1978 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1975 1976 1977 – 1978 – 1979 1980 1981

1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Movies released
Nobel Prizes
Images for kids
See also

Events

January 14 – The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Francisco's Winterland
April 22 – The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live. The duo of Jake & Elwood Blues (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) are introduced by Paul Shaffer (as Don Kirschner) and perform "Hey Bartender"
April 26 – Ringo Starr's, Ringo, a musical version of The Prince and the Pauper airs on American television. Starr's fellow former Beatle George Harrison provides the narration
May 8 – Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler are the first humans on the Mount Everest without oxygen tanks
July 25 – First human birth from in vitro fertilization
August 6 – Pope Paul VI dies at the age of 80. Albino Luciani become the new pope, Pope John Paul I
August 17 – Double Eagle II becomes the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
August 26 – The first Canada Jam Festival is held in Ontario, featuring sets by the Doobie Brothers, the Commodores, Kansas, Dave Mason, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section
September 28 – Pope John Paul I dies after 34 days in office
October 1 – Vietnam attacks Cambodia
October 16 – Karol Wojtyła elected pope, and calls himself Pope John Paul II
November 27 – San Francisco politician Dan White assassinates Harvey Milk and George Moscone
Garfield, a comic strip, debuts
Space Invaders is created by the Taito Corporation

Births

January 13 – Tinga, Brazilian footballer
January 28 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
January 30 – Daniel Lindström, Swedish singer
February 7 – Ashton Kutcher, American actor
March 11 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
March 21 – Kevin Federline, American doofus
April 6 – Myleene Klass, English musician
April 30 – Tom Fulp, Newgrounds creater
May 22 – Katie Price, English model and singer
June 9 – Matthew Bellamy, English singer
June 9 – Miroslav Klose, Polish footballer
June 11 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
June 19 – Dirk Nowitzki,
June 21 – Frank Lampard, English footballer
June 29 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
July 19 – Chiara Zanni, Canadian actress
August 22 – Jeff Stinco, Canadian Musician- Simple Plan
August 23 – Kobe Bryant, NBA star
September 25 – Rafał Wiechecki, Polish politician
September 28 – Bushido, German singer
September 30 – Candice Michelle, American model and wrestler
October 2 – Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
October 6 – Carolina Gynning, Swedish model
October 5 – Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
October 7 – Alesha Dixon, English singer
October 26 - CM Punk, American professional wrestler
November 25 – Ringo Shiina, Japanese singer
December 2 – Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer
December 2 – Chris Wolstenholme, English musician
December 18 – Katie Holmes, American actress
Alison Balsom, English musician
Miri Ben-Ari, Israeli violinist

Deaths

January 14 – Kurt Gödel, Czech mathematician (b. 1906)
March 21 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, 5th President of Ireland (b. 1911)
May 14 – Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
May 17 – Armin T. Wegner, German writer (b. 1886)
August 6 – Pope Paul IV, heart attack (b. 1897)
September 28 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
November 19 – Jim Jones, American cult leader (b. 1931)

Movies released

The Deer Hunter
Grease
The Last Waltz
The Lord of the Rings, animated movie by Ralph Bakshi
Superman, starring Marlon Brando and Christopher Reeve

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
Chemistry – Peter D Mitchell
Medicine – Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O Smith
Literature -Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polnish writer and journalist
Peace – Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat and Menachem Begin
Economics – Herbert Simon

Images for kids

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: 1978 para niños

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