Year in a Minute: 1978
918 followers of Reverend Jim Jones committed mass suicide (AP Photo/Courtesy of Stanley Nelson) Credit: AP
SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 1978.
Anton Enus
SBS celebrating 50 years.
This is a year in a minute, 1978.
TV's Captain Steubing promised us lots of, but the year of the horse arrived as a dark horse indeed. With a record 18 years in office, former Prime Minister Robert Menzies dies of a heart attack. Australians recoiled in shock after a bomb outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel kills 3, and despite the best advice of the Bee Gees that we should be...
The world struggled to comprehend the apparent suicide of 918 followers of Reverend Jim Jones, science took us to inner space with the first IVF baby being born in the UK.
The rainbow flag brought colour back to Sydney with the first gay and lesbian Mardi Gras. Perfectly timed to coincide with one of the world's biggest hits. I'm Anton Enus for SBS's 50th anniversary. That was 1978.
