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.