1978 - January. January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 - Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay - 213 dead. January 4 - Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet. January 6 - The Hungarian Holy Crown (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) returned to Hungary from the United States where it was held after World War II. January 7 - Emilio Palma is born in Antarctica, making ...

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1978 in aviation - January. January 1 - British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley, and Scottish Aviation are absorbed into British Aerospace 1978 in aviation - April. April 1 - The Canadian Snowbirds aerobatic team officially becomes the 431 Air Demonstration Squadron. April 18 - the Vickers Viscount becomes the first turboprop airliner to see 25 years in service April 20 - a Korean Airlines Boeing 707 makes a crash landing after being attacked by Soviet fighters over the Kola P ...

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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). 1978 - Events. January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 - Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay - 213 dead. January 4 - Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet. January 6 - The Hungarian Holy Crown (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) returned to Hungary from the U ...

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1978 in rail transport - March events. March - Pacific Fruit Express dissolves, its fleet of refrigerator cars is distributed between Southern Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad. 1978 in rail transport - July events. July 6 - A plastic bag of dirty linens carelessly placed against the electric heater in the vestibule of a sleeping car traveling between Penzance and London Paddingt ...

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1978 in South Africa - January. Former African National Congress member, Steve Mtshali who turned state witness in various trials is shot and wounded 1978 in South Africa - February. An unexploded bomb "capable of destroying 22 story building is found in a Johannesburg office block and defused 2 February - Guerrillas attack the Daveyton police station 1978 in South Africa - March. 10 March - Bomb explodes outside the offices of the Bantu Affairs building in Port Elizabeth. ...

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See also: 1977 in music, other events of 1978, 1979 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1978 in music - Events. January 14 - The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. April 22 - The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live. The duo of Jake & Elwood Blues (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) was introduced by Paul Shaffer (as Don Kirschner) and performed "Hey Bartender". Ap ...

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See also: 1977 in film 1978 1979 in film 1970s in film years in film film 1978 in film - Events. February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California March 1 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery 3 months after burial March - Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strike ...

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The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA TOUR, hosts 30 events annually in the United States and Canada for golfers 50 and older. Known as the Senior PGA TOUR until 2002, it offers approximately $50 million in annual prize money. Upon eligibility, some of the greatest names in golf history have participated in the tour. The tour grew out of a highly successful event in 1978, the Legends of Golf, which featured competition between two-member tea ...

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The 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention is regarded to be the watershed political event in the modern State of Hawaii. The convention established term limits for state office holders, provided a requirement for an annual balanced budget, laid the groundwork for the return of federal land such as the island of Kahoolawe, and most importantly created the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in an effort to right the wrongs done towards native Hawaiians since the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893. The event also created an ambitio ...

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See also: 1976 in television, other events of 1977, 1978 in television and the list of 'years in television'. For the American network television schedule, please see 1977-78 American network television schedule. 1977 in television - Events. January 15 - Bill Murray joins the cast of Saturday Night Live, replacing Chevy Chase who left the previous year. February 1 - Colour television transmissions commence in Italy, under the RAI banner of television channels. Fe ...

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A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a 1978 science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle. In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace Murry, an advanced and perceptive child in A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, has grown into an adolescent. His intelligence and remarkable goodness carry him through an adventure in time to save the world from nuclear disaster threatened by a South American dictator, Mad Dog Branzillo. In order to change the outcome of the present, Charles Wallace must change the past, in a series of "Might-have-beens," events which ...

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Abarenbo Shogun (暴れん坊将軍) was a Japanese television program on the TV Asahi network. Set in the eighteenth century, it showed the fictitious events in the life of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa shogun. The program started in 1978 under the title Yoshimune Hyobanki: Abarenbo Shogun (Chronicle in Praise of Yoshimune: The Bold Shogun). After a few seasons, it lost the first two words and ran for two decades under the shorter title until the series ended in 2003. (A two-hour special aired in 2004, and more might f ...

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Wes Morris (born March 28, 1978) is a Christian evangelist. Wes Morris is a graduate of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was originally introduced to the path of evangelism while working for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse International relief under Franklin Graham. He and his wife, Erin Morris, have since traveled to several states in the United States and he has spoken in high schools, churches, and recreational events, in addition to two larger scale crusades in and around Hyderab ...

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See also: 1976 in film 1977 1978 in film 1970s in film years in film film 1977 in film - Events. In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network. Rocky picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All The President's Men wins Jason Robards the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines. May 25 - ...

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1978 in film 1979 1980 in film 1970s in film years in film film 1979 in film - Events. March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. November 1 - Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark. December 7 - Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuts in the United States to mixed reviews but strong box office, launching a film franchise that would span 10 films over the next 23 years. It also would eventually lead to t ...

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The Cork Jazz Festival is an annual festival held in Cork City, Ireland in late October every year since 1978. The Festival is Ireland's biggest and most prestigious jazz event and attracts hundreds of musicians and thousands of music fans to the city each year. Renowned as Europe's friendliest Jazz Festival, the event has hosted many of the jazz 'greats' in its history, including: Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich, Mel Torme, Cleo Laine, Dave Brubeck, Benny Carter, Joe Zawinul, Art Blakey, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis, Stéphane Gra ...

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The Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event held every four years involving the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations. The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in 1930. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978. As well as many Olympic sports, the Games also include some sports that are played mainly in Commonwealth ...

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See also: 1976 in music, other events of 1977, 1978 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1977 in music - Events. In this year, the St. Magnus Festival was founded in Orkney by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Perhaps most important is the release of several pivotal albums in the development of punk music. Widely-acknowledged as masterpieces and among the earliest first full-length purely punk albums, the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, the Jam's In the City, Iggy Pop's Lust ...

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See also: 1978 in music, other events of 1979, 1980 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1979 in music - Events. Disco reigned supreme in 1979, with several #1 hits from The Bee Gees and Donna Summer that year. Several artists who were not regarded as dance/disco acts, scored major successes by releasing disco singles, including New Wave band Blondie with their first US number one single "Heart Of Glass" and Rod Stewart with "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy". However, the backlash against d ...

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