WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1978
Find out what all happened March to October 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)

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

President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état. (10. July 1978)

Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (22. March 1978)

The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line. (23. March 1978)

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

President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels. (28. April 1978)

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

Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethiopian-Somali War. (15. March 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)

The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed. (12. August 1978)

PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, resulting in the deaths of 144 people. (25. September 1978)

Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails. (26. March 1978)

Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes. (27. April 1978)

The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua. (22. August 1978)

The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded. (1. October 1978)

King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor. (15. June 1978)

Altaf Hussain founds the students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University. (11. June 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)

Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy. (22. June 1978)