Editing 1978 (section)

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1978}}
[[File:Sadat Carter Begin, Camp David 1978.gif|thumb|250px|[[September 6]]: [[Anwar Sadat]], [[Jimmy Carter]], and [[Menachem Begin]] meet on the Aspen Cabin patio at [[Camp David]].]]
* [[September 5]] – [[Camp David Accords]]: Hosted by U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]], Israel's Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]] and Egypt's President [[Anwar Sadat]] met at [[Camp David]] in [[Maryland]] to discuss a peace agreement between the two nations.
* [[September 7]] – In [[London]], UK, a poison-filled pellet, supposedly injected using an umbrella, fatally poisons [[Bulgaria]]n [[defector]] [[Georgi Markov]]; he dies four days later.
* [[September 8]] – Iranian Army troops [[Black Friday (1978)|open fire]] on rioters in [[Tehran]], killing 122, wounding 4,000.
* [[September 12]] – The Declaration of Alma Ata is signed and released in the Capital City of Kazakh, USSR. Known as the core document on Primary Health Care Practices and Equity in Healthcare, it paved the way for the modern-day State-sponsored Healthcare System.
* [[September 16]]
** The 7.4 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1978 Tabas earthquake|Tabas earthquake]] killed at least 15,000 people in the city of [[Tabas]] in [[Iran]]. The quake was measured with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of IX (Violent). 
** General [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] officially assumes the post of [[President of Pakistan]].
* [[September 17]] – The [[Camp David Accords]] are signed between Israel and Egypt.
* [[September 19]]
** Police in the [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]] of England launch a massive murder hunt, when 13-year-old newspaper boy [[Carl Bridgewater]] is shot dead after disturbing a burglary.
** The [[Solomon Islands]] join the United Nations.<ref>{{cite book |author=United Nations Department of Public Information |title=Yearbook of the United Nations 2011 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_iqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1462 |date=31 December 2015 |publisher=[[United Nations]] |isbn=978-92-1-057510-2 |pages=1462}}</ref>
* [[September 20]] – General [[Rahimuddin Khan]] assumes the post of [[martial law]] Governor of [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]].
* [[September 23]] – [[California Angels]] outfielder [[Lyman Bostock]] is shot to death at age 27 while visiting friends in [[Gary, Indiana]] during an Angels' road trip in [[Chicago, Illinois]].
* [[September 24]] – [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s opera ''[[Otello]]'' makes its first appearance on ''[[Live from the Met]]'', in a complete production of the opera starring [[Jon Vickers]]. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}
* [[September 25]] – [[PSA Flight 182]], a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in [[San Diego]], [[California]]; 144 are killed.
* [[September 27]] – The last [[Forest Brothers|Forest Brother]] [[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] movement fighter is discovered and killed in [[Estonia]].
* [[September 28]] – [[Pope John Paul I]] dies after only 33 days as the Roman Catholic Pontiff.
* [[September 30]] – [[Finnair Flight 405]] aircraft is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in [[Oulu]], [[Finland]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Lauri |last=Puintila |title=Kaappari Lamminparras: Suomen ensimmäisen konekaappauksen tarina |publisher=[[Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö|WSOY]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-951-0-35501-5 |language=fi}}</ref>
* September – Attempted poisoning of 500 members of the [[African National Congress]] by South African government infiltrators.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=2652 |author=[[African National Congress]] |title=The ANC's second submission to the TRC: Operations Report – 2.2. June 1976 |location=[[Kabwe]] |year=1985 |access-date=May 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007224203/http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=2652 |archive-date=October 7, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>