harold Ballard, angry over a new bylaw of the National Hockey League requiring all uniforms to include a player's name, complied with the letter of the law, if not the spirit, by sending out his team with names stitched on their dark blue jerseys used for away games, but with letters of the same dark blue color. "I've complied with the NHL bylaw," Ballard told reporters in Chicago. "The names are stitched on, three inches high. It's a pity you can't see them."[22]
- Born: Yuji Nakazawa, Japanese footballer with 110 caps for the Japan national team; in Yoshikawa, Saitama Prefecture
February 26, 1978 (Sunday)[edit]
- Elections were held in the West African nation of Senegal for the 100-seat National Assembly and for President. The voting was the first since independence to allow candidates from more than one political party. President Léopold Sédar Senghor of the Parti Socialiste du Sénégal (PS), was re-elected with 82% of the vote, compared to slightly less than 18% for his opponent from the Parti démocratique sénégalais (PDS), Abdoulaye Wade.[23]
- Voting was held in the South American nation of Colombia for the 112-member Senate and the 199-member Chamber of Representatives. The Partido Liberal Colombiano (PLC) won a majority in both chambers, with 62 in the Senate and and 111 in the Chamber. The Partido Conservador Colombiano gained seats but remained in the minority.[24] Voting for President would take place on June 4.
- Died:
- Camilo Ortega, 27, Nicaraguan revolutionary with the Sandinista National Liberation Front, was killed by the Nicaraguan National Guard, whose soldiers had discovered the Sandinista hideout in the Las Sabogales neighborhood of the city of Masaya.
- Maria Bach, 81, Austrian composer and violinist, died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning from a defective gas stove.[25]
February 27, 1978 (Monday)[edit]
- Born: Kakhaber Kaladze, Georgian politician and Mayor of Tbilisi since 2017, previously a footballer with 83 caps for the Georgia national team; in Samtredia, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
February 28, 1978 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Born:
- Yasir Hameed, Pakistani cricketer with 176 caps for the Pakistan national team in Test cricket and 147 caps in One Day International Play; in Peshawar
- Benjamin Raich, Austrian alpine skier and winner of two Olympic gold medals in 2006 in the slalom and giant slalom, and three world championships; in Arzl im Pitztal
- Died: Philip Ahn, 72, Asian-American character actor of Korean descent;
References[edit]
- ^ "Polanski, Facing Court Sentence, Flies to Europe". New York Times archive. February 2, 1978. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Interview With Ashton Kutcher — Part 2". America's Intelligence Wire. September 6, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2008.
- ^ "Advice and Consent: The Panama Canal Treaties". archives.gov. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
- ^ Crouse, Chuck (1990). Budd Car, the RDC Story. Mineola, NY: Weekend Chief Publishing. p. 141. ISBN 0-9612814-2-1.
- ^ Aviation Safety Network
- ^ "31 muertos al caer avion en Uruguay", El Tiempo (Bogota), February 11, 1978, p.12-A
- ^ Aviation Safety Network
- ^ "Don Omar". Archived from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
- ^ Aviation Safety Database
- ^ Gabay, Jonathan (2007). Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium: The Definitive Professional Writer's Guide. Routledge. p. 612. ISBN 9780750683203. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
- ^ "James B. Conant Is Dead at 84; Harvard President for 20 Years". The New York Times. February 12, 1978. p. 1.
- ^ "Maggie McNamara, Actress, Dies; In 'Moon Is Blue' on Stage, Screen". The New York Times. March 16, 1978. p. 15.
- ^ Hegarty, Christopher J.; Chatre, Eric (December 2008). "Evolution of the Global Navigation SatelliteSystem (GNSS)". Proceedings of the IEEE. 96 (12): 1902–1917. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2008.2006090. S2CID 838848.
- ^ "1st Prototype Satellite Launched Successfully", AP report in The Sacramento (CA) Bee, February 24, 1978, p.23 ("The 955-poind spacecraft, launched Wednesday, was reported traveling in its 11,600-mile orbit... The program is scheduled for completion in the 1980s and will consist of 24 satellites that will provide three-dimensional navigation.")
- ^ Purba, Kornelius (November 11, 2010). "Istiqlal: The work of a Christian architect". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
- ^ Indonesian State Secretariat (1995), 40 Tahun Indonesia Merdeka, Jilid 3 (40 Years of Indonesian Independence, Volume 3), p1035, ISBN 979-8300-06-8
- ^ "'Captain Kangaroo' Star Dies in Fall", Waco (TX) Tribune-Herald, p.1A
- ^ "Fall in Crevasse, Climbing Unroped, Alberta, Rocky Mountain, Athabasca Glacier", American Alpine Club (1979)
- ^ "Body recovered from crevasse", The Province (Vancouver BC), February 25, 1978, p.5
- ^ "Mount Howard". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
- ^ Richard, Paul (25 February 1978). "Alma Thomas, 86, Dies". Washington Post. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ^ "NHL's Ziegler Sees Red Over Maple Leafs' Blue", The Post Star (Glens Falls, NY), February 28, 1978, p.15
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich and Bernhard Thibaut, Elections in Africa: A data handbook (Nomos, 1999) pp.765–770 ISBN 0-19-829645-2. Senghor's PS won 82 of the 100 National Assembly seats in accordance with the percentage of the votes.
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II (Nomos, 2005) p.305 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
- ^ Porter, Cecelia (15 August 2012). Five Lives in Music : Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios From the Baroque to the Present. Urbana : University of Illinois Press. 2012. p. 132. ISBN 9780252094132.