* 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 ).

In 1978, Chrysler divested its European operations to another French automaker, PSA Peugeot Citroën, which replaced the Simca brand with Talbot, thus ending the life of the brand ( although some models were badged as Simca-Talbots for a time ).

* On September 25, 1978, PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-200, crashed in San Diego while trying to land at Lindbergh Field ( San Diego International Airport ), California, after colliding with a Cessna 172 operated by Gibbs Flite Center.

Pacific Southwest Airlines ( PSA ) Flight 182, registration N533PS, was a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner that collided with a private Cessna 172 over San Diego, California on September 25, 1978.

In 1978, her son Charles Dunsmoore Bren died in the crash of PSA Flight 182 in San Diego, followed by the death of her husband Milton Bren from a brain tumor in 1979.

Chrysler itself entered financial difficulties and sold the plant for a symbolic US $ 1. 00 to PSA Peugeot Citroën in 1978.

From its launch in September 1978, the front-wheel drive Visa was available in " Spécial " and " Club " models ( 652 cc, 2-cylinder ), and a " Super E " model ( the 11RE after 1984 ), with the advanced Peugeot 1, 124 cc Douvrin engine / PSA X engine, a four-cylinder " Suitcase engine " — all aluminium alloy, chain driven overhead cam, with gearbox in the sump, sharing engine oil, mounted almost on its side.

Despite the government assistance, the weight of problems bearing on Chrysler Europe resulted in its collapse in 1977, leading to the company's 1978 takeover by PSA Peugeot-Citroen.

In 1978, six years before the Espace went into production, Chrysler UK and Simca were sold to the French company PSA Peugeot Citroën ( PSA ), and the Espace design was given to Matra.

In 1978, PSA Group had bought Chrysler's European operations.

* The PSA Flight 182 collision with a Cessna 172 in 1978 ;

In September, 1978, PSA Flight 182 crashed and exploded several blocks ( Nile and Dwight Streets ) from the campus.

* PSA Flight 182, collided with Cessna skyhawk in North Park, San Diego, California, September 25, 1978

PSA Flight 182, registration N533PS, a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner collided with a private Cessna 172 over San Diego on September 25, 1978.

* 1978 – With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 runs out of fuel and crashes in Portland, Oregon, killing 10.

* 1978 – Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine.

* 1978 – Marwan al-Shehhi, Arab hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 175 ( d. 2001 )

Following the conclusion of the ALT test flight program, on March 13, 1978, Enterprise was flown once again, but this time half way across the country to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ) in Alabama for the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Testing ( MGVT ).

Rhodesian counterinsurgency operation extended into Zambia after ZIPRA rebels shot down two unarmed Vickers Viscount civilian airliners ( Air Rhodesia Flight 825 on 3 September 1978 and Air Rhodesia Flight 827 on 12 February 1979 ) with Soviet supplied SAM-7 heat-seeking missiles.

In retaliation for the shooting down of Flight 825 in September 1978, Rhodesian Air Force attacked the ZIPRA guerrilla base at Westlands farm near Lusaka in October 1978, warning Zambian forces by radio not to interfere.

Marwan Yousef Mohamed Rashid Lekrab al-Shehhi (,, also transliterated as Alshehhi ) ( May 9, 1978 – September 11, 2001 ) was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 175, crashing the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks.

In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp ( 1978 ) in St. Mary ’ s, Georgia ; Mermaid ( 1979 ) in Miami Beach ; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight ( 1984, moved in 1998 ) at Port Columbus International Airport ; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstrokes ( 1984 – 85 ) at the Equitable Center, New York ; and El Cap de Barcelona ( 1992 ) in Barcelona.

Other recent operatic parts written for the countertenor voice include Edgar in Aribert Reimann's Lear ( 1978 ), the title role in Philip Glass's Akhnaten ( 1983 ), Claire in John Lunn's The Maids ( 1998 ), the Refugee in Jonathan Dove's Flight ( 1999 ), and Trinculo in Thomas Adès's The Tempest ( 2004 ).

* Gerard David ( 1978 ), " The Rest on the Flight into Egypt "

Waleed Mohammed al-Shehri (,, also transliterated as Alshehri ) ( December 20, 1978 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11, which was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks.

* On December 28, 1978, United Airlines Flight 173, which departed from Stapleton, ran out of fuel while circling near Portland, Oregon, as the crew investigated landing gear problems.

In 1978, he played Ringo Starr's manager on the television special Ringo, and in 1982, played the voice of Peter Dickinson in Flight of Dragons.

On May 8, 1978 National Airlines Flight 193 landed in Escambia Bay while approaching the east-west runway.

On February 11, 1978, Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashed in Cranbrook, killing 44 of the 50 people on board.

Overmyer was awarded the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal in 1969 for duties with the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program ; awarded the Marine Corps Meritorious Service Medal in 1978 for duties as the Chief Chase Pilot and support crewman for the Shuttle Approach and Landing Test Program ; received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from Baldwin Wallace College, December 1982 ; awarded the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School Distinguished Engineers Award, January 1983 ; the Distinguished Flying Cross ( 1983 ); and the NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1983 ).

She has been awarded the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 1998, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1995 and 2002, and the NASA Space Flight Medal in 1992, 1994, and 1997, the NASA Fellowship for Full-Time Study in 1983, the ASME National Old Guard Prize in 1978, the ASME Ralph Coates Roe Medal in 2001.

Air India Flight 855 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed during the evening of 1 January 1978 about off the coast of Bandra, Bombay ( now Mumbai ), India.

Two made-for-television movies based on the crash were aired in 1978: Crash of Flight 401, aired in October, was based on the Elders ' book, and dramatized the crash, rescue efforts and NTSB investigation ; while The Ghost of Flight 401, aired earlier in February, was based on Fuller's book and focuses more on the ghost sightings surrounding the aftermath.