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Mar 20th - The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks
Mar 20th - US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
Mar 21st - On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot
Mar 23rd - Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket v Pakistan
Mar 23rd - Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament
Mar 23rd - France performs nuclear test
Mar 23rd - Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
Mar 24th - 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
Mar 24th - ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
Mar 24th - Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
Mar 26th - Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
Mar 27th - "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
Mar 27th - "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
Mar 27th - Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
Mar 27th - Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
Mar 27th - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
Mar 30th - Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," premieres in NYC
Mar 30th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
Mar 31st - Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
Mar 31st - Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Mar 31st - President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
Mar 31st - The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors.
Apr 1st - Baseball Players' Assn votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games
Apr 1st - Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
Apr 1st - France performs nuclear test
Apr 1st - Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist
Apr 1st - New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days.
Apr 2nd - Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
Apr 3rd - France performs nuclear test
Apr 3rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 4th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Apr 6th - 9th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
Apr 6th - Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
Apr 6th - Post It Notes, introduced
Apr 7th - Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
Apr 8th - Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings & set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period
Apr 9th - Belgium's Marten's govt resigns
Apr 9th - Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles
Apr 9th - Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
Apr 11th - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment
Apr 11th - Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
Apr 12th - BCMA, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, forms
Apr 12th - Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper & Money hit grand slams)
Apr 12th - Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
Apr 12th - Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
Apr 13th - "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 3,388 performances
Apr 13th - "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 21 performances
Apr 13th - 44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275
Apr 13th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
Apr 13th - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
Apr 13th - US boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
Apr 14th - 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
Apr 14th - 52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer," D Hoffman & Sally Field win
Apr 14th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
Apr 16th - Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
Apr 16th - Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final
Apr 16th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 18th - Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
Apr 20th - Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
Apr 20th - Donna White wins LPGA Florida "Lady Citrus" Golf Tournament
Apr 20th - Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
Apr 21st - 84th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:12:11
Apr 21st - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit Mich
Apr 21st - 9th Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Gareau of Can in 2:34:28 Rosie Ruiz disqualified as women's champ she hadn't run entire course
Apr 23rd - Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
Apr 24th - US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
Apr 25th - A's manager Billy Martin restrained by umps from attacking a fan
Apr 25th - Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
Apr 25th - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Wayne Webb
Apr 25th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Apr 26th - Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01)
Apr 26th - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 26th - Iran begins scattering US hostages from US Embassy
Apr 26th - Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
Apr 26th - Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards)
Apr 27th - Barbara Barrow wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
Apr 28th - Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
Apr 28th - Reunion Arena in Dallas opens
Apr 29th - Corazones Unidos Siempre Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. is founded.
Apr 30th - "Barnum" opens at St James Theater NYC for 854 performances
Apr 30th - Ronald Harwood's "Dresser," premieres in London
Apr 30th - Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
Apr 30th - Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands
Apr 30th - Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates
May 1st - "Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden NYC for 588 perf
May 1st - 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
May 1st - Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
May 1st - Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
May 2nd - Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
May 2nd - Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in S Africa
May 2nd - Pope John Paul II begins African tour
May 2nd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 3rd - 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
May 3rd - Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR
May 3rd - Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL
May 4th - Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
May 4th - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament
May 4th - White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming 1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958
May 5th - Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos & police stormed the building
May 5th - Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece.
May 7th - Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried
May 7th - Samm-Art Williams' "Home," premieres in NYC
May 8th - Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game
May 8th - World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
May 9th - 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
May 10th - "Happy New Year" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 17 performances
May 11th - Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
May 11th - Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies
May 12th - 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
May 12th - West Ham United wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. Midfield playmaker Trevor Brooking scores the winner with a rare header.
May 13th - Cincinnati Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets
May 14th - "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances
May 14th - Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation
May 14th - Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II
May 14th - Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3
May 15th - 1st trans-US balloon crossing
May 15th - Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
May 15th - Shawn Weatherly, (SC (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA
May 16th - 34th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
May 16th - Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
May 16th - Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
May 16th - Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes
May 17th - 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2
May 17th - Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours
May 17th - Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
May 17th - Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
May 18th - Belgium 3rd govt of Martens forms
May 18th - China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket
May 18th - Donna White wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
May 18th - Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru
May 18th - Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
May 18th - Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
May 19th - "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances
May 19th - Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
May 20th - 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated
May 20th - Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
May 20th - Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157
May 20th - In a referendum, 59.5% of Quebec voters reject separatism
May 21st - "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
May 21st - Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
May 21st - Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service acad
May 22nd - Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry
May 23rd - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
May 24th - "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56
May 24th - Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages
May 24th - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 2
May 25th - "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances
May 25th - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
May 25th - Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")
May 26th - Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"