* In 1978, L. Ron Hubbard, creator of Scientology, was convicted for illegal business practices, namely, making false claims about his ability to cure physical illnesses.

In 1978, a number of Scientologists including L. Ron Hubbard's wife Mary Sue Hubbard ( who was second in command in the organization at the time ) were convicted of perpetrating the largest incident of domestic espionage in the history of the United States called " Operation Snow White ".

* In 1978, L. Ron Hubbard was convicted in absentia by French authorities of engaging in fraud, fined 35, 000 French Francs, and sentenced to four years in prison.

This led to work in the spin-off comedy talk shows Fernwood 2 Night ( 1977 ) and America 2-Night ( 1978 ), in which he played Barth Gimble as talk show host, opposite Fred Willard as sidekick Jerry Hubbard.

After a meeting with allies of his friend, First District Congressman Carroll Hubbard, in Madisonville on September 20, 1978, Patton considered running for governor in 1979.

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, 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.

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

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

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.

* " Constantinople " was also the title of the opening edit of The Residents ' EP Duck Stab !, released in 1978.

One way around this was to use a ' hybrid system ', most notably the Roland MC-8 Microcomposer, where a microprocessor-based system controls an analog synthesizer, released in 1978.

Their third was released in 1978, Hemispheres.

The first Soviet pocket battery-powered programmable calculator, Elektronika " B3-21 ", was developed by the end of 1977 and released at the beginning of 1978.

A clear rock painting in Ginga Wardelirrhmeng, on the northern edge of the Arnhem Land plateau, from the freshwater period For example, Jemima Wimalu, a Mara woman from the Roper River is very proficient at playing the didgeridoo and is featured on the record Aboriginal Sound Instruments released in 1978.

Only Larry Ellison's Oracle started from a different chain, based on IBM's papers on System R, and beat IBM to market when the first version was released in 1978.

In 1978 the " Be Stiff EP " was released by English independent label Stiff Records, which included the single " Be Stiff " plus two previous Booji Boy releases.

Henry Saperstein, who sold the theatrical rights to Bob Conn Enterprises, also released the film to television in late 1978, this time under the title Terror of Mechagodzilla.

The original Gamma World boxed set ( containing a 56-page rulebook, a map of a devastated North America, and dice ) was released in 1978.

Interestingly, " I Will Survive " was originally the B-side when Polydor Records released it in late 1978.

The first edition of the role-playing game RuneQuest was released in 1978.

The New Testament was released in 1973 and the full Bible in 1978.

The Magnavox Odyssey², known in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000, in Brazil as the Philips Odyssey, in the United States as the Magnavox Odyssey² and the Philips Odyssey², and also by many other names, is a video game console released in 1978.

In 1978, Magnavox, now a subsidiary of North American Philips, released the Odyssey², its new second-generation video game console.

Its updated model, SL-1200MK2, released in 1978, had a stronger motor, a convenient pitch control slider for beatmatching and a stylus illuminator, which made it the long standing favourite among disc jockeys ( see " Turntablism ").

This cocktail has been famous in Puerto Rico since 1978, and it became more widely known after Rupert Holmes released his song " Escape ", commonly known as " The Piña Colada Song ".

In 1977 Philbin was replaced with Bruce Hall to record You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish, released in 1978, which received FM radio airplay.

He concurrently began pursuing a solo career, debuting with the experimental electronic fusion album The Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto ( 1978 ), and later released the pioneering album B-2 Unit ( 1980 ), which included the electro classic " Riot in Lagos ".

* Tom Paxton released the song " The Death of Stephen Biko " on his 1978 album Heroes.

* 1978 – Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand rugby player

New York: Octagon Books, 1978.

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.

Bo Diddley spent many years in New Mexico, living in Los Lunas, New Mexico from 1971 to 1978 while continuing his musical career.

In 1978 New Jersey allowed gambling in Atlantic City, now America's second largest gambling city.

Wood and Leif Andersson, New Morphometric Data for Fresh Lunar Craters, 1978, Proceedings 9th Lunar and Planet.

Although Japan eventually recognized the People's Republic in 1972, shortly after Kakuei Tanaka succeeded Sato as Prime Minister of Japan, the memory of this relationship was strong enough to be reported by The New York Times ( April 15, 1978 ) as a significant factor inhibiting trade between Japan and the mainland.

New York: Kodansha International, 1978.

) With Gypsy Fever, Parton toured as a headline act in 1977, 1978 and 1979, to promote her albums, New Harvest-First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, and Great Balls of Fire.

In 1978 he published The Poverty of Theory which attacked the structuralist Marxism of Louis Althusser and his followers in Britain on New Left Review, ( famously saying "... all of them are Geschichtenscheissenschlopff, unhistorical shit.

* Benjamin Walker, Man and the Beasts Within: The Encyclopedia of the Occult, the Esoteric, and the Supernatural, New York: Stein and Day, 1978, 343 p. ISBN 0-8128-1900-4

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

* 1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor ' easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4 " an hour.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. ( 1978 ).

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978 ( Translation of Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung, 1st ed.

Most temples of the Alpha et Omega and Stella Matutina closed or went into abeyance by the end of the 1930s, with the exceptions of two Stella Matutina temples: Hermes Temple in Bristol, which operated sporadically until 1970, and the Whare Ra in Havelock North, New Zealand, which operated regularly until its closure in 1978.

Ratebzad wrote the famous New Kabul Times editorial ( May 28, 1978 ) which declared: " Privileges which women, by right, must have are equal education, job security, health services, and free time to rear a healthy generation for building the future of the country ...

* Denis, Ernest, " Huss et la Guerre des Hussites ," AMS Press, New York, 1978, ISBN 0-404-16126-X in

* 1978 – David Berkowitz, the " Son of Sam " killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.

* 1978 – Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player

* 1978 – Claire Chitham, New Zealand actress

Their first actual multi-song concert billed as Jan and Dean took place in 1978 in New York City at The Palladium as part of the Murray the K Brooklyn Fox Reunion Show.