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| | ON THIS DAY Search Results for Year: 1978
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Click on an event title in the list to view more information about that event. Click on a date in the list to view a list of other events on the same date. Number of Records Matching Query: 71
| | Event Date: | 1st January 1978 | | Description: | TOP TV SHOWS OF 1978 | | |
| | Summary: | 1978-79
1 Laverne & Shirley ABC
2 Three's Company ABC
3 Mork & Mindy ABC
4 Happy Days (tie) ABC
4 The Ropers (tie) ABC
6 What's Happening!! (tie) ABC
6 Alice (8:30) (tie) CBS
8 M*A*S*H CBS
9 One Day at a Time (Monday) CBS
10 Taxi ABC
11 60 Minutes (tie) CBS
11 Charlie's Angels (tie) ABC
13 Angie ABC
14 Alice (9:30) CBS
15 All in the Family CBS
16 WKRP in Cincinnati (tie) CBS
16 Soap (tie) ABC
18 Eight Is Enough ABC
19 All in the Family CBS
20 Barney Miller (tie) ABC
20 CBS Sunday Night Movie (tie) CBS | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 9th January 1978 | | Description: | Singer, songwriter, actor, USA | | |
| | Event Date: | 5th February 1978 | |
| | Summary: | CAROLE KING. "WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW" | | |
| | Event Date: | 10th February 1978 | | Description: | In the United States, the album was certified 15x Platinum for shipments of over 15 million copies. | | |
| | Summary: | "SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER" In the UK, the album spent 18 consecutive weeks at number one. The album epitomized the disco phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic and was an international sensation. Along with the success of the movie, the soundtrack, composed and performed primarily by the Bee Gees, was the best-selling soundtrack album of all time. | | |
| | Event Date: | 4th March 1978 | | Description: | The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) telecasts the first complete Grand Ole Opry show from the new Grand Ole Opry House as it happened from 6-9 pm. | | |
| | Summary: | The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) telecasts the first complete Grand Ole Opry show from the new GranThe Public Broadcasting System (PBS) telecasts the first complete Grand Ole Opry show from the new Grand Ole Opry House as it happened from 6-9 pm. d Ole Opry House as it happened from 6-9 pm. | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 18th March 1978 | | Description: | Singer, songwriter, actress | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 21st March 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Keyboardiist, UK | | |
| | Event Date: | 25th March 1978 | | Description: | "Mamas Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" | | |
| | Summary: | "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson becomes the last song for 12 years to spend four weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart. | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician, Acting | | | Event Date: | 7th April 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, actor | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 7th April 1978 | | Description: | Bassist, Scotland | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 9th April 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 19th April 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 22nd April 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 1st May 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Non Entertainer | | | Event Date: | 14th May 1978 | | Description: | Manufacturer, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | "SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER" | | | Event Date: | 17th May 1978 | |
| | Summary: | THE BEE GEES "SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER" | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 20th May 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 12th June 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 3rd July 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Bassist, Australia | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician, Band Leader | | | Event Date: | 31st July 1978 | | Description: | Band Leader, Classical Violinist, Conductor and recording engineer | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 1st August 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, UK | | |
| | Event Date: | 3rd September 1978 | |
| | Summary: | DIES IN 1978, CALIFORNIA. LEAD SINGER OF CANNED HEAT | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 7th September 1978 | | Description: | Trumpeter, Composer, Arranger, UK | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musican | | | Event Date: | 11th September 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia | | |
| | Event Date: | 6th October 1978 | | Description: | Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the 1950s dies in 1978 aged 43. | | |
| | Summary: | O'Keefe's last public appearance was on Seven Network's Sounds program, taped on 30 September 1978. Johnny O'Keefe died six days later, on 6 October 1978, from a heart attack induced by an accidental overdose of prescribed drugs. | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 6th October 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, Australia | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 7th October 1978 | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, dancer, model and television personality. | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 9th October 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Poet, Actor, Belgium | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 10th October 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, UK | | |
| | Sub Title: | Acting | | | Event Date: | 16th October 1978 | | Description: | Actor, singer, dancer, USA | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 21st October 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | |
| | Event Date: | 21st October 1978 | | Description: | Mel Street commits suicide on his 45th birthday. | | |
| | Summary: | Fans of Mel Street are saddened when the honky tonk-styled singer, who had long battled clinical depression and alcoholism, committed suicide on his 45th birthday. He had signed a recording contract with Mercury Records earlier in the year. | | |
| | Event Date: | 18th November 1978 | | Description: | The incident in Guyana ranks among the largest mass murders/mass suicides in history | | |
| | Summary: | Event. James Warren "Jim" Jones the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of more than 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana. | | |
| | Sub Title: | Musician | | | Event Date: | 2nd December 1978 | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Australia | | |
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