On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 14, 1978, covering June 15, 1978.
Soundtrack
Chuck Mangione
Wings
The Isley Brothers
Jefferson Starship
Gerry Rafferty
Soundtrack
The O'Jays
Johnny Mathis
Commodores
1978Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer[†]
Wilfred Bouma (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪlfrəd ˈbʌumaː]; who was born on 15th June, 1978 is a Dutch former professional footballer who played most notably for PSV Eindhoven, Aston Villa and the Netherlands national team.
1978Zach Day, American baseball player[†]
Stephen Zachary Day is an American former right-handed sinker-ball pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for two teams from 2002 to 2006.
1978King Hussein of Jordan marries Jordanian-American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.[†]
Hussein bin Talal was King of Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since 1921, Hussein was traditionally considered a 40th-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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AT 8:30 on a Monday morning in March, a building superintendent in the East 40's slipped a monkey wrench around an old steam radiator valve and tugged. Instead of stopping a tiny leak, he created a $50,000 disaster. The valve snapped off, sending a geyser of steam and hot water into Carol Brener's sixroom apartment.
polls show Pres Carter's popularity is slipping in South, which voted almost overwhelmingly for him in '76; Darden Research Corp poll shows only 38% of those surveyed feel Carter has 'lived up to the expectations' they had of him, against 53% who do not; finds only 44% give him acceptable rating (M)
SOUTHAMPTON, L.I. SHE calls it “Infinity” after the phenomenon of the candles and the waves. It is the still‐uncompleted house that Luba Marks started to build five years ago to serve as a refuge from the cramped spaces and frenetic activity of her Manhattan apartment and office.
Thrift insts and banks throughout state reptdly are turning away applicants for home mortgages or demanding higher down payments or other restrictive terms; mortgage tightening is attributed to effects of state's 8.5% usury ceiling on mortgages and availablility to depositors of new high-interest, 6-mo savings certificates, which is raising cost of money for thrift insts (M)
Comment on upcoming 8-day auction of art collection of late Robert von Hirsch at Sotheby's of London; illus (M)
Sup Ct upholds Md law barring oil refiners and producers from direct operation of service stations and prohibiting them from offering price concessions to one dealer unless it is made available to all; Exxon and 6 other cos challenged law on grounds that it violated due-process clause of Const, placed unconst burden on interstate commerce and violated Fed antitrust laws; say it will mean higher gasoline prices for consumer; Justice Stevens's opinion and Justice Blackmun's dissent noted (M)
Izvestia charges revd; Peterson illus with US consul Clifford H Gross (S)
Increasing number of gas stations in NYC met area charge money to put air in tires; illus (M)
Pres Carter calls on Cong to exercise 'restraint in spending' to hold down Fed budget deficit, news conf; threatens to veto money bills he regards as excessive (M)
Pres Carter to travel to Panama Canal on June 17