In 1978 Toshihiro Nishikado, a designer at Taito, created Space Invaders which became the company's most popular title ever and one of the most memorable games in arcade history, responsible for beginning the golden age of arcade video games.

In January 1978 Raskin joined Apple as Manager of Publications, the company's 31st employee.

This was, in fact, the perihelion of Trevor Nunn's ten-year reign as the company's sole Artistic Director and Chief Executive ( in 1978 he began to share power with Terry Hands.

In 1978, General Grocer Company expanded the company's presence in the greater St. Louis market.

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.

Humana experienced tremendous growth in the years that followed, both organically and through the takeover of American Medicorp Inc. in 1978, which doubled the company's size.

In 1978 he became vice president of the company's worldwide semiconductor operations, and in 1980, became executive vice president of the company.

In the electronic area, the company's best known products were GDS ( an abbreviation for " Graphic Data System "), introduced in 1971, and GDS II, introduced in 1978.

The BRAT was developed directly from the company's four-wheel drive station wagon model and was first introduced as a 1978 model — following the concept of coupe utilities such as the Chevrolet El Camino and the Ford Ranchero.

The company's president from 1978 to 1988 was P. J. Plauger.

In 1978 when airline deregulation went into effect, the board of directors of ONA decided to liquidate the airline which, due to the value of the company's DC-10 aircraft, was a successful liquidation.

David M. Overton, the company's founder, opened the first Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, in 1978.

In 1978 the company's name became Lucas CAV.

Quandt married Inge Bandekow ( 1928 – 1978 ), who was the daughter of the company's lawyer and worked as a secretary with his father, at the beginning of the 1950s.

P * I * T * S ( an acronym which stands for " Pie In The Sky ") Films was the television distribution arm of Tandem Productions launched in 1978 to distribute their parent company's programs ( the only exception was All in the Family, which at the time was distributed by Viacom ).

Geoffrey Gordon Wickham AO MIIE was one of the pioneers of cardiac pacemaking, born at Camperdown, Victoria, Australia to dairy farmer parents on 28 October 1933. Geoffrey Wickham AO in 2004In 1963 he co-founded the medical instruments company Telectronics Pty Ltd in Sydney, and served as the company's Chief Engineer from 1963 to 1970 and Technical Director from 1963 to 1978.

FLP was founded in 1978 by Rex Maughan, who also serves as the company's CEO.

He succeeded Flemming Flindt as ballet master of the Royal Danish Ballet in 1978 and was responsible for the planning and direction of the 1979 Bournonville Festival as well as for restoring Bournonville, and classical ballet generally, to the center of the company's repertory.

The airport has been known as Angeles Mesa Drive Airport ( 1928 – 1930 ), United Airport ( 1930 – 1934 ), Union Air Terminal ( 1934 – 1940 ), Lockheed Air Terminal ( 1940 – 1967 ), Hollywood-Burbank Airport ( 1967 – 1978 ), Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport ( 1978 – 2003 ) and most recently Bob Hope Airport ( 2003 – present ).

The facility remained Hollywood-Burbank Airport for over a decade until 1978, when Lockheed sold the airport to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority.

* 1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities.

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.

In 1978 Norman was getting ready to sign with Warner Brothers, when he was injured in an accident as United Airlines flight 215 landed at Los Angeles International Airport at the end of his world tour.

According to one account by Piers Paul Read ( 1978 ), in January 1963, shortly after the furore over the Airport Job had died down, Brian Field called Gordon Goody to a meeting at the Old Bailey and asked him whether he was interested in a large sum of money that only a large gang could steal.

An Air Malta Boeing 720 | Boeing 720B landing at London Heathrow Airport in 1978

Expansion of the Airport Restaurant and Transit Lounge including the refurbishing of the upper level and the provision of a new kitchen was completed in December 1978.

* On 15 February 1978, a Boeing 707 ( registered OO-SJE ) overshot the runway at Los Rodeos Airport following a chartered holiday flight from Brussels with 189 passengers and seven crew on board.

Narita International Airport was began operation in 1978 in Narita after much protest to replace the overcrowded Tokyo International Airport ( Haneda Airport ).

On December 4, 1978, the crash of a Learjet 25C at Anchorage International Airport killed five people.

On October 2, 1978, Allen was arrested in the Kalamazoo / Battle Creek International Airport for possession of over of cocaine.

* 1978 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.

* 1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.

This daughter is not included in the older Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten ( 1978 ) by Detlev Schwennicke and her existence may reflect Sturdza's own theories.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

This concept is based in part on the pioneering work by Garry Thomson CBE, and his book the Museum Environment, first published in 1978.

* 1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.

Advanced Mobile Phone System ( AMPS ) is an analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs, and officially introduced in the Americas in 1978, Israel in 1986, and Australia in 1987.

In 1978 Barney Bubbles was responsible for the redesign of the weekly music paper the NME, including a new logo design ( which is no longer in use ).< ref >

The archipelago is subject to cyclical droughts ; a devastating drought began in 1968 and was broken only briefly in 1975, 1978, 1984, and 1986.

There is speculation that a clash between Communist forces and a Japanese warship in 1978 was caused by Chinese anger after Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda attended Chiang's funeral.

In his book on Japa Yoga, Himalaya Press 1978, Swami Sivananda states that a yogi that practices Japa with only the Om and is successful at Mahasamyama

The Telstar is a series of video game consoles produced by Coleco from 1976 to 1978.

" Le Freak " was a popular 1978 single that is regarded as an iconic song of the genre.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

A clear rock painting in Ginga Wardelirrhmeng, on the northern edge of the Arnhem Land plateau, from the freshwater period For example, Jemima Wimalu, a Mara woman from the Roper River is very proficient at playing the didgeridoo and is featured on the record Aboriginal Sound Instruments released in 1978.

* 1978 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

While he is a confirmed compatibilist on free will, in " On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want " – Chapter 15 of his 1978 book Brainstorms, Dennett articulated the case for a two-stage model of decision making in contrast to libertarian views.

Being a pioneer of peace making in the region and driven from its belief that a peaceful Middle East is the best solution for the development of Egypt, the third Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's groundbreaking trip to Israel in 1977, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty represented a fundamental shift in the politics of the region ; from a strategy of confrontation to one of peace as a strategic choice.

The asteroid 6433 Enya, discovered on 18 November 1978 by A. Mrkos at Klet, is named after her.

Jose Mailhot, a Quebec anthropologist who speaks Montagnais, however, published a paper in 1978 which suggested that the meaning is " people who speak a different language ".

The flag is triangular and quartered blue and yellow and was adopted according to EEC Regulation # 1382 / 87 on 20 May 1978.

She described this condition in 1978 Estimates of the prevalence of this rare disorder have ranged from 1: 20, 000 to 1: 40, 000 births, though the incidence may be found to be greater as the syndrome becomes better recognized and new genetic evidence is discovered.

* 1978 – The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.