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 July 12, 1978, covering July 18, 1978.
The Rolling Stones
Gerry Rafferty
Commodores
Soundtrack
Bob Seger
Bruce Springsteen
Andy Gibb
Soundtrack
Chuck Mangione
Carly Simon
1978Adabel Guerrero, Argentinian actress, singer, and dancer[†]
Adabel Anahí Guerrero Melachenko, better known simply as Adabel Guerrero, is an Argentine professional theater and burlesque dancer, actress, and supervedette, who has also dabbled as a model and as a singer in several television, magazine and theater appearances. Guerrero has worked as a television co-hostess and panelist, and is currently a panelist on El Chimentero 3.0.
1978Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player and sportscaster[†]
Shane Patrick Horgan is an Irish former rugby union player who played wing or centre for Leinster and Ireland.
1978Crystal Mangum, American murderer responsible for making false rape allegations in the Duke lacrosse case[†]
Crystal Gail Mangum is an American former stripper from Durham, North Carolina who has been incarcerated for murder since 2013. In 2006, she came to attention in national news reports for having made false allegations of rape against lacrosse players in the Duke lacrosse case. Mangum's work in the sex industry as a black woman, while the young men she accused were white, generated extensive media interest and academic debate about race, class, gender, and the politicization of the justice system. In December 2024, Mangum admitted to fabricating the assault.
1978Joo Sang-wook, South Korean actor[†]
Joo Sang-wook is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in generational saga Giant, medical drama Good Doctor, romantic comedy Cunning Single Lady, Birth of a Beauty, and crime procedural Special Affairs Team TEN.
1978Ben Sheets, American baseball player and coach[†]
Ben Michael Sheets is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, and Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. Sheets is a four-time MLB All-Star. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
1978Mélissa Theuriau, French journalist[†]
Mélissa Theuriau is a French journalist and news anchor for M6. She studied journalism and became a television news presenter. She is the former anchor and co-editor in chief of Zone interdite on French TV.
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NY Times interviews with some black policemen who patrol crime-ridden black sections of Bklyn, NY, including Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant; officers discuss their roles as black officers in black community and as black men who are interested in black activism; illus (L)
Commerce Dept rept for May shows business inventories rose 0.8%, business sales rose 0.2%; charts (M)
WASHINGTON, July 17‐ The Defense Department, the Government's largest single employer, has tentatively concluded that the Supreme Court's decisions in the Allan P. Bakke case may alter some affirmative action programs but that the rulings will not substantially affect the department's equal opportunity efforts.
James Wooten on apathy in Washington to Indians' demonstration; notes many other demonstrations that are also being held (M)
Comment on 100-yr-old Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, reading arm of Chautauqua Inst; circle is now only 1 among more than 150 adult book clubs with annual business of $374.4 million in '77; centennial celebrations in July will be attended by Margaret Mead and John Ciardi; dir Nately Romscheim comments (M)
Walter Sullivan article on recent studies conducted in Aleutian Islands which concluded that extinction of large mammals at end of last ice age was caused by man; authors of rept are Charles A Simenstad, Dr James A Estes and Karl W Kenyon; Sullivan says those who dispute conclusion, including Dr Jeffrey J Saunders, believe extinction was caused by form of catastrophic environmental change; drawing (M)
Repts 2d qr earnings gain of 22.5% to $104.3 million (S)
Mex is not expected to export more than $70 million worth of steel to US in '78, despite new increase in production; steel producers in US Southwest often accused Mex of dumping steel in early 70's; graph of exports to US, '70-77 (S)
An article on July 11 erroneously attributed to Governor Carey a statement made by Msgr. Myles Bourke at funeral services in Manhattan for slain 13‐year‐old boy. The statement, referring to the boy's parents, Leo and Elizabeth McEvoy, was “I have learned more from them than from many readings and talks, for I have seen in them a spirit of Christianity, which is, unfortunately, rare.”
former NYC Councilman Matthew J Troy Jr is ordered to stand trial in State Sup Ct in Queens on charges of having embezzled more than $35,000 from estates of 2 sisters who were clients of his law firm; Appellate Div denies contention by Troy that trial would constitute double jeopardy; Troy had argued that, in case based on same facts, he had already pleaded guilty in Fed Dist Ct, Bklyn, to charges of income tax fraud and had served prison term (S)
Leaders of world's major non-Communist indus nations attending econ summit meeting, Bonn, resolve to suspend air travel to nations that harbor hijackers; Pres Carter hails resolution (L)
NYS Banking Dept drafts bill sought by State Banking Supt Muriel F Siebert and backed by Gov Carey to give state authority to block foreign takeovers in response to takeover efforts faced by at least 2 major unidentified commercial banks; Sen Banking Com chmn Jay P Rolinson Jr says bill will be approved quickly; Siebert says 5 NY banks face takeovers by foreigners, int; bill would classify any co acquiring 10% or more of single bank as bank holding co and require any co seeking to become bank holding co to get prior approval from NYS Banking Bd; would require existing bank holding cos to get prior approval to acquire 5% or more of another bank; changes would apply equally to domestic and foreign takeovers; recent foreign takeovers revd (M)