1978

Shah of Iran declares martial law
Ayatollah Khomeimi expelled from Iraq
Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on transfer to black majority rule
Paul VI dies. New Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office, succeeded by Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II
"Framework for Peace" in Middle East signed by Egypt's President Sadat and Israeli Premier Begin after 13-day conference at Camp David led by President Carter
Mary Leakey discovers 3.5 million-year-old hominid footprints in Africa
The Amoco Cadiz runs aground off the Brittany coast - spills more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil

Disco fever
Mass suicide of People's Temple followers in Jamestown, Guyana - 909 die
Senate votes treaty to turn canal over to Panama by year 2000
Supreme Court bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities
Muhammed Ali wins the heavyweight boxing title for a record third time
Disco fever
Herman Wouk's War and Remembrance
Coburn's The Gin Game
John Irving's The World According to Garp
Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror
1st trans-Atlantic balloon crossing
1st "test tube baby" - Louise Joy Brown
Songs - "Shadow Dancing", "Night Fever", "Stayin' Alive" "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"
Broadway - "Ain't Misbehavin'"
Films - "Grease", "Animal House', "Autumn Sonata", "The Deer Hunter", "Superman"
TV - "Dallas", "Taxi", "WKRP in Cincinnati"
Edgerrin James, Randy Spelling and Katie Holmes born
Hubert H. Humphrey, Edgar Bergen, Gene Tunney, Norman Rockwell, Margaret Mead, Jacques Brel, and Golda Meir die