This is a list of important events the occured during 1978. Exact dates are listed when known.

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• Jonestown massacre
  The suicide and murder of 900 people who drank cyanide in fruit-flavored drink, the leader shot himself.
  
  
• First test tube baby - In vitro fertilization
  
  
• Camp David accords for Middle East peace
  Egypt, Israel and the US met in the presidential retreat in Maryland to hammer out a peace agreement between the two leaders.
  
  
• Ultrasound first used
  
  
• Atlantic City permits gambling
  
  
• Garfield the Cat is syndicated
  
  
• Love Canal in New York declared federal disaster
  
  
• Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt Shot & Paralyzed
  Larry Flynt, publisher of the hardcore porno mag HUSTLER, was shot and paralyzed from the waist down by an unknown assailant. There are rumours that the assailant was infuriated by a multi-racial photo spread in one issue of HUSTLER.
  
  

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