At the 17th session ( February 1978 ), the related UN / ECE Group of Experts agreed that the three-letter alphabetic codes for International Standard ISO 4217, " Codes for the representation of currencies and funds ", would be suitable for use in international trade.

At Kenyatta's death ( August 22, 1978 ), Vice President Daniel arap Moi became interim President.

* 1978 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.

At nearby Laetoli the oldest known hominid footprints, the Laetoli footprints, were discovered by Mary Leakey in 1978, and estimated to be about 3. 6 million years old and probably made by Australopithecus afarensis.

At the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Communist Party Congress in 1978, the Chinese leadership initiated a series of economic and political reforms, which led to the gradual implementation of a market economy and some political liberalization that relaxed the system set up by Mao Zedong.

At Christmas 1978, Wilson appeared on the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special.

At its 1978 commencement ceremonies, Barnard College awarded Rodgers its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction.

At this point, the opposition to the Somozas included not only Sandinistas, but other prominent figures such as Pedro Chamorro ( assassinated on January 10, 1978 ).

When the Claretians sold their Claretville property in 1978 to Clare Prophet and her Church Universal and Triumphant ( CUT ) cult, Thomas Aquinas College purchased, moved to, and began construction on a permanent campus in Santa Paula, CA At the present time, the Gillette Estate / Claretville property is now known as the ' King Gillette Ranch ' and this property remains at the intersection of Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas.

He was unable to record a bonafide album from the time of his airplane accident in 1978 until, with the help of therapy and chemical treatment to increase electro-neuron brain activity, he attempted to release the badly produced Home At Last.

At Earsham the Otter Trust has one of its three UK centres, which opened in 1978.

; September 18, 1978: At Camp David, near Washington D. C., Israel and Egypt sign a comprehensive peace treaty, The Camp David Accord, which included the withdrawal of Israel from the Sinai.

( Schuster, along with horn player David Farey, had played on Jefferson Starship's 1978 tour, and he had also appeared on Freedom At Point Zero.

At his inauguration as pope in 1978 ( itself the abandonment of the traditional millennium-old papal coronation ), Pope John Paul II himself kissed cardinals on the cheeks, rather than follow the traditional method of homage of having his feet kissed.

At the low end are figures of about 2, 000 in Paris and 3, 000 in the provinces, the latter figure an estimate by Philip Benedict in an article in 1978.

At the time, alternative music was new and had not yet received wide exposure, but it was also in 1978 that New Wave and punk rock emerged as dominant forms of popular music — and so the station became known as one of the few commercial stations at the time which played alternative music.

This was acknowledged when The Adverts opened Nightingale's first show, T. V. Smith beginning with the words " At last the 1978 show " ( a pun on the television comedy At Last the 1948 Show ) and a sigh of relief that the programme was finally contemporary.

On November 11, the band released At Budokan: 30th Anniversary Collectors Edition, a box set that featured 3 CDs of the band's two concerts at Budokan recorded on April 28 and 30, 1978.

At there, Benazir Bhutto learned to status of this crash program which had been matured since 1978, and on behalf of dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, Benazir first paid the visit to KRL in 1989 which angered the President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.

At the age of 20 Xie won the right to challenge for the women's world title, and in 1991 she defeated Maya Chiburdanidze of Georgia, who had held the title since 1978, by a score of 8½ – 6½.

At first the name of the new district was Landau-Bad Bergzabern, it was renamed to Südliche Weinstraße in 1978.

At the 16 different World Championships from 1978 to 2007 inclusive, the women's team has failed to medal only twice ( in 1981 and 2006 ), and has won the team title seven times including 5 victories in a row ( 1994 – 2001 ).

At the turn of the year Rob Gillies left and Phil Judd returned, briefly, in early 1978 after Tim and Eddie heard some of his new material, but he apparently found himself out of step with their changing direction, and left the band for good after about a month.

At the beginning of 1978, the band had agreed to appear at the 1979 Nambassa Festival to be staged in Waihi, New Zealand.

At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Bavaria Brewery got up to 1, 000 fans of the Dutch national football team to don orange overalls, called Leeuwenhosen, with the brewery's logo on them.

At Tottenham he established himself as a regular in the England team, playing in the side that reached the quarter finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico linking up again with Beardsley.

At the press conference after the fight, Castro called his winning punch La mano de Dios, ( The hand of God ), in reference to the Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona during a win by Argentine national team at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Nakata played in all three matches for Japan, losing to Australia and Brazil, and drawing with Croatia.

At the latter stages of the qualifying series for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in October 2005, he was re-called back into the national team, though not as captain.

At the time, despite the FAW being a FIFA member it had not previously organised a national league.

At ten member nations, CONMEBOL is the smallest and the only fully continental land based FIFA confederation ( no insular countries or associates from different continents ).

At the 1994 meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee in New York Havelange was criticized for his allocation of appointments to FIFA's standing committess.

" At a meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee Johansson demanded that Sepp Blatter resign as FIFA General Secretary if he planned to run for the presidency of FIFA.

After the tournament, Piola, who scored five goals in France, paid his colleague the compliment of being responsible for his own good performance: " At the FIFA World Cup, I mainly lived off Meazza and Ferrari ".

At the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Kluivert was sent off against Belgium by referee Pierluigi Collina after elbowing Lorenzo Staelens.

At the request of Guus Hiddink, Neeskens, along with Frank Rijkaard and Ronald Koeman, acted as assistant coach for the Dutch national team during the qualifiers and finals of the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

At the end of World War 1 the federation knew an impressive development and several footballers were judged to be professional players and banned according FIFA agreements.

At the FIFA congress held on 22 June prior to the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the Swiss Football Association requested that DFB is reinstated with full FIFA membership, which was granted on 22 September 1950 in Bruxelles.

At the 1990 FIFA World Cup, Platt increased his continental reputation by scoring goals with both head and feet, whilst displaying passing abilities and high work rates.

At international level, Kovač played for Croatia in five qualifying matches for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and scored one goal in their 4 – 0 victory away against San Marino.

At the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Mathis shaved his hair into a mohawk and scored a goal in the United States ' 1 – 1 draw with South Korea.

At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Yakubu notably missed an open goal from three metres against South Korea in the last Group game but later went on to score a penalty.

At this time Georgia reached forty-second place in FIFA rankings.

At the 1974 FIFA World Cup Zaire did not manage to score any goals and lost all of its games.

At the Sixteenth Annual Congress of FIFA on June 4, 1927, the USFA and the other national associations came to an agreement regarding player transfers which defused the situation.