* 1978 election: Fernand Dubé, Prog.

Unlike the immediate acceptance shown in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for the audience to warm up to him.

The PDPA took power in the 1978 Saur Revolution.

France and Comoros signed a mutual security treaty in 1978 ; following the mercenary coup against Abdallah in 1989, French troops restored order and took responsibility for reorganizing and training the Comorian army.

Bailey returned to Edmonton to play with the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association in 1978 – 79, where he took rookie Wayne Gretzky under his wing.

The 8086 took a little more than two years from idea to working product, which was considered rather fast for a complex design in 1976 – 1978.

Their first actual multi-song concert billed as Jan and Dean took place in 1978 in New York City at The Palladium as part of the Murray the K Brooklyn Fox Reunion Show.

In April 1978 the PDPA took power in Afghanistan, with Najibullah a member of the ruling Revolutionary Council.

After Deng Xiaoping took power in 1978 greater autonomy has been given to provinces in terms of economic policy implementation as well as other areas of policy such as education and transportation.

The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971 to 1978, took a respite, and returned occasionally on ABC from 1989 to 2003.

The group's most infamous act took place in 1978, when the second groups of the BR, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnapped the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who was trying to reach a compromesso storico, or " historic compromise ", with the Communists.

However, the 1978 crackdown on Iraqi Communists and a shift of trade toward the West strained Iraqi relations with the Soviet Union ; Iraq then took on a more Western orientation until the Gulf War in 1991.

On a real per capita basis, doubling from the 1978 base took place in 1987, 1996 and 2006.

It took until 1992 to discover a second trans-Neptunian object, ( 15760 ) 1992 QB < sub > 1 </ sub >, with only the discovery of Pluto's moon Charon in 1978 before that.

The CNMI Government adopted its own constitution in 1977, and the constitutional government took office in January 1978.

When Reasoner left CBS to co-anchor ABC's evening newscast ( he would return to CBS and the show in 1978 ), Morley Safer joined the team in 1970, and he took over Reasoner's duties of reporting less aggressive stories.

The first tram line extension in over twenty years took place in 1978, along Burwood Highway.

After the run of a 1978 play, First Monday of October, he took the advice of his doctors and quit plays, though he continued to star in films and television.

After a stint between 1974 and 1978 as the host of the Thames Television murder-mystery game show Whodunnit !, Pertwee took the starring role in Worzel Gummidge, based on the books written by Barbara Euphan Todd.

After Wilson stepped down in 1978 to protest the lack of funding for the lab, Leon M. Lederman took on the job.

The group then took over the European division of Chrysler ( which were formerly Rootes and Simca ), in 1978 as the American auto manufacturer struggled to survive.

In R v Hale ( 1978 ) the application of force and the stealing took place in different locations, and it was not possible to establish the timing ; it was held that the appropriation necessary to prove theft was a continuing act, and the jury could correctly convict of robbery ; this approach was followed in R v Lockley ( 1995 ) when the force was applied to a shopkeeper after property had been taken.

The Tāna script was reinstated by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom shortly after he took power in 1978.

In 1978, when Deng Xiaoping took power, Sichuan was one of the first provinces to undergo limited experimentation with market economic enterprise.

In 1978, Pickens lent his voice to theme park Silver Dollar City as a character named Rube Dugan, for a ride called " Rube Dugan's Diving Bell ", The diving bell was a simulation ride that took passengers on a journey to the bottom of Lake Silver and back.

However his win at Amsterdam 1978 took him to his first interzonal tournament at Rio de Janeiro, where he failed to progress further.

* Airline Deregulation Act, 1978 US bill removing governmental control from commercial aviation

On April 27, 1978, the PDPA and military units loyal to the PDPA, killed Daoud Khan, his immediate family and bodyguards in a violent coup, and seized control of the capital Kabul.

In 1978, the Technics SL-1200MK2 turntable was released, whose comfortable and precise sliding pitch control and high torque direct drive motor made beatmatching easier and it became the standard among DJs.

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Its updated model, SL-1200MK2, released in 1978, had a stronger motor, a convenient pitch control slider for beatmatching and a stylus illuminator, which made it the long standing favourite among disc jockeys ( see " Turntablism ").

Eventually the Syrians brought most of the nation under their control, as part of a power-struggle with Israel, which occupied areas of southern Lebanon in 1978.

In 1978 the army seized control of the Mauritanian government and Polisario declared a cease-fire, on the assumption that Mauritania would withdraw unconditionally.

* The Ogaden War ( 1977 – 1978 ) was another African conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia over control of the Ogaden region.

It was introduced in August 1978, following its predecessor, the VT52, and communicated with its host system over serial lines using the ASCII character set and control sequences ( a. k. a. escape sequences ) standardized by ANSI.

A part of his Future History and prequel to " Requiem ", it covers events around a fictional first Moon landing, in 1978, and the schemes of Delos D. Harriman, a businessman who is determined to personally reach and control the Moon.

The Airline Deregulation Act is a 1978 United States federal law intended to remove government control over fares, routes and market entry ( of new airlines ) from commercial aviation.

* Zap issues from 1 and 0 ( 1967 or ' 68 ) through at least 9 ( 1978 ) and several more, Apex Novelties, Print Mint, Last Gasp and other transient brand names, generally under Crumb's control.

The Moral Majority was formally initiated as a result of a struggle for control of an American conservative Christian advocacy group known as Christian Voice during 1978.

So BBC engineers began talks with one or two television manufacturers, which led to early prototypes in around 1977 – 1978 that could control many more functions.

Although few of the remaining buildings survive and the control tower was demolished after a fire in 1978 along with the hangars, Kenley is thought to be the best preserved of all World War II RAF fighter stations, with the runway still in its original configuration.

The " Winter of Discontent " is an expression, popularised by the British media, referring to the winter of 1978 – 79 in the United Kingdom, during which there were widespread strikes by local authority trade unions demanding larger pay rises for their members, because the Labour government of James Callaghan sought to hold a pay freeze to control inflation.

After Zhou's death and Mao ’ s soon thereafter, Deng Xiaoping assumed control of the party in late 1978.

In 1985 Siemens bought Allis-Chalmers ' interest in the partnership company Siemens-Allis ( formed 1978 ) which supplied electrical control equipment.

With financial stability came new owners, and in 1978 control passed to the investors Marc Rich and Marvin Davis.

In May 1978, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered the recall of all AMC's 1976 cars ( except those conforming to California emissions regulations ) – some 270, 000 vehicles — plus 40, 000 1975 and 1976 Jeeps and mini trucks, for correction of a fault in the pollution control system.

Mihajlo Ivanovic ), then a Civil Commissioner 29 April 1941 – 22 May 1941 Conte Serafino Mazzolini ( b. 1890 – d. 1945 ), who next stayed on as High Commissioner ( from 12 July 1941, also styled Regent at the proclamation of Nominal independence under Italian control, but exiled King Mihajlo I refuses the throne, when offered the Montenegrin crown ; Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia ( b. 1896 – d. 1978 ) also refuses to be enthroned ) till 23 July 1941 followed by two Governors before the German occupation

In 1978, he began taking control of positions in individual companies.

In 1978 scientists at BMI-TNO, the research unit of Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research at The University of Amsterdam, invented and patented a series of additional key elements to make the volume clamp work in clinical practice, among them: the use of modulated infra-red light in the optical system inside the sensor, the light-weight, easy to wrap finger cuff with Velcro fixation, a new pneumatic proportional control valve principle and last but not least the invention of a setpoint strategy for the determination and tracking of the correct volume at which to clamp the finger arteries – the Physiocal system.

Dagarwal assumed the control of the country from April 27 – 30, 1978 as the Head of the Military Revolutionary Council.