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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday.
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January
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February
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March
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April
April 7 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter decides to postpone production of the neutron bomb - a weapon which kills people with radiation but leaves buildings relatively intact.
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May
May 9 - In Rome, the body of Aldo Moro, the Italian president of the Christian Democrats, is found in a parked car.
May 12 - In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining centre of the province of Shaba. The Zairean government asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.
May 17 - Charles Chaplin's coffin is found 10 miles from the cemetery it was stolen from, near Lake Geneva.
May 18 - Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov is sentenced to 7 years hard labor for distributing counterrevolutionary material.
May 18-May 19 - Belgian and French paratroopers fly to Zaire to aid the fight against the rebels.
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June
June 19 - Cricketer Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match.
June 20 - A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, resulting in the total collapse of an apartment building at the central Ippodromio district and the subsequent death of more than 40 people.
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July
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August
August 15 - Mirapuri, the City of Peace and Future Man in Europe, is founded in Italy.
August 25 - U.S. Army Sergeant Walter Robinson "walks" across the English Channel in 11 hours 30 minutes, using homemade water shoes.
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September
September 8 - Iranian Army troops open fire on rioters in Teheran - 122 dead, 4000 wounded.
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October
October 7 - Wranslide in NSW: the Wran government is re-elected with an increased majority.
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November
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The Usu volcano erupts in Japan.
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Nobel prizes
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In Fiction
The first half of the Atari videogame Driver: Parallel Lines takes place, with the second half taking place in 2006.
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Fields Medal|Fields Medalists
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Templeton Prize
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Ship events
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