It hosted the FA Cup Final from 1920 to 1922, has held ten FA Cup semi-finals ( most recently in 1978 ), ten FA Charity Shield matches ( the last in 1970 ), and three England international matches, the last in 1932 ; it was also the venue for an unofficial Victory International in 1946.

It became a member of the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in 1978 and of the World Bank and Organization of American States ( OAS ) 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.

New York: Kodansha International, 1978.

* 1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities.

At the 17th session ( February 1978 ), the related UN / ECE Group of Experts agreed that the three-letter alphabetic codes for International Standard ISO 4217, " Codes for the representation of currencies and funds ", would be suitable for use in international trade.

When ICD-9 was published by the World Health Organization ( WHO ), the International Classification of Procedures in Medicine ( ICPM ) was also developed ( 1975 ) and published ( 1978 ).

The national teams competition organized by the International Korfball Federation has been played roughly every four years since 1978.

In 1978 Maldives joined the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

The International Association for Near-death Studies ( IANDS ) was founded in 1978 to meet the needs of early researchers and experiencers within this field of research.

International catastrophes such as the wreck of the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in 1978 and the Bhopal disaster in 1984 have demonstrated the universality of such events and the scale on which efforts to address them needed to engage.

Fortune Coin Co. and their video slot machine technology were purchased by IGT ( International Gaming Technology ) in 1978.

A. Wilcox in June 1978 for The First International Conference on Research in Conservation Biology, that was held in La Jolla, in September 1978.

In 1978 the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs ( INL ) formed an office to use excess military and government aircraft for support of foreign nations ' counter-narcotics operations.

He founded MicroPro International Corporation in September 1978 and hired John Robbins Barnaby as programmer, who wrote a word processor, WordMaster, and a sorting program, SuperSort, both in Intel 8080 assembly language.

* Germfree Adolescents ( November 1978: EMI International, INT 3023 )-# 30 UK Albums Chart

* " The Day The World Turned Day-Glo " / " I Am A Poseur " ( March 1978: EMI International, INT 553 )-No.

* " Identity " / " Let ’ s Submerge " ( July 1978: EMI International, INT 563 )-No.

* " Germfree Adolescents " / " Age " ( October 1978: EMI International, INT 573 )-No.

* International Pahlavi Environment Prize, United Nations ( 1978 )

In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1978, X. 25 provided the first international and commercial packet switching network, the International Packet Switched Service ( IPSS ).

He produced a series of ironic political posters signed “ The Last International ”, first in Ann Arbor, Michigan, then in San Francisco where he moved in 1978.

By 1978, manufactured goods exports were almost non-existent, and with the lost support of the Soviet Union the Barre government signed a structural adjustment agreement with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) during the early 1980s.

At the following Council meeting in Bremen, Germany in June 1978 the basic features of the European Monetary System were outlined, including the creation of the ECU – European Currency Unit, a basket of the Community's currencies used to determine exchange rates, and the forerunner of the euro.

Next he was subsequently Director of the Finance Department ( 1960 – 1966 ), Director of Finance and President of the Electricity Board ( 1961 ), Chair Manama Municipality ( 1962 – 1967 ), Head of the Bahrain Monetary Council ( 1965 ), Chair of the Joint Committee for Economic & Financial Studies, Committee for the Register of Commerce, Administry Council ( 1967 – 1970 ), and Bahrain Monetary Agency, President of the State Council ( 1970 – 1973 ), Head of the State Council ( 1970 ), Prime Minister since 1971, and Head of the Supreme Defence Council ( 1978 ).

He again returned to the Senate serving from June 8, 1971 until September 1, 1973 when he became the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, serving from September 1, 1973 until June 18, 1978.

Prior to his EBRD service, Mr de Larosière was an able and tough-minded Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) from June 17, 1978 to January 15, 1987, and Governor of the Banque de France from 1987 to 1993.

On 6 September 1974, the Monetary Authority of Swaziland introduced notes in denominations of 1 lilangeni, 2, 5 and 10 emalangeni, with 20 emalangeni notes following in 1978.

* Jacques de Larosière – managing director of the International Monetary Fund ( 1978 – 87 ); Governor of the Banque de France ( 1987 – 93 )

From 1978 to 1980, he served as an Alternate Director of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D. C., and on his return to Fiji, he was appointed Local General Manager of the Central Monetary Authority in 1981.

Monetary Policy Reports are mandated by the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act of 1978, which required the Federal Reserve to formally report on its activities to Congress.

In 1978, he began a five-year stint as Chief of the Financial Studies Division of the International Monetary Fund.

When approached in 1978 by primatologist Richard Wrangham to contribute funds to the new Digit Fund to prevent further poaching of mountain gorillas near Dian Fossey's Karisoke Research Station in Rwanda, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declined to provide funds to the cause.

In 1978, a universalistic welfare model was introduced in Italy, offering a number of universal and free services such as a National Health Fund.

( 1946 ); “ Essentials for Nigeria ’ s Survival .” ( 1965 ); “ Before Us Lies The Open Grave ” ( 1947 ); “ The Future of Pan-Africanism ” ( 1961 ); “ The Realities of African Unity ” ( 1965 ); “ Origins of the Nigerian Civil War ” ( 1969 ); I Believe in a One Nigeria ( 1969 ); Peace Proposals for Ending the Nigerian Civil War ( 1969 ); Dialogue on a New Capital for Nigeria ( 1974 ); “ Creation of More States in Nigeria, A Political Analysis ” ( 1974 ); Democracy with Military Vigilance ( 1974 ); “ Reorientation of Nigerian Ideologies: lecture on 9 December 1976, on eve of the launching of the UNN Endowment Fund ” ( 1976 ); Our Struggle for Freedom ; Onitsha Market Crisis ( 1976 ); Let Us Forgive Our Children, An appeal to the leaders and people of Onitsha during the market crisis ( 1976 ); A Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); Civil War Soliloquies: More Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); “ Themes in African Social and Political Thought ” ( 1978 ); Restoration of Nigerian Democracy ( 1978 ); Matchless Past Performance: My Reply to Chief Awolowo ’ s Challenge ( 1979 ); A Matter of Conscience ( 1979 ); Ideology for Nigeria: Capitalism, Socialism or Welfarism?

Steve Endean, who had worked with a previously established Gay Rights National Lobby from 1978, established the Human Rights Campaign Fund political action committee in 1980 to raise money for gay-supportive congressional candidates.

In 1978, he was the honoree of the Toronto Jewish National Fund Negev Dinner.

* Maori Trust Fund Prize, 1978

Between 1957 and 1978, the Brown-Hazen Fund supported training and research in biomedical sciences and encouraged women to take up careers in science.

She received both the Glenfiddich Writer of the Year Award and the André Simon Memorial Fund Book Award for her Vegetable Book ( 1978 ) and for her Fruit Book ( 1982 ), and was voted Cookery Writer of the Year in 1977 for English Food.

On July 28, 1978 the Compañía de Fomento Cinematográfico ( FOCINE ) ( Cinematographic Fomenting Company ) was established to administer the Cinematographic Fomenting Fund which had been created a year before, in 1977.

*" Oliver Cromwell of Ely Visits Mr. John Milton ", 1883 ( interior, oil on canvas ) displayed at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ) acquired through the Emily L. Ainsley Fund, 1978

Grants have come to him from the Guggenheim Foundation ( 1967 ), Pulitzer Foundation ( 1965 ), DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm ( 1981 – 1983 ), Vogelstein Foundation ( 1980 ), Fund for Investigative Journalism ( 1981 ), Pollock-Krasner Foundation ( 2001 ), CCLM ( 1981 ), ASCAP ( 1983 annually to the present ), American Public Radio Program Fund ( 1984 ), and the National Endowment for the Arts with ten individual awards ( 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991 ).

Under his direction the Village Halloween Parade was funded by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs ( 1974 – 1985 ), Con Edison ( 1980 – 1985 ), American Express ( 1983 – 1985 ), the Association for a Better New York ( 1985 ), the New York State Council on the Arts ( 1979 – 1984 ), the Public Theater ( 1983, 1984 ), the Kaplan Fund ( 1977, 1978 and 1983 ), and the National Endowment for the Arts ( 1977 – 1982 ).

The Mettawee River Company has received continuing funding from the National Endowment for the Arts from 1980 to the present and the New York State Council on the Arts from 1978 to the present, with additional grants from the Agostino Foundation ( 2000 – 2007 ), the Bickford Foundation ( 1991 – 2008 ), the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation ( 2000 – 2008 ), Meet the Composer ( 1984 – 1986, 1988 ), the Henson Foundation ( 1985, 1987, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007 ), the Merck Family Fund ( 1986 ), and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs ( 1980 and 1981 ).