April 1981 - April 1, 1981 (Wednesday)

April 1, 1981 (Wednesday)

• The Isuzu Motor Company formally began selling its cars in the United States, becoming the sixth Japanese manufacturer to sell in the United States.;
• The U.S.S.R. implemented daylight saving time for the first time since 1930, with all clocks being set forward an hour at midnight. Many nations in Western Europe had changed the time on Sunday.(at the time, the U.S. did not spring forward until the last Sunday in April, April 26 in 1981)
• A videotape of psychic Tamara Rand's January 6, 1981, appearance on "The Dick Maurice Show", with a prediction that President Reagan would be shot by an assassin with the initials "J.H.", was broadcast on CNN, and the next day on NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America. Five days later, Rand and Maurice admitted that the prediction sequence had been taped the day after the shooting.
• Born: Asli Bayram, Turkish-German actress, in Darmstadt; and Hannah Spearritt, English singer (S Club) and actress, in Great Yarmouth