1978

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 - 1978 - 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983

Events

January 1 - the Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law.
January 19 - Federal Appeals Court Judge William H. Webster appointed as Director of the FBI
February 11 - 16 Unification Church couples wed in New York NY.
February 11 - China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens.
February 15 - Rhodesia's prime minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on the transfer to black majority rule.
March 16 - United States Senate approves the Panama Canal neutrality treaty; votes to turn the canal over to Panama by the year 2000 on April 18.
March 16 - Former Italian premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards; he is found dead on May 9.
June 6 - Californians in referendum approve Proposition 13 for a nearly 60% slash in property tax revenues.
June 28 - The United States Supreme Court, in the Bakke case, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities.
July 25 - First human birth from in vitro fertilization (the test tube baby)
August 6 - Pope Paul VI dies at age of 80. The new Pope, John Paul I, age 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office on September 28. He is succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II on October 16.
September 17 - Camp David peace agreement between Israel and Egypt
November 18 - Reverend Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
December - Spanish Constitution aproved in referendum.

Art, Culture & Fashion

Births

Deaths

January 13 - Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S Vice President and Senator
January 14 - Kurt Gödel, US mathematician
February 11 - James B Conant, headmaster of Harvard University.
November 15 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist

Sport

January 15 - Super Bowl XII Dallas Cowboys (27) def. Denver Broncos (10)
Argentina wins Football World Cup on home ground
British Commonwealth Games held in Edmonton, Canada

Nobel Prizes