1978

Events

 * Unknown:
 * David Souter becomes Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court
 * February 23:
 * William Webster becomes Director of the FBI
 * May 9:
 * James Inhofe becomes Mayor of Tulsa

Deaths

 * January 13:
 * Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. - Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
 * March 4:
 * Wesley Bolin - Governor of Arizona (b. 1909)