Page 9: Historical Events In 1978
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Jul 10 E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484. 


Jul 10 Michel Gusikoff, composer, dies at 85 


Jul 10 Military coup in Mauritania 


Jul 12 Sun Bank Building opens 


Jul 13 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years. 


Jul 13 Antonio Veretti, composer, dies at 78. 


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


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


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


Jul 14 Anatoly Shcharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation. 


Jul 17 Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages), dies at 51 


Jul 18 Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks. 


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. 


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