1978

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Years:	1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Films released
5 Hit songs
6 New books
7 Nobel Prizes

[edit] Events

January 14 - The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Francisco's Winterland
April 22 - The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live. The duo of Jake & Elwood Blues (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) are introduced by Paul Shaffer (as Don Kirschner) and perform "Hey Bartender"
April 26 - Ringo Starr's, Ringo, a musical version of The Prince and the Pauper airs on American television. Starr's fellow former Beatle George Harrison provides the narration
May 8 - Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler are the first humans on the Mount Everest without oxygen tanks
July 25 - First human birth from in vitro fertilization
August 6 - Pope Paul VI dies at the age of 80. Albino Luciani become the new pope, Pope John Paul I
August 17 - Double Eagle II becomes the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
August 26 - The first Canada Jam Festival is held in Ontario, featuring sets by the Doobie Brothers, the Commodores, Kansas, Dave Mason, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section
September 28 - Pope John Paul I dies after 34 days in office
October 1 - Vietnam attacks Cambodia
October 16 - Karol Wojtyła elected pope, and calls himself Pope John Paul II
November 18 - Jim Jones and his followers commit suicide
Garfield, a comic strip, debuts

[edit] Births

February 7 - Ashton Kutcher, actor
June 19 - Dirk Nowitzki, NBA star
August 23 - Kobe Bryant, NBA star
November 9 - Sisqo, rap singer

[edit] Deaths

August 6 - Pope Paul IV, heart attack
September 28 - Pope John Paul I

[edit] Films released

The Boys From Brazil
The Buddy Holly Story
The Cat from Outer Space
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Coming Home
Damien: Omen II
Dawn of the Dead
The Deer Hunter
Every Which Way But Loose
F.I.S.T.
Foul Play
Girlfriends, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner
The Goodbye Girl
Grease
Halloween
Heaven Can Wait
Interiors
Ice Castles
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jaws 2
The Last Waltz
The Lord of the Rings, animated film by Ralph Bakshi
Midnight Express
National Lampoon's Animal House
Pretty Baby
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Saturday Night Fever
Superman, starring Marlon Brando and Christopher Reeve
The Tree of Wooden Clogs Palme d'Or winner
Up in Smoke

[edit] Hit songs

"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" - Blue Öyster Cult
"(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" - Andy Gibb
"(You Gotta Walk)Don't Look Back" - Peter Tosh
"Baby Come Back" - Player
"Best Of Both Worlds" - Robert Palmer
"Boogie Oogie Oogie" - A Taste Of Honey
"Carry On Wayward Son" - Kansas
"Denis" - Blondie
"Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" - Rod Stewart
"Dreadlock Holiday" - 10cc
"Eagle" - ABBA
"Eve Of The War" - Jeff Wayne
"Every Kinda People" - Robert Palmer
"Fat Bottomed Girls" - Queen
"Follow You Follow Me" - Genesis
"Goodnight Tonight" - Paul McCartney & Wings
"Got To Get You Into My Life" - Earth Wind and Fire
"Grease" - Frankie Valli
"Hanging On The Telephone" - Blondie
"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
"Hong Kong Garden" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
"Hot Child In The City" - Nick Gilder
"How Deep Is Your Love" - The Bee Gees
"If I Can't Have You" - Yvonne Elliman
"I'm Every Woman" - Chaka Khan
"Is This Love?" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
"Isn't It Time" - The Babys
"Just The Way You Are" - Barry White
"Just The Way You Are" - Billy Joel
"Kiss You All Over" - Exile
"Le Freak" - Chic
"Life's Been Good" - Joe Walsh
"Lovely Day" - Bill Withers
"MacArthur Park" - Donna Summer
"Many Rivers To Cross" - Jimmy Cliff
"Miss You" - Rolling Stones
"Mr.Blue Sky" - Electric Light Orchestra
"My Best Friend's Girl" - The Cars
"Never Say Die" - Black Sabbath
"Night Fever" - The Bee Gees
"Psycho Killer" - Talking Heads
"Public Image" - Public Image Limited
"Rat Trap" - Boomtown Rats
"Renegade" - Styx
"Rhiannon" - Fleetwood Mac
"Shadow Dancing" - Andy Gibb
"She Believes In Me" - Kenny Rogers
"Stay" - Jackson Browne
"Stayin' Alive" - The Bee Gees
"Summer Nights" - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
"Sweet Talkin'Woman" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Take A Chance On Me" - ABBA
"The Gambler" - Kenny Rogers
"Three Times A Lady" - Commodores
"Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" - Johnny Mathis & Deniece Willams
"Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" - Meatloaf
"White Man In Hammersmith Palais" - The Clash
"Who Are You" - The Who
"Wild West Hero" - Electric Light Orchestra
"With A Little Luck" - Paul McCartney & Wings
"Wonderful Tonight" - Eric Clapton
"Wuthering Heights" - Kate Bush
"You Don't Bring Me Flowers" - Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond
"You Needed Me" - Anne Murray
"You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth" - Meatloaf
"You're The One That I Want" - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John

[edit] New books

Beggar Maid - Alice Munro
Bloodlines - Sidney Sheldon
Bright Flows The River - Taylor Caldwell
Chesapeake - James A. Michener
Coup - John Updike
Empire: A Visual Novel - Samuel R. Delany
Evergreen (book) - Belva Plain
Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
Fools Die - Mario Puzo
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
A Good School - Richard Yates
Hail The Conquering Hero - Frank Yerby
The Holcroft Covenant - Robert Ludlum
Illusions - Richard Bach
An Imaginary Life - David Malouf
In My Father's House - Ernest J.Gaines
Jake's Thing - Kingsley Amis
The Memoirs of Richard Nixon - Richard Nixon
Mommie Dearest - Christina Crawford
Murder at the Margin - Marshall Jevons
Night Shift - Stephen King (collection of short stories, most previously published elsewhere)
Running Dogs - Don DeLillo
Scruples - Judith Krantz
Second Generation - Howard Fast
The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
Success - Martin Amis
A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle
That Vanderbilt Woman - Philip Van Rensselaer
War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk
The Wolfen - Whitley Strieber
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Young Adolf - Beryl Bainbridge
The Ends of Power - H. R. Haldeman

[edit] Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
Chemistry - Peter D Mitchell
Medicine - Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O Smith
Literature -Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polnish writer and journalist
Peace - Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat and Menachem Begin
Economics - Herbert Simon