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1978 Calendar

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•  January 18, 1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
•  February 1, 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.
•  February 7, 1978 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
•  February 16, 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
•  March 5, 1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
•  March 11, 1978 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel’s Operation Litani.
•  March 16, 1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
•  April 7, 1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
•  June 9, 1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to “all worthy men”, ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
•  June 26, 1978 – Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.

•  April 8, 1978 – Bernt Haas, Swiss footballer
•  May 5, 1978 – Santiago Cabrera, Chilean actor
•  June 21, 1978 – Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer
•  July 9, 1978 – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
•  July 18, 1978 – Ben Sheets, American baseball player
•  July 25, 1978 – Louise Brown, World’s first test tube baby
•  August 3, 1978 – Dimitrios Zografakis, Greek footballer
•  September 27, 1978 – Ani Lorak, Ukrainian singer and actress
•  November 12, 1978 – Alexandra Maria Lara, Romanian-born German actress
•  December 6, 1978 – K. D. Aubert, American actress