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September 5, 1978: Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin open meeting to reach Middle East peace agreement at Camp David U.S. presidential retreat


The following events occurred in September 1978:

September 1, 1978 (Friday)

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  • Home Theater Network (HTN), the second pay television film channel in the U.S., premiered as a lower-priced ($3.75 per month) competitor to the existing Home Box Office (HBO). Initially shown on New England Cablevision in Portland, Maine, and on for four hours a day, HTN limited its telecasts to films with a "G" or "PG" rating.[1] Unable to increase its viewership sufficiently to meet its expenses, HTN would continue until its shutdown on January 31, 1987.[2]
  • The Speedway bombings, random explosions of homemade bombs, began in the Indianapolis suburb of Speedway, Indiana at 9:50 in the evening with a blast from inside a trash container outside the Hi-Fi Buys store in the Speedway Shopping Center, where windows and a car windshield were shattered, followed 10 minutes later by one in a dumpster behind the Speedway motel and a third at 10:45 in a residential neighborhood.[3]
  • Born: Adam Yahiye Gadahn, American-born terrorist member of al-Qaeda; as Adam Pearlman in rural Oregon (killed in drone strike, 2015)

September 2, 1978 (Saturday)

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September 3, 1978 (Sunday)

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September 4, 1978 (Monday)

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September 5, 1978 (Tuesday)

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September 6, 1978 (Wednesday)

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September 7, 1978 (Thursday)

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Keith Moon

September 8, 1978 (Friday)

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  • Iranian Army troops killed 122 rioters in Tehran and wounded 4,000 others after firing on the crowd.[39]
  • Died: Ricardo Zamora, 77, Spanish footballer and goalkeeper who managed the Spain national team from 1920 to 1936

September 9, 1978 (Saturday)

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  • The Soviet space probe Venera 11 was launched from Baikonur at 8:25 in the morning local time (0329 UTC) to explore the planet Venus, and would land there on December 25, returning data for 95 minutes.[40]
  • Born: Gina Gogean, Romania artistic gymnast, world champion in the vault (1994, 1996); floor exercise (1995, 1996, 1997), and the balance beam (1997); in Câmpuri[41]
  • Died:

September 10, 1978 (Sunday)

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The fatal crash at the Italian Grand Prix

September 11, 1978 (Monday)

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September 12, 1978 (Tuesday)

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September 13, 1978 (Wednesday)

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September 14, 1978 (Thursday)

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  • The National Emergencies Act of 1976, passed on September 14, 1976, became effective, terminating four different states of emergency that had been declared in 1933 (to prevent bank failures), 1950 (during the Korean War), 1970 (during a postal strike) and 1971 (an economic policy declaration), ending the power of the U.S. President "to institute martial law, seize property and restrict travel" as well to "send armed forces into action abroad, take control of communications facilities and even set the stage for secret rules and regulations by closing the Federal Register.[65]
  • In the Philippines, 17 people near Manila were killed when a Philippine Air Force airplane crashed into the Barrio Santos neighborhood, along with 15 of the 24 people on the aircraft. The Fokker F-27 airplane was attempting to land at Nichols Air Base during a thunderstorm and was carrying members of the security staff of President Ferdinand Marcos, who had accompanied him to birthday celebrations.[66][67]
  • After only 17 days in office, the government of Portugal's Prime Minister Alfredo Nobre da Costa and his 14-member cabinet were forced to resign when a vote of no confidence passed, 140 to 123 in the Assembly of the Republic.[68]
  • The U.S. TV science fiction comedy Mork & Mindy, starring Robin Williams and Pam Dawber, premiered on the ABC network and would become the surprise hit of the 1978-79 U.S. prime time season as the third most popular program of the year. Despite the show's success, its producers decided to change the format the following season and ratings would decline dramatically, with cancellation in 1982 after four seasons and 91 episodes.
  • Born:

September 15, 1978 (Friday)

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September 16, 1978 (Saturday)

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September 17, 1978 (Sunday)

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September 18, 1978 (Monday)

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September 19, 1978 (Tuesday)

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September 20, 1978 (Wednesday)

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September 21, 1978 (Thursday)

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September 22, 1978 (Friday)

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September 23, 1978 (Saturday)

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September 24, 1978 (Sunday)

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September 25, 1978 (Monday)

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September 26, 1978 (Tuesday)

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  • Air Caribbean Flight 309 crashed on takeoff from San Juan, Puerto Rico after narrowly missing a collision with Eastern Airlines Flight 75, which was landing at the same airport. The wake turbulence from the Eastern Airlines L-1011 Tri-Star jet was powerful enough that the pilot of the smaller Air Caribbean Beechcraft 18 lost control and the aircraft plummeted into a tavern in the San Juan barrio of Santurce. All six people on the Air Caribbean plane were killed, and several people in the tavern were injured.[101]
  • South Korea launched its first ballistic missile, "Korea-1", a Nike Hercules surface-to-air rocket with a range of 90 miles (140 km), and capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. President Park Chung Hee had previously ordered the development of short-range missiles and a nuclear weapons program that he forecast to be operational by 1983. After Park's assassination in 1979, his successor, Chun Doo-hwan, discontinued further spending on the two programs.
  • Died: Manne Siegbahn, 91, Swedish physicist and 1924 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy[102]

September 27, 1978 (Wednesday)

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September 28, 1978 (Thursday)

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  • Pope John Paul I died after only 33 days as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

September 29, 1978 (Friday)

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September 30, 1978 (Saturday)

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