1978… The year my Aunt Sue & Uncle Roger graduated high school! Pick 3 that mean the most to you.

• Hollywood film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl. -2 votes
• Serial killer Ted Bundy is captured in Pensacola, Florida – 4 votes
• Electrical workers in Mexico City find the remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in the middle of the city. – 1 vote
• Charlie Chaplin’s remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.
• American porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in Lawrenceville, Georgia. -1 vote
• Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit. – 2 votes
• Charles Chaplin’s coffin is found 10 miles from the cemetery it was stolen from, near Lake Geneva.
• California voters approve Proposition 13, which slashes property taxes nearly 60%.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints extends the priesthood and temple blessings to “all worthy males,” ending a general policy of excludin
• Serial killer David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam,” is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. – 3 votes
• King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby.
• The comic strip Garfield debuts in newspapers. – 4 votes
• A shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves 1 civilian and 3 IRA men dead.
• University of California Regents v. Bakke: The Supreme Court of the United States bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutio
• Pope Paul VI dies at age 80. – 1 vote
• United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.
• Pope John Paul I (Albino Cardinal Luciani) succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd pope.
• In London, England, the tip of an umbrella poisons Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, probably on orders of Bulgarian intelligence; he dies 4 days late -1 vote
• Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.Pope John Paul II (Cardinal Karol Wojtyła) succeedsHe is the first Slavic pope in history. – 1 vote
• In San Francisco, California, Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White.