On this day

September 8, 1978

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 6, 1978, covering September 8, 1978.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Grease by Soundtrack

    Grease

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    17
  2. 2
    Album cover for Some Girls by The Rolling Stones

    Some Girls

    The Rolling Stones

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    12
  3. 3
    Album cover for Double Vision by Foreigner

    Double Vision

    Foreigner

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    10
  4. 4
    Album cover for Don't Look Back by Boston

    Don't Look Back

    Boston

    Last week
    10
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    2
  5. 5
    Album cover for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band by Soundtrack

    Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    5

Notable Births

1978Gerard Autet, Spanish footballer and manager[†]

Gerard Autet Serrabasa is a Spanish former footballer who played as a central defender.

1978Emanuele Ferraro, Italian footballer[†]

Emanuele Ferraro is an Italian football coach and former player.

Gil Meche

1978Gil Meche, American baseball player[†]

Gilbert Allen Meche is an American former right-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher. Meche pitched for the Seattle Mariners for six seasons. With the Kansas City Royals, Meche made three straight Opening Day starts and was an All Star in 2007. Shoulder and back problems caused the former first-round pick to retire in 2011 at just 32 years old.

1978Angela Rawlings, Canadian-American author and poet[†]

Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings or Angela Marie Rawlings is a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages as dominant exploratory material. Their practice seeks and interrogates relationality between bodies—be they human, more-than-human, other-than, non.

Rebel (wrestler)

1978Rebel, American wrestler[†]

Tanea Brooks, better known by the ring name Rebel, is an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling manager, model, actress, dancer, and cosmetologist. As of 2019, she is signed to All Elite Wrestling. She is also known for her work in Impact Wrestling.

Marco Sturm

1978Marco Sturm, German ice hockey player and coach[†]

Marco Johann Sturm is a German professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). As a forward, he played in the National Hockey League and Deutsche Eishockey Liga from 1995 to 2013.

Historical Events

Black Friday (1978)

1978Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.[†]

Black Friday was an incident on 8 September 1978 in Iran in which at least 64 and at most more than 100 people were shot dead and 205 injured by the Pahlavi military in Jaleh Square in Tehran. According to the military historian Spencer C. Tucker, 94 were killed on Black Friday, consisting of 64 protesters and 30 government security forces. The deaths were described as the pivotal event in the Iranian Revolution that ended any "hope for compromise" between the protest movement and the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Historical Context for September 8, 1978

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