1978 mass murders

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.

Massacre

in Ethiopia

1978 murder of Italian statesman

Passenger aircraft shot down in 1978

massacre occurred during the Lebanese Civil War

bomb attack in Northern Ireland