WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1978
Find out what all happened February to October 1978

The Solomon Islands join the United Nations. (19. September 1978)

Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan. (17. April 1978)

Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut. (19. June 1978)

David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings. (12. June 1978)

Papal conclave: Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy. (26. August 1978)

Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland. (5. September 1978)

The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom (7. July 1978)

150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War. (13. August 1978)

Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. (21. October 1978)

The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. (1. April 1978)

An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people. (16. September 1978)

Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon. (13. June 1978)

Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28. (2. March 1978)

Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. (13. February 1978)

Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. (11. February 1978)

Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish. (26. June 1978)

Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time. (8. February 1978)

The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. (8. May 1978)

Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history. (16. March 1978)

Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II. (22. October 1978)