On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 30, 1978, covering September 3, 1978.
Soundtrack
The Rolling Stones
Commodores
Foreigner
Soundtrack
1978Terje Bakken, Norwegian singer-songwriter (died 2004)[†]
Terje "Valfar" Bakken was the lead singer and founder of the Norwegian black metal band Windir. Windir was started as a one-man project, but it was expanded into a full band with the release of their third album, 1184. Valfar originally sang his lyrics in Sognamål, a dialect of Norwegian, but eventually switched to English in an attempt to appeal to a broader audience.
1978John Curtis, English footballer[†]
John Charles Keyworth Curtis is an English former professional footballer. He was a versatile defender who could play anywhere along the back four or as a defensive midfielder.
1978Nichole Hiltz, American actress[†]
Nichole Hiltz is a former American actress. She appeared in several films, made-for-TV movies, and television series. Her most recent long-running television credit was for USA Network's In Plain Sight from 2008 to 2012 in which she portrayed Brandi Shannon, younger sister of the main character.
1978Michal Rozsíval, Czech ice hockey player[†]
Michal Rozsíval is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He last played for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He joined the team in 2012, previously playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins from 1999 until 2004, the New York Rangers from 2005 to 2011, and the Phoenix Coyotes in 2011–12. He is a two time Stanley Cup winner with the Blackhawks in 2013 and 2015.
1978Nick Wechsler, American actor[†]
Samuel Nicholas Wechsler is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kyle Valenti on The WB teen drama series Roswell, and as Jack Porter on the ABC drama television series Revenge.
1978During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia Flight 825) with a Soviet-made SAM Strela-2; of 56 passengers and crew 38 people died in crash, 10 were massacred by the guerrillas at the site.[†]
The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Rhodesian Civil War, Second Chimurenga as well as the Zimbabwe War of Independence, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country U.D.I. Republic of Rhodesia.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]