Editing 1978 (section)

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1978}}
* [[April 1]]
** [[New Zealand National Airways Corporation]] (the domestic airline of New Zealand) is merged with New Zealand's international airline, [[Air New Zealand]].
** [[Dick Smith (entrepreneur)|Dick Smith]] of [[Dick Smith Foods]] tows a fake [[iceberg]] to [[Sydney Harbour]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_sydney_iceberg/ |last=Boese |first=Alex |title=The Sydney Iceberg (April Fool's Day - 1978) |year=2015 |website=[[The Museum of Hoaxes]] |access-date=22 August 2021}}</ref>
** The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, is converted to the [[Polytechnic University of the Philippines]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Marcos |first=Ferdinand E. |author-link=Ferdinand Marcos |title=Presidential Decree No. 1341 |work=PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES and CODES |url=https://www.chanrobles.com/presidentialdecrees/presidentialdecreeno1341.html#.YSMS_0uSmUl |date=1 April 1978 |publisher=Chan Robles Virtual Law Library |access-date=22 August 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 2]] – ''[[Dallas (TV series)|Dallas]]'' debuts on [[CBS]], and gives birth to the modern day primetime soap opera.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dallasdecoder.com/2012/04/02/critique-dallas-episode-1-diggers-daughter/ |last=Baker |first=Chris |title=Critique: 'Dallas' Episode 1 – 'Digger's Daughter' |date=2 April 2012 |website=Dallas Decoder |access-date=22 August 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – The [[50th Academy Awards]] are held at the [[Dorothy Chandler Pavilion]] in [[Los Angeles]], with ''[[Annie Hall]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1978 |website=[[Oscars.org]] |date=5 October 2014 |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1978 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=18 August 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] – U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] decides to postpone production of the [[neutron bomb]], a weapon that kills people with radiation, but leaves buildings relatively intact.<ref>{{cite news |title=BBC ON THIS DAY <nowiki>|</nowiki> 7 April <nowiki>|</nowiki> 1978: Carter delays N-bomb production |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/7/newsid_2523000/2523051.stm |year=2008 |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=22 August 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 9]] – [[Somalia|Somali]] [[Military of Somalia|military officers]] stage an unsuccessful coup against the government of [[Siad Barre]]; security forces thwart the attempt within hours, and several conspirators are arrested.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/10/archives/new-jersey-pages-somali-regime-says-it-crushed-a-revolt-by-military.html |title=SOMALI REGIME SAYS IT CRUSHED A REVOLT BY MILITARY OFFICERS |date=10 April 1978 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=18 August 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 14]] – [[1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations]]: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against an attempt by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] authorities to change the constitutional status of the [[Georgian language]].<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/0419dissertation.pdf |last=Cornell |first=Svante E. |author-link=Svante Cornell |title=Autonomy and Conflict: Ethnoterritoriality and Separatism in the South Caucasus – Cases in Georgia. Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Report No. 61 |page=150 |year=2002 |isbn=91-506-1600-5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630141309/http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/0419dissertation.pdf |archive-date=30 June 2007 |publisher=[[Uppsala University]] |access-date=18 August 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 18]] – The U.S. Senate votes, 68–32, to turn the [[Panama Canal]] over to [[Panama]]nian control on December 31, [[1999]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Milestones: 1977–1980: The Panama Canal and the Torrijos-Carter Treaties |url=https://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/panama-canal |publisher=[[Office of the Historian]], [[Foreign Service Institute]], [[United States Department of State]] |access-date=28 August 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 18]]– [[April 30|30]] – The [[Khmer Rouge]] massacres 3,157 civilians in [[Ba Chúc]], Vietnam.<ref>{{cite news |title=MEANWHILE: When the Khmer Rouge came to kill in Vietnam |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/opinion/meanwhile-when-the-khmer-rouge-came-to-kill-in-vietnam.html |last=Pringle |first=James |author-link= |work=The New York Times |date=7 January 2004 |access-date=11 March 2024}}</ref>
* [[April 20]] – A Soviet air defense plane shoots down [[Korean Air Lines Flight 902]]; the plane makes an emergency landing on a frozen lake.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/23/archives/south-korean-plane-plunged-30000-feet-after-being-fired-on-several.html |last=Apple |first=R. W. Jr. |author-link=R. W. Apple Jr. |title=SOUTH KOREAN PLANE PLUNGED 30,000 FEET AFTER BEING FIRED ON |work=The New York Times |date=23 April 1978 |access-date=19 August 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 22]]
** Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta win the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1978]] for [[Israel]] with their song ''A-Ba-Ni-Bi''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/paris-1978 |title=Paris 1978 |website=[[Eurovision Song Contest]] |publisher=[[EBU]] |access-date=19 August 2021}}</ref>
** The [[One Love Peace Concert]] is held at National Heroes Stadium in [[Kingston, Jamaica]]. [[Bob Marley]] unites two opposing political leaders at this concert, bringing peace to the civil war-ridden streets of the city.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://dancecrasher.co.uk/peaceconcert.html |last=Griffith |first=Pat |title=Marley meets Manley as "One Love" triumphs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050908052432/http://dancecrasher.co.uk/peaceconcert.html |archive-date=8 September 2005 |journal=[[Echoes (magazine)|Black Echoes]] |date=May 1978 |page=12 |access-date=28 August 2021 |via=Dance Crasher}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] – [[St. Paul, Minnesota]] becomes the second U.S. city to repeal its gay rights ordinance, after [[Anita Bryant]]'s successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in [[Miami-Dade County, Florida]].
* [[April 27]]
** [[Saur Revolution]] – [[Republic of Afghanistan (1973-1978)|Afghanistan]]'s president [[Mohammad Daoud Khan]] and his family are murdered; [[Nur Muhammad Taraki]] succeeds him, beginning the [[Afghanistan conflict (1978–present)|Afghan war]] which has not ended yet.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historyguy.com/afghan_civil_war.html |title=The Afghan Civil War (1978–Present) |publisher=Historyguy.com}}</ref>
** [[Willow Island disaster]] – In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a [[cooling tower]] under construction collapses at the [[Pleasants Power Station]] in [[Willow Island, West Virginia]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/28/archives/51-killed-in-collapse-of-scaffold-at-power-plant-in-west-virginia.html |last=Peterson |first=Iver |title=51 Killed in Collapse of Scaffold At Power Plant in West Virginia |date=28 April 1978 |work=The New York Times |page=A1 |access-date=3 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 30]] – The "[[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan]]" is proclaimed, under pro-communist leader [[Nur Muhammad Taraki]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TdgnEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22abdul+qadir+nuristani%22&pg=PR45 |last1=Johnson |first1=Thomas H. |author-link1=Thomas Howard Johnson |last2=Adamec |first2=Ludwig W. |author-link2=Ludwig W. Adamec |title=Chronology |dictionary=Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan |edition=Fifth |series=Historical dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East |location=[[Lanham, Maryland|Lanham]], [[Boulder, Colorado|Boulder]], [[New York City|New York]], [[London]] |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |year=2021 |page=xlv |isbn=9781538149294 |access-date=25 August 2021}}</ref>