Page 8: Historical Events In April - 01

1971  United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership   

1971  US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere   

1972  30000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.   

1972  Major league baseball players stages inaugural collective strike   

1972  Pacific Great Eastern Railway changes its name to British Columbia Railway   

1973  Japan allows its citizens to own gold.   

1973  Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies   

1974  Pioneer Hall opens.   

1974  Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86   

1975  Canadian radio and TV stations inaugural start giving the temperature in Celsius, so 32 degrees is recorded as becoming 0 go figure   

1975  Eugeen Yoors, Flemish draftsman/glass painter, dies at 95   

1976  Freddie Lennon father of John Lennon, dies at 63   

1976  N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2206 Gabrova, #2312 Duboshin, #2361 Gogol, #2606 Odessa, #2722 Abalakin, #2734 Hasek,.   

1976  Ottawa raises the federal minimum wage to $2.90 per hour.   

1976  Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63.   

1977  NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games.   

1979  Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah   

1979  National Energy Board raises export tax on light crude oil $1.00 per barrel to $8.00, Albertians are not happy   

1979  Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician, dies at 51   

1980  Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist   

1981  E Bowell discovers asteroid #3480 Abante   

1981  D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65.   

1982  US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama.   

1984  8 men record longest distance rowed in 24 hours at 13 miles.   

1984  Marvin Gaye shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA   

1984  Marvin Gaye, singer (Sexual Healing), shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44.   

1986  US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in the Irish Sea   

1986  World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel.   

1988  Iran accuses Iraq of using mustard gas on civilians   

1988  Jim Jordan radio's Fibber McGee, dies at 91 in a fall.   

1988  Jim Jordan, actor (Fibber McGee), dies from a blod clot at 91.   

1989  Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57   

1990  CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger   

1990  It is recorded as becoming illeagal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers.   

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1220  Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272) was born on April - 01.   

1283  Ludwig IV of Baveria, Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor (1314-47) was born on April - 01.   

1543  On this day in history birth of françois de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (d. 1626)   

1578  William Harvey, England, physician (discovered blood circulation) was born on April - 01.   

1582  On this day in history birth of gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter   

1582  Thomas Simpson, composer was born on this day in history.   

1610  Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (d. 1703) was born on April - 01.   

1640  Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697) was born on this day in history.   

1085  Death of Emperor Shenzong of China (b. 1048) on this day in history.   

1132  Death of St-Hugues, Bishop of Grenoble (b. 1053) on April - 01.   

1204  On April - 01 eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII & Henry II, dies at 81   

1205  Amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies on this day in history.   

1528  Death of Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer on this day in history.   

1548  On April - 01 sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81   

1580  Death of Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer on this day in history.   

1611  On April - 01 death of gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72