- 01/01/1978 - "Your Arm's Too Short..." closes at Lyceum NYC
after 429 perfs
- 01/01/1978 - Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213
- 01/01/1978 - Pres Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since
1909
- 01/02/1978 - Blent Ecevit forms govt in Turkey
- 01/02/1978 - Rhino Records releases their 1st album
"Wildmania"
- 01/03/1978 - Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian
innings win
- 01/06/1978 - 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
- 01/06/1978 - US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary
- 01/07/1978 - Angola revises its constitution
- 01/08/1978 - Israeli govt votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied
Sinai
- 01/09/1978 - Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
- 01/10/1978 - Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station,
launched
- 01/11/1978 - Gov Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building
- 01/11/1978 - Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3
spacecraft link)
- 01/14/1978 - Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF)
- 01/15/1978 - Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy &
Margaret Bowman
- 01/15/1978 - Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10
in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, DT
- 01/16/1978 - 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac
& C Twitty
- 01/16/1978 - Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
- 01/18/1978 - Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pak
Karachi
- 01/18/1978 - Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses
(no injuries)
- 01/18/1978 - Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
- 01/19/1978 - Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame
- 01/19/1978 - Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
- 01/20/1978 - Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to
"Annie"
- 01/21/1978 - Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1
for 24 weeks
- 01/23/1978 - Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
- 01/23/1978 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13
- 01/24/1978 - 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at
Buffalo
- 01/24/1978 - Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
- 01/25/1978 - Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's
Senate seat
- 01/25/1978 - Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers
for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award)
- 01/26/1978 - Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination:
Void"
- 01/26/1978 - International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit
- 01/26/1978 - Mario Soares forms Portuguese govt
- 01/26/1978 - Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40
- 01/28/1978 - "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban
premieres on ABC TV
- 01/28/1978 - "We Are the World" is recorded
- 01/28/1978 - Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against
Islanders
- 01/28/1978 - Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
- 01/29/1978 - Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf
Championship
- 01/30/1978 - Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall
of Fame
- 01/30/1978 - Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show
on radio
- 01/31/1978 - "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace
Theater NYC for 101 perfs
- 01/31/1978 - Israel turns 3 milt outposts in West Bank into civilian
settlements
| Famous birthdays for January 1978 .. |
- 01/02/1978 - Devin Doherty, actor (Jimmy Clayton-Swan's Crossing)
- 01/06/1978 - Steve Hartsell, Ann Arbor Mich, pairs skater (&
Danielle Hartsell)
- 01/08/1978 - Petra Minarova, Miss Czech Republic Universe (1997)
- 01/17/1978 - Irina A Borisova, Miss Universe-Ukraine (1996)
- 01/25/1978 - Christine Lakin, actress (Alicia Lambert-Step by Step)
- 01/25/1978 - Mandy Carraway, Miss Kansas Teen USA (1996)
- 01/26/1978 - Reesa Starr Jr
- 01/28/1978 - Helga Bauer Salas, Miss Bolivia Universe (1997)
- 01/30/1978 - Lnd Girchoukevitch, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Oly-98)
| Famous deaths for January 1978 .. |
- 01/04/1978 - Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber/lumber/wood manufacturer,
dies at 76
- 01/06/1978 - John D MacArthur, US insurance billionaire, dies at 80
- 01/08/1978 - Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at
75
- 01/09/1978 - Eddie Gilbert, cricket (Aboriginal Qld quick got Don for a
duck), dies
- 01/10/1978 - Don Gillis, US composer (Symphony #5«), dies at 65
- 01/10/1978 - John D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist,
dies at 71
- 01/10/1978 - Pedro Joaqu¡n Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in
Managua
- 01/10/1978 - Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag),
dies at 62
- 01/11/1978 - Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt &
Pepper), dies at 57
- 01/12/1978 - Nancy Spungen, stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious
- 01/13/1978 - Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn, VP), dies at 66 in Waverly,
Minn
- 01/13/1978 - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees), dies at
96
- 01/14/1978 - Blossom Rock, actress (Grandmamma-Addams Family), dies at
81
- 01/14/1978 - Robert Heger, composer, dies at 91
- 01/15/1978 - Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed
by Ted Bundy
- 01/18/1978 - Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 67
- 01/18/1978 - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer, dies at 68
- 01/19/1978 - Carl Betz, actor (Donna Reed Show), dies at 56
- 01/22/1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (54 Tests for England 4555
runs), dies
- 01/23/1978 - Jack Oakie, actor (Great Dictator, Gang Buster), dies at
74
- 01/23/1978 - Terry Kath, rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in
head at 32
- 01/25/1978 - Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known
thoroughbred horse
- 01/26/1978 - Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V), dies
at 72
- 01/27/1978 - Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87
- 01/27/1978 - Oscar Homolka, actor (7 Year Itch, Ball of Fire), dies at
79
- 01/29/1978 - Tim McCoy, actor (Arizona Bound), dies at 86
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- 01/01/1979 - International Year of the Child begins
- 01/01/1979 - Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established
- 01/01/1979 - US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic
relations
- 01/02/1979 - 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs
Vancouver
- 01/02/1979 - Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v
WI)
- 01/02/1979 - Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen
begins
- 01/07/1979 - Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
- 01/08/1979 - 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
- 01/08/1979 - Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
- 01/08/1979 - Today Show gets a new theme song
- 01/08/1979 - Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom
Penh
- 01/09/1979 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
- 01/09/1979 - High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive
free throws
- 01/09/1979 - K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small"
for being in "bad taste"
- 01/09/1979 - Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors
performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
- 01/10/1979 - 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic
remarks
- 01/10/1979 - Entertainer of the Year Awards
- 01/11/1979 - "Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61
performances
- 01/12/1979 - 6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt
win
- 01/12/1979 - LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in
Bellingham
- 01/12/1979 - Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100
- 01/13/1979 - Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam
- 01/13/1979 - YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
- 01/14/1979 - Pres Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a
holiday
- 01/16/1979 - Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt
- 01/17/1979 - NY Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against NY
Rangers
- 01/17/1979 - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
- 01/17/1979 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 01/18/1979 - Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America,"
Florence Oregon
- 01/19/1979 - John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from
federal prison
- 01/21/1979 - Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
- 01/21/1979 - Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz
- 01/21/1979 - Superbowl XIII: Pitts Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31
in Miami Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB
- 01/23/1979 - Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- 01/24/1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 01/25/1979 - 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central
Honshu, Japan
- 01/25/1979 - Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
- 01/26/1979 - "Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast
wasteland
- 01/26/1979 - Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Neth
- 01/27/1979 - 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight &
Jane Fonda
- 01/27/1979 - Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
- 01/28/1979 - "Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1672
performances
- 01/28/1979 - Arthur Kopit's "Wings," premieres in NYC
- 01/29/1979 - 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
- 01/29/1979 - Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I
Don't Like Mondays"
- 01/29/1979 - Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC
- 01/29/1979 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
- 01/29/1979 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7
- 01/29/1979 - Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to
2 years
- 01/30/1979 - Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
| Famous birthdays for January 1979 .. |
- 01/05/1979 - Sarah Price, Miss Louisiana Teen USA (1997)
- 01/08/1979 - Sarah Polley, actress (Sweet Hereafter)
- 01/08/1979 - Sequoyah, chimpanzee (son of Washoe)
- 01/09/1979 - Lavinia Magruder, Miss Vermont Teen USA (1996)
- 01/10/1979 - Chris H E Smith, [Daddy Mack], Atlanta, rapper (Kris
Kross-Warm it Up)
- 01/12/1979 - Jenny Schmidgall, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
- 01/21/1979 - Kelly Gaudet, Miss Florida Teen USA (1996)
- 01/22/1979 - Melanie Winiger, Miss Switzerland Universe (1997)
- 01/24/1979 - Tatyana M Ali, NYC, actress (Sesame St, Fresh Prince of
Bel Air)
- 01/27/1979 - Jessica Lynn Ferdinand, Miss New York Teen USA (1997)
- 01/29/1979 - Andrew Keegan, actor (Step by Step, Party of Five)
- 01/30/1979 - Diva Zappa, daughter of Frank
- 01/30/1979 - Karen Smith, Australian field hockey midfielder/halfback
(Olympics-96)
| Famous deaths for January 1979 .. |
- 01/03/1979 - Conrad Hilton, US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91
- 01/04/1979 - Charles Mingus, jazz bassist, dies of heart attack
- 01/05/1979 - Charles Mingus, US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader,
dies at 56
- 01/07/1979 - Zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70
- 01/09/1979 - Avery Claflin, composer, dies at 80
- 01/09/1979 - Sara Carter, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at
80
- 01/11/1979 - Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets),
dies at 63
- 01/13/1979 - Donny Hathaway, Chicago Ill, rocker (Ghetto), commits
suicide at 33
- 01/16/1979 - Fred Elizalde, composer, dies at 71
- 01/16/1979 - Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at 46
- 01/18/1979 - Cyril Mockridge, composer, dies at 82
- 01/19/1979 - Paul Meurisse, actor (Diabolique, Truth, Suspects,
Monocle), dies
- 01/22/1979 - Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb;
believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes
- 01/24/1979 - Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies
at 51
- 01/24/1979 - Mabel Taliaferro, actress (My Love Come Back), dies at 91
- 01/25/1979 - J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87
- 01/26/1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, former VP & (4X Gov-R-NY), dies at
70
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