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.

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.

He was returned at a by-election on 13 April 1978, an important victory which was seen as halting the rise of the Scottish National Party.

Following the Marxist coup of April 1978, the government under Nur Muhammad Taraki developed significantly closer ties with the Soviet Union and its communist satellites.

* Canada Post issued a pair of 14-cent stamps to mark the 200th anniversary of Captain Cook's arrival at Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island on 26 April 1978.

Outside the Presidential Palace in Kabul, a day after the Saur Revolution | Marxist revolution on April 28, 1978.

The day after the Marxist revolution on April 28, 1978.

On 27 April 1978, the PDPA, led by Nur Mohammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal and Amin Taha overthrew the government of Mohammad Daoud, who was assassinated along with all his family members in a bloody military coup.

* Oral History interview transcript with John Bardeen 12, 16 May, 1, 22 December 1977 & 4 April 1978, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives

Kurt Friedrich Gödel (; ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978 ) was an Austrian American logician, mathematician, and philosopher.

The day after the April 1978 Saur Revolution

Conversely, some of the people of Kabul who lived under King Zahir Shah describe the period before the April 1978 Saur Revolution as a sort of golden age.

On April 27, 1978, in the so-called Saur revolution, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), seized power in a bloody military coup killing Daoud and his family along with many of his supporters.

A committee of military officers governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

In April 1978 there was a coup, known as the Saur Revolution, orchestrated by the Soviets and members of the government loyal to the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ).

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

Even though Dark was fired in the middle of training camp, Smith made his Major League Baseball ( MLB ) debut on April 7, 1978.

The Padres played host to the Atlanta Braves on April 20, 1978, and with two out in the top of the fourth inning, Atlanta's Jeff Burroughs hit a ground ball up the middle.

Following his beatification, his sarcophagus was placed under the Altar of St. Sebastian in the basilica's Chapel of St. Sebastian, where it remained until 8 April 2011 when it was moved to make way for the remains of Blessed Pope John Paul II ( 1978 – 2005 ) to be relocated to the basilica from the grotto beneath St. Peter's in honor of his beatification and in order to make his resting place more accessible to the public.

The album was recorded from April to July in 1978 using a variety of electronic equipment, including various synthesizers such as the KORG PS-3100 polyphonic synthesizer, Oberheim Eight-Voice, Moog III-C, Polymoog, Minimoog, and Micromoog, as well as the Korg VC-10 vocoder, KORG SQ-10 analog sequencer, and Syn-Drums electronic drum kit.

Following the MGVT program and with the decision to not use Enterprise for orbital missions, it was ferried on 10 April, 1978 to KSC.

The IBM System / 360 ( S / 360 ) was a mainframe computer system family announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978.

* April 15 – Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player ( died 1978 )

* April – The last section ( wise – wyze ) of the original Oxford English Dictionary is completed and ready for publication ( OED ( 1933, 1978 vol.

The Comelec cited Pimentel for switching from Laban in April 1978 to the Narional Union for Democracy and Freedom in December 1979 and then running as candidate of the Mindanao Alliance in January 1980.

On April 25, 2008, Senator Pimentel authored a bill that would shift the Philippines into a Federal Republic of the Philippines.

* Universidad Contemporánea of the City of Querétaro installed the Chapter of the Fraternity Phi Delta Phi Góngora Pimentel Inn, on April 27, 2005.

" On April 10, 1833, the family moved to Philadelphia, where Alcott ran a day school.

In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin and Oliver Postgate's family.

The entire twenty-six episodes of the series were later broadcast on WOWOW on October 23, 1998 and ran until April 23, 1999.

The series ran for forty-nine half-hour episodes, beginning on April 7, 1995 and ending on March 29, 1996.

In April, the ABC's new nightly current affairs program This Day Tonight ran a story which criticised the government's decision not to reappoint the Chair of the ABC Board, Sir James Darling.

Saladin attacked Kerak again in April, and in May, a Muslim raiding party ran into the much smaller embassy on its way to negotiate with Raymond, and defeated it at the Battle of Cresson near Nazareth.

In 1997, attempts to renew national institutions through democratic elections ran into administrative difficulties, resulting in a court-ordered annulment of the legislative elections held in April 1997.

Until release 2. 0 in April 1992, OS / 2 ran in 16-bit protected mode and therefore could not benefit from the Intel 80386's much simpler 32-bit flat memory model and virtual 8086 mode features.

It ran for 40 performances from April 29 to June 28, 1987.

On radio RTÉ Radio produced its first radio soap Kennedys of Castleross which began broadcasting on April 13, 1955 and ran until 1975.

The first popular science-fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran from June 1949 to April 1955.

spin-off series ran for one season, starring Stefanie Powers as agent " April Dancer ", a character name credited to Ian Fleming.

The Little Bears was an obvious influence on Gene Carr's Bearville ( aka Bear Land ) which ran in the New York Evening Journal from April 19 to May 7, 1901.

In April 1999, Compaq announced that Tru64 UNIX 5. 0 successfully ran on Intel's IA-64 simulator.

On 1 April 1998, the programme ran an April Fool's Day joke in the Dome Watch slot which showed the Dome's tented roof on fire

The government ran M > Tram until negotiations were completed with Yarra Trams for it to take-over responsibility of the whole tram network from 18 April 2004.

It initially ran as a temporary installation from March 11 to April 14, 2002, and was launched again in 2003 to mark the second anniversary of the attack.

Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique, where it ran for a very successful 363 performances, having already been playing successfully for over three months in New York.

In October 2003 a successful stage show called Round the Horne ... Revisited opened in London, compiled by Series Four co-writer Brian Cooke from original scripts, and ran until April 2005 – also siring three nationwide tours and a BBC television film.

Sports Illustrated ran the cover story in issue for the week of April 3, 1989.

From 11 April, Paris was placarded with posters headed Analyse de la Doctrine de Baboeuf, Tribun du Peuple, of which the opening sentence ran: " Nature has given to every man the right to the enjoyment of an equal share in all property ", and which ended with a call to restore the Constitution of 1793.

Daldrey's production was transferred to Broadway in 1994, where it ran at New York City's Royale Theatre from 27 April to 28 May 1995.

League seasons ran from April through July with the postseason and ArenaCup championship in August.

Although the syndicated Match Game was not a direct cause of the ratings problems Love of Life facedthe 4: 00 PM timeslot, the last network daytime slot, had been a problem for CBS, NBC, and ABC for years and Love of Life had seen a precipitous drop in ratings since the April 1979 move to the late afternoon many stations ran the syndicated series against the veteran soap opera and, in the case of some CBS affiliates and owned-and-operated stations, preempted Love of Life in favor of the new Match Game.