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1978 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2034. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1978 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1978
- January 6, 1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
- February 6, 1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.
- February 7, 1978 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
- April 7, 1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
- April 28, 1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
- May 8, 1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
- September 16, 1978 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
- October 8, 1978 – Australia’s Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
- November 18, 1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
- November 23, 1978 – The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe’s longwave & mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.
Who Were Born On 1978?
- January 20, 1978 – Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
- March 5, 1978 – Kimberly McCullough, American actress, singer, and dancer
- March 13, 1978 – Tom Danielson, American cyclist
- April 29, 1978 – Mike Bryan, American tennis player
- May 3, 1978 – Christian Annan, Ghanaian-Hong Kong footballer
- May 12, 1978 – Hossein Rezazadeh, Iranian weightlifter and politician
- June 12, 1978 – Shiloh Strong, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- August 8, 1978 – Miho Shiraishi, Japanese actress
- September 24, 1978 – Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
- November 3, 1978 – Sergei Movsesian, Armenian chess player