1978
Some popular movies in this year were The Deer Hunter, Midnight Express, Heaven Can Wait, and Coming Home. The population of this year was 4.203 billion people. The national debt was 776.6 billion. The government spent 458.75 billion that year.
Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler
In 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler became the first people to climb Everest without supplemental oxygen. Reinhold Messner was a very accomplished and experienced climber. He climbed all fourteen of the peaks above eight thousand meters.