On this day

October 1, 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 27, 1978, covering October 1, 1978.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Grease by Soundtrack

    Grease

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    20
  2. 2
    Album cover for Don't Look Back by Boston

    Don't Look Back

    Boston

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  3. 3
    Album cover for Double Vision by Foreigner

    Double Vision

    Foreigner

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    13
  4. 4
    Album cover for Who Are You by The Who

    Who Are You

    The Who

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    4
  5. 5
    Album cover for Some Girls by The Rolling Stones

    Some Girls

    The Rolling Stones

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15

Notable Births

Katie Aselton

1978Katie Aselton, American actress[†]

Kathryn Aselton is an American actress, film director and producer. She directed and co-starred in The Freebie, which was shown in the non-competition "Next" category at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. She also starred in the FX sitcom The League for its seven-season run from 2009 to 2015, and in the first two seasons of FX's Marvel Comics X-Men drama Legion.

Nicole Atkins

1978Nicole Atkins, American singer-songwriter[†]

Nicole Atkins is an American singer-songwriter. Her influences include 1950s crooner music, 1960s psychedelia, soul music, and the Brill Building style of writing. Atkins has been compared to Roy Orbison and singers from the Brill Building era.

Leticia Cline

1978Leticia Cline, American model and journalist[†]

Leticia Ann Bjork Passmore, a.k.a. Leticia Cline is an American journalist and model. She is best known as a former interviewer for TNA Wrestling, Maxim Magazine, the reality show Beauty and the Geek and her Playboy magazine appearance in July 2008.

Joe Keith

1978Joe Keith, English footballer[†]

Joe Keith is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Colchester United, Bristol City, Leyton Orient, Shrewsbury Town and Brentford.

Dominic Thornely

1978Dominic Thornely, Australian cricketer[†]

Dominic John Thornely is an Australian former first-class cricketer who played for the New South Wales cricket team in Australian domestic cricket.

Historical Events

Tuvalu

1978Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.[†]

Tuvalu is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands, northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north of Fiji.

Historical Context for October 1, 1978

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