* 1968 – Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 ( or the fifth Institutional Act ), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship.

From 1967 until 1978, Mountbatten became president of the United World Colleges Organisation, then represented by a single college: that of Atlantic College in South Wales.

Dowiyogo first served as president from 1976 to 1978.

Dowiyogo first served as president from 1976 to 1978.

In October 1990, due to mounting pressure from both within and outside the country for political and economic reform, president Momoh set up a constitutional review commission to review the 1978 one-party constitution.

* November 9 – Gen. Hugo Banzer, president of the military government of Bolivia, announces that the constitutional democracy will be restored in 1978 instead of 1980 as previously provided.

* February 11 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh ( Carroll Daly ), fifth president of Ireland ( d. 1978 )

* December 13 – Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 ( or the Fifth Institutional Act ), which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military dictatorship.

The Senate resolution creating the position stated that any former president or former vice president serving in the Senate would be entitled to this position, though none has served since Humphrey's death in 1978, and former vice president Walter Mondale, who sought a seat in Minnesota in 2002, is the only one to have tried.

Several members of the Argentine military junta have been found to be P2 members, such as Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Argentina's interim president from July 13, 1973 until October 12, 1973, Emilio Massera, part of Jorge Videla's military junta from 1976 to 1978, and José López Rega, the infamous founder of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (" Triple A ").

Herbert Dingle ( 2 August 1890, London – 4 September 1978, Kingston upon Hull ), an English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked.

This president was set five years since 1978, but six years in 1983.

In 1978, he stepped down as head of the government, but remained de facto ruler of the country while another one of his followers, Aristides Royo was a figurehead president.

From 1978 to 1981, he served as the appointed Minister of the Budget under prime minister Raymond Barre and president Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

Jack Leonard " J. L ." Warner ( August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978 ), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

He rose steadily in the ranks, and was elected in 1975, and reelected in 1978, president of the Steel Workers ' Union of São Bernardo do Campo and Diadema.

Giamatti served as president of Yale University from 1978 to 1986.

In 1978, when he was first rumored to be a candidate for the presidency of Yale, he had deflected questions by observing that " The only thing I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

Following a revelation to then-Church president Spencer W. Kimball, the Church lifted the prohibition in 1978.

The most recent president to die was Ephraim Katzir ( 1973 – 1978 ), on 30 May 2009.

* F. I. S. T, Director: Norman Jewison, 1978 – loosely based on the Teamsters union and former president Jimmy Hoffa.

After Banzer was forced to leave the Palacio Quemado in July 1978, Pereda was sworn in as president, although not a constitutional one, since the fraud could not be denied.

* 1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer

* 1978 – Ali Güneş, Turkish footballer

President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been head of state in Unified Yemen since 1990 ( since 1978 in North Yemen ) and was democratically elected in 1999.

In 1978, Foucault found such transgressive powers in the revolutionary figures Ayatollah Khomeini, Ali Shariati and the millions who risked death as they followed them in the course of the revolution.

* When Leon Spinks won the WBA and WBC Heavyweight championships from Muhammad Ali in 1978, the WBC stripped Leon Spinks of his title.

McQueen then married his The Getaway co-star Ali MacGraw on August 31, 1973, but this marriage too ended in divorce in 1978.

He made his debut in Test cricket in 1978 at Edgbaston, scoring a boundary via a pull shot off his first delivery, bowled by Pakistan's Liaqat Ali.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

The winner of the fight was later awarded the WBC championship belt as the mandatory title defence didn't materialise when Leon Spinks ( who had taken the title from Ali in an upset win on February 15, 1978 ) chose a rematch against Ali instead of fighting Norton for the WBC-title.

* Mohamed Ali Diallo ( born 1978 ), Burkinan soccer player

With the support of the Rhodesian government, he returned to the Comoros with 43 men on May 13, 1978 and carried out a coup against president Ali Soilih, who had turned toward socialist policies.

The Las Vegas Hotel & Casino was the site in 1978 where Leon Spinks defeated Muhammad Ali for the World Heavyweight Championship.

Both films were banned in her home country, but in 1978, Aghdashloo won acclaim for her performance in Sooteh Delan ( Broken Hearts ), directed by the late Iranian filmmaker Ali Hatami which established her as one of Iran's leading actresses.

After his first divorce came Camilla Sparv ( 1963 – 1965 ), Ali MacGraw ( 1969 – 1972 ), Phyllis George ( 1977 – 1978 ), Catherine Oxenberg ( 1998 ), Leslie Ann Woodward ( 2002 – 2004 ) and Victoria White ( 2005 – 2006 ).

Lucky Ali started his playback singing career with the song " Walking and I am Walking All Alone " from the film Ek Baap Chhe Bete in 1978.

Giordano also inked Adams on the one-shot Superman vs. Muhammad Ali in 1978.

In boxing, Muhammad Ali defeated Leon Spinks, in Ali's last professional win, in front of a crowd of 65, 000 in 1978.

1-The command from Ali to Malik ibn Ashter ( 1978 )

The death of Ibrahim Ali ( 1978 – February 21, 1995 ) took place in Marseille, France in 1995.

Abd al-Fattah Ismail Ali Al-Jawfi ( 1939 – 13 January 1986 ) () was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council, head of state of South Yemen, and founder, chief ideologue, and first leader of the Yemeni Socialist Party from 21 December 1978 to 21 April 1980.

Salim Rubayyi Ali ( Salmin ) or Salim Rubai Ali ( 1935 – 1978 ) ( Arabic: (" سالم ربيع علي " سالمين ) was the head of state of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen ) from June 22, 1969 to his surrender and execution by firing squad on June 26, 1978.