WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1978
Find out what all happened March to December 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)

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)

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

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey. (27. November 1978)

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

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

President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état. (10. July 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 United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions. (28. June 1978)

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

The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed. (1. June 1978)

Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (10. December 1978)

The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. (25. June 1978)

The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity. (28. March 1978)

1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language. (14. April 1978)

U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan (15. December 1978)

Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. (17. 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)

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

The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt. (17. September 1978)