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.

In the 1978 – 79 NHL season, Federko developed into a bonafide star, as he scored 95 points.

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 next season, he would be dealt to the Boston Red Sox where he won 20 games in 1978 and another 17 in 1979.

The 2008 team became the only team in NFL history to lose all 16 regular season games since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978.

; he played just the once – a home game at Richmond Park on 2 October 1977 against Shamrock Rovers, keeping a clean sheet in a 1 – 0 win – before returning to the Strikers for the North American 1978 season.

The rivalry would in the following years be virtually negated by very poor play of he Colts ; the Colts would win just 117 games in the twenty-one seasons ( 1978 – 98 ) that bracketed their 1977 playoff loss to the Oakland Raiders and the 1999 trade of star running back Marshall Faulk ; this included a 0 – 8 – 1 record during the NFL's strike shortened 1982 season.

By the end of his first season with Liverpool, Dalglish had played 62 times and scored 31 goals, including the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup Final final at Wembley against Bruges.

Owner Calvin Griffith faced financial difficulty with the start of free agency, costing the Twins the services of Lyman Bostock and Larry Hisle, who left as free agents after the 1977 season, and Carew, who was traded after the 1978 season.

The team wore black armbands for the last four games in 1978 in memory of Jack " Jocko " Nelson, an assistant coach who died during the season.

They would not have a winning season until 1978.

1992 proved to be the end of an era for the Brewers, as teammates Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Jim Gantner, who had been together since 1978 would go their separate ways, as Molitor left the Brewers for the Toronto Blue Jays, Gantner retired, and Yount would only last one more season before retiring in 1993.

The Brewers unveiled new uniforms for the 1978 season — pinstripes with solid blue collar and waistband.

Litigation began between New York City and the Jets over the issue, and in the lawsuit's settlement, the city agreed to allow the Jets to play two September home games a season at Shea beginning in 1978 for the remaining six years in the Jets ' lease.

It was also during the 1978 season that Smith introduced a signature move.

Smith finished the 1978 season with a. 258 batting average and. 970 fielding percentage, placing second in National League Rookie of the Year voting to Bob Horner.

That third place season was 1978.

The most memorable moment of that 1978 season occurred on May 28, 1978, when pinch hitter Mike Ivie, acquired from the San Diego Padres during the offseason for Darrel Thomas, hit a towering grand slam off of Dodgers pitching ace Don Sutton in front of Candlestick Park's highest paid attendance of 58, 545.

The 1978 season brought hope to baseball fans in San Diego, thanks to the arrival a young shortstop named Ozzie Smith, who arrived on the scene and turned the baseball world on its ears with an acrobatic style that redefined how the position should be played in the field.

However, an official trailer released during June 2010 on Japanese TV has also shown elements from the series ' second season ( 1978 ).

Note: A seven-official system was not used until the 1978 season.

Super Bowl XIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1978 season.

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.

In 1978 Roy Trubshaw, a student at Essex University in the UK, started working on a multi-user adventure game in the MACRO-10 assembly language for a DEC PDP-10.

In 1978 after leaving his namesake firm, Moog started making electronic musical instruments again with a new company, Big Briar.

In 1978, X10 products started to appear in Radio Shack and Sears stores.

Hicks was 16 years old when he started performing stand-up comedy at the Comedy Workshop in Houston, Texas, in 1978.

Maoism fell into disfavour in China in 1978, when Deng Xiaoping started the Reform and Opening economic policies that introduced capitalist market principles.

Shortly after Mao's death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping started the capitalist reforms of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1978 beginning the radical change of Mao's ideology in the PRC.

In 1978 the bellicose Argentine dictatorship abrogated the binding Beagle Channel Arbitration and started the Operation Soberania in order to invade Chile but called off the operation a few hours later due to military and political reasons.

Ginn started SST Records, which released Black Flag's debut EP Nervous Breakdown in 1978.

Programming started in 1978 and the first version was delivered in 1982.

Development started in 1974 as " Tracked Rapier ", but had not yet been delivered when the Shah fell from power in 1978.

In 1972 to 1977, over 300 test launches were made ( 95 % of them on Issyk Kul lake ), by 29 November 1972 VA-111 Shkval was put into service with mass production started in 1978.

Procter and Gamble started saving their shows around 1978.

In 1978, the Dutch TV-broadcasting company Veronica started its own version of Countdown, which during the 1980s featured Adam Curry as its best known presenter.

In 1978 Norman started Street Level Records as an alternative label to release albums which Word had no interest in distributing.

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

It was started in 1978 by later Oak Grove Mayor Bloise Zeigler, who operated the farm through 2009.

Using Atlas-Centaur launch vehicles, highly successful missions were started in August 1977 ( HEAO 1 ), November 1978 ( HEAO 2, also called the Einstein Observatory ), and September 1979 ( HEAO 3 ).

This festival has its roots in the Fair Grove Arts and Crafts Festival which started in 1978.

In 1978, Gary Numan, a member of the group, found a minimoog left behind in the studio by another band, and started experimenting with it.

The Dance started in 1978 and raised about $ 1500 for the Moreau Rescue Squad.

The " Spring Fest " which started in 1978, and is a festival of homemade crafts and food.

On June 19, 1978, Garfield started syndication in 41 newspapers.

In 1978, ownership of the building was transferred to the City of Medicine Bow and the town museum was started in the structure.

Other significant locomotives include: Bonnie Dundee, built in 1900 as a-gauge tank engine before being donated to the R & ER by a member and converted to-gauge, later converted again from tank to tender configuration ; Synolda, a twin to the original loco Sans Pareil, built in 1912, saved from Belle Vue Zoo in 1978 and now in the railway museum ; Shelagh of Eskdale, a 4-6-4 diesel built in 1969 incorporating parts of the Heywood loco Ella ; Perkins, a rebuilt 0-4-4 diesel engine, which started as a quarry shunter before being rebuilt into the steam-outlined Passenger Tractor and then again in 1984 into its current guise ; Douglas Ferreira, a B-B diesel loco constructed in 2005 and named after the general manager of the R & ER from 1961 to 1994.