April 1972 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1972 Major league baseball players stage first collective strike.
• 02 Apr 1972 44th Academy Awards - French Connection, Gene Hackman and Jane Fonda win.
• 03 Apr 1972 Official US gold price raised from $35 per ounce to $38.
• 04 Apr 1972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr, American politician (Representative-Democrat-New York), dies at age 63.
• 05 Apr 1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike.
• 06 Apr 1972 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan.
• 07 Apr 1972 Vietnam War veteran Richard McCoy, Jr. hijacks a United Airlines jet and extorts $500,000 he is later captured.
• 09 Apr 1972 Sugar opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances
• 10 Apr 1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1 / 5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
• 11 Apr 1972 Benjamin L Hooks is named to the US Federal Communications Commission.
• 13 Apr 1972 The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
• 15 Apr 1972 Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Carole King, and Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President.
• 16 Apr 1972 2 giants pandas arrive in US, from China
• 17 Apr 1972 76th Boston Marathon won by Olavi Suomalainen of Finland in 2:15:39.
• 18 Apr 1972 Lost in the Stars opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances
• 19 Apr 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 20 Apr 1972 Apollo 16 with John Young and Charles Duke lands on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2.
• 21 Apr 1972 John Young and Charles Duke explores Moon
• 22 Apr 1972 Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
• 23 Apr 1972 26th Tony Awards: Sticks and Bones and Two Gentlemen of Verona win.
• 25 Apr 1972 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12.
• 26 Apr 1972 The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar enters service with Eastern Airlines.
• 27 Apr 1972 New York City Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported
• 29 Apr 1972 The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical ''Hair'' is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, 13 Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the peace and for using marijuana.
• 30 Apr 1972 Arthur Godfrey Time ends a 27-year run on radio.

Famous Birthday

• Jennifer Garner

  American actress and film producer.

• Carmen Electra

  American actress who has carved out a relatively successful career as a replacement for departing stars like MTV’s Jenny McCarthy and...

• Anne-Sophie Lapix

  French journalist and TV host, occasionally actress.

• Sébastien Cauet

  French TV host, humourist, and producer, occasional singer and imitator.

• Jennie Garth

  TV Actress.

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• Nigel Barker

  English fashion photographer.

• Severina Vučković

  Croatian pop-folk singer.

• Gwendal Peizerat

  French former competitive ice dancer.

• Claire (L5)
• Paul Gray

  American bassist (Slipknot) (Born 1972).

• Sylvain Tesson

  French writer and traveller born to journalist Philippe Tesson.

• Eli Roth

  American film director; he earned public attention for his prize winning horror movie "Cabin Fever" which he sold for $2 million, triple its...

• Jill Scott

  American soul singer.

• Jill Scott

  American soul singer.

• Allan Théo

  French singer, particularly known for his hit "Emmène-moi" (1998), sold at more than 1 million copies (France, Belgium, Switzerland,...

• Natacha Régnier

  Belgian actress, she was attracted to theatre and attended Insas, in Brussel.

• Toni Acosta
• Anna Falchi

  Italian-Finnish model and film actress.

• Lisa Ray

  Canadian actress.

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Famous Deaths

• George Sanders

  Russian-born American actor who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "All About Eve," 1950.

• Isabel Jewell

  American film, stage and TV actress.

• Gil Hodges

  American baseball player and manager who was the slugging star of the outstanding teams assembled by the Brooklyn Dodgers between 1947-1957.

• Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von GrofT

  composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at age 80.

• "Crazy" Joe Gallo

  mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party.

• C W Ceram [Kurt Marek]

  German/US writer (first American), dies at age 57.

• Otto Brenner

  German trade union leader, dies at age 64.

• Adolf Bach

  German philologist/sociologist, dies at age 82.

• Margaret A R Bonds

  US pianist/composer/arranger, dies at age 59.

• Ferde Grofe

  American composer and conductor, a violinist with the Los Angeles Symphony and a pianist and arranger with the Paul Whiteman band 1919-1933.

• Franz Halder

  German military, the Nazi Chief of the General Staff from 1938-42.

• Yasunari Kawabata

  Japanese novelist and short story writer whose lyrical prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author...

• Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Japanese martial artist and educator (d. 1972).

• Joe Gallo

  American gangster (Born 1929).

• Phil King

  Rock (Blue Oyster Cult), shot in head at 24 while gambling.

• Fernando Amorsolo

  Filipino painter (Born 1892).

• Victor Wong

  actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at age 65.

• Stefan Wolpe

  German composer (Zeus and Elidco), dies at age 69.

• Gia Scala

  Actress (Garment Jungle, I Aim at the Stars), dies at 38.

• John A H J S Bruins Slot

  Co-founder / editor in chief (illegal).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. America - A Horse With No Name
2. Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
3. Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
4. Michael Jackson - Rockin' Robin
5. Donny Osmond - Puppy Love

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Pipes & Drums & The Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guard - Amazing Grace
2. Nilsson - Without You
3. Vicky Leandros - Come What May
4. Ringo Starr - Back Off Boogaloo
5. David Cassidy - Could It Be Forever / Cherish