The April 1, 1981 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 90 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 45 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 95 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, April 1, 2027, in 269 days. You have lived for 16,531 days, or about 396,765 hours, or about 23,805,941 minutes, or about 1,428,356,460 seconds.
Date: 01 April 1981
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The Tribune Company, which publishes The Chicago Tribune, The Daily News in New York and newspapers in Florida, said it had completed its acquisition of the Douglas Communications Corporation, which owns and operates cable television systems serving communities in New York, Maryland, Tennessee and Louisiana. The cable firms all will be assigned to Tribune Company Cable Inc., a newly created subsidiary of the Chicago-based communications company.
Date: 02 April 1981
By Richard Eder, Special To the New York Times
Richard Eder
Behind the messages of sympathy from heads of state and government - perhaps even the ''shock'' expressed by the Chinese Prime Minister and the ''indignation'' of the Soviet leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev - a quieter, troubled strain can be sensed in the international reaction to the attempted assassination of President Reagan. It could be summed up like this: There is a vulnerability in what is still generally reckoned the most powerful nation in the world; and, one way or another, much of the world feels vulnerable through it. It is a strain that underlay the dismayed comments about the failure of the United States to curb the sale of handguns. London's Daily Express wrote: ''The sickness of America comes fully loaded with the safety catch off. It's almost as easy to buy a gun as a bar of candy, and every public figure in the country must walk in danger because of it.''
Date: 01 April 1981
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Beaulieu, the French movie camera and projector manufacturer, suffering financially from the arrival of home video equipment and stiff competition from Japan, has declared itself bankrupt.
Date: 02 April 1981
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The American Tobacco Company said it will close its Richmond plant, where cigarettes have been manufactured for 50 years, by Oct. 1, but said it plans to continue operating several other major facilities in the Richmond area. A company spokesman said the closing of the 600-employee factory, known as the Virginia Branch, should be completed within six months. The company blamed ''changes in cigarette manufacturing requirements'' and increased operating costs.
Date: 01 April 1981
By Marjorie Hunter, Special To the New York Times
Marjorie Hunter
As President Reagan was wheeled into the operating room yesterday afternoon, he looked up at his surgeons and said: ''Please tell me you're Republicans.'' The President got only half his wish. Dr. Benjamin Larry Aaron is a Republican.Dr. Joseph Martin Giordano is a Democrat, but he had comforting words for the man about to undergo surgery at George Washington University Hospital. ''Mr. President,'' he said, ''right now, everybody is a Republican.'' As it happened, both the men who operated for nearly three hours on the Commander in Chief of the armed forces had practiced in United States military hospitals.
Date: 01 April 1981
The Bank of America, the nation's largest, said the Argentine Government had given final approval to its purchase of the Banco Internacional S.A. of Argentina for $145 million. Bank of America said that Banco Internacional is Argentina's 16th-largest bank, having deposits of $337 million and 60 branches, most of them in the metropolitan Buenos Aires area.
Date: 01 April 1981
By John Holusha, Special To the New York Times
John Holusha
The General Motors Corporation confirmed today that it was studying cutbacks of its salaried employees as part of an effort to trim costs after a year in which it lost $763 million. The layoffs could affect up to 15 percent of its 187,000 salaried employees, according to a report in The Detroit News.
Date: 02 April 1981
Waste Management Inc. of Oak Brook, Ill., announced that separate joint ventures in which it is a principal appeared to be the low bidders for five-year city cleaning contracts in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Cordoba, Argentina.
Date: 01 April 1981
By Steve Lohr
Steve Lohr
The Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals Corporation yesterday announced a plan for splitting up the two sides of its business - commodity trading and industrial operations - into two independent, publicly held companies. According to the plan, the existing shares of the corporation would become the outstanding stock of the Phi@lipp Brothers Corporation, the new corporate entity that embraces the raw materials trading and marketing operations. Shareholders would receive fourtenths of a share of the new company, the Engelhard Corporation, for every share of existing Englehard Minerals and Chemicals they hold.
Date: 02 April 1981
By Edward Rothstein
Edward Rothstein
THE aspiring American conductor has not fared very well in his native land, judging from the many foreign conductors leading major American orchestras. Five years ago, Harold Farberman founded the Conductor's Guild as part of the American Symphony Orchestra League to help alleviate the situation. This summer the group, which publishes a journal and regularly organizes conducting workshops, will sponsor an Institute for American Conductors. From Aug. 3 to Aug. 20 at West Virginia University, master classes will be led by Maurice Abravanel, Sergiu Comissiona, Otto-Werner Mueller and Mr. Farberman. "We are trying to find an answer to the European opera house in this country," Mr. Farberman explained. "In addition to teaching, we will be telling the young American conductor what the American music system is like. We will invite soloists, managers, orchestra board members and musicologists to participate. American composers will also be invited; if an American conductor doesn't promote American music, no one else will. Ultimately we want to establish an eight-week summer session."
Date: 01 April 1981
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The automobile marketing organizations of Vauxhall Motors Ltd. and Adam Opel A.G. in Britain will be combined immediately, Vauxhall announced today.