* 1978 – Paul O ' Brien, Australian actor

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.

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in 1979 during his first trip ever to the United States after being elected to the Papacy in 1978.

* Newman, Paul ( 1978 ) ' Chado-Hamitic ' adieu ': new thoughts on Chadic language classification ', in Fronzaroli, Pelio ( ed.

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 ).

On 23 June 1978, weeks before his death, in an address to the College of Cardinals, Paul VI reaffirmed his Humanae Vitae: " following the confirmations of serious science ", and which sought to affirm the principle of respect for the laws of nature and of " a conscious and ethically responsible paternity ".

After he became pope in 1978, John Paul II continued on the Catholic Theology of the Body of his predecessors with a series of lectures, entitled Theology of the Body, in which he talked about an original unity between man and women, purity of heart ( on the Sermon on the Mount ), marriage and celibacy and reflections on Humane Vitae, focusing largely on responsible parenthood and marital chastity.

* 1920 – Paul O ' Dea, American baseball player ( d. 1978 )

* Escott, Paul ( 1978 ).

On 6 September 1978, the night of his death, Moon and girlfriend Annette Walter-Lax were guests of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney at a preview of the film The Buddy Holly Story.

In 1978, “ Forever Changes ” was ranked as the 16th greatest rock album of all time in “ Rock Critics ’ Choice: The Top 200 Albums ,” a book compiled by Paul Gambaccini.

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

* 1978 – Paul Banks, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Interpol )

From 1968 to 1978, he and Paul Samuelson participated in the Economics Cassette Series, a biweekly subscription series where the economist would discuss the days ' issues for about a half hour at a time.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

1992 proved to be the end of an era for the Brewers, as teammates Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Jim Gantner, who had been together since 1978 would go their separate ways, as Molitor left the Brewers for the Toronto Blue Jays, Gantner retired, and Yount would only last one more season before retiring in 1993.

* Paul Moor, ( born 1978 ), British Ten-pin Bowler

Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello, S. J., London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1978.

* 1978 – Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, as the Bishop of Rome.

* 1978 Paul Szep ( Boston Globe )

* 1978 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player ( b. 1978 )

* 1978 – Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.

Thagard was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978.

In 1978, Joyce G. Baldwin, former principal of Trinity College, Bristol, proposed her view of the chiastic language structure for the Aramaic portion of Daniel chapters 2-7 .</ sup >

Rachman ( 1978 ) proposed that vicarious acquisition was a critical component to the etiology of phobias, so it was decided to include information and instruction from the parent and family members to better understand its onset.

When substitution was proposed before, in 1978, the US appeared reluctant to allow such a mechanism to become operational.

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 )

* The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment ( proposed in 1978 and expired in 1985 )

Gilbert first proposed the existence of introns and exons and explained the evolution of introns in a seminal 1978 " News and Views " paper published in Nature.

In 1978 the party was struck by the abduction and murder of Aldo Moro, who had proposed a Historic Compromise with the PCI, by the Red Brigades.

* During the 1978 Camp David negotiations between Israel and Egypt Anwar Sadat proposed the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.

It was set to air in early 1978 on a proposed Paramount Television Service ( a forerunner to UPN ).

More recent failed amendments included attempts in 1978 to permit triple backpay awards and union collective bargaining certification based on signed union authorization cards, a provision that is similar to one of the proposed amendments in the Employee Free Choice Act.

During a debate in Parliament on 2 March 1978 Michael Foot labelled Tebbit a " semi-house-trained polecat " in response to a question from Tebbit asking if he accepted that the legislation being proposed that made it compulsory for people to join a Trade Union was an act of Fascism.

The proposed amendment was ratified by Wyoming in 1978 as a protest to a Congressional pay raise, but the proposed amendment was largely forgotten before University of Texas at Austin undergraduate student Gregory Watson wrote a paper on the subject in 1982.

A national park in the Alligator Rivers region was proposed as early as 1965, but took until 1978 for the Australian Government to make arrangements to acquire the titles over various tracts of land that now constitute Kakadu National Park.

) – had been accepted by the Greek Communist Party which later proposed him as the candidate for mayor of Athens during the 1978 elections.

The phrase " Islamization of knowledge " was first used and proposed by the Malaysian scholar Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas in his book " Islam and Secularism " ISBN 983-99628-6-8 ( first published in 1978 ).

Gregory was an outspoken feminist, and in 1978 he joined Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, Margaret Heckler, Barbara Mikulski, and original suffragists to lead the National ERA March for Ratification and Extension, a march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the United States Capitol of over 100, 000 on Women's Equality Day ( August 26 ), 1978 to demonstrate for a ratification deadline extension for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, and for the ratification of the ERA.

Peter Hyam's science-fiction thriller Capricorn One ( 1978 ) proposed the government conspiracy-theory idea that the first mission to Mars landing was a complete fake.

An African reference alphabet was first proposed in 1978 by a UNESCO-organized conference held in Niamey, Niger, and the proposed alphabet was revised in 1982.

Bruun's algorithm is a fast Fourier transform ( FFT ) algorithm based on an unusual recursive polynomial-factorization approach, proposed for powers of two by G. Bruun in 1978 and generalized to arbitrary even composite sizes by H. Murakami in 1996.

The scientific name Pithecanthropus rudolfensis was proposed in 1978 by V. P. Alekseyev.