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April 10, 1978Born on Tuesday April 11, 1978
- Wouter Nieuwenhuijse, Nieuwe Niedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Aidan Patrick Shevlin
- Rene Marcel Johannes August Courbois, Haarlem, Ned
- Alexander David TWEEDIE, Scotland († 2003)
Died on Tuesday April 11, 1978
- Barbara Mary Schreifels (90), South Haven, Wright, Minnesota, United States of America
- Anna Maria HOEGEN (74), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
- Adriana HAGELAARS (59), 's-Hertogenbosch, 4192, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Charles Shelton Sheppard (77), Banks, Pike, Alabama, Verenigde Staten
- Bessie Louells Stahlman (97)
- Baukje (reins) Feenstra (77), Hindeloopen
- Anna Coleta Vaes (95), Turnhout
- Adrianus Bijl (80), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Albert Schuitema (91), Middelstum,, Groningen, Nederland
- Berend Brondsema (88), Spijk (gem. Bierum)
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from April 11, 1978 at Delpher
Born on April 11
- 1976 » Kelvim Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1977 » Ivonne Teichmann, German runner
- 1978 » Josh Hancock, American baseball player († 2007)
- 1979 » Josh Server, American actor
- 1979 » Malcolm Christie, English footballer
- 1979 » Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
- 1979 » Sebastien Grainger, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1980 » Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
- 1980 » Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
- 1981 » Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
Died on April 11
- 1974 » Ernst Ziegler, German actor (b. 1894)
- 1977 » Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
- 1977 » Phanishwar Nath 'Renu', Indian author and activist (b. 1921)
- 1980 » Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish journalist and producer (b. 1935)
- 1981 » Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (b. 1895)
- 1983 » Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
- 1984 » Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1910)
- 1985 » Bunny Ahearne, Irish-born English businessman (b. 1900)
- 1985 » Enver Hoxha, Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
- 1985 » John Gilroy, English artist and illustrator (b. 1898)
Names that were popular for boys in 1978
- Jan
- Johannes
- Willem
- Cornelis
- Pieter
- Michael
- David
- Robert
- Peter
- Martijn
- Paul
- Hendrik
- Mark
- Jeroen
- John
- Alexander
Names that were popular for girls in 1978
- Maria
- Johanna
- Marie
- Elisabeth
- Cornelia
- Anna
- Wilhelmina
- Ann
- Catharina
- Sandra
- Patricia
- Marieke
- Elizabeth
- Esther
- Linda
- Petronella
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1978
- Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
- January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
- January 18 » The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
- March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
- March 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
- July 10 » ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
The weather on Tuesday April 11, 1978
The temperature on April 11, 1978 was between -0.7 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 17.3 mm of rain during 11.8 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI