Interesting facts about 1978?

Question

know any?

Answer 1

Charles Boyer ( actor ) died ; Leon Spinks wins World Heavyweight Boxing title ; Argentina win the World Cup in soccer ; Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Israel's Menahem Begin ; Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win US Open Tennis tiles ; Pope Paul Vl dies  

Answer 2

In 1978...

Gas cost 63 cents a gallon

Hungry Hungry Hippos board game was in stores

People said, "Nanu-nanu," imitating Robin Williams on "Mork and Mindy"

Sweden became the first country to ban aerosols to save the ozone layer

The Dallas Cowboys won Superbowl XII

Keith Moon of the Rolling Stones ODed

The "Son of Sam" killer was sentenced

Susan B. Anthony dollars were issued and immediately unpopular

Pope Paul VI died

Volkswagen stopped making the Beetle

A dozen eggs cost 48 cents

In vitro fertilization produced the first "test tube baby"

"Grease," "Animal House," and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" were box office hits, but "The Deer Hunter" won the Oscar

Answer 3

February 15 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is captured in Pensacola, Florida.

February 16 - The Hillside Strangler, a serial killer prowling Los Angeles, claims a tenth and final victim.

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.

September 28 - Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.

Artificial insulin is invented.

Answer 4

I graduated from high school!!!  Sorry, I had to throw that in.  No one EVER wants to know what happened that year!

Good luck...

Answer 5

The Camp David Accords were signed between Israel and Egypt, among too many other things to list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978

And the Jonestown Cult mass suicide was in 1978.