| 9- October-1978 | Asian Games begin in Bangkok. |
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| 10- October-1978 | Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'. |
| 16- October-1978 | Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad. |