WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1978
Find out what all happened April to October 1978

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

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

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

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men. (9. June 1978)

The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side. (30. July 1978)

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

Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter. (7. April 1978)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists. (11. July 1978)

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