1978 - January. January 13 - Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S Vice President and Senator (b. 1911) January 13 - Joe McCarthy, baseball manager (b. 1887) January 14 - Harold Abrahams, English athlete (b. 1899) January 14 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian-born mathematician (b. 1906) January 22 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894) January 23 - Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (b. 1946) January 23 - Jack Oakie, ...

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1978 - January. January 1 - Erica Durance, Canadian actress January 1 - Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer January 3 - Alex Leigh, British model January 4 - Dwight Freeney, American football player January 9 - Chad Johnson, American football January 9 - AJ McLean, member of the Backstreet Boys January 14 - Shawn Crawford, American runner January 17 - Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer January 28 - Gianluigi Bu ...

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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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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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Chief Minister of Maharashtra - List of chief ministers of Maharashtra. Yashwantrao Chavan (May 1, 1960 - November 19, 1962) Marotrao Kannamwar (November 20,1962 - November 24, 1963) Vasantrao Naik (December 5, 1963 - February 20, 1975) Shankarrao Chavan (February 21, 1975 - May 17, 1977) Vasantdada Patil (May 17, 1977 - July 18, 1978) Sharad Pawar (July 18, 1978 - February 17, 1980) A R Antule (June 9, 1980 - January 12, 1982) Babasaheb Bhosale ...

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Dr. Charles Herbert Best, CC, (February 27, 1899 – March 31, 1978) was a medical scientist. He was born in West Pembroke, Maine, USA to Canadian parents. While a 22-year-old student studying medicine at the University of Toronto, he worked as an assistant to Dr. Frederick Banting and played a role in the discovery of the pancreatic hormone insulin—one of the most significant advances in medicine at the ...

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Benjamin Lloyd Roden was born January 5, 1902, in Bearden, Oklahoma. He died on October 22, 1978. He spent his childhood on the farm, graduated from high school, and attended Oklahoma Teachers College. He spent a short time teaching in a country school. For many years he was employed in the oil fields in Oklahoma, and Odessa, Texas. On February 12, 1937, Benjamin L. Roden and Lois Irene Scott were married. They had six children. In 1937, Ben and Lois joined the Christian Church, and were active and faithful members. Not long af ...

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Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem, Illinois and raised in Detroit) is a prolific bassist, producer, and record label owner who has collaborated with hundreds of musicians all over the world. He is married to the Ethiopian singer Gigi. Bands he has led include Material and Praxis. He was a member of the hardcore punk flavoured free jazz supergroup Last Exit, a direction he continues working in with Massacre. Bill Laswell - Overview. Laswell's first recording appearance was in 1978, playin ...

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Edgar John Bergen (born February 16, 1903; died September 30, 1978) was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist. He was born in Decatur, Michigan to a Swedish family, where he attended Lake View High School and worked at a silent movie house. He taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet when he was 11. A few years later he commissioned a woodcarver to make a likeness of a rascally Irish newspaperboy he knew. The head went on a puppet named Charlie M ...

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Claude François (born February 1, 1939 in Ismaïlia, Egypt; died March 11, 1978 in Paris, France) was a French pop singer. The son of an Italian mother and a French father, Claude François was born in Egypt, where his father, Aimé François, was working as a shipping traffic controller on the Suez Canal. In 1951 the job took the family to the city of Port Tawfik on the Red Sea. Claude François' mother was very musical and had her son take piano and violin lessons. On his own, the boy learned to play the drums. As a r ...

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The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics. The Conservatives and their leader Margaret Thatcher won and replaced the Labour government. Labour had been in power from February 1974, with James Callaghan succeeding Harold Wilson after his surprise resignation in April 1976. The administration had been a minority government for most of its term, and from March 1977 to August 1978 the government had reached an agreement with the Liberal Party, in a so-c ...

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The cubic metre (symbol m³) is the SI derived unit of volume. It is the volume of a cube with edges one metre in length. Cubic metre - History. Older equivalents were the stere and the kilolitre. The deprecation of the stere began in 1978, when the CIPM marked it (and several other metric units) as "undesirable" where not already in use, and strongly encouraged their discontinuation; in the United States, it was legally deprecated in 1982 (Federal Register, February 26, 1982, 47 ...

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Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Андре́й Рома́нович Чикати́ло) (October 16, 1936 – February 14, 1994) was a Ukrainian serial killer. He was convicted of the murder of fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990. Andrei Chikatilo - Early life. Chikatilo was born in village of Yablochnoye in 1936. He was born with water on the brain, which would later impair control of his bladder and seminal functions. His childhood was quite traumatic, part ...

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Christopher Ashton Kutcher (born February 7, 1978) is an American actor. Ashton Kutcher - Early life. Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Larry Kutcher (an employee of General Mills) and Diane (who worked for Procter & Gamble); his ancestry is mostly Irish American, as well as distantly Native American and Bohemian (the origin of his surname). Kutcher has an older sister, Tausha and a fraternal twin, Michael, who is younger by five minutes. He grew up on a farm in rural Iowa. As a teen, Kut ...

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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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Paul Karl Feyerabend (January 13, 1924 - February 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science who lived in England, the United States, New Zealand, Italy, and finally Switzerland. His major works include Against Method (published in 1975), Science in a Free Society (published in 1978) and Farewell to Reason (a collection of papers published in 1987). Feyerabend became famous for his purportedly anarchistic view of science and his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules. He is an infl ...

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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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The "Winter of Discontent" is a nickname given to the British winter of 1978–79, during which there were widespread strikes by Trade unions demanding larger pay rises for their members. The strikes were a result of the attempted enforcement of the Labour government's rule that pay rises be kept below 5%, and began in private industry before spreading to the public sector; many of them seriously disrupted everyday life. Whilst the strikes were largely over by February 1979, the government's inability to contain the strikes earlier helped lead to Margaret Thatcher's Conservative victory in th ...

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National treasures of South Korea - Designated December 20 1962. Sungnyemun Gate, Jung-gu, Seoul Ten storied stone pagoda of Wongaksa temple site, Jongno-gu, Seoul Monument commemorating the border inspection of Bukhansan by King Jinheung, National Museum of Korea, Seoul Stupa of Godalsa temple site, Yeoju County Twin-lion stone lantern of Beopjusa temple, Boeun County Seven storied stone pagoda in Tap-pyeong-ri, Chungju Stele of Bongseonhonggyeongsa tem ...

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