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.

In 1978, Jones ' wife Dorothy died ; three years later, he married Marian Dern, the writer of the comic strip Rick O ' Shay.

In 1978, Chapman co-wrote ( with Bernard McKenna ) and starred in The Odd Job alongside David Jason who had previously appeared on Do Not Adjust Your Set with Idle, Jones, and Palin.

* 1931 – Jim Jones, American founder and leader of the Peoples Temple ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.

The play has been adapted twice for BBC Radio 3, first on 24 December 1978 directed by John Tydeman ; the cast included Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Edward Hardwicke as Rosencrantz, Freddie Jones as The Player, Robert Lang as Claudius, Maxine Audley as Gertrude, Angela Pleasance as Ophelia, and Martin Jarvis as Hamlet.

* 1978: 1 + 3 ( JVC ) trio live with Hank Jones or Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams

Amid allegations of corruption, mental and physical abuse by Jones on his followers, and denying them the right to leave Jonestown, a Congressional committee visited Guyana to investigate in November 1978.

** Jim Jones, American cult leader ( d. 1978 )

In 1978, Topeka attorneys Richard Jones, Joseph Johnson and Charles Scott Jr. ( son of the original Brown team member ), with assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union, persuaded Linda Brown Smith — who now had her own children in Topeka schools — to be a plaintiff in reopening Brown.

* 24 Bobby Jones, F, 1978 – 1986

The Hope Jones organ was heavily re-built in 1925 by Harrison & Harrison, and then regular minor works kept it in working order until Wood Wordsworth and Co were called in 1978.

She had a romantic role in the BBC television film Langrishe, Go Down ( 1978 ), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played one of three spinster sisters living in a fading Irish mansion in the Waterford countryside.

The idea for the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt was conceived in 1985 by AIDS activist Cleve Jones during the candlelight march, in remembrance of the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.

* Jim Jones ( 1931 – 1978 ), 1970s cult leader, founder of Jonestown.

* Body and Soul ( The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra album ), 1978

The Who went on after the death of Keith Moon in 1978, but tension continued as Daltrey felt new drummer Kenney Jones was the wrong choice for the Who.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

( 1978 ) with a quartet that included pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Louis Bellson ; two Duke Ellington Songbook albums ( 1979 ); Send In The Clowns ( 1981 ) with the Count Basie orchestra playing arrangements primarily by Sammy Nestico ; and Crazy and Mixed Up ( 1982 ), another quartet album featuring Sir Roland Hanna, piano, Joe Pass, guitar, Andy Simpkins, bass, and Harold Jones, drums.

Kenney Jones became the drummer of The Who after Keith Moon's death in 1978 and continued to work with The Who through the late 1980s.

Both Jones and McGuinness have been mainstays of The Blues Band, which they helped form in 1978.

He debuted as a professional boxer on July 2 of 1978 with a win over Darryl Jones in Stockton.

On November 2, 1978, Simon guested on the song " I Live In The Woods " at a live, four-hour concert by Burt Bacharach and the Houston Symphony Orchestra at Jones Hall in Houston, Texas.

* Jones, R. V. ( 1978 ).

Wynette was married five times: to Euple Byrd ( married 1959 – divorced 1966 ); Don Chapel, born Lloyd Franklin Amburgey, ( married 1967 – annulled 1968 ); George Jones ( married 1969 – divorced 1975 ); Michael Tomlin ( married 1976 – annulled 1976 ); and singer / songwriter George Richey ( married 1978 – her death 1998 ).

Unlike the immediate acceptance shown in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for the audience to warm up to him.

The PDPA took power in the 1978 Saur Revolution.

France and Comoros signed a mutual security treaty in 1978 ; following the mercenary coup against Abdallah in 1989, French troops restored order and took responsibility for reorganizing and training the Comorian army.

Bailey returned to Edmonton to play with the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association in 1978 – 79, where he took rookie Wayne Gretzky under his wing.

The 8086 took a little more than two years from idea to working product, which was considered rather fast for a complex design in 1976 – 1978.

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.

In April 1978 the PDPA took power in Afghanistan, with Najibullah a member of the ruling Revolutionary Council.

After Deng Xiaoping took power in 1978 greater autonomy has been given to provinces in terms of economic policy implementation as well as other areas of policy such as education and transportation.

The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971 to 1978, took a respite, and returned occasionally on ABC from 1989 to 2003.

The group's most infamous act took place in 1978, when the second groups of the BR, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnapped the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who was trying to reach a compromesso storico, or " historic compromise ", with the Communists.

However, the 1978 crackdown on Iraqi Communists and a shift of trade toward the West strained Iraqi relations with the Soviet Union ; Iraq then took on a more Western orientation until the Gulf War in 1991.

On a real per capita basis, doubling from the 1978 base took place in 1987, 1996 and 2006.

It took until 1992 to discover a second trans-Neptunian object, ( 15760 ) 1992 QB < sub > 1 </ sub >, with only the discovery of Pluto's moon Charon in 1978 before that.

The CNMI Government adopted its own constitution in 1977, and the constitutional government took office in January 1978.

When Reasoner left CBS to co-anchor ABC's evening newscast ( he would return to CBS and the show in 1978 ), Morley Safer joined the team in 1970, and he took over Reasoner's duties of reporting less aggressive stories.

The first tram line extension in over twenty years took place in 1978, along Burwood Highway.

After the run of a 1978 play, First Monday of October, he took the advice of his doctors and quit plays, though he continued to star in films and television.

After a stint between 1974 and 1978 as the host of the Thames Television murder-mystery game show Whodunnit !, Pertwee took the starring role in Worzel Gummidge, based on the books written by Barbara Euphan Todd.

After Wilson stepped down in 1978 to protest the lack of funding for the lab, Leon M. Lederman took on the job.

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.

In R v Hale ( 1978 ) the application of force and the stealing took place in different locations, and it was not possible to establish the timing ; it was held that the appropriation necessary to prove theft was a continuing act, and the jury could correctly convict of robbery ; this approach was followed in R v Lockley ( 1995 ) when the force was applied to a shopkeeper after property had been taken.

The Tāna script was reinstated by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom shortly after he took power in 1978.

In 1978, when Deng Xiaoping took power, Sichuan was one of the first provinces to undergo limited experimentation with market economic enterprise.

In 1978, Pickens lent his voice to theme park Silver Dollar City as a character named Rube Dugan, for a ride called " Rube Dugan's Diving Bell ", The diving bell was a simulation ride that took passengers on a journey to the bottom of Lake Silver and back.

However his win at Amsterdam 1978 took him to his first interzonal tournament at Rio de Janeiro, where he failed to progress further.