* 1978 – Tim Hasselbeck, American football player

* 1978 – Myleene Klass, British singer, pianist, and model ( Hear ’ Say )

* 1978 – Martin Mendez, Uruguayan bassist ( Opeth )

* 1978 – Blaine Neal, American baseball player

* 1978 – Igor Semshov, Russian footballer

* 1978 – Kendra Todd, American real estate agent and author

* 1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and magistrate ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Guy Berryman, Scottish musician and businessman ( Coldplay and Apparatjik )

* 1978 – Riley Smith, American actor

* 1978 – Tom Fulp, American video game programmer

* 1978 – Brian Maillard, Swiss guitarist ( Dominici )

* 1978 – Marisa Miller, American model and actress

* 1978 – Reuben Rox, American actor, director, and producer

* 1978 – Marvel Smith, American football player

* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Daniela Denby-Ashe, English actress

* 1978 – Ana Serradilla, Mexican actress

* 1978 – Audrey Tautou, French actress

* 1978 – 150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.

Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3 – 0 and then completed an overwhelming 5 – 1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978 – 79.

Allan Border made his Test debut for Australia in 1978 – 79.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

:: 1917 – 18, 1918 – 19, 1930 – 31, 1931 – 32, 1933 – 34, 1936 – 37, 1938 – 39, 1946 – 47, 1956 – 57, 1959 – 60, 1965 – 66, 1966 – 67, 1967 – 68, 1969 – 70, 1971 – 72, 1972 – 73, 1976 – 77, 1978 – 79, 1979 – 80, 1981 – 82, 1982 – 83, 1984 – 85, 1989 – 90, 1993 – 94, 1994 – 95, 1995 – 96, 1997 – 98, 2001 – 02, 2003 – 04, 2010 – 11, 2011 – 12

France and Comoros signed a mutual security treaty in 1978 ; following the mercenary coup against Abdallah in 1989, French troops restored order and took responsibility for reorganizing and training the Comorian army.

The Arab League moved out of Egypt to Tunis in 1978 as a protest at the peace treaty with Israel, but returned in 1989.

In the 1970s and 1980s, British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman ( 1978 ), Alien ( 1979 ), and Batman ( 1989 ).

Botha, he held a succession of ministerial posts, including Posts and Telecommunications and Sports and Recreation ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mines, Energy and Environmental Planning ( 1979 – 1980 ), Mineral and Energy Affairs ( 1980 – 1982 ), Internal Affairs ( 1982 – 1985 ), and National Education and Planning ( 1984 – 1989 ).

Franklin James Schaffner ( May 30, 1920July 2, 1989 ) was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Patton ( 1970 ), Papillon ( 1973 ), and The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ).

The uniforms are similar to the uniforms worn from 1978 – 1989, but with some modern modifications, such as the uniforms being button-up instead of pullover, players last names on the backs of the jerseys, and a " ball-in-glove " logo patch on the left sleeve.

The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971 to 1978, took a respite, and returned occasionally on ABC from 1989 to 2003.

The use, ownership and sale of skateboards were forbidden in Norway from 1978 to 1989 because of the high number of injuries caused by boards.

He was also the fourth player, after Bart Starr ( 1966 ), Terry Bradshaw ( 1978 ), and Joe Montana ( 1989 ), to win both the NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP during the same season.

* J. M. Turner Fetus into Man ( 1978, 1989 ).

* President: Mario Scelba ( 1965 – 1969 ), Benigno Zaccagnini ( 1969 – 1975 ), Aldo Moro ( 1975 – 1978 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1978 – 1980 ), Arnaldo Forlani ( 1980 – 1989 ), Ciriaco De Mita ( 1989 – 1992 ), Rosa Russo Iervolino ( 1992 – 1994 )

* Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Giovanni Gronchi ( 1946 – 1948 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1948 – 1949 ), Giuseppe Spataro ( 1949 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1950 ), Giuseppe Bettiol ( 1950 – 1953 ), Aldo Moro ( 1953 – 1956 ), Attilio Piccioni ( 1956 – 1958 ), Luigi Gui ( 1958 – 1962 ), Benigno Zaccagnini ( 1962 – 1968 ), Fiorentino Sullo ( 1968 ), Giulio Andreotti ( 1968 – 1972 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1972 – 1978 ), Giovanni Galloni ( 1978 – 1979 ), Gerardo Bianco ( 1979 – 1983 ), Virginio Rognoni ( 1983 – 1986 ), Mino Martinazzoli ( 1986 – 1989 ), Vincenzo Scotti ( 1989 – 1990 ), Antonio Gava ( 1990 – 1992 ), Gerardo Bianco ( 1992 – 1994 )

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan can also be considered a Soviet satellite ; from 1978 until 1992 the central government in Kabul was aligned with the Communist bloc, and was directly supported by Soviet military power between 1979 and 1989.

Astor Piazzolla and Gerry Mulligan at the " Summit " recording, Milan, Italy 1974 .</ br > Photograph by Pino Presti Piazzolla, after leaving Troilo's orchestra in the 1940s, led numerous ensembles beginning with the 1946 Orchestra, the 1955 Octeto Buenos Aires, the 1960 " First Quintet ", the 1971 Conjunto 9 (" Noneto "), the 1978 " Second Quintet " and the 1989 New Tango Sextet.

One such movement began during the Beijing Spring in 1978 and was taken up again in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

* The Cure: Songwords 1978 – 1989 S. Hopkins, Robert Smith and T. Foo ( 1989 ) Omnibus Press ISBN 0-7119-1951-8

* 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-American film producer ( d. 1978 )

The team wore black armbands for the last four games in 1978 in memory of Jack " Jocko " Nelson, an assistant coach who died during the season.

* 1903 – Jack Oakie, American actor ( d. 1978 )

* Jack Williamson ( 1978 – 1980 )

* 1978 – Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player

* Jack Diamond ( June 1, 1975-May 31, 1978 )

There is an extensive critical analysis of Le Fanu's supernatural stories ( particularly " Green Tea ", " Schalken the Painter " and " Carmilla ") in Jack Sullivan's book Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story From Le Fanu to Blackwood ( 1978 ).

* August 2 – Jack Warner, Canadian film producer ( d. 1978 )

In 1978 he appeared on Jack Nitzsche's soundtrack to the film Blue Collar.

Prior to the 1978 – 79 season, owner Jack Vickers sold the team to Arthur Imperatore, who announced that he wished to move the team to the New Jersey Meadowlands.

The television series Hawkmoor created by Lynn Hughes and starring John Ogwen as Twm and Jane Asher as Lady Johane Williams was broadcast by the BBC in 1978, depicting Twm as a Welsh Robin Hood / freedom fighter protecting the Welsh people from the repression of English-born Sheriff John Stedman ( Jack May ) and the cruel ( Catholic ) Vicar Davyd ( Philip Madoc ).

Jack Leonard " J. L ." Warner ( August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978 ), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

John R. (" Jack ") Lauer served as state representative from 1973 to 1978, and Robert F. (" Bob ") Olson served as state representative from 1986 to 1994.

Jack Louis Breaux, Sr., served as a part-time mayor from 1966 – 1978, and a full-time mayor under a home-rule charter from 1978 until his death of a brain tumor on January 26, 1980.

Her break came when she was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount's New York office and was cast as the female lead in his second directorial effort, the 1978 Western Goin ' South.

* Gifford, Barry and Lawrence Lee Jack's Book An Oral Biography Of Jack Kerouac, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

Jack had committed to do the play through November 1978.

" Starting on December 30, 1978, Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead occasionally changed the lyrics of the Dead standard Jack Straw in concert from " we used to play for silver, now we play for life ," to " we used to play for silver, now we play for Clive.

* Jack Warner ( 1892 – 1978 ), co-founder of Warner Brothers

Sagal was married to German American musician Freddie Beckmeier ( 1978 – 1981 ) and country music drummer Jack White ( November 26, 1993 – July 24, 2000 ).

* Billy Jack Goes to Washington ( 1978 )

James Joseph " Gene " Tunney ( May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978 ) was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927.