* 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

* 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 ).

For example, Spider-Man's high school graduation was published in Amazing Spider-Man # 28 ( September 1965 ), his college graduation in Amazing Spider-Man # 185 ( October 1978 ), and his high school reunion in Marvel Knights: Spider-Man # 7 ( December 2004 ).

Various objects and places have been named after Sigyn in modern times, including the Norwegian stiff-straw winter wheat varieties Sigyn I and Sigyn II, a Marvel Comics character ( 1978 ) of the same name the Swedish vessel MS Sigyn, which transports spent nuclear fuel in an allusion to Sigyn holding a bowl beneath the venom to spare Loki, and the arctic Sigyn Glacier.

However, legal issues about the rights to the Human Torch character ( which had also plagued Marvel once before for the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon ) led to the Human Torch being replaced by a new character, Firestar, who had similar powers, but was a mutant like Iceman.

and his first work for Marvel Comics, penciling the 17-page story " The Master Assassin of Mars, Part 3 " in John Carter, Warlord of Mars No. 18 ( Nov. 1978 ).

His credits for Marvel Comics include an adaptation of The Iliad in Marvel Classics Comics # 26 ( 1977 ), and two superhero tales, The Spectacular Spider-Man # 16 ( March 1978 ), and The Incredible Hulk # 230 ( Dec. 1978 ).

Strange ( 1978 film ), a made-for-TV movie based on the Marvel Comics fictional character

* Marvel Smith ( born 1978 ), former National Football League offensive tackle

* Marvel Comics Super Special # 4 ( 1978 )

* Marvel Premiere ( Man-Wolf ) # 45 – 46 ( 1978 – 79 )

* Marvel Team-Up # 65 ( 1978 )

This pilot effectively marked the end of the Marvel animated universe created by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises / Marvel Productions, which began with Fantastic Four ( 1978 ) and continued with Spider-Woman ( 1979 ), Spider-Man ( 1981 ), Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends ( 1981 ) and The Incredible Hulk ( 1982 ).

* Marvel Preview # 13-14 ( Marvel Comics, 1978 )

A ' Batbike ' was released in 1978 featuring a figure of ' Batman ' sitting astride a modified motorbike which fired two rockets, along with a series of vehicles that were issued as the result of obtaining the Marvel Comics license.

Nighthawk appeared on a regular basis in The Defenders and a number of other Marvel titles, including Giant-Size Defenders 2-5 ( Oct. 1974-July 1975 ); Marvel Team-Up # 33-34 and 101 ( May – June 1975, Jan. 1981 ); The Incredible Hulk # 206-207 ( Dec. 1976-Jan. 1977 ); Marvel Two-In-One # 34 ( Dec. 1977 ); The Avengers # 167 and 182 ( Jan. 1978, April 1979 ); Doctor Strange vol.

2, # 29 ( June 1978 ); The Amazing Spider-Man Annual # 15 ( Dec. 1981 ); Captain America # 268 ( April 1982 ); and with other heroes in the graphic novel The Death of Captain Marvel ( April 1982 ) and the humorous Fantastic Four Roast ( April 1982 ).

* Captain Marvel No. 54 ( 1978 )

* Ms. Marvel # 20 – 21 ( 1978 )

* 1978 – Ethan Smith, American actor

The first published bibliography on Smith ; superseded by Donald Sidney-Fryer's Emperor of Dreams ( 1978 )-see below.

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

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.

* Sections 145 – 152 ( includes 149A ) — From the presidency of W. Wallace Smith ( 1958 – 1978 )

* Sections 153 – 160 — From the presidency of Wallace B. Smith ( 1978 – 1996 )

* " Grass ", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel

* 1978 – Brent Smith, American singer ( Shinedown )

The current John Sealy Hospital was completed in 1978 at a cost of $ 32. 5 million and was funded in full by the Sealy & Smith Foundation.

* 1978 – Kelly Smith, English Female Footballer

Osborne Earl " Ozzie " Smith ( born December 26, 1954 ) is an American former baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996.

Drafted as an amateur player by the Padres, Smith made his major league debut in 1978.

Smith began 1978 as a non-roster invitee to the San Diego Padres ' spring training camp in Yuma, Arizona.

Even though Dark was fired in the middle of training camp, Smith made his Major League Baseball ( MLB ) debut on April 7, 1978.

It was also during the 1978 season that Smith introduced a signature move.

Smith finished the 1978 season with a. 258 batting average and. 970 fielding percentage, placing second in National League Rookie of the Year voting to Bob Horner.

In 1978 and 1979, Gilda Radner portrayed a character called Candy Slice on Saturday Night Live based on Smith.

For the first isolation of a restriction enzyme, HindII, in 1970, and the subsequent discovery and characterization of numerous restriction endonucleases, the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber, and Hamilton O. Smith.

Following a brutal guerrilla war waged against authorities by two rival black nationalist organisations ( Robert Mugabe ’ s ZANU and Joshua Nkomo ’ s ZAPU ), Rhodesian premier Ian Smith conceded to biracial democracy in 1978.

The 1978 season brought hope to baseball fans in San Diego, thanks to the arrival a young shortstop named Ozzie Smith, who arrived on the scene and turned the baseball world on its ears with an acrobatic style that redefined how the position should be played in the field.

In 1978 singer Patti Smith used the word in " Rock N Roll Nigger ".

* Thread, a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel