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June 19, 1978

On June 19, 1978, garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication. The year's #1 song was "Shadow Dancing" by Andy Gibb. Antonio de Nigris, Mirka Federer, Anamaria Marinca would arrive in the same year.

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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1978th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 978th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1970s decade.

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On June 19, 1978

  1. 1978 Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.

    Comic strip created by Jim Davis

    Garfield is an American comic strip and media franchise created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, and their owner Jon Arbuckle. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals; the comic held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.

Arrivals

Born on June 19, 1978

Dirk Nowitzki 1978– German basketball player (born 1978)
Zoe Saldaña 1978– American actress (born 1978)
Claudio Vargas 1978– Dominican baseball player (born 1978)

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The class of 1978

Others born in 1978

Antonio de Nigris 1978– Mexican footballer (died 2009)
Mirka Federer 1978– Slovak-Swiss tennis player
Anamaria Marinca 1978– Romanian-English actress
Etan Thomas 1978– American basketball player
Carles Puyol 1978– Spanish footballer
Roland Lessing 1978– Estonian biathlete

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