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.

The original design concepts of the DVG came out of Atari's off-campus research lab in Grass Valley, California, in 1978.

Their results were inconclusive, but research continued until at least 1978.

These include: In 1959 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; in 1967 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences ; the ACM's Turing Award for making " basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing " ( 1975 ); the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics " for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations " ( 1978 ); the National Medal of Science ( 1986 ); and the APA's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology ( 1993 ).

Several other TCP / IP prototypes were developed at multiple research centers between 1978 and 1983.

The International Association for Near-death Studies ( IANDS ) was founded in 1978 to meet the needs of early researchers and experiencers within this field of research.

In 1978, the NASA SETI program was heavily criticized by Senator William Proxmire, and funding for SETI research was removed from the NASA budget by Congress in 1981, however, funding was restored in 1982, after Carl Sagan talked with Proxmire and convinced him of the program's value.

In 1961, Perec began working at the Neurophysiological Research Laboratory in the unit's research library funded by the CNRS and attached to the Hôpital Saint-Antoine as an archivist, a low-paid position which he retained until 1978.

Scholar Bernard Brommel, author of a 1978 biography of Debs, has also donated his biographical research materials to the Newberry Library in Chicago, where they are open to researchers.

Since 1978, a systematic excavation has led Loud in the setting of a regional research program on the evolution of the churches during the Middle Ages.

An immunocompetent hairless breed was also identified by the Institute Armand Frappier in 1978, and Charles River Laboratories has reproduced this breed for research since 1982.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse ( NIDA ) contracts to the university the production of cannabis for the use in approved research studies on the plant as well as for distribution to the seven surviving medical cannabis patients grandfathered into the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program ( established in 1978 and canceled in 1991 ).

The Institute for Historical Review ( IHR ), founded in 1978, is an American organization that describes itself as a " public-interest educational, research and publishing center dedicated to promoting greater public awareness of history.

This organization was tasked to conduct scientific research into those branches of alternative medicine, until 1978.

In March 1978 the composite council was dissolved and replaced by four independent research councils, one each for Ayurveda and Siddha, Unani, homoeopathy and yoga and naturopathy.

* GOES 3, launched on June 16, 1978, used as a communications relay for the South Pole research station.

* GEOS ( satellite ), a research satellite from ESRO ( 1978 – 1982 )

Giacconi's pioneering research continued in 1978 with the Einstein Observatory, the first fully imaging X-ray telescope put into space, and later with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched in 1999 and is still in operation.

In 1978, Schaeffer asked a group of Reformed Episcopal Clergy to research his thoughts and current trends, forming a church guild called “ The Society of Reformed Philosophical Thinkers ” that later in 1988 merged with “ Into Thy Word Ministries ,” also envisioned by Schaeffer, and then the remnants of the “ Charles E. Fuller Institute ” in 1998 were merged forming, “ The Francis A. Schaeffer Institute of Church Leadership Development .” Its purpose is continuing the work which started in Carmel California as a think-tank and Bible literacy project, currently in Pasadena, Ca.

Begun in April 1967 with unmanned research satellite missions, the first manned mission occurred in February 1978.

Geschke formed and headed PARC's Imaging Sciences Laboratory in 1978 where he directed research activities in the fields of computer science, graphics, image processing, and optics.

Her research interests focused on endocrinology, and she received certification as a pediatric endocrinologist in 1978.

* Annamacharya Project: Established in 1978 with a view to propagate the tatwa and mahatwa of Lord Sri Venkateswara by 3 means: train musicians, research and publication and recording and sale of kirtans.

In 1978 he was appointed to an NRC panel which accepted many of the increases and the need for reductions but argued the need for more research.

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.

First recognized as a clinical " wasting " syndrome in 1967 in mule deer in a wildlife research facility in northern Colorado, USA, it was identified as a TSE in 1978 and has spread to a dozen states and two Canadian provinces.