* 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 ).

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

By the end of his first season with Liverpool, Dalglish had played 62 times and scored 31 goals, including the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup Final final at Wembley against Bruges.

Liverpool retained the European Cup in 1978 and regained the First Division title in 1979.

), Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890 – 1930 ( Penguin " Penguin Literary Criticism " series, 1978, ISBN 0-14-013832-3 ).

* 1978 – Julia Taylor, European pornographic actress

* 1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Porsche's design and development efforts paid off during the 1978 European Car of the Year competition where the 928 won ahead of the BMW 7-series and the Ford Granada.

In 1978, the Confederation of Socialist Parties approved the first common European election Manifesto.

In 1978, the Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said published his influential and controversial book, Orientalism, which " would forever redefine " the word ; he used the term to describe a pervasive Western tradition, both academic and artistic, of prejudiced outsider interpretations of the East, shaped by the attitudes of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 1978, Liechtenstein became member of the Council of Europe, and then joined the United Nations in 1990, the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) in 1991, and both the European Economic Area ( EEA ) and World Trade Organization in 1995.

Colin McEvedy ( Atlas of World Population History, 1978 ) estimates the population of European Russia dropped from 7. 5 million prior to the invasion to 7 million afterwards.

In 1978, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the five techniques of " sensory deprivation " were not torture as laid out in Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, but were " inhuman or degrading treatment " ( see Accusations of use of torture by United Kingdom for details ).

British record label Decca began development of their own 2-track digital audio recorders in 1978, and released the first European digital recording in 1979.

The group then took over the European division of Chrysler ( which were formerly Rootes and Simca ), in 1978 as the American auto manufacturer struggled to survive.

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

They won the European Cup in 1988 against Benfica, making them the second Dutch club to win The Treble, and the UEFA Cup in 1978 against SC Bastia.

PSV also won the UEFA Cup, their first major European title in 1978, by beating French opponents SC Bastia 3 – 0 in the final's second leg.

Citroën probably gained former VW customers as the only other " retro alternative " economy car style of vehicle, the Volkswagen Beetle, was withdrawn from the European market in 1978, ( special order only from Mexico in the 1980s ), when it ceased production in West Germany.

In January 1978 the group undertook a European tour that ended abruptly after 31 year old saxophonist Gregory Herbert died of a drug overdose in Amsterdam on January 31, 1978.

Starting in 1978, most chassis and engines were European, with the only American-based chassis to win during the CART era being the Wildcat and Galmer ( which was actually built in Bicester, England ) in 1982 and 1992 respectively.

The historic bandy team Dinamo won the Soviet Championships in 1977 and 1990 and the European Cup in 1978.