It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12: 54 PM EST on 16 April 1972, the mission lasted eleven days, one hour, and fifty-one minutes, and concluded at 2: 45 PM EST on 27 April.

Apollo 16 launches from the Kennedy Space Center on 16 April 1972.

In January 1972, three months before the planned April launch date, a fuel tank in the Command Module was accidentally damaged during a routine test.

The official mission countdown began on Monday, 10 April 1972 at 8: 30 AM, six days before the launch.

The Apollo 16 mission successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12: 54 PM EST on 16 April 1972.

The lunar module ascent stage separated 24 April 1972 but a loss of attitude control rendered it out of control.

Landed on the Moon, April 1972.

* NASA Apollo 16 press kit-6 April 1972

In his transmittal, he states: " I am transmitting herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons, and on their Destruction, opened for signature at Washington, London and Moscow on April 10, 1972.

The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.

Although Japan eventually recognized the People's Republic in 1972, shortly after Kakuei Tanaka succeeded Sato as Prime Minister of Japan, the memory of this relationship was strong enough to be reported by The New York Times ( April 15, 1978 ) as a significant factor inhibiting trade between Japan and the mainland.

DAW issued its first four titles in April 1972.

On April 6, 1972 the Egyptian government severed relations in protest for a Jordanian plan for federation with the West Bank, which didn't take PLO interests unto considerations.

ELO's debut concert took place on 15 April 1972 at The Fox & Hounds Pub in Croydon, U. K. with a line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt ( horns, keyboards ), Wilfred Gibson ( violin ), Hugh McDowell ( cello ), Mike Edwards, Andy Craig ( cello ) and Richard Tandy on bass.

On April 7, 1972 the Virginia General Assembly enacted legislation which separated George Mason College from its parent institution, the University of Virginia.

Kwame Nkrumah ( 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972 ), P. C., was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966.

Later, the National Stadium was also home to the WRU Challenge Cup from 1972 until the match held at the Stadium on 26 April 1997, at a much reduced capacity, between Cardiff RFC and Swansea RFC.

In April 1972, he stood for the Deputy Leadership of the party, along with Edward Short and Anthony Crosland.

With Pink Flamingos ( 1972 ) and Reefer Madness ( 1936 ) making money in midnight showings nationwide, RHPS was eventually screened at midnight, starting in New York City on April Fools ' Day of 1976.

He resigned both the deputy leadership and his shadow cabinet position in April 1972 however, over the party's policy on favouring a referendum on British membership of the European Economic Community ( EEC ).

It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ¥ 33 million in capital.

This motif is evidenced in the era of " paranoid soul " such as " Smiling Faces Sometimes " ( released by The Temptations in April 1971, and made a hit by The Undisputed Truth in July 1971 ), " I'll Take You There " ( The Staples Singers, 1972 ), " Don't Call Me Brother " ( The O ' Jays, 1973 ), " Back Stabbers " ( The O ' Jays ), and " You Caught Me Smilin ( Sly and the Family Stone, 1971 ).

While still filming The Getaway in El Paso, Texas, Peckinpah sneaked across the border into Juarez in April 1972 and married Joie Gould.

On April 19, 1897 Taxil called a press conference at which he claimed he would introduce Diana Vaughan to the press.

* April 4 – Peter Vaughan, English actor

* April 28 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet ( b. 1621 )

On the night of 29 April Richard met and dined with Earl Rivers and Edward's half-brother, Richard Grey, but the following morning Rivers and Grey, along with the king's chamberlain, Thomas Vaughan, were arrested and sent north.

In April 1985, Vaughan appeared on opening day at the Houston Astrodome to perform " The Star Spangled Banner ".

Sarah Lois Vaughan ( March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990 ) was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having " one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century.

Regardless, after a brief tryout at the Apollo, Hines officially replaced his existing male singer with Vaughan on April 4, 1943.

Vaughan began recording for Roulette in April 1960, making a string of strong large ensemble albums arranged and / or conducted by Billy May, Jimmy Jones, Joe Reisman, Quincy Jones, Benny Carter, Lalo Schifrin, and Gerald Wilson.

Vaughan grew weary of the struggle and demanded to be taken home, where she died on the evening of April 3, 1990, while watching a television movie featuring her daughter, a week after her 66th birthday.

The famous railroad accident that killed 37-year-old engineer Casey Jones happened near Vaughan in the early morning hours of April 30, 1900.

The Casey Jones Railroad Museum State Park at Vaughan was designated a State Park on April 27, 1980.

Mason was the flugelhorn soloist for the world premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 9 on 2 April 1958.

* April 16-Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, poet ( born 1819 )

* April 28-Henry Vaughan, poet ( born 1622 )

* April 17-Henry Vaughan ( died 1695 ), poet, and Thomas Vaughan ( philosopher ) ( died 1666 ), philosopher ( twins )

" On April 30, 1900, he alone was killed when his passenger train, the Cannonball Express, collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi, on a foggy and rainy night.

By the time Meilleur died of a blood clot at age 117 in April 1998 in Corbeil, Ontario, one of her sons was also living in the same nursing home, and her oldest living daughter, Gabrielle Vaughan, was 90 years old.

But when Vaughan sacked Aizlewood in April ( after a 1 – 0 defeat at Darlington ), Rush resigned on principle.

Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid ( 19 September 1882 – 25 April 1970 ) was a British railway and mechanical engineer best known as the Chief Mechanical Engineer ( CME ) of the Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation, developing many well-known locomotives.

Lucy Walter, a Welsh noblewoman, was the daughter of Richard or William Walter, of Roch Castle and of Haverfordwest and wife Elizabeth Protheroe, daughter of John Protheroe, of Hawkesbrook and wife Elinor Vaughan, maternal granddaughter of Walter Vaughan, of Grove and wife Mary or Katherine ferch Gruffud FitzUryan, in turn daughter of Griffith ap Rice FitzUryan ( d. 1592 ) and wife Eleanor Jones, daughter of Sir Thomas Jones, and paternal granddaughter of Rhys FitzUryan and wife Lady Katherine Howard ( c. 1518-12 April 1554, interred 11 May 1554 ), daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and Agnes Tilney.

The Temple Church's excellent acoustics have also attracted secular musicians: Sir John Barbirolli recorded a famous performance of the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams there in 1962 ( at the suggestion of Bernard Herrmann ), and Paul Tortelier made his recording of the complete Bach Cello Suites there in April 1982.

In April 2004, Vaughan moved to radio and returned to the " zoo " format, when he replaced Chris Tarrant as the presenter of Capital Breakfast on 95. 8 Capital FM, which saw the listening figures for his show drop from over 1. 3 million to 980, 000 listeners, according to official RAJAR statistics.