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• Apr 1 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
• Apr 1 MLB players stage first ever collective strike; play resumes (13/4/72) when owners and players agree to $500,000 increase in pension fund payments

Sports History

Apr 2 New York Mets manager Gil Hodges collapses just minutes after completing a round of golf in West Palm Beach, Florida, and dies of a heart attack

• Apr 4 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
• Apr 5 Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
• Apr 5 The regular MLB season fails to open due to a player strike for the first time in history; 86 games are lost before the labor dispute settled
• Apr 6 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
• Apr 6 The Scarman Tribunal Report, an inquiry into the causes of violence during the summer of 1969 in N Ireland, is published, finding that the Royal Ulster Constabulary had been seriously at fault
• Apr 7 Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature bomb explosion in Belfast
• Apr 8 126th Grand National: Graham Thorner aboard 14/1 bet Well To Do wins from 1970 winner Gay Trip; Black Secret & General Symons dead heat for 3rd
• Apr 8 Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings v NZ

Apr 9 36th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Nicklaus leads wire-to-wire to win the 4th of his 6 Masters titles, 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton, Tom Weiskopf and Bobby Mitchell

• Apr 9 Jule Styne and Bob Merrill's musical "Sugar", a musical adaptation of 1959 film "Some Like It Hot" starring Robert Morse, Tony Roberts, and Elaine Joyce, opens at Majestic Theater, NYC; runs for 506 performances
• Apr 9 New Zealand cricket opening batsmen Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis (187) make 387 partnership in 4th Test v WI in Georgetown, Guyana
• Apr 9 USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
• Apr 10 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas

• Apr 10 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
• Apr 10 The US, USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons at the Biological Weapons Convention
• Apr 10 Two British soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in Derry
• Apr 11 Benjamin Hooks named to Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 1st African-American to serve
• Apr 11 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Apr 13 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
• Apr 14 Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz's musical review "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater, NYC; runs for 4 performances
• Apr 14 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland
• Apr 15 A member of the British Army is shot dead by the Official IRA in the Divis area of Belfast.
• Apr 15 A member of the Official Irish Republican Army is shot dead by British soldiers at Joy Street in the Markets area of Belfast close to his home

• Apr 16 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
• Apr 16 Chicago Cubs rookie pitcher Burt Hooton hurls a 4-0 no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies at Wrigley Field, Chicago
• Apr 16 Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz's musical review "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater, NYC, after 4 performances
• Apr 16 Two British soldiers are shot dead by the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) in separate incidents in Derry
• Apr 16 Two giant pandas arrive in US from China
• Apr 17 76th Boston Marathon: Olavi Suomalainen of Finland wins men's race in 2:15:39; American Nina Kuscsik takes inaugural women's title in 3:10:26; first year women's race officially sanctioned
• Apr 17 Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats
• Apr 17 Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed

Lost in the Stars

Apr 18 Revival of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's musical "Lost in the Stars" based on the novel "Cry the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton, opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 39 performances

• Apr 18 The Widgery Report on 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland is published, causing outrage among the people of Derry who call it the "Widgery Whitewash"
• Apr 19 "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" opens at Playhouse NYC for 1,065 performances
• Apr 19 Bangladesh becomes a member of the British Commonwealth

Event of Interest

Apr 19 British Prime Minister Edward Heath confirms that a plan to conduct an arrest operation, in the event of a riot during the march on 30 January 1972, was known to British government Ministers in advance

• Apr 19 Hungary revises its constitution to declare itself a socialist state
• Apr 19 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 20 Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
• Apr 20 NASA Apollo 16's John Young & Charles Duke land on the moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2

Lord Byron

Apr 20 Virgil Thomson's final opera, "Lord Byron", with libretto by Jack Larson, first performance at Lincoln Center, New York City

• Apr 21 John Young & Charles Duke explore the moon as part of NASA mission Apollo 16
• Apr 21 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
• Apr 22 An 11-year-old boy killed by a rubber bullet fired by the British Army in Belfast; he was the first to die from a rubber bullet impact
• Apr 22 NASA Apollo 16 astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride the Lunar Rover on the moon
• Apr 23 26th Tony Awards: "Sticks and Bones" (play) & "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" (musical) win
• Apr 23 Apollo 16 astronauts explore the moon's surface
• Apr 23 The Sunday Times Insight Team publish their account of the events of 'Bloody Sunday'
• Apr 25 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
• Apr 27 Apollo 16 returns to Earth after lunar exploration, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean 350 km (189 nmi) southeast of the island of Kiritimati

• Apr 28 Courts award 1968 Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner due to the winner being given drugs before the race

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