1978 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1975 1976 1977 – 1978 – 1979 1980 1981

1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

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 27 – San Francisco politician Dan White assassinates Harvey Milk and George Moscone
Garfield, a comic strip, debuts
Space Invaders is created by the Taito Corporation

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