Narrow Focus on TV News; Books of The Times
Date: 05 April 1973
By JOHN J.. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
Epstein, Edward Jay: Book News From Nowhere: Television and the News, by E J Epstein, revd by J J O'Connor
Birthday, Date of Birth
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- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Wednesday, April 4, 1973
- Place of Birth
- Београд
- Age
- 52
- Star Sign
- ♈
The April 4, 1973 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 93 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 52 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, April 4, 2025, 164 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, April 4, 2026, in 200 days. You have lived for 19,157 days, or about 459,775 hours, or about 27,586,511 minutes, or about 1,655,190,660 seconds.
Some people who share this birthday:
- Heath Ledger (actor, character actor, film actor, film director, television actor, born April 4, 1979)
- Robert Downey Jr. (actor, film director, film producer, musician, screenwriter, singer, singer-songwriter, television actor, voice actor, born April 4, 1965)
- Joaquín Guzmán Loera (drug lord, drug trafficker, born April 4, 1957)
- Jamie Lynn Spears (actor, film actor, musician, singer, singer-songwriter, television actor, voice actor, born April 4, 1991)
- Hugo Weaving (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born April 4, 1960)
- Alexandra Grant (artist, born April 4, 1973)
- Isoroku Yamamoto (military officer, born April 4, 1884)
- Natasha Lyonne (actor, character actor, film actor, presenter, screenwriter, showrunner, television actor, television producer, voice actor, born April 4, 1979)
- Maya Angelou (autobiographer, comedian, dancer, essayist, film director, film producer, human rights activist, journalist, novelist, playwright, politician, professor, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, stage actor, television actor, television producer, writer, born April 4, 1928)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (actor, biographer, director, film actor, film director, film editor, screenwriter, theatrical director, born April 4, 1932)
- Anthony Perkins (actor, film actor, film director, screenwriter, singer, stage actor, television actor, born April 4, 1932)
- Michel Fourniret (criminal, joiner, serial killer, born April 4, 1942)
- Trevor Moore (actor, comedian, comics artist, director, film actor, film director, manufacturer, screenwriter, television actor, born April 4, 1980)
- Sami Khedira (association football player, born April 4, 1987)
- David Cross (comedian, film director, film producer, journalist, screenwriter, singer, stage actor, television presenter, television producer, voice actor, born April 4, 1964)
- Gary Moore (guitarist, musician, record producer, recording artist, singer, songwriter, born April 4, 1952)
- Graham Norton (columnist, comedian, film actor, journalist, memoirist, radio personality, television presenter, born April 4, 1963)
- Gong Hyo-jin (actor, film actor, television actor, born April 4, 1980)
- Abdullah Öcalan (activist, politician, writer, born April 4, 1949)
- Umm Kulthum (actor, film actor, singer, born April 4, 1904)
- Barry Pepper (actor, character actor, film actor, television actor, born April 4, 1970)
- Amanda Righetti (actor, film actor, film producer, television actor, born April 4, 1983)
- Dmitriy Nagiev (actor, disc jockey, musician, radio personality, showman, singer, television actor, television presenter, born April 4, 1967)
- David E. Kelley (executive producer, film producer, lawyer, screenwriter, showrunner, television producer, born April 4, 1956)
- Craig T. Nelson (actor, director, film actor, film producer, karateka, manufacturer, screenwriter, television actor, voice actor, born April 4, 1944)
- James Roday Rodriguez (actor, film actor, film director, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, television producer, writer, born April 4, 1976)
- Muddy Waters (guitarist, singer, singer-songwriter, street artist, born April 4, 1915)
- Marguerite Duras (author, autobiographer, feminist, film director, journalist, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet lawyer, publisher, screenwriter, writer, born April 4, 1914)
- Sarah Gadon (actor, film actor, born April 4, 1987)
- Kazuko Hosoki (astrologer, fortune teller, tarento, writer, born April 4, 1938)
- Marco Giallini (actor, television actor, born April 4, 1963)
- Todrick Hall (YouTuber, actor, choreographer, director, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, television producer, born April 4, 1985)
- Parveen Babi (film actor, model, born April 4, 1954)
- Tokugawa Nariaki (painter, politician, born April 4, 1800)
- Bastian Pastewka (comedian, film actor, voice actor, born April 4, 1972)
- Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha (businessperson, polo player, born April 4, 1958)
- Georg von Trapp (military officer, singer, submariner, born April 4, 1880)
- Jane McDonald (actor, singer, television presenter, born April 4, 1963)
- David Blaine (actor, autobiographer, escape artist, illusionist, magician, street artist, stunt performer, born April 4, 1973)
- Simran (actor, television actor, born April 4, 1976)
- Anne Sullivan (teacher, born April 4, 1866)
- Nancy McKeon (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, voice actor, born April 4, 1966)
- Eric André (actor, comedian, film actor, screenwriter, television actor, television producer, voice actor, born April 4, 1983)
- Jill Scott (actor, film actor, jazz musician, poet, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, television actor, voice actor, writer, born April 4, 1972)
- Lorraine Toussaint (actor, film actor, film producer, stage actor, television actor, born April 4, 1960)
- Clive Davis (businessperson, composer, music executive, record producer, born April 4, 1932)
- Mike Starr (bass guitarist, born April 4, 1966)
- Joe Chen (actor, film actor, model, singer, television actor, writer, born April 4, 1979)
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- Daniel Cohn-Bendit (environmentalist, film director, journalist, politician, teacher, television presenter, writer, born April 4, 1945)
4th of April 1973 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 4, 1973
Ellsberg Trial Told Data Did No Harm; Safe Was Installed
Date: 05 April 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
D S Luce testifies, Apr 4, at Pentagon papers trial that disclosure of information about the 'strategic hamlet' and 'pacification' programs in Vietnam did not damage those programs; both programs were operated by US; Luce says hamlets program wa over by '63, that it became the pacification program, which in turn, by '69, became Vietnamization program; comment on Luce role in helping uncover in '70 the tiger cages'--small cells jammed with prisoners in S Vietnam
Brazil Censors a Report By Paper on Censorship
Date: 05 April 1973
Brazilian Govt censors lengthy rept describing press censorship made by J Mesquita Neto on Apr 3 before Inter-Amer Press Assn that was appear in his newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo; lrs to editor were substituted on internatl news page to fill space alloted to material
WAGE CUT RESCINDED FOR JERSEY MAILERS
Date: 04 April 1973
Mailers Union Local 6 pres G E McDonald says on Apr 4 that he has recd ruling from Cost of Living Council rescinding rollback, from 15% to 8%, of wage increase in 1st yr of contract for 43 mailers employed by AlcoGravure Div of Publications Corp, Hoboken, NJ; repts mailer will receive retroactive payments totaling about $3,000
Vietcong Welcome U.S. Visitors Guardedly; Vietcong-Held Hamlet Hospitable to U.S. Visitors but Controls Them Strictly Vietcong Flags Displayed Looking to the Election Relatively Secure' Village
Date: 05 April 1973
By JOSHEPH B. TREASTERSpecial to The New York Times
news team of 3, including NY Times correspondent J B Treaster, cruising down Mekong River, are in invited by a Vietcong guerrilla squad to visit a 'liberated hamlet' when boat stops at a clearing; hamlet is 5 mi from Saigon; visit is tightly controlled; Vietcong, since start of cease-fire, have welcomed journalists to their areas; most newsmen rept considerable supervision, but most have also been taken on lengthy tours and tell of having seen hundreds and thousands of people; Vietcong described as showing sense of dedication and purpose that is almost unknown among S Vietnamese troops; Saigon officials say they regard the village as being under their control and had classified it as 'relatively secure'; map; illus of young Vietcong guerrillas
2 U.S. Journalists Held 2 Days By Vietcong and Then Released
Date: 05 April 1973
Amer journalists D Southerland and F FitzGerald, on assignment for New Yorker (pub), rept on Apr 4 that they had been held prisoner by Vietcong for 2 days and released in hamlet near northern provincial capital of Quang Ngai; Southerland says they were treated well by their captors
Ellsberg Using Indirect Tactic In Battle Theft Charge
Date: 04 April 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
defense attys in Pentagon papers trial call W D Gerhard, intelligence analyst for Natl Security Agency of Defense Dept, and Lieut Col E A Miller, former analyst on dept's Security Rev Div, to testify; both have produced repts, ordered earlier by prosecution in case, on effects of release of papers on natl defense and have found that defense was not injured; Ellsberg-Russo defense contends that Govt suppressed repts for many mos; Judge W M Byrne has allowed defense to use findings of Miller and Gerhard but has not allowed defense to bring out its allegations of suppression; defense hopes by calling Miller and Gerhard to taint prosecution's theft case against Ellsberg and Russo
F.B.I. Wants to Retain Records of Reporters' Calls
Date: 05 April 1973
US Atty J F Rudy, in hearing before Judge J J Sirica on suit filed by columnist J Anderson and his asst L Whitten to get back from FBI all copies of what they contend are names and phone numbers of their confidential news sources, notes that FBI has already returned originals of phone toll calls to local phone co; says he will not agree to Anderson's request that all duplicate copies be destroyed because FBI plans to keep them on file as part of its record in investigation of charges against Whitten, later dropped, of possession of papers stolen from Bur of Indian Affairs
Five Women Are Selected As Matrix Award Winners
Date: 04 April 1973
NY Chapter of Women in Communications presents its Matrix award to E Shanahan (NY Times)
Sports News Briefs; Sweden Stays Unbeaten in Hockey
Date: 05 April 1973
Proponents of proposed Stratford (Conn) Downs race track say on Apr 4 that they are undaunted despite Apr 3 referendum that rejected proposal by 2 to 1; opponents of track comment