* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.

In October 1978, Yale presented a " chamber version " adapted and directed by Keith Hack, with John Glover as Jimmy and June Gable as Begbick.

* 1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.

Clinton, as the newly elected Governor of Arkansas, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in 1978

Prime Minister of Israel | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, President of Egypt | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and President of the United States | U. S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978

* Jimmy Carter brokered the Camp David Accords there in September 1978 between Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Image: Begin, Carter and Sadat at Camp David 1978. jpg | Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, and Anwar Sadat at Camp David, September 7, 1978.

Image: Sadat Carter Begin, Camp David 1978. gif | Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin meet on the Aspen Lodge patio of Camp David on September 6, 1978.

Image: Carter and Sadat. jpg | President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, and Jimmy Carter meet at the beginning of the Camp David Summit in 1978.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and cut off all relations with Taiwan

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

President Tolbert and U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( in car, left ) in Monrovia, 1978

Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon ; in 1978, President Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978 ; he and his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

* 1978 – Jimmy Aggrey, English footballer

* 1978 – Jimmy Bullard, English footballer

President Jimmy Carter subsequently signed the " Alternative Futures and Self Determination Executive Order " on July 25, 1978 guaranteeing the right of self determination to the People of Puerto Rico.

Charles, Prince of Wales ( 3 November 1972 ), U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( 15 July 1978 ), and U. S. Vice President ( later President ) George H. W. Bush ( George Bush Senior ) ( 1 February 1983 ).

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel meet at Camp David and agree on the Camp David Accords a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

It was kept in a vault at Fort Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President Jimmy Carter.

Development was subsequently postponed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 following protests against his administration's plans to deploy neutron warheads in Europe.

Callaghan meets with US President Jimmy Carter, 1978.

It was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 27, 1978, and codified as 15 USC § 3101.

McCoist's first professional club was St. Johnstone, having signed from Fir Park Boys Club in 1978.

With Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur reportedly interested in luring Rangers ' top marksman to London, Johnstone submitted a transfer request in the summer of 1978.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Collector's Edition 8 CD set, containing the original 12 radio episodes from 1978 and 1980, as well as an untransmitted interview with Ian Johnstone and the twentieth anniversary programme.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Collector's Edition 8 CD set, containing the original 12 radio episodes from 1978 and 1980, as well as an untransmitted interview with Ian Johnstone and the twentieth anniversary programme.

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

* 1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.

By the end of his first season with Liverpool, Dalglish had played 62 times and scored 31 goals, including the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup Final final at Wembley against Bruges.

Liverpool retained the European Cup in 1978 and regained the First Division title in 1979.

), Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890 – 1930 ( Penguin " Penguin Literary Criticism " series, 1978, ISBN 0-14-013832-3 ).

* 1978 – Julia Taylor, European pornographic actress

* 1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Porsche's design and development efforts paid off during the 1978 European Car of the Year competition where the 928 won ahead of the BMW 7-series and the Ford Granada.

In 1978, the Confederation of Socialist Parties approved the first common European election Manifesto.

In 1978, the Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said published his influential and controversial book, Orientalism, which " would forever redefine " the word ; he used the term to describe a pervasive Western tradition, both academic and artistic, of prejudiced outsider interpretations of the East, shaped by the attitudes of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 1978, Liechtenstein became member of the Council of Europe, and then joined the United Nations in 1990, the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) in 1991, and both the European Economic Area ( EEA ) and World Trade Organization in 1995.

Colin McEvedy ( Atlas of World Population History, 1978 ) estimates the population of European Russia dropped from 7. 5 million prior to the invasion to 7 million afterwards.

In 1978, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the five techniques of " sensory deprivation " were not torture as laid out in Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, but were " inhuman or degrading treatment " ( see Accusations of use of torture by United Kingdom for details ).

British record label Decca began development of their own 2-track digital audio recorders in 1978, and released the first European digital recording in 1979.

The group then took over the European division of Chrysler ( which were formerly Rootes and Simca ), in 1978 as the American auto manufacturer struggled to survive.

* Alex N. Dragnich, The Development of Parliamentary Government in Serbia, East European Monographs, Boulder Colorado 1978.

They won the European Cup in 1988 against Benfica, making them the second Dutch club to win The Treble, and the UEFA Cup in 1978 against SC Bastia.

PSV also won the UEFA Cup, their first major European title in 1978, by beating French opponents SC Bastia 3 – 0 in the final's second leg.

Citroën probably gained former VW customers as the only other " retro alternative " economy car style of vehicle, the Volkswagen Beetle, was withdrawn from the European market in 1978, ( special order only from Mexico in the 1980s ), when it ceased production in West Germany.

In January 1978 the group undertook a European tour that ended abruptly after 31 year old saxophonist Gregory Herbert died of a drug overdose in Amsterdam on January 31, 1978.

Starting in 1978, most chassis and engines were European, with the only American-based chassis to win during the CART era being the Wildcat and Galmer ( which was actually built in Bicester, England ) in 1982 and 1992 respectively.

The historic bandy team Dinamo won the Soviet Championships in 1977 and 1990 and the European Cup in 1978.