* 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 ).

Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600.

The Third National Development Plan ( 1978 – 83 ) had to be abandoned as crisis management replaced long-term planning.

In 1978, it began its annual World Development Report, which discusses growth prospects for developing countries.

Development was subsequently postponed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 following protests against his administration's plans to deploy neutron warheads in Europe.

The United Nations launched Development Business in 1978 with the support of the World Bank, and other major development banks from around the world.

* Alex N. Dragnich, The Development of Parliamentary Government in Serbia, East European Monographs, Boulder Colorado 1978.

Development started in 1974 as " Tracked Rapier ", but had not yet been delivered when the Shah fell from power in 1978.

* Kevin Jackson ( born 1978 ), former U. S. soccer midfielder who spent five seasons in the USL First Division and two in the Premier Development League.

* Goethe and the Development of Science, 1750-1900 ( Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1978 ) ISBN 90-286-0538-X

In 1978, Canadian researcher Arthur Bray uncovered previously classified Canadian UFO documents naming Dr. Vannevar Bush as heading a highly secret UFO investigation group within the U. S. Research and Development Board.

In 1978, Schaeffer asked a group of Reformed Episcopal Clergy to research his thoughts and current trends, forming a church guild called “ The Society of Reformed Philosophical Thinkers ” that later in 1988 merged with “ Into Thy Word Ministries ,” also envisioned by Schaeffer, and then the remnants of the “ Charles E. Fuller Institute ” in 1998 were merged forming, “ The Francis A. Schaeffer Institute of Church Leadership Development .” Its purpose is continuing the work which started in Carmel California as a think-tank and Bible literacy project, currently in Pasadena, Ca.

After leaving office in 1978, Landrieu served as Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ).

Connie Mulder, the Minister of Plural Relations and Development, told the House of Assembly on 7 February 1978:

Development of the digestive system is accelerated, as well as changes in configuration of head and jaws ( Fahay 1978 ).

" Development of a Supersonic Atomic Oxygen Nozzle Beam Source for Crossed Beam Scattering Experiments ", Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, United States Department of Energy, ( May 1978 ).

In 1978 a report was issued by the U. S. Army Mobility Equipment Research and Development Command proposing Magnesium adenosine triphosphate, located in the mitochondrion of the cell, provided the energy for the effects observed by Kervran and Komaki.

Newman went on to become a Special Advisor on Film to the Secretary of State, and from 1978 until 1984 he was Chief Creative Consultant to the Canadian Film Development Corporation.

In 1978, he worked as a secretary to the Lothian Development Council, before becoming a welfare rights worker with a pressure group working on behalf of people with learning disabilities in 1979, he remained in this position until his election to Parliament.

Development commenced at Carnegie Mellon in 1976 and continued at Stanford University in 1978 when Lenat returned to teach.

Returning to the Johnson Space Center in 1978, as a senior scientist astronaut, Allen was assigned to the Operations Mission Development Group.

* Moon Landrieu ( Class of 1948 ), former Mayor of New Orleans ( 1970 – 1978 ) and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Macklin was a researcher at the Australian National University in 1976 – 78, an economics research specialist with the Parliamentary Library in Canberra 1978 – 81, Research Coordinator at the Labour Resource Centre in Melbourne 1981 – 85, an adviser to the Victorian Minister for Health 1985 – 88, director of the federal government's National Health Strategy 1990 – 93 and director of the Australian Urban and Regional Development Review 1993 – 95.

In September 1978, the city ’ s housing agency, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development ( HPD ), created a series of new housing programs designed to give building residents and community groups control and eventual ownership of in rem buildings.

After holding a number of internal National Party positions, Birch was made Minister of National Development, Minister of Energy, and Minister of Science and Technology in 1978.