Sports News Briefs; Bargaining Is Resumed In Aqueduct Labor Rift
Date: 05 April 1979
NY Yankee players decide to have their clubhouse open to all writers and broadcasters, male and female alike (S)
Roberto Luongo Verjaardag, Geboortedatum
Roberto Luongo (born April 4, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a goaltender for the New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, and Vancouver Canucks. In 2022, Luongo was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Luongo is a two-time NHL All-Star (2004 and 2007) and winner of the William M. Jennings Trophy for backstopping his team to the lowest goals against average in the league (2011, with backup Cory Schneider). He was a finalist for several awards, including the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender (2004, 2007, and 2011), the Lester B. Pearson Award as the top player voted by his peers (2004 and 2007), and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player (2007). Luongo is third all-time in games played as an NHL goaltender (1,044) and fourth all-time in wins (489). He employed the butterfly style of goaltending.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he played in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) for the Val-d'Or Foreurs and the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, winning back-to-back President's Cups and establishing the league's all-time playoff records for games played and wins. Following his second QMJHL season, Luongo was selected fourth overall by the Islanders in the 1997 NHL entry draft. After splitting his professional rookie season between the Islanders and their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Lowell Lock Monsters in 1999–2000, he was traded to the Panthers. In five seasons with Florida, Luongo established team records for games played, wins, and shutouts; despite several strong seasons, however, the Panthers remained a weak team and were unable to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs during Luongo's initial stint with the team. During the 2006 offseason, he was traded to the Canucks after failed contract negotiations with the Panthers.
In his first season in Vancouver, Luongo won 47 games, and was runner-up for both the Hart Memorial Trophy (league MVP) and Vezina Trophy (best goaltender). Following his second year with the Canucks, he became the first NHL goaltender to serve as a team captain since Bill Durnan in the 1947–48 season. Luongo served in that capacity for two seasons before resigning from the position in September 2010. In the subsequent 2010–11 season, he helped the Canucks to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final but lost to the Boston Bruins. During his eight-year tenure with Vancouver, Luongo became the team's all-time leader in wins and shutouts. He returned to the Panthers during the 2013–14 season, where he spent the remainder of his career, qualifying for the playoffs with the Panthers only once during that time. He was the last active goaltender to have played in the NHL in the 1990s. Following his playing career, Luongo joined the Panthers' front office as an executive, ultimately winning back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2024 and 2025.
Internationally, Luongo has competed for Team Canada in numerous tournaments. As a junior, he won a silver medal at the 1999 World Junior Championships, while being named Best Goaltender in his second tournament appearance. Luongo won two gold medals at the 2003 and 2004 World Championships and a silver in the 2005 World Championships. He also won the 2004 World Cup championship and appeared in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin as a backup to Martin Brodeur in both instances. He succeeded Brodeur as Canada's starting goaltender during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, winning a gold medal. On January 7, 2014, he was named to the 2014 Canadian Olympic hockey team, where he won his second Olympic gold medal in a largely backup role to Carey Price.
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4 april 1979 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♈. Het was de 93e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Jimmy Carter.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 47 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 4 april 2026, 59 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 4 april 2027, in 305 dagen. Je hebt 17.226 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 413.438 uur, of ongeveer 24.806.319 minuten, of ongeveer 1.488.379.140 seconden.
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4th of April 1979 News
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Cairo Paper Is Said to Ask Eban To Do a Regular Political Column
Date: 04 April 1979
Israeli newspaper Maariv repts editor of Cairo newspaper Al Ahram has invited former Israeli Foreign Min Abba Eban to write regular column
The Region; Milk Strikers Refuse Binding Arbitration
Date: 04 April 1979
Conn Gov Ella Grasso signs into law bill prohibiting surprise police searches of newsrooms in Conn, effective Oct 1 (S)
Notes on People; British Enter Broadway Battle With Trafalgar A Party for a 'Quintessential New Yorker' A Castle 'Just for Fun' Mario Who? Lecture Series at N.Y.U. Will Honor Chet Huntley
Date: 04 April 1979
Clyde Haberman Albin Krebs
Clyde Albin
Lecture series honoring former NBC anchorman Chet Huntley has been established at NY Univ; lectures are being jointly sponsored by NBC News, NYU and ad agency of Levine Huntley Schmidt Plapler & Beaver Inc (S)
COMPANY NEWS; Posner Discloses 11.7% Share in APL
Date: 04 April 1979
Mesa Petroleum to sell its 2 British subsidiaries, Mesa Eastern Inc and Mesa (UK), to state-owned British National Oil Corp by June 30; companies also agree that British National will acquire 13% of Mesa's Beatrice Field interest for itself (S)
Bhutto: A Tragic Figure Overwhelmed by His Ambitions; News Analysis
Date: 05 April 1979
By BERNARD WEINRAUB Special to The New York Times
Bernard Special
analysis of Bhutto's pol career; various illus of Bhutto alone and with several other pol figures (L)
Letters; Pitfalls of Bypassing Con Ed
Date: 05 April 1979
BERTRAM SCHWARTZ
Bertram SCHWARTZ
Lr by Austrian Consul Gen Thomas Nowotny disputes rept in Mar 29 article of negative Austrian reaction to Holocaust TV series
World News Briefs; Captain and Crew Face Jail In Manila Over Vietnamese
Date: 05 April 1979
Poland's RC primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski holds meeting with 3 members of nation's major dissident group; speculation is that meeting might have been aimed at discouraging dissident activity during scheduled visit in June of Pope Paul II (S)