1978Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan runner[†]
Robert "Mwafrika" Kipkoech Cheruiyot, sometimes known as Omar Ahmed, is a Kenyan marathon runner and is the former record holder and four-time winner of the Boston Marathon.
On this day
September 26, 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 20, 1978, covering September 26, 1978.
- 1
Grease
Soundtrack
- Last week
- 4
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 19
- 2
Don't Look Back
Boston
- Last week
- 1
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 4
- 3
Double Vision
Foreigner
- Last week
- 3
- Peak
- 3
- Weeks
- 12
- 4
Some Girls
The Rolling Stones
- Last week
- 2
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 14
- 5
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Soundtrack
- Last week
- 5
- Peak
- 5
- Weeks
- 7
Notable Births
Notable Deaths
1978Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)[†]
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy".
Historical Events
1978Air Caribbean Flight 309 crashes in Residencial Las Casas in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing six.[†]
Air Caribbean Flight 309 was a domestic, non-scheduled airline flight by Puerto Rican airline Air Caribbean, which on September 26, 1978, crashed as it was preparing to land at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, after a flight from Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, killing all six occupants of the aircraft and injuring several customers of a Barrio Obrero bar into which the airplane fell.
Historical Context for September 26, 1978
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]