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May 15, 1978

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Boxing: Back With a Big allop

By Michael Katz

BUSINESS is good. Not so good as it was 25 years ago, of course, but, having been at the “bottom of the barrel,” as John Condon says, boxing people have to be very happy.

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Hungary Looks Beyond Soviet for Its Oil

By David A. Andelman Special to The New York Times

Article on Hungary's energy difficulties in light of Soviet insistence that it look elsewhere for additional supplies of oil; illus of workers laying pipeline to carry Middle Eastern crude oil (M)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 10, 1978, covering May 15, 1978.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Saturday Night Fever by Soundtrack

    Saturday Night Fever

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    38
  2. 2
    Album cover for London Town by Wings

    London Town

    Wings

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    5
  3. 3
    Album cover for Slowhand by Eric Clapton

    Slowhand

    Eric Clapton

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    25
  4. 4
    Album cover for Point Of Know Return by Kansas

    Point Of Know Return

    Kansas

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    31
  5. 5
    Album cover for Earth by Jefferson Starship

    Earth

    Jefferson Starship

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    9

Notable Births

1978Amy Chow, American gymnast and pediatrician[†]

Amy Yuen Yee Chow is an American former artistic gymnast who competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. She is best known for being a member of the Magnificent Seven, which won the United States' first team gold medal in Olympic gymnastics. She is also the first Asian-American woman to win an Olympic medal in gymnastics.

Dwayne De Rosario

1978Dwayne De Rosario, Canadian soccer player[†]

Dwayne Anthony De Rosario OOnt is a Canadian former professional soccer player, who played as a forward or as an attacking midfielder. A versatile attacker, he played for the Toronto Lynx, FSV Zwickau and Richmond Kickers early in his career. He came to prominence in the 2000s playing in Major League Soccer for the San Jose Earthquakes, Houston Dynamo, Toronto FC, New York Red Bulls and D.C. United. A four-time MLS Cup champion, he also won the 2011 MLS Most Valuable Player award. He is the ninth-leading scorer in MLS history with 104 goals. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most decorated Canadian players of all time.

Edu (footballer, born 1978)

1978Edu, Brazilian footballer[†]

Eduardo César Daud Gaspar, known as Edu or Edu Gaspar, is a Brazilian former professional footballer and most recently as sporting director of Premier League club Arsenal. As a player, he was an attacking and central midfielder, and played for Corinthians in Brazil, Arsenal in England, and Valencia in Spain across a twelve-year career.

David Krumholtz

1978David Krumholtz, American actor[†]

David Krumholtz is an American actor. Krumholtz is best known for portraying Bernard in The Santa Clause franchise (1994–present), Michael Eckman in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Goldstein in the Harold & Kumar film trilogy (2004–2011), Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numb3rs (2005–2010), and Isidor Isaac Rabi in Oppenheimer (2023).

Notable Deaths

Robert Menzies

1978Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1894)[†]

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. He held office as the leader of the United Australia Party (UAP) in his first term, and subsequently as the inaugural leader of the Liberal Party of Australia in his second. He was the member of parliament (MP) for the Victorian division of Kooyong from 1934 to 1966. He is the longest-serving prime minister in Australian history.

Historical Context for May 15, 1978

In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]