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

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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

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1978 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1978 MCMLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2731
Armenian calendar	1427 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԷ
Assyrian calendar	6728
Bahá'í calendar	134–135
Balinese saka calendar	1899–1900
Bengali calendar	1385
Berber calendar	2928
British Regnal year	26 Eliz. 2 – 27 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2522
Burmese calendar	1340
Byzantine calendar	7486–7487
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4674 or 4614 — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4675 or 4615
Coptic calendar	1694–1695
Discordian calendar	3144
Ethiopian calendar	1970–1971
Hebrew calendar	5738–5739
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2034–2035
- Shaka Samvat	1899–1900
- Kali Yuga	5078–5079
Holocene calendar	11978
Igbo calendar	978–979
Iranian calendar	1356–1357
Islamic calendar	1398–1399
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 53 (昭和５３年)
Javanese calendar	1909–1910
Juche calendar	67
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4311
Minguo calendar	ROC 67 民國67年
Nanakshahi calendar	510
Thai solar calendar	2521
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) 2104 or 1723 or 951 — to — ས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Horse) 2105 or 1724 or 952
Unix time	252460800 – 283996799

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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
- Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom
October 16 – Karol Wojtyła elected pope, and calls himself Pope John Paul II
November 18 – Jim Jones and his followers commit suicide
November 27 – San Francisco politician Dan White assassinates Harvey Milk and George Moscone^[1]
December 21 - John Wayne Gacy is arrested for the killings of 33 boys and young men.
Garfield, a comic strip, debuts
Space Invaders is created by the Taito Corporation

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Births

January

January 13 – Tinga, Brazilian footballer
January 14 - Abdelaziz Ahanfouf, German-Moroccan footballer
January 25 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 6th President of Ukraine
January 28 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
January 30 – Daniel Lindström, Swedish singer

February

February 7 – Ashton Kutcher, American actor

March

March 7 – Azis, Bulgarian singer
March 11 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
March 21 – Kevin Federline, American doofus

April

April 4 - Sam Moran, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
April 6 – Myleene Klass, English musician
April 30 – Tom Fulp, Newgrounds creater

May

May 1 – Belal Jadallah, Palestinian journalist
May 22 – Katie Price, English model and singer

June

June 9 – Matthew Bellamy, English singer
June 9 – Miroslav Klose, Polish-German footballer
June 11 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
June 19 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
June 20 – Frank Lampard, English footballer
June 21 – Gervase Markham, British computer programmer and blogger (d. 2018)
June 29 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress

July

July 19 – Chiara Zanni, Canadian actress

August

August 22 – Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician
August 23 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player (d. 2020)

September

September 25 – Rafał Wiechecki, Polish politician
September 28 – Bushido, German singer
September 30 – Candice Michelle, American model and wrestler

October

October 2 – Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
October 6 – Carolina Gynning, Swedish model
October 5 – Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
October 7 – Alesha Dixon, English singer
October 26 - CM Punk, American professional wrestler

November

November 25 – Ringo Shiina, Japanese singer

December

December 2 – Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer
December 2 – Chris Wolstenholme, English musician
December 18 – Katie Holmes, American actress

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Deaths

January

January 1 – Nicolae Simatoc, Romanian football player (b. 1920)
January 5 – Sally Eilers, American actress (b. 1908)
January 8 – André François-Poncet, French politician (b. 1887)
January 13 – Hubert Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
January 14 – Kurt Gödel, Czech mathematician (b. 1906)
January 28 – Greta Johansson, Swedish diver (b. 1895)