February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
Day of death December 3, 1978
The temperature on December 3, 1978 was between -1.6 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
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.
January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
March 16 » 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.
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.
July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.
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