56 events found for 1978
Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the…
At the Superdome in New Orleans, Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the…
The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At…
The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard…
Air Caribbean Flight 309 crashes in Residencial Las Casas in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing six.
Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.
Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Brother Eddie Villanueva and 15 others from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines begin the Jesus Is Lord…
Aeroflot Flight 1080 crashes after takeoff from Koltsovo International Airport, killing 38.
Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 275.97 knots at Blowering Dam, Australia.
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since…
Based on the world's first children's art museum, the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics opened in Yerevan.
Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting…
Aeroflot Flight 6515 crashes off Syvash, killing all 26 people aboard.