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T E Mullaney on Carter Adm pledges to aid ailing dollar; notes move has generally been lauded but that critics still are worried about possible effects on domestic econ and whether sufficient additional corrective measures will be undertaken; notes contentions of monetarists Tilford Gaines, Arthur M Okun and Robert V Roosa; their pors (M)
Thyssen AG offers $275-million; Budd would be merged with Amer subsidiary of W Ger co; illus; chart (M)
Plans concert in SoHo gallery; cellist Ko Iwasaki and pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski to perform; illus (M)
The stock market produced a token rally yesterday, mainly reflecting some strength shown by the dollar in late dealings in. Europe, to show its first gain of 1978.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 11, 1978, covering January 13, 1978.
Fleetwood Mac
Rod Stewart
Earth| Wind & Fire
Electric Light Orchestra
Linda Ronstadt
1978Mohit Sharma, Indian soldier (died 2009)[†]
Major Mohit Sharma was an Indian Army Officer who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace-time military decoration. Sharma was from the elite 1st Para SF.
1978Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA[†]
Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician, political analyst, author, sports gambler, and poker player who analyzes baseball, basketball and elections. He is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and held the position of editor-in-chief there, along with being a special correspondent for ABC News until May 2023. Since departing FiveThirtyEight, Silver has been publishing in his online newsletter Silver Bulletin and serves as an advisor to Polymarket.
1978Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist, academic, and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (born 1911)[†]
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American politician who served from 1965 to 1969 as the 38th vice president of the United States. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and from 1971 to 1978. As a senator, he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president, he supported the controversial Vietnam War. An intensely divided Democratic Party nominated him in the 1968 presidential election, which he lost to Republican nominee Richard Nixon.
1978Joe McCarthy, American baseball player and manager (born 1887)[†]
Joseph Vincent McCarthy was an American manager in Major League Baseball, most renowned for his leadership of the "Bronx Bombers" teams of the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1946. The first manager to win pennants with both National and American League teams, he won a total nine league pennants and seven World Series championships – the latter is a record tied only by Casey Stengel. McCarthy was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1957. He recorded a 100-win season six times, a record matched only by Bobby Cox. McCarthy's career winning percentages in both the regular season (.615) and postseason are the highest in major league history. His 2,125 career victories rank ninth all-time in major league history for managerial wins, and he ranks first all-time for the Yankees with 1,460 wins.
1978United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.[†]
The United States Food and Drug Administration is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, caffeine products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED), cosmetics, animal foods & feed and veterinary products.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]