Historical Events In 1978

Nov 15 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Nov 25 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275

Nov 08 Norman Rockwell artist, dies in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at 84

Nov 02 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31

Dec 04 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus

Dec 30 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach

Dec 31 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US

Dec 01 President Carter more than doubles national park system size

Dec 02 Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran

Dec 13 Susan B Anthony dollar, first US coin to honor a woman, issued

Dec 16 Cleveland, Ohio, become the first city in the post-Depression era to default on its loans.

Dec 02 Streisand and Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1

Dec 16 Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR

Dec 29 Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government

Dec 26 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail

Dec 11 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry

Dec 05 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus

Dec 18 John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires, is executed in Pennsylvania. The Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society that had allegedly been responsible for some incidences of vigilante justice in the coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania

Dec 20 H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail

Dec 08 Golda Meir served as Israel's PM (1969-74, dies in Jerusalem at 80

Dec 17 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda

Dec 21 Police in Des Plaines IL, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder

Dec 09 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus

Dec 04 Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco first female mayor

Dec 10 In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

May 21 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect

May 26 The first legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City

May 12 Commerce Department announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female

May 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

May 01 Naomi Uemura became first to reach North Pole overland alone

May 18 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work

May 23 General strike in Peru

May 05 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds smacked his 3,000th major-league hit.

May 25 "Star Wars" released

May 13 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels

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