* 1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

It was composed of Khmer Communists who had remained in Vietnam after 1975 and officials from the eastern sector — like Heng Samrin and Hun Sen — who had fled to Vietnam from Cambodia in 1978.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

Although Japan eventually recognized the People's Republic in 1972, shortly after Kakuei Tanaka succeeded Sato as Prime Minister of Japan, the memory of this relationship was strong enough to be reported by The New York Times ( April 15, 1978 ) as a significant factor inhibiting trade between Japan and the mainland.

There is speculation that a clash between Communist forces and a Japanese warship in 1978 was caused by Chinese anger after Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda attended Chiang's funeral.

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.

Dead Kennedys formed in June 1978 in San Francisco, California, when East Bay Ray ( Raymond Pepperell ) advertised for bandmates in the newspaper The Recycler, after seeing a ska-punk show at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco.

In 1978 the DFLP temporarily switched sides and joined the Rejectionist Front after clashing with Arafat on several issues, but it would continue to serve as a mediator in the factional disputes of the PLO.

* 1978 – Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.

On October 14, 1978, Devo gained national exposure with an appearance on Saturday Night Live, a week after the Rolling Stones, performing " Satisfaction " and " Jocko Homo.

The asteroid 6433 Enya, discovered on 18 November 1978 by A. Mrkos at Klet, is named after her.

* 1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Some notable operations include: the Chadian – Libyan conflict in 1969 – 72 ( the first time that the Foreign Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian War ), 1978 – 79, and 1983 – 87 ; Kolwezi in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1978 ; Rwanda in 1990 – 94 ; and the Côte d ' Ivoire ( the Ivory Coast ) in 2002 to the present.

Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield ( named after Davis's grandfather ); his owner, Jon Arbuckle ; and Arbuckle's dog, Odie.

United Feature Syndicate accepted the retooled strip in 1978 and debuted it in 41 newspapers on June 19 of that year ( however after a test run, the Chicago Sun-Times dropped it, only to reinstate it after readers ' complaints ).

John Atkinson ( editor ), current editor of Stereophile, stated ( in a 2005 July editorial named Blind Tests & Bus Stops ) that he once purchased a solid-state amplifier, the Quad 405, in 1978 after blind tests, but came to realize months later that " the magic was gone " until he replaced it with a tube amp.

Outside the Presidential Palace in Kabul, a day after the Saur Revolution | Marxist revolution on April 28, 1978.

The day after the Marxist revolution on April 28, 1978.

China cut off aid in 1978 when Albania attacked its policies after the death of Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

In 1978, after giving a series of lectures of architecture in China, Pei was asked to imagine a project for his home country.

Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600.

* 1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen ( also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary ) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.

In 1976 Lenat started teaching at Carnegie Mellon and commenced his work on Eurisko, but returned to Stanford in a teaching role in 1978.

Escalante actually first began teaching at Garfield High School in 1974 and taught his first AP Calculus course in 1978 with a group of 14 students.

Rota earned a degree in literature from the University of Milan, graduating in 1937, and began a teaching career that led to the directorship of the Liceo Musicale in Bari, a title he held from 1950 until 1978.

In the summer of 1978, Messiaen retired from teaching at the Conservatoire.

In addition to teaching, Gramm founded the economic consulting firm Gramm & Associates ( 1971 – 1978 ).

He received a Ph. D. in Biblical Studies from Duke University in 1978, and was tenured at Lycoming College in 1984, after teaching religion there, at Hampden-Sydney College, at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Duke.

He began teaching at Brasenose College at Oxford University in 1946, and he was the principal of the college from 1978 to 1989.

Albert Sidney ( or Sydney ) Hornby, usually just A. S. Hornby, 1898 – 1978, was an English grammarian, lexicographer, and pioneer in the field of English language learning and teaching ( ELT ).

The film ( premiered on November 11, 1978 on the Soviet Central TV ) presented Vysotsky as Zheglov, a ruthless and charismatic cop teaching his milder partner Sharapov ( actor Vladimir Konkin ) his art of crime-solving.

With the exception of their work at Bath, they designed no further public buildings in Britain, relying instead mainly on private overseas commissions and Peter Smithson ’ s writing and teaching ( he was a visiting professor at Bath from 1978 to 1990, and also a unit master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture ).

He held a teaching position in yoga at the Sanskrit College of Maharaja from 1937 to 1973, becoming vidwan ( professor ) in 1956, as well as being Honorary Professor of Yoga at the Government College of Indian Medicine from 1976 to 1978.

After gaining an MA in sociology from Palmerston North's Massey University ( 1972 – 1976 ), he was a lecturer at that institution from 1978, teaching both sociology and business administration.

He began teaching at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, where he is appointed professor in 1978.

" In 1978, reaching a point in her life when writing and drinking could no longer coexist, Cameron stopped the drugs and alcohol, and began teaching creative unblocking, which propelled her to fame after she published the book based on her teachings, The Artist's Way.

In 1978, he became a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana.

* A. S. Hornby ( 1898 – 1978 ), English grammarian, lexicographer, and pioneer in the field of English language learning and teaching ( ELT )

He spent most of the 1970s reading and teaching and in 1978 he obtained his master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Tehran.

McCaughey taught history as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College in 1977 – 1978, was a Lecturer at Columbia University in 1979 – 1980, and an Assistant Professor at Columbia University between 1981 and 1983, teaching two classes per year.

In 1966, she demonstrated her art at Mills College, and the institution immediately offered her a teaching position ; she accepted, and taught there from 1967 to 1978.

* Westmead Hospital, a major teaching hospital, which was opened in November 1978

Important players and teachers in the 20th century include Wang Xunzhi ( 王巽之, 1899 – 1972 ) who popularized the Wulin zheng school based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang ; Lou Shuhua, who rearranged a traditional guzheng piece and named it Yu zhou chang wan ; Liang Tsai-Ping ( 1911 – 2000 ), who edited the first guzheng teaching manual, Nizheng pu in 1938 ; Cao Dongfu ( 1898 – 1970 ), from Henan ; Gao Zicheng ( b. 1918 ) and Zhao Yuzhai ( b. 1924 ), both from Shandong ; Su Wenxian ( 1907 – 1971 ); Guo Ying ( b. 1914 ) and Lin Maogen ( b. 1929 ), both from Chaozhou ; the Hakka Luo Jiuxiang ( 1902 – 1978 ); and Cao Guifen and Cao Zheng ( 1920 – 1998 ), both of whom trained in the Henan school.

Since 1978, the university has strengthened its teaching and research in foreign languages and started to launch multidisciplinary programmes, which are categorised into three types, namely comprehensive programs ( language + specialty ), bilingual programs ( English + another foreign language ) and professional programs ( English + a profession ).

The board of the school adopted a statement in 1978 that assured the faculty appropriate freedom in teaching and research, a principle normally taken for granted in academia, but not granted at Ringling until this time.