| January 4, 1978 |
BCCI repays a $3.4 million loan for Bert Lance
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Bert Lance |
| January 5, 1978 |
Lance sells his National Bank of Georgia stock to Ghaith Phararon, an associate of Pakistani banker Agha Hasan Abedi, who founded BCCI in 1972
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Bert Lance |
| January 6, 1978 |
Ralph Robert Cozzolino is arrested in Jonesboro, Georgia. He had been one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted
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| January 31, 1978 |
Fire destroys the Loew's Grand Theatre, site of the premier of David O. Selznick's Gone With The Wind
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Gone With The Wind
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| February 12, 1978 |
Ruth Schwob averted the Wynnton Stocking Strangler by triggering a bedside alarm. The strangler left, finding Mildred Borom, 78, less than two blocks away.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
| April 4, 1978 |
Police arrest "Chairman of the Forces of Evil," a white man who had begun killing black women in revenge for the Wynnton Stocking Strangler's murder of white women. The strangler had been identified as being black.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
| April 16, 1978 |
Lucius Clay dies, Chatham, Massachusetts
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General Lucius D. Clay |
| April 19, 1978 |
Janet Cofer, 61, is murdered, final victim of the Wynnton Stocking Strangler, although this would not be known for a number of months
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
| July 28, 1978 |
Two black children found murdered in southwest Atlanta begin a killing spree known as the Atlanta Child Murders
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| August 15, 1978 |
Chattahoochee National Recreation Area is created
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| September 17, 1978 |
Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt and Menachem Begin, prime minister of Israel sign the Camp David Peace Accords. This historic moment was brokered by Jimmy Carter.
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Jimmy Carter |
| November 7, 1978 |
Democrat Sam Nunn defeats Republican John W. Stokes in the U. S. Senate race. |
| December 24, 1978 |
Atlanta Falcons defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football Conference Wild Card Playoff, 14-13 |
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Atlanta Falcons |
| December 30, 1978 |
Dallas Cowboys defeat the Atlanta Falcons in the National Football Conference Division playoff, 27-20 |
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Atlanta Falcons |
| December 31, 1978 |
Georgia loses to Stanford 25-22 in the Bluebonnet Bowl
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Vince Dooley |
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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