1978

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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was an ordinary year of the Gregorian calendar, which began on Sunday.

Events

March
1 March: Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.
13 March: Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades.

May
May 6: The first edition of the Lal Symphony Festival takes place.

June
June 11: Virginia Ruzici, a tennis player, won the title of World Champion at Roland Garros, being the first Romanian winner in simple and double, along with Yugoslav Mima Iansovec.
22 June: The discovery of a planet Pluto, Charon, is announced.
23 June: Josip Broz Tito is appointed President of Yugoslavia for life.
25 June: Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3-1 in overtime and wins the Argentina World Cup.

July
25 July: The first child conceived by artificial fertilization, Louise Brown, is born in England.

August
6 August: Pope Paul VI (b. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini), 262nd Pope, dies at the age of 80.
26 August: Pope John Paul I (b. Albino Luciani) succeeds as the 263th Pope.

September
17 September: Camp David Agreement, US between Egypt and Israel.
28 September: Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of pontification at the age of 65.

October
October 1st: Vietnam attacks Cambodia.
16 October: Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyla becomes the 264th Pope, Pope John Paul III.
27 October: Egyptian President Anwar Al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin received the Nobel Prize for Middle East agreements.

November
November 3: Dominica gains independence from Britain.
18 November: Romania enters the UNESCO Bureau of the 77 Group as a full member.
November 18: Mass suicide takes place in Jonestown, where 913 people lost their lives.

December
25 December: Vietnamese forces are launching a major offensive against the Khmer Rouge regime which, since 1976, had subjected the population to a monstrous "reeducation process" in which nearly two million Cambodians, assassinated or starved, found their death.
27 December: Democracy is established in Spain after 40 years of dictatorial regime.

Arts, sciences, literature and philosophy
Constantin Noica publishes the Romanian sentiment of being and six diseases of contemporary spirit.

Birth

January

1 January: Nina Bott, German actress
2 January: David Mujiri, Georgian footballer
4 January: Dominik Hrbatý, Slovak tennis player
January 4: Maria Obretin, Romanian actress
9 January: Gennaro Ivan Gattuso, Italian footballer
11 January: Emile Heskey (Emile William Ivanhoe Heskey), English footballer (striker)
13 January: Paulo César Tinga, Brazilian footballer
January 14: Kuno Becker, Mexican actor
14 January: Ricardo Manuel da Silva Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
January 14: Costi Ion