April 1, 1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus April 1, 1955 Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68 April 1, 1955 Stan Ridway, rocker (Wall Of Voodoo) April 1, 1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast April 1, 1954 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC April 1, 1954 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens April 1, 1954 Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed April 1, 1954 Jeff Porcaro, Los Angeles California, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa) April 1, 1954 US Air Force Academy forms April 1, 1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting April 1, 1953 Aftab Baloch, cricketer (Pakistani in 2 Tests, scored 428 for Sind 74) April 1, 1953 Barry Sonnenfeld, director (When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery) April 1, 1953 J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea April 1, 1953 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting April 1, 1953 Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings v India April 1, 1952 Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, Tripoli Libya, bomber (Pan Am 103) April 1, 1952 Annette O'Toole, Houston Texas, actress (Cat People, Superman III) April 1, 1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow April 1, 1952 Billy Currie, rock keyboardist/violinist (Ultravox-We Came to Dance) April 1, 1952 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester), dies at 76