* 1978 – Jason White, Scottish rugby player

He defeated four Republican candidates for governor: Lowe ( 1978 ), White ( 1982 and 1986 ), and businessmen Woody Freeman of Jonesboro, ( 1984 ) and Sheffield Nelson of Little Rock ( 1990 ).

Milk was assassinated by a former city supervisor Dan White in 1978.

* 1978 – Nat Bailey, Canadian restaurateur, founder of White Spot ( b. 1902 )

* 1978 – In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.

The track " Two Sunspots " had been recorded during the Black And White sessions in 1978, but was shelved until 1980 when it was rediscovered and placed on The Gospel According To The Meninblack.

* Black and White ( 1978 )

They recorded the 3D-EP that summer, and followed it up with their debut LP White Music in January 1978.

* White Music ( 1978 )

Tharp collaborated with film directors Milos Forman on Hair ( 1978 ), Ragtime ( 1980 ) and Amadeus ( 1984 ); Taylor Hackford on White Nights ( 1985 ) and James Brooks on I'll Do Anything ( 1994 ).

Other chart hits by White included " Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up " (# 2 R & B, # 7 Pop in 1973 ), " Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe " (# 1 Pop and R & B in 1974 ), " You're the First, the Last, My Everything " (# 1 R & B, # 2 Pop in 1974 ), " What Am I Gonna Do with You " (# 1 R & B, # 8 Pop in 1975 ), " Let the Music Play " (# 4 R & B in 1976 ), " It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me " (# 1 R & B, # 4 Pop in 1977 ) and " Your Sweetness is My Weakness " (# 2 R & B in 1978 ).

Other guests included Betty White, Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond, Tim Conway and Roz Kelly as Happy Days ' Pinkie Tuscadero ; The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( April 23, 1977 ) with Cloris Leachman and Tony Randall ; T ' was the Night Before Christmas with Alice Ghostley, Martha Raye, George Gobel and Foster Brooks ; The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( May 20, 1978 ) with Juliet Prowse, Brenda Vaccaro and Harry Morgan of MASH.

The Yankees ' home opener of the 1978 season, on April 13 against the Chicago White Sox, featured a new product, the " Reggie!

An order to activate the EBS at the national level would have originated with the President and been relayed via the White House Communications Agency duty officer to one of two origination points: either the Aerospace Defense Command or the Federal Preparedness Agency — as the system stood in 1978.

After Littler disbanded the short-lived Photons, he moved to Cardiff, Wales, in October 1978, where he formed a band, The White Boys, but changed their name to The Spitfire Boys, as pressure by a financer of the band, who thought the name would sell better.

" However, fans consider the origins of furry fandom to be much earlier, with fictional works such as Kimba, The White Lion released in 1965, Richard Adams ' novel Watership Down, published in 1972 ( and its 1978 film adaptation ), as well as Disney's Robin Hood as oft-cited examples.

It quickly became popular overseas, particularly so in Britain, where the tradition lasted longer than in the US, occurring on primetime TV as late as 1978 ( The Black and White Minstrel Show ) and 1981.

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a popular British musical variety show that featured blackface performers, and remained on British television until 1978.

Mary Tamm as Romana IThe White Guardian originally assigns Romana to assist the Doctor during the quest for the Key to Time, a series of linked serials which constitute the whole of Season 16 ( 1978 – 79 ).

Alma White College, which closed in 1978, was a private college located in Zarephath, located in the building now occupied by Somerset Christian College.

In 1977 Norman signed an agreement to release some Solid Rock Records through AB Records of Hollywood, an affiliate of Bob Cotterell's Sonrise Records, which released Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners in 1977, and Mark Heard's On Turning to Dust in 1978.

In 1978, White was named the NFC Defensive Player of the Year, and would be named to nine consecutive All-Pro and Pro Bowl teams.

* The American Railroad Passenger Car by John H. White, Jr. Two Volumes ( 1978 ) by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Physician W. Roy Smythe, M. D., Chairman of Surgery for Scott & White Memorial Hospital, the Scott & White Healthcare system and the Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, grew up in Belton, and graduated from Belton High School in 1978.

Spassky thought that Fischer would have won in 1975 but Karpov would have qualified again and beaten Fischer in 1978.

Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3 – 0 and then completed an overwhelming 5 – 1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978 – 79.

In the 1978 season, the Falcons qualified for the playoffs for the first time and won the Wild Card game against the Philadelphia Eagles 14 – 13.

After finishing fourth in 1978, the Orioles finally won the division in 1979 thanks to strong play from Ken Singleton and Cy Young Winner Mike Flanagan.

The next season, he would be dealt to the Boston Red Sox where he won 20 games in 1978 and another 17 in 1979.

It won a Special Jury Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for best short film, and received an Academy Award nomination ( for best animated short film ), both in 1978.

In 1978, Parton won a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her Here You Come Again album.

Yoji Yamada introduced the commercially successful Tora-San series, while also directing other films, notably the popular The Yellow Handkerchief, which won the first Japan Academy Prize for Best Film in 1978.

* 1978 – The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu, won by Gordon Haller.

McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his short story collection Elbow Room, becoming the first African-American to win the Pulitzer for fiction.

His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2002 ), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ( for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 ), and Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.

During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance ( 1972 ), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home ( 1978 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ ( 1979 ).

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.

As a consequence of his outspoken support for Sadat's Camp David peace treaty with Israel in 1978, his books were banned in many Arab countries until after he won the Nobel Prize.

In 1973 and 1974, North's wingman Keith Greig won consecutive Brownlow Medals ; forward Malcolm Blight then won the award in 1978.

After a run of three straight division titles from 1976 to 1978, the Phillies won the NL East in 1980 behind pitcher Steve Carlton, outfielder Greg Luzinski, and infielders Mike Schmidt, Larry Bowa, and Pete Rose.

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.

Gordon won an Emmy Award for a guest appearance on the sitcom Taxi, for a 1978 episode called " Sugar Mama ," in which her character tries to solicit the services of a taxi driver, played by series star Judd Hirsch, as a male escort.

The Triple Crown has twice been won on four consecutive occasions, once by Wales in 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979 and once by England in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998.

The wins in 1975 ( by a score of 10-3 ) and 1978 ( by a score of 10-7 ) were over Steeler teams that eventually won the Super Bowl those seasons.

Bart Starr and Terry Bradshaw also won both after the 1966 and 1978 seasons, respectively.

In 1978, Romeo Muller won a Peabody Award for his teleplay for The Hobbit.

As a solo artist, she has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and, with Fleetwood Mac, a further five, of which one was the 1978 award for Album of the Year for Rumours, which they won.