* 1978: The Dain Curse-Tom Fink ( TV mini-series )

Coburn returned to television in 1978 to star in a three-part mini-series version of a Dashiell Hammett detective novel, The Dain Curse, tailoring his character to bear a physical resemblance to the author.

West subsequently appeared in the theatrical films The Marriage of a Young Stockbrocker ( 1971 ), The Curse of the Moon Child ( 1972 ), The Specialist ( 1975 ), Hardcore ( 1977 ), Hooper ( as himself ; 1978 ), The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood ( 1980 ) and One Dark Night ( 1983 ).

His other books included novelisations of his Doctor Who serials The Curse of Peladon ( Target, 1974 ) and The Ice Warriors ( Target, 1976 ), an adaptation of his scripts for the BBC drama The Moon Stallion ( Mirror Books, 1978 ), and two horror plays for children, The Curse of the Labyrinth ( Dobson, 1976 ) and Hour of the Werewolf ( Dobson, 1976 ).

While performing there, a rep from The Public Theater saw him and had him cast as Weston in Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class in 1978.

Among his other credits are Curse of the Fly, the spy-comedy Our Man in Marrakesh ( 1966 ), the fantasy Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon ( 1967 ) and the 1978 remake of The Thirty Nine Steps, starring Robert Powell.

Among her best known roles are True Grit ( 1969 ) playing a fourteen-year-old when she was twenty-one years old ; Gunsmoke ( 1967 episodes " The Lure " and " Vengeance "); The One and Only ( 1978 ); Better Off Dead ( 1985 ); and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers ( 1995 ).

For the next five years Woodruff was virtually the sole director of Shepard's work, staging the American premiere of Curse of the Starving Class at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1978, the world premieres of Buried Child ( 1978 ) and True West ( 1980 ) at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco and then in New York, and the touring productions of Tongues and Savage / Love, which Shepard co-authored with the performer Joseph Chaikin.

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

" It was more fully published in 1978 by political scientist Steven Brams and mathematician Peter Fishburn.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

* 1978 – Mir Akbar Khyber was assassinated, provoking a communist coup d ' état in Afghanistan.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

In December 1978, there was media speculation that Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, might marry a Roman Catholic, although the rumours were never verified.

When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.

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 he was elected to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

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, 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.

From 1976 to 1978, Widdecombe was a councillor for Runnymede District in Surrey.

This was accompanied by reduction of poverty from 28 percent in 1978 to 9 percent in 1998 in China, and from 51 percent in 1978 to 26 percent in 2000 in India.

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

Lerner's autobiography The Street Where I Live ( 1978 ), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot along with personal information.

Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978, having defeated the Republican candidate Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana.

After conflict over the 1970 constitution, a new constitution was written and approved in 1977, and Lamizana was reelected by open elections in 1978.

Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris to Anne-Marie ' Toty ' Mucel ( 1912 – 1978 ) and Louis ' Pilou ' Bardot ( 1896 – 1975 ).

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.

Allan Border made his Test debut for Australia in 1978 – 79.

David A. Clines, in his influential The Themes of the Pentateuch ( 1978 ), identified the overarching theme of the five books as the partial fulfilment of a promise to made by God to the patriarchs, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Carl Boenish was the real catalyst behind modern BASE jumping, and in 1978, he filmed the first BASE jumps to be made using ram-air parachutes and the freefall tracking technique ( from El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park ).

Current living animals derive solely from Kenyan importations made during the period 1969 – 1978.

The Commodores made a brief appearance in the 1978 film Thank God It's Friday.

Guest made his first appearance as Tufnel on the 1978 sketch comedy program The TV Show.

Many practitioners take Edward Saïd's book Orientalism ( 1978 ) as the theory's founding work ( although French theorists such as Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon made similar claims decades before Said ).

In 1978, the first of four Superman films was made in which Clark Kent and Superman were portrayed by Christopher Reeve ( with teenage Kent played by Jeff East in the first film ).

It was not until 1997, however, that a direct experiment, by S. Lamoreaux, described above, quantitatively measured the force ( to within 15 % of the value predicted by the theory ), although previous work van Blockland and Overbeek ( 1978 ) had observed the force qualitatively, and indirect validation of the predicted Casimir energy had been made by measuring the thickness of liquid Helium films by Sabisky and Anderson in 1972.

The short film Within the Woods ( 1978 ) was made as a prototype to help convince possible investors to fund The Evil Dead.

* Gates of Heaven ( 1978 ) has long been on Roger Ebert's list of the ten greatest films ever made.

In the period 1974 to 1978, an attempt was made to build a road between Rockstone and Kurupung to facilitate the construction of a large hydroelectric station.

* Led by Coach Digger Phelps, the Irish made a trip to the 1978 Final Four where they lost to the Duke Blue Devils.

He is the only man to have made a century and take 8 wickets in an innings in the same Test match, 108 and 8 / 34 against Pakistan at Lord's in 1978.

* 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden.

Several translations into English have been made, including one by Holy Transfiguration Monastery ( Boston, 1978 ).

The wars since 1978 have limited the city's economic productivity but after the establishment of the Karzai administration in late 2001 some progress has been made.

Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978.

President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

On 6 October 1978, José Pérez Rojo and Patricia Roisinblit, both Montoneros members, were made to disappear.

North made five consecutive Grand Finals from 1974 – 1978 ) and defeated Norwood in the 1975 national championship to be declared Champions of Australia.

Drafted as an amateur player by the Padres, Smith made his major league debut in 1978.

Even though Dark was fired in the middle of training camp, Smith made his Major League Baseball ( MLB ) debut on April 7, 1978.