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1978
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January
01 - An Air India Boeing
747 explodes in mid-air - 213 dead.
12 - Severe gales of the UK mainland kill 17 seamen.
15 - Geoff Boycott becomes England cricket team captain.
29 - Sweden passes law on the use of aerosol sprays.
February
13 - Anna Ford is ITN's
first woman newscaster.
15 - Boxing: Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali.
17 - IRA bomb kills 14 in Belfast restaurant.
20 - Severe blizzards hit the UK's South-West.
25 - Gerry Adams is charged with membership of the IRA.
March
02 - Charlie Chaplin's
body is stolen from Swiss grave.
24 - Oil tanker Amoco Cadiz spits into two parts off
Brittany coast.
20 - The 1S12 07:45
King's Cross - Edinburgh becomes a HST diagram proper.
25 - Oxford win boat race as Cambridge boat sinks.
29 - French naval helicopters try to sink Amoco Cadiz
with depth charges.
31 - Red Rum's retirement is announced.
April
01 - Lucius wins Aintree
Grand National.
03 - Permanent radio broadcasts begin from House of
Commons.
15 - Two trains crash in Italy between Bologna and
Florence - many dead.
May
06 - FA
Cup: Ipswich 1, Arsenal 0.
08 - HST timetable
begins on the ECML.
.......254001 works 10:00 King's Cross
- Edinburgh, "Flying Scotsman" (20 late at
Heaton!!).
16 - UK government abandons plans for compulsory
metrication.
17 - Charles Chaplin coffin found buried 10 miles from
original grave.
30 - European Cup: Liverpool 1, FC Bruges 0 - at Wembley.
June
07 - Shirley Heights wins
the Derby.
08 - Naomi James arrives home from round-the-world trip
shaving two days from Chichesters journey.
24 - Black hole discovered in Scorpio constellation.
25 - World Cup Final: Argentina 3, Holland 1 - in
Argentina.
27 - UK is worlds 16th biggest oil producing nation and
can be self-sufficient
July
06 - Penzance - London
sleeper fire - 11 dead.
07 - Navratilova beats Evert at Wimbledon - Borg wins
third title.
11 - Liquid gas tanker explodes at San Carlos, Spain,
killing 200 holidaymakers.
21 - Unions reject governments 5% wage rise offer.
26 - Louise Brown is born - the first test-tube baby.
27 - Skytrain fever causes chaos at Gatwick.
August
06 - Pope Paul VI dies.
25 - Turin shroud goes on public display in Turin
Cathedral.
31 - Express Newspapers announce plans for new paper
"Daily Star".
September
01 - Deep Purple's single
"Burn" is released as a prelude for the
forthcoming "Singles Album".
03 - Pope John-Paul I is crowned.
10 - ECML tunnel
reconstruction programme: Stage One Stoke Tunnel (10.09.78-21.10.78)
Single line working, except Weekdays
from 20:00 - 08:00 when Total Possessions applied - all services via
Joint Line.
16 - Earthquake in Iran - 20,000 dead.
.......Yorkshire police attribute two
more murders to 'Yorkshire Ripper' - total now 10.
17 - Boxing: Ali beats Leon Spinks to win back title.
20 - Paperboy Carl Bridgewater is murdered.
25 - Mid-air collision in San Diego, America - 150 dead.
29 - Boycott is sacked as Yorkshire cricket captain.
30 - Pope John-Paul I dies.
October
01 - The Deep Purple
compilation album "Singles A's and B's" is
released.
02 - 11:55 King's
Cross - Aberdeen, "The Aberdonian" becomes HST
diagram.
08 - Mario Andretti becomes world motor racing champion.
12 - Ex-Sex Pistol guitarist Sid Vicious is arrested for
the murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
16 - Pope John-Paul II is crowned.
17 - Greenpeace avert seal cull with Rainbow Warrior.
22 - ECML tunnel reconstruction
programme: Stage Two Peasecliffe Tunnel (22.10.78-02.12.78)
Single line working, except Weekdays
from 20:00 - 08:00 when Total Possessions applied - all services via
Joint Line.
27 - Gunman runs amok in West-Midlands killing four.
November
01 - PM Callaghan says
"this winter is make or break time for government".
04 - Panic buying of bread in UK due to bakers strike.
10 - Bread strike is over.
16 - Icelandic DC-8 crashes in Sri Lanka - 202 dead.
29 - 913 members of cult "People's Temple"
commit mass suicide in Guyana.
December
05 - UK government
announces it will not join EEC monetary system.
08 - Israeli leader Golda Meir dies.
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