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March 16, 1978: Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro kidnapped by Italy's Red Brigades terrorist organization

The following events occurred in March 1978:

March 1, 1978 (Wednesday)[edit]

March 2, 1978 (Thursday)[edit]

  • Soyuz 28 was launched from the Soviet Union to link up with the orbiting space station to dock with rendezvous with Salyut 6. The flight was the first to carry a space traveler from a nation other than the U.S. or the Soviet Union. As the first cosmonaut trained through the Interkosmos program, Czechoslovakian Vladimír Remek was launched along with Aleksei Gubarev.
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March 3, 1978 (Friday)[edit]

March 4, 1978 (Saturday)[edit]

March 5, 1978 (Sunday)[edit]

March 6, 1978 (Monday)[edit]

  • Larry Flynt, the publisher of the pornographic magazine Hustler, was shot by a sniper and left paralyzed from the waist down while outside of the courthouse in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The attempted killing later traced to white supremacist and domestic terrorist Joseph Paul Franklin, who was responsible for at least 21 murders, would say later that he was angered by photographs in Hustler depicting sexual intercourse between a black man and a white woman.[9]
  • The crash of a helicopter in Libya killed all 11 people aboard, including members of a delegation from East Germany who were negotiating a trade agreement with the North African nation. The dead included Werner Lamberz and Paul Markowski members of East Germany's parliament, the Volkskammer and the Communist Party's Central Committee., with official photographer Hans-Joachim Spremberg and the Libyan Minister of Transport, Taha El Sherif Ben Amer.[10]. Lamberz, referred to by one newspaper as "Honecker's Crown Prince" (Honeckers Kronprinzen) was a trusted aide of East Germany's leader Erich Honecker and a possible successor to the Communist Party leader.[11]
  • The U.S. state of Wyoming became the first state in more than 104 years, and the ninth overall, to ratify the proposed Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. The text declared that "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened," and was passed in Wyoming initially as a protest against the members of the U.S. Congress voting to increase the amount of their own salaries.[12] The proposed amendment had been introduced in 1789 and ratified by seven of the then 15 U.S. states by 1792, short of the necessary 12 required for a three-fourths majority. After almost 80 years, Ohio became the eighth state to ratify. Following Wyoming's ratification, the number of states following the Wyoming example began increasing in 1983, and on May 7, 1992, more than 200 years after it was introduced.[12]
  • Born: Nate Walcott, American film score composer; in Albany, New York
  • Died: Micheál Mac Liammóir (born Alfred Lee Willmore), 78, English-born Irish stage actor and playwright, known writing and acting in the one man show The Importance of Being Oscar.[13]

March 7, 1978 (Tuesday)[edit]

  • The Congress of Guatemala elected General Fernando Lucas Garcia as President after no candidate received a majority in the election on March 5. Lucas Garcia took office on July 1.
  • Belgian businessman Charles Bracht was kidnapped as he was getting into his gar in a parking garage in Antwerp. His body would be found on April 10 in a garbage dump and the autopsy coroner's conclusion would be that Bracht died of injuries sustained while he was trying to find the kidnappers.[14]
  • The pay television cable network Showtime, which had started operations in a limited region of Southern California on July 1, 1976, became available to cable providers and subscribers across the United States, and a rival to the existing Home Box Office (HBO).[15]
  • Died: David Lindsay, 71, New Zealand rugby union player for All Blacks national team in its 1928 tour of South Africa[16]

March 8, 1978 (Wednesday)[edit]

March 9, 1978 (Thursday)[edit]

March 10, 1978 (Friday)[edit]

March 11, 1978 (Saturday)[edit]

March 12, 1978 (Sunday)[edit]

March 13, 1978 (Monday)[edit]

March 14, 1978 (Tuesday)[edit]

March 15, 1978 (Wednesday)[edit]

March 16, 1978 (Thursday)[edit]

March 17, 1978 (Friday)[edit]

  • The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz, ran aground on the coast of France at Brittany.
  • Died: Eddie Aikau, 31, Hawaiian surfer and lifeguard, winner of the 1977 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship, disappeared at sea after attempting to paddle to the island of Lānaʻi after the capsizing of a canoe.[29]

March 18, 1978 (Saturday)[edit]

March 19, 1978 (Sunday)[edit]

March 20, 1978 (Monday)[edit]

  • Denise McGregor, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally murdered in the Melbourne suburb of Pascoe Vale, Victoria in one of the most horrifying crimes in Australian history. The case would remain unsolved more than 45 years later.[33]
  • What was, as the time, the second most serious safety-related accident at a U.S. nuclear power plant, took place at the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station at Herald, California near Sacramento. A power supply failure for the plant's non-nuclear instrumentation system led to steam generator dryout, which in turn triggered an automatic reactor shutdown.[34]
  • Died: Rafael Alers, 75, Puerto Rican bandleader and composer

March 21, 1978 (Tuesday)[edit]

March 22, 1978 (Wednesday)[edit]

March 23, 1978 (Thursday)[edit]

March 24, 1978 (Friday)[edit]

March 25, 1978 (Saturday)[edit]

March 26, 1978 (Sunday)[edit]

  • The control tower and some other facilities of New Tokyo International Airport, which were scheduled to open on March 31, were illegally occupied and damaged in a terrorist attack by New Left activists, forcing a rescheduling of the airport's opening date to May 20.

March 27, 1978 (Monday)[edit]

March 28, 1978 (Tuesday)[edit]

March 29, 1978 (Wednesday)[edit]

March 30, 1978 (Thursday)[edit]

  • Voters in the West African nation of Ghana participated in a referendum on whether to approve the proposal by the General Ignatius K. Acheampong for "UNIGOV", or "union government", with no political parties at all. The wording of the question was "Do you approve whether or not some form of Union Government would become the basis of Ghana's political system?", and at least 60% of the voters were in favor, and slightly less than 40% against[44]
  • In Sri Lanka, the popular Tamil language film Vaadai Kaatru" ("North Wind") was released

March 31, 1978 (Friday)[edit]

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