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.

In 1978, White won an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his work as a whole.

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.

* 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.

This concept is based in part on the pioneering work by Garry Thomson CBE, and his book the Museum Environment, first published in 1978.

Federko scored at least 90 points in seven of the eight seasons between 1978 and 1986, and became the first player in NHL history to record at least 50 assists in 10 consecutive seasons.

The long-suffering 49ers went 2 – 14 in 1978, the season before Walsh's arrival and repeated the same dismal record in his first season.

The station has previously carried the team from their arrival in Baltimore in 1954 through 1978 ; in the first four seasons, WJZ-TV shared coverage with WMAR-TV and WBAL-TV.

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 ).

* The first film based on the Triangle was The Bermuda Triangle 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.

The first published bibliography on Smith ; superseded by Donald Sidney-Fryer's Emperor of Dreams ( 1978 )-see below.

In 1978, America was introduced to competitive cheerleading by the first broadcast of Collegiate Cheerleading Championships on CBS.

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.

The first Prime Minister Sir Albert Henry led the county until 1978 when he was accused of vote-rigging.

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

Quebec was the first province to enact class proceedings legislation in 1978.

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 ).

Their first calculator, the Loan Arranger ( 1978 ) was a pocket calculator marketed to the Real Estate industry with preprogrammed functions to simplify the process of calculating payments and future values.

The first Soviet pocket battery-powered programmable calculator, Elektronika " B3-21 ", was developed by the end of 1977 and released at the beginning of 1978.

This led the way to the first credit-card-sized calculators, such as the Casio Mini Card LC-78 of 1978, which could run for months of normal use on button cells.

Their first show was on July 19, 1978, at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco, California.

* 1978 – Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $ 14, 000, 000 to local banks.

The LDS Church's 1981 edition also contains two " Official Declarations " at the book's conclusion, the first renouncing polygamy in 1890, and the second in 1978 announcing the opening of priesthood ordination to all worthy male members including previously restricted members of African descent.

Only Larry Ellison's Oracle started from a different chain, based on IBM's papers on System R, and beat IBM to market when the first version was released in 1978.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).