and becomes the last horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown of Horse Racing until 2015. June 15 – King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor. June 19 England cricketer Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match. Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication. June 20 – The 6.2 Thessaloniki earthquake shakes Northern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Fifty people were killed. June 21 A shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army in Northern Ireland leaves one civilian and three IRA men dead. 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown: Iranian helicopters stray into Soviet airspace and are shot down. June 22 – Charon, a satellite of Pluto, is discovered. June 24 – The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to mark the 9th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots (which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras; later incorporating a festival). June 25 Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3–1 after extra time to win the 1978 FIFA World Cup. The rainbow flag of the LGBT movement flies for the first time (in its original form) at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. June 26 – A bombing by Breton nationalists causes destruction in the Palace of Versailles. June 30 – Ethiopia begins a massive offensive in Eritrea. July July 3 – The Amazon Co-operation Treaty (ACT) is signed. July 7 – The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom. July 11 – At least 217 tourists die in an explosion of a tanker-truck at a campsite in Costa Daurada, Spain. July 24 – In Acapulco, Mexico, Margaret Gardiner of South Africa is crowned Miss Universe. July 25 Cerro Maravilla murders: Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists are killed in a police ambush. Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, is born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK. August August 12 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is concluded. August 17 – Double Eagle II becomes the first balloon to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean, flying from Presque Isle, Maine, to Miserey, France. August 22 – Sandinistas seize the Nicaraguan National Palace. August 26 – Pope John