WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO NOVEMBER 1978
Find out what all happened March to November 1978

Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak. (11. September 1978)

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

Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut, on board Soyuz 31. (26. August 1978)

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

Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom. (1. October 1978)

Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. (16. October 1978)

Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union. (20. April 1978)

Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born. (25. July 1978)

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

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

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

World News Tonight premieres on ABC. (10. July 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)

Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. (16. October 1978)

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

U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of. (7. August 1978)

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

Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia. (8. October 1978)

Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors. (16. March 1978)