Major Event/ Sports /Nobel Prizes/Pulitzer Prizes/Academy/ Popular Movies/ Popular Books /Popular Television Shows/ Popular Music/ Grammy Awards/
Major Events of 1978
- Indira Gandhi Expelled From Parliament
- Aldo Moro Killed
- Sandista Guerillas Seize Hostages
- Smallpox Eradicated
- First Birth Due to Invitro
Sports
NBA: Washington Bullets vs. Seattle Supersonics Series: 4-3
NCAA Football: Alabama & USC Record: 11-1-0 & 12-1-0 Heisman Trophy: Billy Sims, oklahoma, RB points: 827
Stanley Cup:Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins Series: 4-2
Super Bowl XII:Dallas Cowboys vs.Denver Broncos Score: 27-10
US Open Golf: Andy North Score: 285 Course: Cherry Hills CC Location: Denver, CO
World Series: New York Yankees vs. LA Dodgers Series: 4-2
Popular Songs
1."Baby Come Back" ... Player
2."Stayin' Alive" ... Bee Gees
3."Thicker Than Water" ... Andy Gibb
4."Night Fever" ... Bee Gees
5."If I Can't Have You" ... Yvonne Elliman
6."With a Little Luck" ... Wings
7."Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" ...
Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
8."You're the One That I Want" ...
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
9."Shadow Dancing" ... Andy Gibb
10."Miss You" ... Rolling Stones
Popular Movies
1. Grease
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. National Lampoon's Animal House
4. Jaws 2
5. Heaven Can Wait
6. The Goodbye Girl
7. Star Wars (reissue)
8. Hooper
9. Foul Play
10. Revenge of the Pink Panther
Academy Awards
Best Picture: "The Deer Hunter"
Best Director: Michael Cimino ... "The Deer Hunter"
Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss ... Jon Voight ... "Coming Home"
Best Actress:Diane Keaton ... Jane Fonda ... "Coming Home"
Grammy Awards
Record of the Year:"Just the Way You Are" ... Billy Joel
Best Song: "Just the Way You Are" ... Billy Joel
Best Album: "Saturday Night Fever" ... Soundtrack Album
Male Vocalist: Barry Manilow ... "Copacabana (At the Copa)"
Female Vocalist: Barbra Streisand ... Anne Murray ... "You Needed Me"
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
MITCHELL, PETER D., Great Britain, Glynn Research Laboratories, Bodmin, b. 1920, d. 1992:
"for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer
through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory"
Literature
SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS, U.S.A., b. 1904 (in Radzymin, Poland), d. 1991:
"for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish
cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life"
Peace
The prize was divided equally between:
AL-SADAT, MOHAMED ANWAR, Egypt, b. 1918, d. 1981: President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
BEGIN, MENACHEM , Israel, b. 1913, d. 1992: Prime Minister of Israel.
for jointly negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to:
ARBER, WERNER, Switzerland, Biozentrum der UniversitSt, Basel, b. 1929;
NATHANS, DANIEL, U.S.A., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD, b. 1928; and
SMITH, HAMILTON O., U.S.A., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD, b. 1931:
"for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"
Physics
The prize was divided, one half being awarded to:
KAPITSA, PYOTR LEONIDOVICH, USSR, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, b. 1894, d. 1984:
"for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature
physics";
and the other half divided equally between:
PENZIAS, ARNO A., U.S.A., Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, b. 1933 (in
Munich, Germany); and
WILSON, ROBERT W., U.S.A., Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, b. 1936:
"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
Fiction: James Alan McPherson ... "Elbow Room"
History: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. ... "The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business""
National Reporting: Walter Mears ... "Associated Press"Henry Kamm ... "New York Times"
Public Service:Henry Kamm ... "New York Times"
Tony Awards
Best Play: "Da" ... Hugh Leonard
Best Musical: "Aint Misbehavin"
Best Actor in a play: Barnard Hughes ... "Da"
Best Actress in a play: Jessica Tandy ... "The Gin Game"
Best Actor in a musical: John Cullum ... "On the Twentieth Century"
Best Actress in a musical: Liza Minnelli..."The Act"
Fiction:
1. "Chesapeake" by James Michener
2. "War and Remembrance" by Herman Wouk
3. "Fools Die" by Mario Puzo
4. "Bloodlines" by Sidney Sheldon
5. "Scruples" by Judith Krantz
Nonfiction
1. "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries- What Am I Doing in the Pits?"
by Erma Bombeck;
2. "Gnomes" by Wil Huygen
3. "The Complete Book of Running" by James Fixx
4. "Mommie Dearest" by Christina Crawford
5. "Memoirs of Richard Nixon" by Richard Nixon
1. Laverne & Shirley (ABC)
2. Three's Company (ABC)
3. Mork & Mindy (ABC)
4. Happy Days (ABC)
5. Angie (ABC)
6. 60 Minutes (CBS)
7. M*A*S*H (CBS)
8. The Ropers (ABC)
9. All in the Family (CBS)
10. Taxi (ABC)
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