* 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 ).

The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America ( 1978 ), 1880s and 1890s in U. S.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.

The Reuters news agency nicknamed Gate House " U of T's Animal House " because Donald Sutherland's memories of its parties are said to have influenced the script of the 1978 movie.

2nd Edition 1972 and 1978 reprint, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ( Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved ), Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., ISBN 0-933346-01-8 oversize folio softcover spiral bound, with transparency overlay coordinate grid ruler.

Prime Minister of Israel | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, President of Egypt | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and President of the United States | U. S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978

* Ogbu, J. U. ( 1978 ).

The Federal Banking Agency Audit Act, enacted in 1978 as Public Law 95-320 and 31 U. S. C.

* 1978 election for U. S. House of Representatives — 4th District

In the U. S., public library users have borrowed on average roughly 15 books per user per year from 1856 to 1978.

President Tolbert and U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( in car, left ) in Monrovia, 1978

Classical studies were Making news – A study in the construction of reality by Gaye Tuchman ( 1978 ), Deciding what ’ s news ( at CBS & NBC, Time and Newsweek ) by Herbert J. Gans ( 1979 ) in the U. S., and Putting ‘ reality ’ together – BBC news by Philip Schlesinger ( 1987 ).

* 1978 – Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U. S. State of Arizona ( b. 1909 )

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Charles, Prince of Wales ( 3 November 1972 ), U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( 15 July 1978 ), and U. S. Vice President ( later President ) George H. W. Bush ( George Bush Senior ) ( 1 February 1983 ).

With the death of company founder and first CEO Willard Rockwell in 1978, and the stepping down of his son Willard Rockwell, Jr. in 1979 as the second CEO, Bob Anderson became CEO and led the company through the 1980s when it became the largest U. S. defense contractor and largest NASA contractor.

In 1978, the U. S. Census Bureau proclaimed Redmond the fastest growing city in the state.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel meet at Camp David and agree on the Camp David Accords a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

The band Tako combined symphonic and jazz rock, and released two albums, Tako ( 1978 ) and U vreći za spavanje ( 1980 ).

The U. S. government produced a photo alleged to showed Miskito bodies being burned by Sandinista troops ; however, the photo was actually of people killed by Somoza's National Guard in 1978.

* The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands was set up in 1978 as a commonwealth in political union with the U. S.

Pavel filed a patent for his Stereobelt in Italy in 1977, followed by patent applications in the U. S., Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan by the end of 1978.

Although " Humphrey was an enthusiastic supporter of every U. S. war from 1938 to 1978 ", in February, 1960, he introduced a bill to establish a National Peace Agency.

In 1978, the U. S. government paid for Kazan and his family to travel to Kazan's birthplace where many of his films were to be shown.