* 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 ).

With this low power consumption came the possibility of using solar cells as the power source, realised around 1978 by such calculators as the Royal Solar 1, Sharp EL-8026, and Teal Photon.

) With Gypsy Fever, Parton toured as a headline act in 1977, 1978 and 1979, to promote her albums, New Harvest-First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, and Great Balls of Fire.

Holly George-Warren, editor and author of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years, argues: " With the death of Keith Moon in 1978, rock arguably lost its single greatest drummer.

* " We Have to Deal With It: Punk England Report ", by Robert Christgau, Village Voice, January 9, 1978

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.

With the Vietnamese Occupation of Democratic Kampuchea ( Cambodia ) on December 25, 1978, Thailand at once became the " real " front line state in fighting against communism, as the Kingdom was surrounded by three unfriendly, communist Indochinese countries and a socialist Burma under General Ne Win.

*: With the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978, Communist Vietnam had a combined force of about 300, 000 in Laos and Cambodia.

* Music for Synclavier and Other Digital Systems: With Jon Appleton, Composer ( Folkways, 1978 )

Niki Lauda has written five books: The Art and Science of Grand Prix Driving ( titled Formula 1: The Art and Technicalities of Grand Prix Driving in some markets ) ( 1975 ); My Years With Ferrari ( 1978 ); The New Formula One: A Turbo Age ( 1984 ); Meine Story ( titled To Hell and Back in some markets ) ( 1986 ); Das dritte Leben ( 1996 ).

With an expanding power base, in September 1978, Deng began openly attacking Hua Guofeng's “ Two Whatevers ”.

With their line-up complete, the unnamed band played their first gig at the Cromwell pub in Wellingborough on New Year's Eve 1978.

With the opening of the mainland Chinese economy in 1978, a dual-track currency system was instituted, with renminbi usable only domestically, and with foreigners forced to use foreign exchange certificates.

With various adjustments from block lettering to Bookman Old Style font, this version with stars in side stripes stayed until 1978.

With the quick turnover at the top, Shooter rapidly found himself rising in the ranks, and in 1978 he succeeded Archie Goodwin to become Marvel's ninth editor-in-chief.

With the release of the first feature-length Superman movie in 1978, a vastly less idyllic image of Krypton, compared to the previous comics ' versions, was presented.

With the advent of I-57, Rend Lake Plaza was initiated in 1978.

With the consent of 8th Duli Yang Maha Mulia Sultan of Selangor, Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj, Shah Alam was proclaimed the capital of Selangor on 7 December 1978 with an area of 41. 68 square km, and administrated by a municipal council.

After Nigel Benjamin quit in 1976, Mott added John Fiddler ( formerly of Medicine Head ) and became British Lions, recording two albums, British Lions ( 1978 ) and Trouble With Women ( posthumously released on Cherry Red Records 1980 ) before finally splitting up without any chart success.

With the death of his wife in 1975 and health problems ( failing eyesight, alcoholism and thyroid cancer ), he was reported as losing interest in film-making, and after Covert Action ( 1978 ) his next film was Signs of Life ( 1989 ).

* We Americans: A Musical Journey With Burl Ives ( 1978, National Geographic Society NGS 07806 )

With their new-found success, the band went back into the studio to record Obsession in 1978.

With financial stability came new owners, and in 1978 control passed to the investors Marc Rich and Marvin Davis.

With the exception of a brief quartet period between 1978 and 1979, Weather Report's instrumentation always included both a traditional trap set drummer and a second percussionist.

With the advent of democracy and the 1978 Constitution, the management of social housing depended mostly on the Autonomous regions.