The April 30, 1978 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 119 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 48 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, April 30, 2026, 68 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, April 30, 2027, in 296 days. You have lived for 17,600 days, or about 422,410 hours, or about 25,344,621 minutes, or about 1,520,677,260 seconds.
Date: 01 May 1978
22 journalists and other newspaper workers are detained shortly before they are to start hunger strike in defiance of martial law; they include Nisar Usmani, sec gen of journalists union, whose pres, Minhaj Baran was detained last night and then expelled from Punjab Province (S)
Date: 30 April 1978
E Ger broadcasts 15-min radio program of Prot ch news, 1st of its kind since Communist party was founded in '49; broadcast was agreed on in Mar at meeting between Pres Erich Honecker and religious leaders (S)
Date: 30 April 1978
By SEYMOUR TOPPING
Seymour TOPPING
Book Biko by Donald Woods revd (M)
Date: 01 May 1978
By ROBERT TRUMBULL Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
Toronto Sun has been charged with violating Canada's stringent Official Secrets Act on 2 counts for publishing details of 'secret' rept on Soviet spies in Canada; action has caused backlash against Govt secrecy among publishers and editors across country; resolution adopted by Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers' Assn at its annual conv accused Govt of 'discriminatory action' in prosecuting Sun, paper consistently critical of Prime Min Trudeau; points out that natl TV network CTV and opposition member of Parliament, Thomas C Cossitt, had made same material public earlier and had not been prosecuted; Justice Min Ronald Basford ruled that Cossitt was immune from prosecution because of his Parliamentary status; Sun editor in chief Peter Worthington quoted from same source as Cossitt; Toronto Globe and Mail managing editor C W Davey and Edmonton Journal publisher JP O'Callaghan comment (M)
Date: 01 May 1978
25 persons, including 2 newsmen, are arrested at May Day event near univ; 4 others are injured, none seriously, when police move in to disperse crowd for purported unlawful assembly (S)
Date: 01 May 1978
By IVER PETERSON Special to The New York Times
Iver Special
Reporters are excluded from funeral services of 4 Steele brothers killed when scaffold on which they were working at Monoga Power Co, Willow Is, W Va, collapsed; 4 W Va state troopers seized and destroyed film of NY Times photographer who had been taking pictures of funeral (S)
Date: 30 April 1978
By Andrew Bergman
Andrew Bergman
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: A Young Man in Search of Love revd by Andrew Bergman
Date: 01 May 1978
By DAVID BURNHAM Special to The New York Times
David Special
Espionage trial of USIA employee Ronald L Humphrey and Truong Dinh Hung is scheduled to begin on May 1 (M)
Date: 01 May 1978
Ed comments on Ala prison warden's rejection of request by Soviet journalists to interview convict Johnny Harris, cause celebre in Soviet Union because of alleged Amer racism; says interview should have been granted
Date: 30 April 1978
coup and assassination of Pres Mohammad Daud revd; Daud illus (S)