* 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 ).

One of the most severe — known as the Coastal Road massacre — occurred on 11 March 1978.

The continuing violence near the Lebanese border between Israel and the PLO peaked during Operation Litani in 1978, provoked by the Coastal Road Massacre done by Palestinian militants.

* 1978 – Coastal Road Massacre – bus hostages rescue.

Only a few weeks earlier, a square in Ramallah was named after the Palestinian militant Dalal Mughrabi who directed the 1978 Coastal Road massacre.

* March 1978, a Yamam force engaged the terrorists who took over a bus in an event known as the " Coastal Road Massacre ".

In 1978, London Coastal Coaches Company was brought back to life and renamed Victoria Coach Station Limited.

The invasion was triggered by the March 11, 1978, massacre of 37 Israeli civilians riding in a bus in the Tel Aviv area by members of Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) infiltrating from Lebanon -- See Coastal Road massacre.

Leer ( 1978 ) speculated that the maintenance of the pretonal system in Tongass Tlingit was caused by the proximity of its speakers around the Cape Fox area near the mouth of the Portland Canal to Coastal Tsimshian speakers just to the south.

1959 – 11 March 1978 ) was a Palestinian militant who was a member of the Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and participated in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel.

On March 11, 1978, Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) operatives, led by Dalal Mugrabi, carried out the Coastal Road massacre within Israel which resulted in the deaths of 37 Israelis, including 13 children.

The Coastal Road massacre, in March 1978, was also planned by al-Wazir.

The 1978 South Lebanon conflict ( code-named Operation Litani by Israel ) was an invasion of Lebanon up to the Litani River, carried out by the Israel Defense Forces in 1978 in response to the Coastal Road Massacre.

The Coastal Road massacre of 1978 was an attack involving the hijacking of a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway in which 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, were killed, and 71 were wounded.

Charred remains of the bus hijacked and burnt by Palestinian militants in 1978 in the Coastal Road massacre

" The first mission in Australia was established in 1978 in Boronia Road, Boronia.

# Wasson, Ruck, Hofmann, The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978.

When the Claretians sold their Claretville property in 1978 to Clare Prophet and her Church Universal and Triumphant ( CUT ) cult, Thomas Aquinas College purchased, moved to, and began construction on a permanent campus in Santa Paula, CA At the present time, the Gillette Estate / Claretville property is now known as the ' King Gillette Ranch ' and this property remains at the intersection of Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas.

The group would also employ newer production techniques to achieve a more refined studio sound on the albums Sleepwalker ( 1977 ) and Misfits ( 1978 ), as Davies ' focus shifted to wistful ballads of restless alienation (" Life on the Road ", " Misfits "), meditations on the inner lives of obsessed pop fans (" Juke Box Music ", " A Rock & Roll Fantasy "), and exhortations of carpe diem (" Life Goes On ", " Live Life ", " Get Up ").

Siobhan Dowd, author, lived in Abbotsford Road ( 1960 – 1978 ).

On the evening of September 4th, 1978, two siblings disappeared from their isolated cabin south of Sterling off of Scout Lake Road.

The Bullfrog Road Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Crum Road Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

* Zabriskie-Kipp-Cadmus House-664 River Road ( c. 1751, added 1978 )

Bruce Springsteen said at a 1978 concert that the name of his song Thunder Road had been inspired by seeing a poster of the movie, though he didn't see the movie itself.

** The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Hour premieres on on CBS Saturday Morning ( 1968 – 1971 ; 1975 – 1985 ; known as The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show from 1978 – 1985 ).

* Thor Hushovd ( born 1978 ), road bicycle racer-2010 World Road Race Champion, the first Norwegian to wear the yellow jersey and win the green jersey in the Tour de France, and the second Norwegian to win a stage

In 1978, the Greater Manchester Council purchased the earliest part of the former Liverpool Road Station from British Rail, which had been closed in 1975.

Road Champion, released by Taito in 1978, was an overhead-view timed car racing game where players try to race ahead of the opposing cars and cross the finish line first to become the winner.

Although the IAAF's progression notes three performances set on the same course in 1978, 1979, and 1980 by Norwegian Grete Waitz, the Association of Road Racing Statisticians considers the New York City course suspect for those performances, too.

M67 Denton Relief Road to the west was constructed between 1978 and 1981.

Gladys Mills ( 1918 – 1978 ), a well-known music-hall pianist who performed as " Mrs Mills ", lived in Roding Road from 1934, and upon her marriage in 1947, in Barncroft Close until 1964.

Finchley Road entrance in 1978

* The Road Is Everywhere or Stop This Body, Columbia, MO: Open Places, 1978