* 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.

Although he was not tried, he was stripped of his eligibility to run for public office ; Congress posthumously lifted this restriction in 1978, 89 years after his death.

She campaigned during her husband's unsuccessful 1978 run for the United States Congress and later his successful Texas gubernatorial campaign.

In 1978, the NASA SETI program was heavily criticized by Senator William Proxmire, and funding for SETI research was removed from the NASA budget by Congress in 1981, however, funding was restored in 1982, after Carl Sagan talked with Proxmire and convinced him of the program's value.

To avoid this controversy with the 1978 constitutional amendment proposed to grant congressional representation to the residents of Washington, D. C., Congress returned to the habit of placing the deadline within the actual text of the amendment itself.

* The Equal Rights Amendment ( proposed in 1972 and expired in either 1979 or 1982, depending on whether a 1978 extension was constitutional ; some supporters argue for Congress or the courts nullifying or extending the deadline, with previous state ratifications still counting )

To protect the telecommunication carriers cooperating with the US government from legal action, the Congress passed a bill updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to permit this type of surveillance.

In 1978, pursuant to Section 3, the Congress posthumously removed the service ban from Jefferson Davis.

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.

On December 18, 1978, the pivotal Third Plenum of the Eleventh CCP Congress was held.

It was later amended by Congress in 1978, and again in 1986 to apply only to transport for the purpose of prostitution or illegal sexual acts.

# The 1978 extension of the ERA's deadline demonstrates that Congress can amend previously established deadlines ; and

The National Park Service had a reproduction made in 1978 as part of the restoration of Congress Hall ; they had to speculate on the exact design of the eagle and chose the representation seen on the first seal die.

The March of the Volunteers was restored by the National People's Congress in 1978, but with different lyrics ; however, these new lyrics were never very popular and caused a great deal of confusion.

The current system of bankruptcy courts was created by United States Congress in 1978, effective April 1, 1984.

The United States Congress enacted the Inspector General Act of 1978 to ensure integrity and efficiency in government.

The Mao era lasted from the founding of the People's Republic on October 1, 1949 to Deng Xiaoping's grip onto power and policy reversal at the Third Plenum of the 11th Party Congress on December 22, 1978.

Carey Peck had political ambitions, running for Congress in California in 1978 and again in 1980 with the support of his father and family.

In 1978 all party meetings were to hang portraits of Mao and Hua side-by-side, including at the National People's Congress and CPC Party Congress meetings.

Congress finally finded LST in 1978, with an intended launch date of 1983.

Homebrewing of beer having an alcohol content higher than 0. 5 % remained illegal until 1978 when Congress passed a bill repealing Federal restrictions and excise taxes on the homebrewing of small amounts of beer and wine.

*** Marshal Ye Jianying 葉劍英 / 叶剑英 ( 1897-1986 ; Meixian, Guangdong, Hakka pronunciation: Yap Kiam Yin ), Leader and general ; Chairman, National People's Congress, 1978 – 1983 ; President, People's Republic of China, 1978 – 1983 ; Governor of Guangdong, 1949 – 1953

For the 1978 – 79 season, the NFL extended its schedule from 14 regular season games to 16, and increased the playoffs from an 8-team tournament to 10, creating two extra playoff games.

Rhodesian counterinsurgency operation extended into Zambia after ZIPRA rebels shot down two unarmed Vickers Viscount civilian airliners ( Air Rhodesia Flight 825 on 3 September 1978 and Air Rhodesia Flight 827 on 12 February 1979 ) with Soviet supplied SAM-7 heat-seeking missiles.

Specifically, for works published before January 1, 1978 and still in copyright on October 27, 1998, the term was extended to 95 years.

For works authored by individuals on or after January 1, 1978 ( including new works ), the copyright term was extended to equal the life of the author plus 70 years.

( Desktop typesetting, with only limited page makeup facilities, had arrived in 1978 – 9 with the introduction of TeX, and was extended in the early 1980s by LaTeX.

During its incursion into Cambodia in 1978 – 89, Vietnam's international isolation extended to relations with the United States.

In 1977 the school ’ s site was extended and a new school building was opened in September 1978.

Almost all of SoHo is included in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, which was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973, extended in 2010, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1978.

In 1978, Ford initiated a recall providing a plastic protective shield to be dealer-installed between the fuel tank and the differential bolts, another to deflect contact with the right-rear shock absorber, and a new fuel-tank filler neck that extended deeper into the tank and was more resistant to breaking off in a rear-end collision.

Coverage was extended to all districts in 1978 when the service was also upgraded to color.

The first wave of the " conceptual art " movement extended from approximately 1967 to 1978.

GO train service was extended to Richmond Hill in 1978, officially opened on April 29, 1978 by Bill Davis.

The range of metals traded was extended to include aluminium ( 1978 ), nickel ( 1979 ), tin ( 1989 ), aluminium alloy ( 1992 ), steel ( 2008 ), and minor metals cobalt and molybdenum ( 2010 ).

Winograd extended Rader's algorithm to include prime-power DFT sizes ( Winograd 1976 ; Winograd 1978 ), and today Rader's algorithm is sometimes described as a special case of Winograd's FFT algorithm, also called the multiplicative Fourier transform algorithm ( Tolimieri et al., 1997 ), which applies to an even larger class of sizes.

Redesigned pentagonal alloy wheels — replacing the original SL / E type used since 1978 — along with a black painted B-pillar, wrap-around chrome rear bumper extensions to the wheel arches, and extended tail lamps that converged with the license plate alcove — distinguished the range-topping SL / E from other variants.

In the 1970s, Sino-Soviet ideological rivalry extended to Africa and the Middle East, where the Soviet Union and Red China funded and supported opposed political parties, militias, and states, notably the Ogaden War ( 1977 – 1978 ) between Ethiopia and Somalia, the Rhodesian Bush War ( 1964 – 1979 ), the Zimbabwean Gukurahundi ( 1980 – 1987 ), the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), the Mozambican Civil War ( 1977 – 1992 ), and factions of the Palestinian people.

Although some of the original players departed the team, some extended the Big Red Machine nickname for two more years until the departures of Anderson and Rose following the 1978 season.

The single runway has been extended three times, in 1971, 1978 and 1999.

Students doing operating systems research at the CSRG modified and extended UNIX, and the CSRG made several releases of the modified operating system beginning in 1978, with AT & T's blessing.

In 1978 the track was extended to a temporary connection with the New Zealand Railways main line near Heathcote, and this permitted the largest locomotives, the Vulcan railcars and other rolling stock to enter the site.

The eastern end was extended four stations to Silver Spring on February 6, 1978 – which added Maryland to the system for the first time – two stations to Wheaton on September 22, 1990, and one station to Glenmont on July 25, 1998, completing the line.

Despite some criticism over her age, the popularity of the tour, produced by Robert Stigwood and David Land with the orchestrations, stage design and direction of the original 1978 London production, led to it being extended throughout 1996.

Running completed the designs until 1978, when their development was taken over by David J. Hetland, whose murals have traditionally extended 56-by-20 feet.