Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tu-134 Crash Near Gabare Kills 73 – March 16, 1978

Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time. Date: March 16, 1978 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 16 📅 Events on this day in 1978 📅 On…

During 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. Date: September 3, 1978 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other…

The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. Date: May 8, 1978 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 8 📅 Events on this day in 1978 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1978PSA Flight 182 Mid-Air Collision and Crash in San Diego,…

Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. Date: October 16, 1978 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 16 📅 Events on this day in 1978 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1978First Spam Email Sent…

Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum. Date: December 6, 1978 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1978 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1978First UNIFIL Troops Arrive in Lebanon for Peacekeeping Mission, March 23, 1978Aeroflot Flight 1080 Crash…