This Day in Delaware History
1978 Former California Governor Ronald Reagan came to Delaware on behalf of incumbent Congressman Thomas B. Evans, Jr. About 700 people paid $10 each to see Ronald Reagan at the Grand Opera House and 45 more spent $500 to have lunch with him at the Hotel du Pont. Two years later, Reagan was a candidate himself, for President.
I was four at the time. Still wish I could have gone and seen The Gipper.