* 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 ).

Of country music artists, Connie Smith covered Andy Gibb's " I Just Want to Be Your Everything " in 1977, Bill Anderson did " Double S " in 1978, and Ronnie Milsap covered Tommy Tucker's " High Heel Sneakers " in 1979.

Double bassist Reggie Workman, saxophone player Pharaoh Sanders, and drummer Idris Muhammad performing in 1978

The first human-carrying unpowered balloon to actually cross the Atlantic Ocean was Double Eagle II from August 11 to 17, 1978.

* 1978 The Shocking Blue Double Deluxe ( Polydor )

* Lady Plyant in The Double Dealer, National, Olivier, September 1978

* 1978 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Double Dealer-Won

When that series ended its six-season run in 1978, Wallace began three decades of television appearances as a game show panelist, on shows such as Hollywood Squares, Password Plus and its 1980s spin-off Super Password, Whew !, the 1980s version of Crosswits, Hot Potato, Body Language, The $ 25, 000 Pyramid, Double Talk, Win, Lose or Draw, To Tell the Truth and Match Game.

Born in Sayre, during the height of the Great Depression, 10 September 1934, Anderson along with Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman were the first people to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon, the Double Eagle II, in 1978.

* The Double Tree: Selected Poems 1942-76 ( 1978 )

* A Double Life ( 1978 ) ( TV-film )

In 1978, he released Double Fun, a collection of Caribbean-influenced rock, including a cover of " You Really Got Me ".

* Martine Broda, Double, La Répétition, 1978.

* A Double Life ( 1978 ) ( TV ) ( executive producer )

Their second album, Double Vision ( released in June 1978 ), topped their previous, selling five million records and spawned " Hot Blooded ," the title track " Double Vision " and " Blue Morning, Blue Day.

Fourteen attempts at crossing the Atlantic by balloon were known to be made before the first successful one, with the Double Eagle II, was completed from Presque Isle, Maine, to Miserey, near Paris, France in 1978, long after aircraft were already making transatlantic flights.

Other shows on which Wood served as a regular announcer were Tattletales ( CBS, 1974 – 1978 ), Double Dare ( CBS, 1976 – 1977 ), Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour ( NBC, 1983 – 1984 ), Password Plus ( NBC, 1979 – 1982 ), Super Password ( NBC, 1984 – 1989 ), Love Connection ( Syndication, 1985 – 1988 ), Classic Concentration ( NBC, 1987 – 1991 ), and Win, Lose or Draw ( Syndicated, 1987 – 1990 ).

* Disco Saturday Night 40 ( PLD 8004, Double LP compilation, Pickwick Records 1978 ) ( features Jaspers top 5 hit ' Funky Moped ')

:* The Double ( 13 times – record ): 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948 – 49, 1949 – 50, 1969 – 70, 1976 – 77, 1978 – 79, 1983 – 84, 1993 – 94, 1999 – 00, 2001 – 02, 2006 – 07

It was subsequently reprinted several times ( amongst others in the James Tiptree collections Star Songs of an Old Primate in 1978 and Her Smoke Rose Up Forever in 1990 ) and in 1989 was published in a Tor Double mass market paperback ( number eleven in that series ) with the flipside novella " Souls " by Joanna Russ ( ISBN 0-8125-5962-2 ).

The team, this time with Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, made a second attempt in the Double Eagle II in 1978.

Double Vision is the second studio album by British / American rock band Foreigner, released in 1978.

magazine in 1978 upon release of " Hot Blooded " commented that Lou Gramm had a voice that Robert Plant might envy. He was performing to audiences exceeding 200, 000 at some dates during the " Double Vision " tour while Steve Perry was drawing 3, 000 to 10, 000. His unique vocals have made Foreigner one of Billboard's Top 100 Artists of All Time in hit songs history.

Showalter's Ph. D. thesis is called The Double Critical Standard: Criticism of Women Writers in England, 1845 – 1880 ( 1969 ) and was later turned into the book A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing ( 1978 ), which contains a lengthy and much-discussed chapter on Virginia Woolf.