Vandals Wreck Pressroom
Date: 02 April 1970
Vandals wreck pressroom equipment of Home Journal, St Thomas, pub by Sen E B Ottley
Hua Chunying Birthday, Date of Birth
Hua Chunying (Chinese: 华春莹; born 24 April 1970) is a Chinese diplomat who has been serving as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China since 2024. She most notably served as spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
After graduating from Nanjing University with a major in English language and literature in 1992, Hua joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a section member. She served as staff member, attaché, and third secretary in the Ministry's Department of Western Europe and the China Embassy in Singapore from 1992 to 2003. She served as second secretary, first secretary, and then counselor in the Mission of China to the European Union from 2003 to 2010. Hua then served as counselor at the Department of European Affairs from 2010 to 2012, deputy director general of the Department of Press, Communication and Public Diplomacy from 2012 to 2019, and director general of the Department of Press, Communication and Public Diplomacy from 2019 to 2025. She was appointed as the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2024.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Wednesday, April 1, 1970
- Place of Birth
- Huai'an
- Age
- 55
- Star Sign
- ♈
The April 1, 1970 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 90 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 55 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 218 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in 146 days. You have lived for 20,307 days, or about 487,376 hours, or about 29,242,567 minutes, or about 1,754,554,020 seconds.
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1st of April 1970 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 1, 1970
Cambodians Welcome but Censor Foreign Newsmen
Date: 01 April 1970
Leaders of new Govt, unlike Norodom Sihanouk, welcome foreign correspondents but censorship rules and communications controls force newsmen to rept only official versions of developments, dispatch by AP reporter who has just returned from Cambodia
A.P. and Newsweek Support Caldwell Subpoena Challenge
Date: 02 April 1970
AP and Newsweek back motion filed by reporter E Caldwell and NY Times to quash subpoenas requiring Caldwell to testify before Fed grand jury investigating Black Panthers; AP holds news sources will 'dry up' if newsmen are required to reveal confidential information to Govt, says role of newsmen would be 'restricted and impaired'; Newsweek says newsmen must have unqualified right to refuse to testify on information 'professionally obtained' in order to preserve effective newsgathering; Govt files brief opposing motion to quash subpoenas; Govt attys say if Caldwell's testimony is sufficient he may not have to produce tapes and documents but say journalist's privilege is not recognized by Fed law
Athens Newspaper Officials Before a Military Tribunal
Date: 01 April 1970
Kapsis, Economides, C and A Kyriazis and Nikolopoulos appear before mil tribunal to answer charges; Zigdis charged with 'moral instigation'
Six Greeks Are Jailed in Press Trial
Date: 02 April 1970
mil tribunal, Athens, sentences Zigdis and 5 Ethnos execs to prison terms ranging from 13 mo to 5 yrs; imposes fines totaling more than $50,000, possibly forcing newspaper to dose; Zigdis says he was duped by announcement that press is free; says only objective of indictment is to silence him and all Greeks who feel it their duty to speak up on natl issues; prosecutor, explaining stiff sentences, says Greece is going through transitional period that bridges 'rotten past with healthier future'
Geneva a Bit Ruffled By April Foolish Press
Date: 02 April 1970
Geneva, Switzerland, newspapers print April Fool's Day edition with fictitious news stories
N.B.C. Ordered to Give Private Fliers a Forum
Date: 01 April 1970
FCC rules NBC news repts critical of private pilots violated Fairness Doctrine; orders network to give pilots opportunity to reply
PRICES UP AGAIN IN AMEX TRADING; Rally, Sparked by a Lower Prime Rate, Held Fading
Date: 01 April 1970
ASE trading vol 2,556,565 shares
TIMES JOB ACTIONS ACCOMPANY TALKS; Negotiations Continue, as Do Printers' Union Meetings
Date: 02 April 1970
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Photoengravers Local 1-P pres C L McConnell repts union at Alco-Gravure div of Publication Corp, Hoboken, NJ, rejects 2-yr contract with $40-a-wk wage and benefits increase