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 end of the novel, Grand says he is much happier ; he has written to Jeanne and made a fresh start on his book.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

At thirteen, she was recording ( the single " Puppy Love ") on a small Louisiana label, Goldband Records, and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

At the start of the Grand Gallery on the right-hand side there is a hole cut in the wall ( and now blocked by chicken wire ).

At the top of the Grand Gallery there is a step giving onto a horizontal passage approximately long, in which can be detected four slots, three of which were probably intended to hold granite portcullises.

At the Grand Guignol, patrons would see five or six plays, all in a style which attempted to be brutally true to the theatre's naturalistic ideals.

At the Portuguese Grand Prix at Monsanto Park, Brabham was chasing race leader Moss when a backmarker moved over on him and launched the Cooper into the air.

At the British Grand Prix, Brabham was closing on Graham Hill's BRM before Hill spun off, leaving Brabham the victory.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham took his first Formula One world championship win since 1960 and became the first man to win such a race in a car of his own construction.

At the birth of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( GDL ), ethnic Lithuanians made up about 70 % of the population.

At, Grand Isle State Park contains camping facilities, a sand volleyball court, a nature walk trail, a horseshoe pit and a play area.

At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.

At Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Antônio Pizzonia of BMW Williams F1 team recorded a top speed of in the 2004 Italian Grand Prix.

At the end of A Grand Day Out, Wallace tells Gromit to set coordinates for " 62 West Wallaby Street " as they are returning to Earth.

** At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the future Grand Principality of Finland from Sweden.

At the end of 1934, Maserati pulled out of Grand Prix racing and Nuvolari returned to Ferrari, who were reluctant to take him back, but were persuaded by Mussolini, the Italian prime minister.

At the time, the European Grand Prix was considered the most important race of the motorcycling season and the winners in each category were designated European Champions.

At the start of 1934, Nuvolari entered the Monaco Grand Prix in a privately owned Bugatti.

At first Mozart thought he needed to finish his opera in only two months, because tentative plans were made to perform it at the September visit of the Russian Grand Duke Paul ( son of Catherine the Great and heir to the Russian throne ).

At the time of her death, Princess Margaret's full style was: Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon, Companion of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

At the 1979 Canadian Grand Prix, Lauda informed Brabham owner Bernie Ecclestone that he wished to retire immediately, as he had no more desire to " drive around in circles ".

At, Grand Teton abruptly rises more than above Jackson Hole, almost higher than Mount Owen, the second highest summit in the range.

At Tianjin, through the Grand Canal, the Hai connects with the Yellow and Yangtze rivers.

At the Australian Open, she reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal, defeating no.