On this day
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dozens of tanks are still parked at main intersections in Kabul, but they are decorated with flowers and streamers; tank illus; damage to Govt bldgs described; broadcasts by Revolutionary Council reptdly avoid use of words 'Communist' or 'Socialist' to describe itself (M)
Richard M. Nixon says that the decision to bomb the Hanoi area in Christmas week of 1972 was his most difficult of the whole war, but “it was also one of the most clear cut and necessary ones.”
article on various buffet, dinner and luncheon parties in Louisville during Derby wk; illus (M)
SEC Chmn Williams discusses merger trend, int; illus (M)
ALBANY, May 2—Mayor Koch quietly circulating a proposal to broaden and extend for seven years the power of the Emergency Financial Control Board to reject all contracts between New York City and its municipal labor unions.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 3, 1978, covering May 3, 1978.
Soundtrack
Wings
Eric Clapton
Kansas
Jefferson Starship
1978Paul Banks, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Paul Julian Banks is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and DJ. Noted for his baritone singing voice, he is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and studio bassist of the American rock band Interpol. He released a solo album called Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper in 2009 under the name Julian Plenti, though his solo material is now recorded under his real name.
1978Lawrence Tynes, American football player[†]
Lawrence James Henry Tynes is a former professional American football placekicker. After he played soccer for Milton High School, a coach suggested he try out for the football team as a kicker. He played college football at Troy and was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2001. He spent two seasons on the practice squad in Kansas City, then played in NFL Europe and in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He came back to Kansas City and played for the Chiefs for three seasons, and was then traded to the Giants in 2007. In his first season with the Giants, he kicked the game-winning field goal in overtime against the Green Bay Packers in the 2007–08 NFC Championship Game, which qualified the Giants for Super Bowl XLII. Four years later, he kicked another overtime field goal against the San Francisco 49ers in the 2011–12 NFC Championship Game, which qualified the Giants for Super Bowl XLVI. He experienced his best success with the Giants, winning Super Bowl championships in 2007 and 2011, defeating the New England Patriots in both games.
1978Bill Downs, American journalist (born 1914)[†]
William Randall Downs, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He worked for CBS News from 1942 to 1962 and for ABC News beginning in 1963. He was one of the original members of the team of war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys.
1978The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.[†]
Electronic mail is a method of transmitting and receiving digital messages using electronic devices over a computer network. It was conceived in the late–20th century as the digital version of, or counterpart to, mail. Email is a ubiquitous and very widely used communication medium; in current use, an email address is often treated as a basic and necessary part of many processes in business, commerce, government, education, entertainment, and other spheres of daily life in most countries.
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]