About the day » Thursday September 28, 1978Calender converter

• John "Paul" Quinn, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland († 2014)
• Martinus Gerardus Witte, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 2021)
• Herbert van der Ham
• Nolan Brice QUIN († 1978)
• Lucilene Jochem, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1978)

• Alfred Con Reed (82), Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Berber Pruiksma (64), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clifton Edgar McIntyre (72), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Ridderbos (49), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aalbert van der Horst (49), Nijkerk
• Bertrand Berkhuizen (14), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Appie Stevens (21), Amsterdam
• Antonie Martinus Harkink (87), Duivendrecht
• * Cornelia Berdina Boerboom (64), Tilburg
• Antonius Franciscus Jacobus Waterreus (66), Breda

• 1975 » Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic († 2013)
• 1975 » Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer and manager
• 1976 » Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and politician
• 1977 » Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
• 1977 » Pak Se-ri, South Korean golfer
• 1977 » Young Jeezy, American rapper
• 1978 » Ben Edmondson, Australian cricketer
• 1979 » Bam Margera, American skateboarder, actor, and stuntman
• 1979 » Taki Tsan, American-Greek rapper and producer
• 1980 » Marlon Parmer, American basketball player

• 1966 » André Breton, French author and poet (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
• 1970 » John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
• 1979 » John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
• 1981 » Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan journalist and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
• 1982 » Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1984 » Cihad Baban, Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1911)
• 1989 » Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
• 1990 » Larry O'Brien, American businessman and politician, 57th United States Postmaster General (b. 1917)

• 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 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• June 15 » King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
• June 21 » The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
• September 25 » PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
• October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
• December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.

The temperature on September 28, 1978 was between 7.4 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.