November 1978 calendar

November 1978
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in November 1978.
The US president was Jimmy Carter (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was James Callaghan (Labour), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on November 1978: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of November 1978?

Events

01 Nov 1978 New York Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
02 Nov 1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31.
03 Nov 1978 Dominica gains independence from the UK and adopts constitution
04 Nov 1978 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, and Darrell Evans, available
05 Nov 1978 Khomeini followers attack British embassy / El Al office in Iran
06 Nov 1978 Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
07 Nov 1978 Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
09 Nov 1978 Tanzania recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
10 Nov 1978 Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
11 Nov 1978 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom succeeded Ibrahim Nasir as the president of the Republic of Maldives. He has since been re-elected for six consecutive 5-year terms.
12 Nov 1978 Platinum opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
15 Nov 1978 Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP
16 Nov 1978 Major Indoor Soccer League holds its first draft.
17 Nov 1978 Gerald Lascelles (under English Princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin
18 Nov 1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
19 Nov 1978 The first U.S. Take Back the Night march occurs in San Francisco.
21 Nov 1978 Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award
25 Nov 1978 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275.
26 Nov 1978 1st lesbian theme TV movie - Question of Love
27 Nov 1978 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183
28 Nov 1978 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma
29 Nov 1978 United Nations observes "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," boycotted by US and about 20 other countries.
30 Nov 1978 Publication of ''The Times'' is suspended due to labor problems until November 13, 1979.

Famous Birthday

Rachel McAdams
Canadian actress.
Katherine Heigl
American actress.
Gael García Bernal
Manju Warrier
Indian actress and dancer.
Mélanie Doutey
French actress, daughter of filmmaker Alain Doutey and actress Arielle Séménoff.
Eve (entertainer)
Alexandra Maria Lara
Romanian-born German actress.
Diplo (DJ)
Taryn Manning
American actress.
Arlena Twigg
American news figure, swapped at birth in the hospital with Kimberly Mays.
Delphine Chanéac
French model and actress.
Clay Aiken
American singer.
Diana Osorio
Alison Mosshart
American singer-songwriter (The Kills The Dead Weather and Discount).
Michala Banas
New Zealand actress and singer.
Pierrick Fédrigo
French racing cyclist, who rides for Bretagne-Séché Environnement.
Chantille Boudousque
Daniella Cicarelli
Brazilian model and television host.
Taís Araújo
Brazilian actress of soap operas.
Lazaro Ramos
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Famous Deaths

Margaret Mead
American cultural anthropologist who made six South Sea sojourns to study cultural conditioning.
Harvey Milk
American city government official who was shot and killed in San Francisco along with Mayor George Moscone.
Claude Dauphin
French screen/stage/tv actor.
Harry Bertoia
American construction artist, the creator of metal, wire and blowtorch decorator screens used in office buildings, churches, airports and...
Theo Lingen
German actor, film director and screenwriter.
Jim Jones
American cult figure, the Leader of The People's Temple.
James J "Gene" Tunney
Heavyweight boxing champ (1926-8), dies at 80.
Leo J Ryan
(Rep-Cal) 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 member.
Vasilisk Gnedov
Russian poet (Born 1890).
Elaine Esposito
American coma victim (Born 1934).
Antonio Vespucio Liberti
Argentine football executive (Born 1902).
Norman Rockwell
American illustrator famous for his portraits of American life.
Leo Ryan
American soldier educator and politician (d. 1978).
Linda Scott
Actress (Escape from Hell Island), dies at 28.
Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-Italian painter and set designer (d. 1978).
Heiri Suter
Swiss cyclist (Born 1899).
Gene Tunney
American noted family, the elder son of Gene Tunney and his wife Josephine.
Janet Flanner
American journalist and author (d. 1978).
Alan Richardson
Composer, dies at 74.
Joe Wong
Actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75.
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