Editing 1978

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==Events==
*January 14 - the serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] breaks into the Chi Omega sorority, his rapes and kills Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, and attacks Karen Chandler, Kathy Kleiner, and Cheryl Thomas.
*January 29 - [[Muammar Gaddafi]] invades Chad in an attempt to annex the Aouzou Strip.
*March 6 - [[Joseph Paul Franklin]], a [[White Power Movement|white supremacist]] and serial killer, attempts to kill Larry Flynt, founder and publisher of pornographic magazine ''Hustler''. Flynt survived the attack, but was left paralyzed from the waist down.
*March 11 - The [[Coastal Road massacre]] takes place in Tel Aviv, Israel when [[Fatah]] militants hijack a bus and kill 38 occupants in a failed attempt at a prisoner exchange with the Israeli government.
*March 15 - The [[Derg]] emerges victorious in the Ogadan War. The Soviet Union ceases its support of Somalia.
*March 16- The [[Red Brigades]] kidnap the leader of the Italian Christian Democracy Aldo Moro, and because the congress did not want to negotiate for his release, Aldo Moro was assassinated by the organization on May 9.
*April 6 - [[Gene Leroy Hart]] is arrested and charged with the Oklahoma Girl Scout murders that took place at Camp Scott in Mayes County the previous year.
*April 18 - The [[Khmer Rouge]] invades Vietnam. 
*April 27 to 28 - The Saur Revolution: the [[People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan]], lead by [[Nur Muhammad Taraki]] and [[Hafizullah Amin]] and supported by the Soviet Union, takes power in Afghanistan, declaring the formation of the '''Democratic Republic of Afghanistan'''.
*May 25 - The first attack attributed to [[Ted Kaczynski|the Unabomber]] takes place when a mail bomb is sent to Buckley Crist, a professor of materials engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Crist is injured but survives the attack.
*June 15 - [[William Luther Pierce]] publishes ''The Turner Diaries''.
*June 29 - Actor Bob Crane is found [[Murder of Bob Crane|bludgeoned to death]] inside his Scottsdale, Arizona apartment. The crime is never officially solved.
*July 18 - [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]] is named President of North Yemen.
*July 21 - [[Hugo Banzer]] is deposed as President of Bolivia in a military coup lead by several of his own officers.
*August 22 - [[Daniel arap Moi]] is named President of Kenya following the death of Jomo Kenyatta.
*September 17 - The Camp David Accords are signed by Israeli Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]] and Egyptian President [[Anwar Sadat]], establishing peace between Israel and Egypt.
*October 9 - [[Idi Amin]] invades Tanzania.
*October 9 - [[P.W Botha]] is elected Prime Minister of South Africa.
*November 18 - [[Jim Jones]] and his [[Peoples Temple]] cult commit mass suicide in their private settlement of Jonestown in Guyana by drinking poison-laced Flavor Aid. A total of 918 people die.
*November 27 - The [[Kurdistan Workers' Party]] (PKK) is founded.
*November 27 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk are both assassinated by [[Dan White]].
*December - [[Deng Xiaoping]] emerges as the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China.
*December 2 - [[North American Man/Boy Love Association|NAMbLA]] is founded.
*December 11 - The Lufthansa heist, masterminded by [[Jimmy Burke]], is pulled off when [[Henry Hill]] and [[Tommy DeSimone]], along with five other cohorts, steal $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewelry from JFK International Airport in New York City, making it the largest cash robbery committed on American soil at the time.
*December 25 - Beginning of the Cambodian-Vietnamese War.

==Births==
===Villain births===
*January 5 - [[Sabrina Harman]]
*January 7 - [[Israel Keyes]]
*January 21 - [[Diane Zamora]]
*March 8 - [[Mohammed Bouyeri]]
*March 22 - [[Benjamin Nathaniel Smith]]
*May 9 - [[Marwan al-Shehhi]]
*May 11 - [[Richard Spencer]]
*July 18 - [[Crystal Mangum]]
*July 27 - [[Lauren Debenedetta]]
*August 12 - [[Pazuzu Algarad]]
*October 11 - [[Jeremy Strohmeyer]]
*October 15 - [[DeWayne Craddock]]
*November 27 - [[Jelani Maraj]]
*December 11 - [[Éric Borel]]
*December 20 - [[Waleed al-Shehri]]
*Unknown - [[Scott Beierle]]

===Victim births===
*January 31 - Amy Ayers
*February 17 - Jacob Wetterling
*March 17 - Eva Mireles
*March 26 - Deanna Cremin
*April 2 - Nick Berg
*May 18 - Kelly Anne Bates
*June 6 - Judith Barsi
*June 21 - Elizabeth Christine Pena 
*June 28 - Caroline Beranek 
*July 12 - Victor Daniel Barbosa (9/11 Victim)
*July 7 - Heather Church
*August 15 - Jennifer Ertmen
*September 3 - Brian King
*November 6 - Prince Nirajan of Nepal
*November 21 - Jeff Hall
*December 11 - Amy Mihaljevic
*December 30 - Jun Lin
*Unknown - Rie Fujii

==Deaths==
===Villain deaths===
*February 9 - [[Herbert Kappler]]
*April 10 - [[Hjalmar Mäe]]
*July 1 - [[Kurt Student]]
*September 11 - [[Robert Garrow]]
*November 18 - [[Jim Jones]]
*December 18 - [[Parnell Edwards]]

===Victim deaths===
*May 9 - Aldo Moro
*June 29 - Bob Crane
*November 18 - Leo Ryan
*November 27 - George Moscone & Harvey Milk