Editing 1978 (section)

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1978}}
* [[March 1]] – [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.<ref name="ArafatBBC">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20507503|title=Yasser Arafat: 10 other people who have been exhumed|date=November 27, 2012|access-date=November 27, 2012|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
* [[March 2]] – ''[[Soyuz 28]]'' ([[Aleksei Gubarev]], [[Vladimír Remek]]) is launched on a rendezvous with ''[[Salyut 6]]'', with the first cosmonaut from a country other than the US or USSR (Czechoslovakian Vladimír Remek).
* [[March 3]]
** [[Ethiopia]] admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of [[Cuba]]n soldiers, against [[Somalia]]n troops in the [[Ogaden]].
** [[Rhodesia]] attacks [[Zambia]].
** The ''[[New York Post]]'' publishes an article about [[David Rorvik]]'s book ''The Cloning of Man'', about a supposed [[human cloning|cloning of a human being]].
* [[March 8]] – The first radio episode of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', by [[Douglas Adams]], is transmitted on [[BBC Radio 4]].
* [[March 10]] – ''[[Soyuz 28]]'' lands.
* [[March 11]]
** [[Coastal Road massacre]]: [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] [[terrorism|terrorists]] kill 34 [[Israel]]is.
** [[Claude François]], French entertainer born 1939, dies by electrocution in his home in [[Paris]].
* [[March 14]] – [[Operation Litani]]: [[Israel]]i forces invade [[Lebanon]].
* [[March 15]] – [[Somalia]] and [[Ethiopia]] sign a truce to end the [[Ethio-Somali War]].
* [[March 16]] – Former Italian Premier [[Aldo Moro]] is kidnapped by the [[Red Brigades]]; 5 bodyguards are killed.
* [[March 17]] – An oil tanker, ''[[Amoco Cadiz]]'', runs aground on the coast of [[Brittany]].
* [[March 18]]
** [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]], is sentenced to death by hanging, for ordering the assassination of a political opponent.
** [[California Jam II]] is held at the [[Ontario Motor Speedway]] in [[Ontario, California]], attracting more than 300,000 fans.
* [[March 22]] – [[Karl Wallenda]] of [[The Flying Wallendas]] dies, after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]].
* [[March 26]] – The [[control tower]] and some other facilities of [[Narita International Airport|New Tokyo International Airport]], which were scheduled to open on March 31, are illegally occupied and damaged in a terrorist attack by [[New Left]] activists, forcing a rescheduling of its opening date to May 20.
* [[March 28]]
** [[San Francisco]]'s City Council signs the United States's most comprehensive [[gay rights]] bill.
** ''[[Stump v. Sparkman]]'' (435 U.S. 349): The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] hands down a 5–3 decision, in a controversial case involving involuntary [[Human sterilization|sterilization]] and [[judicial immunity]].