That commercial message, sent on 3 May 1978, drew a swift and negative reaction. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

It's a movie full of disco-music, disco-people and disco-stuff. At the disco "The Zoo" is on a Friday-night a dance contest and the Commodores is the great live-act of the evening. Nicole (played by DONNA SUMMER) is a singer trying to break through. At last she get's her chance and sings "Last dance" (this song won the Oscar for best song in a film that year). picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

For those that recall, or know NFL history, Darryl Stingley was hit by Jack Tatum during a play in 1978. His neck was broken and he became a quadriplegic. A tragic event that led to many of the rule changes we see in the game today. picked by steelshooter 3 years ago

Today, 22 May, many people celebrate the birthday of Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist who was murdered in San Francisco in November 1978. California legislators are trying to get today officially recognized as "Harvey Milk Day."
Update to picked by chinook 6 months ago

It appears that the goth girl character EMILY is a pretty hard ripoff of ROSAMOND, a "strange girl" in the 1978 children's book Nate the Great and the Lost.

The amazing part is look who is suing who! picked by bingo 6 months ago

In the bedroom with a Playboy magazine from 1982 and a calendar on the wall from 1978. Wow! picked by kxmk 2 years ago

One man's opinion on why the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world should've called it a day in 1978. picked by jeffman 1 year ago

Robert L. Bernstein, the former president and chief executive of Random House, was the chairman of Human Rights Watch from 1978 to 1998. Here in an op-ed piece he laments the obvious bias against Israel that HRW has long been accused of. picked by 2manyusernames 2 weeks ago

65-year-old Hou Guoying recently had a bullet removed that had been lodged in her face for 42 years! She was shot accidently during the Cultural Revolution in China in 1967.

But doctors initially told her that her wound was only superficial, the Chongqing News reported.
Constant headaches and difficulty eating eventually led to an x-ray in 1978 that revealed the bullet. picked by bingo 5 months ago

An episode from the 1978 Galactica in a minute. picked by CylonRobot 1 year ago

So Richard Rubenstein is going to be producing a sequel to the original 1978 Dawn...confusing the holy living hell out of anyone who saw the 2004 remake. Further confusing anyone who saw the "Night" remake staring Tony Todd...who is in this sequel.

I am calling for a Geneva convention on zombie films. We need rules of engagement. picked by dougisdumb 1 year ago

The suddenness with which so many species vanished after the 65-million-year mark always suggested a single cataclysmic event, and the 1978 discovery of a 112-mi., 65-million-year-old crater off the Yucatán peninsula near the town of Chicxulub seemed to seal the deal. picked by Bornbad 6 months ago

30 years ago, on 18th November 1978, nearly a thousand members of the People's Temple followed the instruction of their leader Jim Jones to drink cyanide in their jungle compound in British Guyana. picked by pocksucket 12 months ago

That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978 picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Several of the titles were nominees for the Diagram Prize, a distinction awarded since 1978 by a British magazine for the oddest book title of the year. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

From 1978, the long-out-of-print recording of the radio dramatization of the classic "It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown" picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

NINE irreplaceable historic cars, including the last Beetle built on the Volkswagen SA production line in 1978, were damaged beyond repair after a car carrier transporting them overturned while travelling from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth. picked by beckinacea 3 years ago

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris...... No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit. picked by thecritters 3 years ago