In India, vaccination against Polio started in 1978 with Expanded Program in Immunisation ( EPI ).

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

" It was more fully published in 1978 by political scientist Steven Brams and mathematician Peter Fishburn.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

* 1978 – Mir Akbar Khyber was assassinated, provoking a communist coup d ' état in Afghanistan.

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.

In December 1978, there was media speculation that Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, might marry a Roman Catholic, although the rumours were never verified.

When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.

Applesoft II, which was made available on cassette and disk and in the ROM of the Apple II Plus and subsequent models, was released in 1978.

In 1978 he was elected to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

In 1978, for Korner's 50th birthday, an all-star concert was held featuring many of his above-mentioned friends, as well as Eric Clapton, Paul Jones, Chris Farlowe, Zoot Money and others, which was later released as The Party Album, and as a video.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

From 1976 to 1978, Widdecombe was a councillor for Runnymede District in Surrey.

This was accompanied by reduction of poverty from 28 percent in 1978 to 9 percent in 1998 in China, and from 51 percent in 1978 to 26 percent in 2000 in India.

It was released in the Spring of 1978, one month before her high school graduation.

Lerner's autobiography The Street Where I Live ( 1978 ), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot along with personal information.

Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978, having defeated the Republican candidate Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana.

After conflict over the 1970 constitution, a new constitution was written and approved in 1977, and Lamizana was reelected by open elections in 1978.

Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris to Anne-Marie ' Toty ' Mucel ( 1912 – 1978 ) and Louis ' Pilou ' Bardot ( 1896 – 1975 ).

In 1978, the Technics SL-1200MK2 turntable was released, whose comfortable and precise sliding pitch control and high torque direct drive motor made beatmatching easier and it became the standard among DJs.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

Relative peace and stability prevailed until 1977 and 1978 when Katangan rebels, based in Angola, launched a series of invasions ( Shaba I and II ) into the Shaba ( Katanga ) region.

Between 1978 and 1986 the Derg launched eight unsuccessful major offensives against the independence movement.

In 1978, Greenpeace launched the original Rainbow Warrior, a, former fishing trawler named for the Cree legend that inspired early activist Robert Hunter on the first voyage to Amchitka.

In 1978 an experimental broadcast satellite with two color television channels was launched.

* 1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.

In 1978 IPC launched Starlord, a short-lived companion title for 2000 AD.

* Pioneer Venus Orbiter ( Pioneer Venus 1, Pioneer 12 ) – launched December 1978

* Pioneer Venus Multiprobe ( Pioneer Venus 2, Pioneer 13 ) – launched August 1978

In 1978, the Council of Churches launched a protest which scotched the idea.

A new Spanish edition, Investigación y Ciencia was launched in Spain in 1976, followed by a French edition, Pour la Science, in France in 1977, and a German edition, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, in Germany in 1978.

In 1978 he had a significant impact upon IBM's thinking when he outlined his vision of the potential of personal computing to the team that three years later launched the IBM PC.

Following Vietnam's December 1978 invasion of Cambodia, China launched a retaliatory invasion of Vietnam's northern border region.

* Starlord was a weekly title ( originally intended to be monthly ) launched in 1978 following much the same format as 2000 AD and included Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters which introduced characters that would later reappear in ABC Warriors.

The United Nations launched Development Business in 1978 with the support of the World Bank, and other major development banks from around the world.

In June 1978 Science of Cambridge launched a microcomputer kit, the MK14, based on the National SC / MP chip.

Color television broadcasting, however, was not widely available until after 1978, when the government launched Argentina Televisora Color ( ATC ), now Channel 7 ( Argentina's principal public television station ).

Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer Venus Orbiter was launched in 1978, and studied the planet for more than a decade after orbital insertion in 1978.

* GOES 3, launched on June 16, 1978, used as a communications relay for the South Pole research station.

The system was publicly launched as Telidon on August 15, 1978.

He launched unsuccessful congressional campaigns in the 1976 general election against the Democrat George H. Mahon and in the 1978 Republican primary against George W. Bush.

Giacconi's pioneering research continued in 1978 with the Einstein Observatory, the first fully imaging X-ray telescope put into space, and later with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched in 1999 and is still in operation.

In August 1978 the Canadian Department of Communications publicly launched it as Telidon, a " second generation " videotex / teletext service, and committed to a four year development plan to encourage rollout.