16 април 1979 г. беше понеделник под звездния знак на ♈. Беше 105 ден от годината. Президент на Съединените щати беше Jimmy Carter.
Ако сте родени на този ден, вие сте на 47 години. Последният ви рожден ден беше на четвъртък, 16 април 2026 г., преди 88 дни. Следващият ви рожден ден е на петък, 16 април 2027 г., след 276 дни. Живял си за 17 255 дни, или около 414 141 часа, или около 24 848 493 минути, или около 1 490 909 580 секунди.
Date: 17 April 1979
ABC says that Supreme Court will soon rule that journalists facing libel suits may be forced to tell what their state of mind was while they prepared contested news reports; repts Court has decided important free-press controversy and that Associate Justice Byron R White will write majority opinion
Date: 17 April 1979
By LAURIE JOHNSTON
Laurie JOHNSTON
NY Post metropolitan editor Peter Michaelmore, testifying at pretrial hearing in NYS Sup Ct, Bklyn, at which freelance writer James Mitteager is seeking dismissal of charges that he bribed correction officer Herbert Clarke to obtain photographs of David Berkowitz in his cell at Kings County Med Center, says that he did not know at time that Mitteager was paying source inside prison (M)
Date: 17 April 1979
snag in talks with printers' union has forced London Times to abandon plans to resume publishing again on April 16 after break of 4 1/2 months; Times Newspaper Ltd general manager Dugal Nisbet-Smith says 'whole future is in doubt' (S)
Date: 17 April 1979
Guild repts talks break off; management personnel is being brought in from Hagedone Newspaper Co to help with work; executive editor Richard Hight comments (S)
Date: 17 April 1979
both return to California (S)
Date: 16 April 1979
Elizabeth, NJ, Daily Journal plans to publish on April 16, despite strike; Guild vice chmn Gene Picker comments (S)
Date: 16 April 1979
By JOHN DARNTON Special to The New York Times
John Special
analysis of Tanzanian invasion of Uganda; notes that this is 1st time in history of independent African countries that 1 nation has toppled govt of another; says danger of aggression may have increased on continent in wake of Tanzanian triumph (M)
Date: 17 April 1979
Jon D Franklin, Baltimore Evening Sun science writer, receives Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for 2-part report on brain operation; is 1st winner in new category (S)