1978
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Events
- Edward O. Wilson publishes On Human Nature.
- Who'll Stop the Rain and Midnight Express are released.
- Garfield the Cat syndicated.
- Carl Levin is first elected to the U.S. Senate.
- China's population is 962.59 million.
Timeline
January
- January 8: Israeli government decides to "strengthen" settlements in occupied Sinai.
- January 10: Diane Feinstein is elected president of the 11-member San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Harvey Milk and Dan White take their seats on that body for the first time.
February
- February 1: Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France.
- February 11: China ends censorship of Aristotle, Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
- February 12: Darwin Day
- February 15: Majority rule in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe: Rhodesian white minority Prime Minister Ian Smith begins negotiations for the transfer to black majority rule.
March
- March: Israel launches Litani Operation in southern Lebanon.
- March 4: 40,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators from all over the planet march at Almelo, the Netherlands.
April
- April 18: U.S. Senate votes 68 to 32 to turn over control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian governemnt 14 years in the future: Dec. 31, 1999.
- April 18: Chilean military regime adopts Decree Law 2191 or self amnesty for criminal offenses committed during the State of Seige between September 11, 1973 and March 10, 1978.
- April 27: Afghan leader Sardar Muhammmad Daoud is overthrown and killed in a coup d'etat carried out by pro-communist military officers who had survived his earlier anti-communist purge.
June
- June 8: Demonstration in Guatemala City protesting the Panzos Massacre.
July
- July 9: 100,000 demonstrators march in Washington, DC to support the ERA.
September
- September: Nur Muhammad Taraki becomes the new President if Afghanistan.
October
- October 17: Pres. Jimmy Carter signs bill restoring U.S. citizenship to traitor Confederate Pres. Jefferson Davis.
November
- November 27: San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in America, and Mayor George Moscone are assassinated.
December
- December 25: Communist Vietnamese troops intervene in Cambodia to end the murderous regime of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.
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