February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
Day of death July 13, 1978
The temperature on July 13, 1978 was between 9.8 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
March 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
August 17 » Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
December 10 » Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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.
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