Do you remember August 1978?

Scott McEvoy • August 11, 2025

Turning 65? Call Scott McEvoy to discuss your Medicare options.

 President Jimmy Carter signed a proclamation designating the first Sunday of September after Labor Day as “National Grandparents Day.”


If you attended high school in 1978, you are likely nearing age 65, the point at which you will start making decisions about your Medicare options.


To learn more about your options, give me a call to schedule a no-cost, no-obligation informational meeting.


In the meantime, enjoy recalling these memories from August 1978:


Top 5 Singles – August 19, 1978

#1 “Three Times a Lady” – The Commodores 

#2 “Grease”– Frankie Valli

# 3 “Last Dance” – Donna Summer

#4 “Miss You” – Rolling Stones 

#5 “Hot Blooded” – Foreigner


Top-Grossing Movie Week of August 16

“Hooper” 


August 1978 Events

  • President Jimmy Carter signed a proclamation designating the first Sunday of September after Labor Day as “National Grandparents Day.”
  • The Pioneer 13 probe to Venus was launched, arriving at the planet four months later.
  • The Bidong Island refugee camp opened in Malaysia for 121 Vietnamese “boat people,” the first of thousands of people who had arrived at the camp after escaping in boats from the former South Vietnam.
  • Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat and Israel’s prime minister Menachem Begin accepted an invitation from U.S. president Jimmy Carter to meet at Camp David to work out a peace agreement.
  • Meeting in Canterbury in England, the Lambeth Conference, a decennial assembly of over 400 Anglican bishops from all over the world voted overwhelmingly to endorse the ordination of women as priests in the Episcopal and Anglican church organizations in the U.S. and in three other nations.
  • Cardinal Albino Luciani, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Venice, was elected as the 263rd Pope by the College of Cardinals, succeeding the late Pope Paul VI and taking the regnal name of Pope John Paul I.
  • In Cleveland, roughly 120,000 voters participated in a rare Sunday election to decide whether to recall Mayor Dennis Kucinich from office. Kucinich retained his office by a margin of only 236 votes. The final margin was 60,014 to remove Kucinich and 60,250 to retain him in office.
  • On the TV station WJZ-TV in Baltimore, the show “People Are Talking” premiered, co-hosted by newscaster Richard Sher and a 24-year-old reporter, Oprah Winfrey in her first role hosting a talk show.

  —Source: Wikipedia


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