Garfield’s first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication. Garfield is a popular comic strip created by Jim Davis….
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16 March 1978
Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped; he is later murdered by his captors Aldo Moro was an Italian statesman who played a significant…
8 September 1978
Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in…
19 August 1978
In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 400 deaths. The 1978 Cinema Rex fire in Iran was a tragic incident where a cinema…
19 June 1978
Garfield’s first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication
16 March 1978
Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil…
25 June 1978
The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
17 April 1978
Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d’état in Afghanistan.