Historical Events In 1978

Jul 08 The Naval Air Test and Evaluation Museum at NAS Patuxent River opened its doors to the public for the first time

Jul 07 Solomon Is gains independence from Britain (National Day)

Jul 29 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings

Jul 03 Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"

Jul 28 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY

Jul 10 Military coup in Mauritania

Jul 24 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premeirs in NYC

Jul 28 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3188 & #3422

Jul 21 US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike

Jul 01 Former Pres Nixon makes first public speech since resigning in 1974

Jul 29 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m

Jul 06 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut

Jul 03 James Daly actor (Medical Center), dies at 59

Jul 05 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan

Jul 13 Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II

Jul 13 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"

Jul 28 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for first time

Jul 21 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m

Jul 09 American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago

Jul 13 Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida

Jul 31 Gunman shoots his way into the Iraqi Embassy in Paris

Jul 08 Bjorn Borg of Sweden won 3rd consecutive title at Wimbledon

Jul 29 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY

Jul 12 Sun Bank Building opens

Jul 21 The final flight of the service acceptance trials for the AH-1T Cobra helicopter gunship was made at Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent Rive

Jul 04 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332

Jul 09 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2530 Shipka

Jul 04 Memphis firefighters halt 3-day strike under a court order

Jul 08 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus

Mar 18 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death

Mar 22 France performs nuclear test

Mar 12 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1 14.99)

Mar 05 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances

Mar 02 The first of many broadcasts of the evening soap "Dallas" on CBS TV

Mar 18 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario CA

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