August 1978

Monday 07:

United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.

Tuesday 08:

Odie makes his first appearance in the cartoon strip Garfield

Saturday 12:

Japan and China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.

Tuesday 15:

The City of Peace and Future Man

Thursday 17:

Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.

Saturday 26:

Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.

Thursday 31:

William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.