* 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 ).

The new owners pushed the company into modernising its line, producing the V8 Vantage in 1977, the convertible Volante in 1978, and the one-off William Towns-styled Bulldog in 1980.

In September 1978, the company demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150 minute playing time, 44, 056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, and cross-interleaved error correction code — specifications similar to those later settled upon for the standard Compact Disc format in 1980.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

The Eagles gave nods to disco with " One of These Nights " ( 1975 ) and " Disco Strangler " ( 1979 ), Paul McCartney & Wings did " Goodnight Tonight " ( 1979 ), Queen did " Another One Bites the Dust " ( 1980 ), The Rolling Stones did " Miss You " ( 1978 ), Chicago did " Street Player " ( 1979 ), The Beach Boys did " Here Comes the Night " ( 1979 ), The Kinks did "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman " ( 1979 ), and the J. Geils Band did " Come Back " ( 1980 ).

Also noteworthy are Cheryl Lynn's " Got to Be Real " ( 1978 ), Evelyn " Champagne " King's " Shame " ( 1978 ), Cher's " Take Me Home " ( 1979 ), Sister Sledge's " We Are Family " ( 1979 ), Geraldine Hunt's " Can't Fake the Feeling " ( 1980 ), and Walter Murphy's various attempts to bring classical music to the mainstream, most notably his hit " A Fifth of Beethoven " ( 1976 ).

From December 3, 1978, to September 20, 1980, Encyclopedia Brown was a daily and Sunday comic strip syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

Botha, he held a succession of ministerial posts, including Posts and Telecommunications and Sports and Recreation ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mines, Energy and Environmental Planning ( 1979 – 1980 ), Mineral and Energy Affairs ( 1980 – 1982 ), Internal Affairs ( 1982 – 1985 ), and National Education and Planning ( 1984 – 1989 ).

It was founded in 1978 and became the official West Berlin branch of The Greens in 1980.

Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the " slow burn " as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie ( 1978 ), as he would in its 1980 and 1987 sequels.

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).

They separated in 1976, filed for divorce in 1978, and divorced in 1980.

LambdaMOO has its roots in the 1978 – 1980 work by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle to create and expand the concept of Multi-User Dungeon ( MUD ) – virtual communities.

Gene Hackman portrays Lex Luthor in the 1978 Superman film, along with two of its sequels, Superman II ( 1980 ) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ).

Öngür joined Dadaşlar, a band with Ersen Dinleten between 1974 – 1975 and 1979 – 1980 and Dervişan ( Dervishes ), a band with Cem Karaca between 1974 and 1978 ; in 1975, Danga participated in Erkin Koray's ' Elektronik Türküler ' ( Electronic Songs ) album.

Afterward, he was content to be a highly paid character actor in parts that were glorified cameos in Superman ( 1978 ) and The Formula ( 1980 ) before taking a nine-year break from motion pictures.

After a run of three straight division titles from 1976 to 1978, the Phillies won the NL East in 1980 behind pitcher Steve Carlton, outfielder Greg Luzinski, and infielders Mike Schmidt, Larry Bowa, and Pete Rose.

Long-term dioxin contamination at Love Canal starting in 1947 became a national news story in 1978 and led to the Superfund legislation of 1980.