1978
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer, German skier
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer is a retired German alpine skier and gold medal winner at FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.
Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer, German skier
The 1970s
Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
1978
Lindsay Hartley, American actress
Lindsay Korman is an American actress. She first came to attention with three long-running soap opera roles: Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald on Passions, Cara Castillo on All My Children,…
Lindsay Hartley, American actress
1978
Daniel Hensel, German composer and musicologist
Daniel Hensel is a German composer, VJ, musicologist and music theorist. He is known as a composer of expressive works of all musical genres whose works can be dedicated to "a thre…
Daniel Hensel, German composer and musicologist
1978
Jason White, Scottish rugby player
Jason Phillip Randall White is a Scottish former rugby union footballer. He was a utility forward who played in the second or back row of the scrum – lock, flanker, or number eight…
Jason White, Scottish rugby player
1978
Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under th…
Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
1978
U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of…
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter …
U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of…
1978
One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese…
Palestinians are an Arab national group native to the region of Palestine, descended from those who have inhabited the area over the millennia. They represent a highly homogenized …
One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese…
1978
Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137…
Double Eagle II, piloted by Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it landed on 17 August 1978 in Miserey near Pari…
Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137…
1978
In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 300 deaths.
The Cinema Rex fire occurred on 19 August 1978 when the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze, killing between 377 and 470 people. The event started when four individuals, who…
In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 300 deaths.
1978
The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a…
The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would have given the District of Columbia full representation in th…
The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a…
1978
Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter and educator
Amanda Sage is an American painter who has studied and worked in Vienna, Austria, and Los Angeles, California. She trained and worked with Ernst and Michael Fuchs, a classical arti…
Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter and educator
1978
Carl Greenidge, English cricketer
Carl Gary Greenidge is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the son of Gordon Greenidge.
Carl Greenidge, English cricketer
1978
Paul Malakwen Kosgei, Kenyan runner and coach
Paul Malakwen Kosgei is a Kenyan long-distance and marathon runner. He first came to prominence in athletics by taking the World Junior Record of 3000m steeple in 1997, and later w…
Paul Malakwen Kosgei, Kenyan runner and coach
1978
Gezahegne Abera, Ethiopian runner
Gezahegne Abera is an Ethiopian athlete and winner of the marathon race at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Gezahegne Abera, Ethiopian runner
1978
During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia…
The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Rhodesian Civil War, the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Independence, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in th…
During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia…
1978
Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve…
Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
1978
While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret…
Georgi Ivanov Markov was a Bulgarian dissident writer. He worked as a novelist, screenwriter and playwright in his native country, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, until his defe…
While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret…
1978
Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the…
Black Friday was a mass shooting on 8 September 1978 in Pahlavi Iran, during which the Imperial Army of Iran killed 64 civilians and injured 205 in Jaleh Square, Tehran. According …
Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the…
1978
The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve…
The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
1978
Diego Quintana, Argentine footballer
Diego Jesús Quintana is an Argentine footballer who spent his career mostly playing for Skoda Xanthi in Greece.
Diego Quintana, Argentine footballer
1978
Matt Walker, English swimmer
Matthew "Matt" Benedict Walker MBE is a British swimmer who has participated in four Paralympic Games, winning eleven medals. He competes in the S7, SM7 (medley) and SB7 (breaststr…
Matt Walker, English swimmer
1978
Stana Katic, Canadian actress
Stana Katić is a Canadian and American actress. She played Kate Beckett on the ABC television romantic crime series Castle (2009–2016) and FBI Special Agent Emily Byrne in the psyc…
Stana Katic, Canadian actress
1978
Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
Peter Planch Madsen is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
1978
Lauren Laverne, English singer and television and radio host
Lauren Cecilia Fisher, known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio and television presenter, author and singer. She was the lead singer and guitarist in the alterna…
Lauren Laverne, English singer and television and radio host