About the day » Saturday June 24, 1978Calender converter

• James Edward Belew, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa († 2001)
• Maartje Marije Kuijsten, Zwolle, Gelderland, Nederland

• Aant de Jong (81), Leeuwarden
• ALFONS EMMANEEL (67), KEMZEKE,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Emiel Thibaut (53), sint-Pieters-leeuw
• Elette Christine Houwing (87)
• Aant DE JONG (81), Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands
• Ethel I Shepherd (79), East Liverpool, Columbiana, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Kollmansberger (98), Bad Endorf
• Dewey Douglas Rigg II (52), Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Achiel Karel Verstraeten (57), Temse
• Adrianus Moor (78), Naaldwijk

• 1977 » Dimos Dikoudis, Greek basketball player and manager
• 1977 » Jeff Farmer, Australian footballer
• 1978 » Ariel Pink, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 » Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist and songwriter
• 1978 » Juan Román Riquelme, Argentinian footballer
• 1978 » Luis García, Spanish footballer
• 1978 » Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer
• 1978 » Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
• 1979 » Mindy Kaling, American actress and producer
• 1979 » Petra Němcová, Czech model and philanthropist

• 1968 » Tony Hancock, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1969 » Frank King, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Willy Ley, German-American historian and author (b. 1906)
• 1976 » Minor White, American photographer, critic, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Robert Charroux, French author and critic (b. 1909)
• 1980 » V. V. Giri, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Clarence Campbell, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Jackie Gleason, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1916)
• 1988 » Csaba Kesjár, Hungarian race car driver (b. 1962)
• 1991 » Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (b. 1917)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. David
5. Mark
6. Dennis
7. Johannes
8. Peter
9. Patrick
10. Michael
11. Robert
12. Pieter
13. Richard
14. Paul
15. Bart
16. Willem

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Sandra
4. Patricia
5. Marieke
6. Linda
7. Monique
8. Jennifer
9. Esther
10. Jessica
11. Wendy
12. Kim
13. Bianca
14. Anna
15. Cornelia
16. Cindy

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
• March 11 » Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
• April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
• April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
• September 5 » Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
• November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
• December 15 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan.

The temperature on June 24, 1978 was between 9.0 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.