* 1978 – Tim Hasselbeck, American football player

* 1978 – Myleene Klass, British singer, pianist, and model ( Hear ’ Say )

* 1978 – Martin Mendez, Uruguayan bassist ( Opeth )

* 1978 – Blaine Neal, American baseball player

* 1978 – Igor Semshov, Russian footballer

* 1978 – Kendra Todd, American real estate agent and author

* 1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and magistrate ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Guy Berryman, Scottish musician and businessman ( Coldplay and Apparatjik )

* 1978 – Riley Smith, American actor

* 1978 – Tom Fulp, American video game programmer

* 1978 – Brian Maillard, Swiss guitarist ( Dominici )

* 1978 – Marisa Miller, American model and actress

* 1978 – Reuben Rox, American actor, director, and producer

* 1978 – Marvel Smith, American football player

* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Daniela Denby-Ashe, English actress

* 1978 – Ana Serradilla, Mexican actress

* 1978 – Audrey Tautou, French actress

* 1978 – 150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.

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.

Allan Border made his Test debut for Australia in 1978 – 79.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

The daughter of the children's TV presenter Johnny Ball and his wife Julia ( née Anderson, divorced when Zoë was two ), Ball was educated at Heston Junior School in west London between 1975 and 1978.

In 1978, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, working alongside Juliet Stevenson in Measure for Measure, as Jaquenetta opposite Michael Hordern in Love's Labours Lost, replacing Zoë Wanamaker as Jane in The Way of the World and appearing in the Howard Brenton three-hander Sore Throats.

Advanced Mobile Phone System ( AMPS ) is an analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs, and officially introduced in the Americas in 1978, Israel in 1986, and Australia in 1987.

* Out ( miniseries ), a 1978 British television crime drama starring Tom Bell

* C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital, 1978 )

In 1978, PepsiCo purchased Taco Bell from Glen Bell.

Lions had trouble keeping up with its popularity, and by 1978 it was available only from Bell Labs.

Osvaldo César Ardiles ( born 3 August 1952 in Bell Ville, Córdoba Province ), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football coach, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentine national team.

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

* 1965 — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, astronomers at Bell Labs discover the 2. 7 K microwave background radiation, which earns them the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.

In 1978, Pickens lent his voice to theme park Silver Dollar City as a character named Rube Dugan, for a ride called " Rube Dugan's Diving Bell ", The diving bell was a simulation ride that took passengers on a journey to the bottom of Lake Silver and back.

* Mic Bell ( Ron replacement ) 1978 – 1979,

" Hazell / Night Flighting " – Maggie Bell: SSK 19412 ( UK, March 1978 ), SSK 19412 P ( UK picture disc, May 1979 ), SS 1859 ( Australia )

* Time ( 1970, Bell 6055, reissued as The Talented Man, 1978, Bulldog 1027 )

In 1978 Pollard rejoined, this time replacing Eric Bell alongside Shiels, Bridgeman, Brady and Joe Staunton ( guitar, ex-Orphanage ).

By 1978 it was in use on 82 UNIX machines inside the Bell system, primarily for software distribution.

* Quentin Bell, ‘ Grant, Duncan James Corrowr ( 1885 – 1978 )’, rev.

* Ricky Bell, Member of R & B group New Edition formed in Boston in 1978

* Group of Thirty-In 1978 the Foundation invited Geoffrey Bell to set up this high-powered and influential advisory group on global financial issues, whose current chairman is a longtime Rockefeller associate Paul Volcker.

In 1978, a concept devised by Max Bell for Dolby Laboratories called " split surround " was tested with the movie " Superman ( film )".

* Tavorris Bell ( born 1978 ), former Harlem Globetrotter

The show's distribution included New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, D. C. and Boston at one point, though most television stations still preferred to continue producing their own versions, with the most popular being Bob Bell and WGN-TV Chicago's Bozo's Circus which went national via cable and satellite in 1978.

* Bob Bell ( 1978 – 1984 ) at Superstation WGN Chicago

In 1989 Castor, who divorced in 1978, married Samuel P. Bell III, an attorney and partner at Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar ( a Tallahassee law firm ).