Event of Interest
Apr 3 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it
Bobby Fischer
Founding of Microsoft
Apr 4 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
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- Apr 5 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 performances
- Apr 5 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
- Apr 5 129th Grand National: Tommy Carberry aboard L'Escargot wins
- Apr 5 American tennis No. 1 Chris Evert wins her 3rd WTA Tour Championship at the Los Angeles Sports Arena; beats Martina Navratilova 6-4, 6-2
- Apr 6 "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 performances
- Apr 6 "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
- Apr 6 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colorado
- Apr 6 Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
- Apr 7 Preliminary meeting in Paris on world economic crisis between oil-exporting, oil-importing, and non-oil Third World countries
Film Awards
Apr 8 47th Academy Awards: "The Godfather Part II", Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
- Apr 8 Frank Robinson debuts as 1st African American baseball manager (Cleveland, beats New York 5-3)
- Apr 9 24 OECD members sign an agreement to establish a $25 billion lending facility to provide assistance to industrial nations hurt by high oil prices
- Apr 10 Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
Event of Interest
Apr 11 Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewer)
Hank Aaron
- Apr 11 J. P. Parisé scores an 11 sec OT goal, to see the NY Islanders eliminate the NY Rangers in their ever 1st playoff advance
- Apr 12 Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"
- Apr 12 Six Catholic civilians are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force gun and grenade attack on Strand Bar in Belfast, North Ireland
Golf Major
Apr 13 39th Masters Golf Tournament: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276
Jack Nicklaus
- Apr 13 Chad military coup by General Odingar
- Apr 13 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
- Apr 15 1st appearance of San Diego Chicken
- Apr 15 Gabon amends constitution
- Apr 16 Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
- Apr 17 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)
Event of Interest
Apr 18 John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"
John Lennon
- Apr 19 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
- Apr 20 29th Tony Awards: Equus & Wiz win
- Apr 20 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
- Apr 21 79th Boston Marathon: Bill Rodgers of United States 1st man in 2:09:55 and Liane Winter of West Germany 1st woman in 2:42:24 (world record for female)
Event of Interest
Apr 21 Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
Nguyen Van Thieu
Election of Interest
Apr 25 Mário Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's first free election since 1925 following the Carnation Revolution of 1974
Mário Soares
Baseball Record
Apr 26 Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 HRs ties NL record of 11 HRs in April
Mike Schmidt
- Apr 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Event of Interest
Apr 28 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo Starr on "Smother Brothers"
Ringo Starr
The Fall of Saigon
Apr 29 Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate its citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war
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