29th October
1964 The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed United Republic of Tanzania
1988 in South Africa the truth and reconciliation presents its report which condems both sides for for committing atrocities
1618 Pope innocent ix is elected
1863 eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form international Red Cross
1923 Benito Mussolini appointed Italia Prime minister
1869 first ever computer to computer link is established on APPA NET, the the precursor to the internet
2015 China announces the end of one child policy after 35 years
January 1978
- 3 January – Leopard Rock Hotel in the Vumba Mountains is damaged after a guerilla rocket attack.
March
- 3 March – The Salisbury Agreement what later became known as the Internal Settlement, aimed at leading to black majority rule signed by Prime Minister Ian Smith, UANC president Bishop Abel Muzorewa, ZUPO president Senator Chief Jeremiah Chirau, and ANC (Sithole) president the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole.
- 14 March – United Nations Security Council Resolution 423 condemned the Rhodesian Internal Settlement
- 21 March – Transitional Government aimed at leading to black
majority rule formally established as part of the Salisbury Agreement, Internal Settlement.
April
- 14 April – Nine black ministers sworn into serve on the Ministerial Council of the Transitional Government.
May
- 19 May – Two Swiss Red Cross workers and their African assistant are killed by fighters near the Mozambique border.
June
- 23 June – 12 whites murdered in Vumba. 8 British missionaries (3 men
and 5 women) and 4 of their children were bayonetted to death at
Emmanuel Mission School at Vumba by guerillas. The dead belonged to the Elim Pentecostal Church. - 24 June – Rhodesia beat Western Transvaal 41-9 in a Currie Cup match played at Hartsfield Rugby Ground, Bulawayo.
- 28 June – Three Zimbabwe African People’s Union fighters kill two German missionaries.
August
- 15 August – The Rhodesia Herald was renamed The Herald.