Historical Events In 1978
Mar 16 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
Mar 03 Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
Mar 01 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
Mar 22 Three prisoners emerge from St. Jerome prison with their six hostages after a two-week standoff, ending Canada's longest hostage-taking
Mar 06 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot &crippled by a sniper in Georgia
Mar 31 Wings release "London Town" album
Mar 16 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
Mar 07 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
Mar 11 Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets joined Gordie Howe by getting career goal number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.
Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Aug 22 Tear gas used to quell riot by 150 prisoners in Sydney's Long Bay Jail who set fire to their cells
Aug 26 John Paul I (formerly Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice) is elected Pope of the Roman Catholic church, following the death of Paul VI.
Aug 06 Pope Paul VI dies of heart attack at summer residence at 80
Aug 26 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
Aug 07 Thousands of mourners file past the body of Pope Paul VI
Aug 28 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
Aug 20 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
Aug 17 The first manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
Aug 31 Symbionese Liberation Army founders William & Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst
Aug 11 Funeral of Pope Paul VI
Aug 19 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
Aug 18 Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers andfirefighters
Aug 26 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
Aug 19 First transatlantic balloon crossing in history finishes in Paris
Aug 12 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
Sep 15 Muhammad Ali beats WBA heavyweight champion Leon Spinks
Sep 25 PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
Sep 02 George Harrison marries Olivia
Sep 17 the Camp David accord is signed by Begin, Sadat and Carter
Sep 23 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit
Sep 02 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
Sep 02 Graham Salmon set the worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
Sep 03 Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
Sep 05 Sadat, Begin &Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md
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