1978

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Years:	1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981

Contents 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