Page 9: Historical Events In 1978
Sunday, 21 June 2026
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 21 US Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike. 


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


Jul 23 Israeli cabinet rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas. 


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


Jul 27 Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72 


Jul 28 600000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY. 


Jul 28 Jan Willem van Otterloo, composer, dies at 70 


Jul 28 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3188 and #3422. 


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


Jul 29 600000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY. 


Jul 29 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m. 


Jul 29 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings 


Jul 29 Wesley La Violette, composer, dies at 84. 


Jul 31 Carleton Percy Hobbs, actor (I Claudius, Dark Places), dies at 80. 


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


Aug 02 Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79 


Aug 03 Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered 


Aug 05 Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79. 


Aug 06 Edward Durrell Stone, US architect, dies at 76 


Aug 06 Pope Paul VI dies of heart attack at summer residence at 80. 


Aug 07 Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer, dies at 60 


Aug 07 Thousands of mourners file past the body of Pope Paul VI. 


Aug 09 James G Cozzens, US writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74 


Aug 11 Funeral of Pope Paul VI 


Aug 12 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours 


Aug 15 Harrison Kerr, composer, dies at 80. 


Aug 16 Alidius WL Tjarda van Stachouwer, gov-gen of Neth Indies, dies at 90 


Aug 17 The inaugural manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II) 


Aug 18 Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers andfirefighters 


Aug 19 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran 


Aug 19 inaugural transatlantic balloon crossing in history finishes in Paris. 


Aug 20 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London. 


Aug 20 Ivan Jirko, composer, dies at 51. 


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