"History Corner for April of 1978 and 1979"

• 04/02/1978 - 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
• 04/02/1978 - Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, v Aust Georgetown
• 04/02/1978 - TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
• 04/02/1978 - Velcro was 1st put on the market
• 04/03/1978 - 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win
• 04/03/1978 - European market & China signs trade agreement
• 04/03/1978 - Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington DC
• 04/06/1978 - Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn & 193 to win Ranji Trophy
• 04/07/1978 - Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
• 04/07/1978 - Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb
• 04/07/1978 - US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
• 04/09/1978 - 42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277
• 04/09/1978 - Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, & 13-5 (each with a grand slam)
• 04/09/1978 - David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73
• 04/09/1978 - Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points & San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points in separate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter)
• 04/10/1978 - Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
• 04/13/1978 - Jackson slugs a 3-run HR in the 1st inning, & the field is showered
• 04/13/1978 - NY Yanks defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day
• 04/14/1978 - David Hare's "Plenty," premieres in London
• 04/14/1978 - Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
• 04/14/1978 - WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
• 04/15/1978 - 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy
• 04/15/1978 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
• 04/16/1978 - "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 perfs
• 04/16/1978 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
• 04/16/1978 - St Louis Card Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0
• 04/17/1978 - 63,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record)
• 04/17/1978 - 7th Boston Women's Marathon won by Gayle Barron of Ga in 2:44:52
• 04/17/1978 - 82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:10:13
• 04/17/1978 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden"
• 04/18/1978 - Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999
• 04/19/1978 - Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
• 04/20/1978 - Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
• 04/22/1978 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony
• 04/23/1978 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
• 04/23/1978 - Reds Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd
• 04/23/1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 04/24/1978 - Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game
• 04/25/1978 - Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance
• 04/25/1978 - Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more
• 04/26/1978 - France sends troops to Chad
• 04/26/1978 - NASA launches space vehicle S-201
• 04/27/1978 - 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 4-3 in 11
• 04/27/1978 - Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51
• 04/27/1978 - Afgh nist n revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
• 04/30/1978 - "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 perfs
• 04/30/1978 - Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic

• 04/04/1978 - Gino Contilli, composer, dies at 70
• 04/06/1978 - Nicolas Nabokov, composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
• 04/06/1978 - Reinoud Anders, Dutch actor (Unrest of Grave), dies at 65
• 04/07/1978 - Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83
• 04/08/1978 - Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner, dies at 83
• 04/13/1978 - Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
• 04/16/1978 - Lucius D Clay, gen/gov US zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80
• 04/19/1978 - Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher, dies at 70
• 04/21/1978 - Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37
• 04/22/1978 - Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75
• 04/27/1978 - Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered

• 04/01/1979 - Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
• 04/01/1979 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
• 04/02/1979 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets pres Sadat
• 04/03/1979 - Belgium's Martens govt forms
• 04/03/1979 - Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill
• 04/05/1979 - Balt manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
• 04/05/1979 - Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
• 04/06/1979 - Rod Stewart & Alana Collins wed
• 04/07/1979 - Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
• 04/07/1979 - Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
• 04/07/1979 - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
• 04/08/1979 - "Carmelina" opens at St James Theater NYC for 17 performances
• 04/08/1979 - 204th & final episode of "All in the Family"
• 04/08/1979 - 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
• 04/08/1979 - People's Republic of China joins IOC
• 04/09/1979 - 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win
• 04/09/1979 - Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins
• 04/10/1979 - J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
• 04/10/1979 - Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
• 04/11/1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala
• 04/12/1979 - Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
• 04/13/1979 - Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek
• 04/13/1979 - Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
• 04/13/1979 - Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
• 04/14/1979 - Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
• 04/15/1979 - 43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
• 04/16/1979 - 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks & Mets tie 1-1
• 04/16/1979 - 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:27
• 04/16/1979 - 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15
• 04/16/1979 - Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport in Belgium
• 04/16/1979 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
• 04/17/1979 - Brian Clark's "Whose Life is it Anyway?," premieres in London
• 04/18/1979 - "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
• 04/18/1979 - Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
• 04/19/1979 - FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Bkln NY)
• 04/19/1979 - Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yanks Goose Gossage & Cliff
• 04/19/1979 - Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb
• 04/21/1979 - "Carmelina" closes at St James Theater NYC after 17 performances
• 04/22/1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament
• 04/22/1979 - Mick Jaggar & Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada
• 04/24/1979 - Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
• 04/25/1979 - "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres
• 04/25/1979 - Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect
• 04/27/1979 - George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone"
• 04/29/1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic
• 04/30/1979 - Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA

• 04/01/1979 - Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician, dies at 51
• 04/02/1979 - Carroll D Rosenbloom, LA Rams president, dies at 72
• 04/02/1979 - Ivan Barrow, cricketer (11 Tests for West Indies 1930-39), dies
• 04/04/1979 - Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77
• 04/04/1979 - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51
• 04/06/1979 - M Marie Widlow, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), dies at 61
• 04/06/1979 - Milton Ager, US composer, dies at 85
• 04/07/1979 - Bruno Apitz, writer, dies at 78
• 04/09/1979 - Staats Cotsworth, dies at 71
• 04/10/1979 - Henri‰tte P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Dodendans), dies at 91
• 04/10/1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (Torquemada), dies at 67
• 04/20/1979 - Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60
• 04/24/1979 - John Carroll, actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72
• 04/28/1979 - Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer, dies at 86
• 04/29/1979 - Julia A Perry, US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55