The following lists events that happened during

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

Rhodesia Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the ''de facto'' successor state to the British colony of S ...

Incumbents

* President: ** until 31 August: John Wrathall ** 31 August-1 November: Henry Everard ** starting 1 November: Jack William Pithey * Prime Minister: Ian Smith

Events

January

* 3 January -

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in the

Vumba The Bvumba Mountains or Vumba Mountains straddle the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border, and are situated some 10 km south east of Mutare. The Bvumba rise to Castle Beacon at 1,911 metres, and are, together with the Chimanimani Mountains to the sou ...

Mountains is damaged after a guerilla rocket attack.

March

* 3 March - The Salisbury Agreement what later became known as the Internal Settlement, aimed at leading to black majority rule signed by Prime Minister Ian Smith, UANC president Bishop Abel Muzorewa, ZUPO president Senator Chief Jeremiah Chirau, and ANC (Sithole) president the Rev.

Ndabaningi Sithole Ndabaningi Sithole (21 July 1920 – 12 December 2000) founded the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a militant organisation that opposed the government of Rhodesia, in July 1963.Veenhoven, Willem Adriaan, Ewing, and Winifred Crum. ''Cas ...

. * 14 March -

United Nations Security Council Resolution 423 In United Nations List of UN Security Council Resolutions, Security Council Resolution 423, adopted on March 14, 1978, after recalling its resolutions on Southern Rhodesia, particularly United Nations Security Council Resolution 415, 415 (1977), t ...

condemned the Rhodesian Internal Settlement * 21 March - Transitional Government aimed at leading to black majority rule formally established as part of the Salisbury Agreement, Internal Settlement.

April

* 14 April - Nine black ministers are sworn in to serve on the Ministerial Council of the Transitional Government.

May

* 19 May - Two

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Red Cross workers and their African assistant are killed by fighters near the Mozambique border.

June

* 23 June - In the

Vumba massacre The Vumba massacre (also known as the Elim Mission massacre) was a massacre of eight British missionaries and four children committed by ZANLA guerrillas during the Rhodesian Bush War on 23 June 1978. The missionaries belonged to the Elim Penteco ...

, 12 whites were murdered. 8 British missionaries (3 men and 5 women) and 4 of their children were bayonetted to death at Emmanuel Mission School at

by guerillas. The dead belonged to the Elim Pentecostal Church. * 24 June - Rhodesia beat Western Transvaal 41-9 in a Currie Cup match played at Hartsfield Rugby Ground, Bulawayo. * 28 June - Three Zimbabwe African People's Union fighters kill two German missionaries.

August

* 15 August - The Rhodesia Herald was renamed The Herald.

September

* 3 September - Air Rhodesia Flight 825 was shot down by guerillas and the survivors were shot on the ground, killing 48.

Births

Deaths

* 17 June -

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, an American Baptist

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, is stabbed to death by fighters at the Sanyati Mission Hospital, 1,120 km west of Salisbury * 28 June - Clifford Dupont, 1st President of Rhodesia dies aged 72.

References

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