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

* Northeastern United States Blizzard of 1978

In December 1978, Vietnam announced formation of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation ( KUFNS ) under Heng Samrin, a former DK division commander.

Prime Minister of Israel | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, President of Egypt | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and President of the United States | U. S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978

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.

Thereafter, he ran for governor in 1971 and the United States Senate in 1978, both times as an Independent candidate.

On November 3, 1978, the Commonwealth of Dominica was granted independence by the United Kingdom.

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.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and cut off all relations with Taiwan

* 1978 – With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 runs out of fuel and crashes in Portland, Oregon, killing 10.

* 1978 – Dominica joins the United Nations.

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.

* 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.

* 1978 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.

In the United States, it received a very limited theatrical release in the summer of 1978 by Bob Conn Enterprises as The Terror of Godzilla.

* United Kingdom: The Interpretation Act 1978, section 9 provides that whenever an expression of time occurs in an Act, the time referred to shall ( unless otherwise specifically stated ) be held to be Greenwich mean time.

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 ).

In 1994, Davis's company, Paws, Inc., purchased all rights to the strips from 1978 to 1993 from United Feature.

In 1994, the company purchased all rights to the Garfield comic strips from 1978 to 1993 from United Feature Syndicate.

Questions center over whether copyrights for Lovecraft's works were ever renewed under the terms of the United States Copyright Act of 1976 for works created prior to January 1, 1978.

Brzezinski has stated that the United States provided communications equipment and limited financial aid to the mujahideen prior to the " formal " invasion, but only in response to the Soviet deployment of forces to Afghanistan and the 1978 coup, and with the intention of preventing further Soviet encroachment in the region.

* Sir John Ford ( born 1922 ), British Foreign Office official who served in Canada from 1978 to 1981 ( List of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to Canada )

* 1978 – The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.

* 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.

He was subsequently appointed to the Central Committee's Secretariat for Agriculture in 1978, replacing Fyodor Kulakov, who had supported Gorbachev's appointment, after Kulakov died of a heart attack.

* from 1978 to 1980, he was a member of the Secretariat of Communist Youth League Central Committee, and president of the All-China Youth Federation.

* Member of the Provincial Secretariat ( 1975 ) and then General Secretary ( 1978 ) of FIOM CGIL ( Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici )

In December 1978, the federal district court ruled in the university's favor ; two years later, that decision was overturned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

* Bruce Springsteen dedicated his 1978 performance of " Darkness on the Edge of Town " live at Winterland to Kovic, saying that he read Born on the Fourth of July, and " loved the book a whole lot.

In 1978, Curtis made a departure from his usual macabre offerings, when he wrote, produced, and directed the sentimental NBC television film When Every Day Was the Fourth of July.

He took over as manager of Wimbledon in January 1978, helping the Plough Lane side win their first promotion from the Football League Fourth Division in 1978 / 79, although they were relegated at the first attempt.

London: Putnam, Fourth edition, 1978.

After a tense re-vote which Wigan controversially won 29 – 20, Southport lost their place in the Fourth Division and Wigan Athletic became an English League club on 2 June 1978.

* Phil Hearse, On Trotskyism and the Fourth International ( 1978 )

* Andre M. Davis ( 1978 ), judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 1995 – 2009 ; judge U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 2009 – present.

He has had great commercial success in memorable roles such as the executive Bobby Trippe in Deliverance ( 1972 ), Tennessee lawyer Delbert Reese in Nashville ( 1975 ), general attorney Dardis in All the President's Men ( 1976 ), Bob Sweet in Silver Streak ( 1976 ), the priest Edwards in Exorcist II: The Heretic ( 1977 ), Lex Luthor's henchman Otis in Superman ( 1978 ) and Superman II ( 1980 ), Bates ' right hand man Sydney Morehouse in The Toy ( 1982 ), Borisov and Pavel Petrovic in The Fourth Protocol ( 1987 ), TV presenter Ernest Weller in Repossessed ( 1990 ), Rudy Ruettiger's father in Rudy ( 1993 ), detective McNair in Just Cause ( 1995 ), Dexter Wilkins in Life ( 1999 ), the simple sheriff in Where the Red Fern Grows ( 2003 ), the corrupt Senator Charles F. Meachum in Shooter ( 2007 ), United States Congressman Doc Long in Charlie Wilson's War ( 2007 ) and the voice of antagonist Lots-O '- Huggin ' Bear in Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ).

Consequently, they were relegated to the Fourth Division in 1978.

They are best known for the albums Nicely Out of Tune ( 1970 ), Fog on the Tyne ( 1971 ) and Back and Fourth ( 1978 ), also for the success of songs such as " Meet Me On The Corner ", " Lady Eleanor ", " Run For Home " and " We Can Swing Together ".

* Back and Fourth ( 1978 )

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His Fourth Symphony received its American premiere, with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov, in January 1978, not long before the cultural freeze in the United States against Soviet culture.

In 1978 Jones took a dramatic turn, portraying Ed Cooper in the NBC television movie When Every Day Was the Fourth of July.

* When Every Day Was the Fourth of July ( 1978 )

Additionally, in its inaugural season, Match of the Day screened a Fourth Division match between Oxford United and Tranmere Rovers, though it would not do so again until 1978.

London: Putnam, Fourth edition 1978.

On October 22, 1978, the Fourth Circuit rejected MacDonald's double jeopardy arguments and, on March 19, 1979, the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review that decision.

K-9 subsequently traveled with the Fourth Doctor ( Tom Baker ) and Leela ( Louise Jameson ) as a companion of the Doctor in his adventures in time and space until The Invasion of Time ( 1978 ).

2 June 1978: Wigan Athletic, runners-up of the Northern Premier League, are elected to the Football League Fourth Division at the expense of Southport.

Leela was a companion of the Fourth Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1977 to 1978.

In the Fourth Doctor story The Invasion of Time ( 1978 ), the Doctor claims that he " wasn't responsible " for the disaster.