Events in History
- Apr 1 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
- Apr 1 Warner Cable launches Nickelodeon, a basic cable channel featuring programming focused on children and teenagers
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Apr 2 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Cairo, Egypt
- Apr 3 Belgium's Martens government forms
- Apr 3 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois
- Apr 4 Ex-President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
- Apr 7 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
- Apr 10 Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
- Apr 10 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
- Apr 12 Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
- Apr 13 Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek
- Apr 13 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
- Apr 13 Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
- Apr 14 Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
- Apr 15 A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast.
- Apr 16 Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport, Belgium
- Apr 16 Sam Shepard receives Pulitzer Prize for "Buried Child"
- Apr 17 Four Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army van bomb in Bessbrook, County Armagh; the bomb is believed to be the largest PIRA bomb used up to that point
- Apr 18 Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
- Apr 19 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn New York)
Jimmy Carter Attacked by a Rabbit
Apr 20 US President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit which swam up to his fishing boat in Plains, Georgia
Birthdays in History
- Apr 6 Frederick MGDL Windsor, son of English prince Michael
- Apr 8 David Petruschin, American drag queen (Raven) and make-up artist, born in Victorville, California
- Apr 10 Rachel Corrie, American political activist, born in Olympia, Washington (d. 2003)
- Apr 14 Randal McCloy, Survivor of the Sago Mine Disaster
- Apr 24 Laurentia Tan, Singaporean Paralympic equestrienne, born in Singapore
Deaths in History
- Apr 4 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51
- Apr 5 Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
- Apr 7 Bruno Apitz, German writer, dies at 78
- Apr 19 Rogers Morton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), dies at 64
- Apr 23 Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-fascist (b. 1946)
- Apr 27 Alfred Kantorowicz, German-Jewish historian and journalist (Spanish Diary), dies at 79
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