In April 1985 Sakharov started a new hunger strike for his wife to travel abroad for medical treatment.

" The Civilian Conservation Corps: Demonstrating the Value of Soil Conservation ," Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 40 ( March – April 1985 ): 184-188 online

Enver Hoxha (; 16 October 190811 April 1985 ) was the Communist leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania.

As President of the Republic, Cossiga was Head ( and also Knight Grand Cross with Grand Cordon ) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( from 3 July 1985 to 28 April 1992 ), Military Order of Italy, Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Order of Merit for Labour and Order of Vittorio Veneto and Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Red Cross.

Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania for four decades, died on 11 April 1985.

Previously, on April 1985, Japanese digital telephone exchange hardware made by Fujitsu was used to experimentally deploy the world's first I interface ISDN.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, owned by the government until 1985, had dominated the communications industry until April 1985 BC., when new common carriers, including Daini Denden, were permitted to enter the field.

" Soviet Policy: From Chernenko to Gorbachev ," Aussenpolitik, 36, No. 4, April 1985, 357 – 75.

In April 1985, all Export-Import Bank financing was prohibited.

* April 1985 — To ratify the new constitution of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

Representatives from both sides initiated a series of low-level contacts that led to a resumption of diplomatic ties in April 1985.

* 1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.

In April 1985, Nike introduced its own brand of basketball shoe which would become popular in its own right, the Air Jordan, named after the then-rookie Chicago Bulls basketball player, Michael Jordan.

Atlantis was the fourth operational ( and the next-to-the-last ) Space Shuttle to be constructed by the Rockwell International company in Southern California, and it was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida in April 1985.

On April 24, 1985, in the midst of presidential elections, it tried to assassinate Domingo García Rada, the president of the Peruvian National Electoral Council, severely injuring him and mortally wounding his driver.

After the United States Congress turned down continued funding of the Contras in April 1985, the Reagan administration ordered a total embargo on United States trade with Nicaragua the following month, accusing the Sandinista government of threatening United States security in the region.

The first Dukes release was the EP 25 O ' Clock, issued on April Fools ' Day 1985.

* April 21 – Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail ( d. 1985 )

* April 30 – Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 1985 )

* April 26 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist and inventor ( d. 1985 )

In 1985, Fleetwood Mac began work on Tango in the Night, which was released in April 1987.

Challenger ( OV-099 ) was delivered to KSC in July 1982, Discovery ( OV-103 ) in November 1983, and Atlantis ( OV-104 ) in April 1985.

In April and May 1985, Queen completed the Works Tour with sold-out shows in Australia and Japan.

Jacob Emden also known as Ya ' avetz, ( b. June 4, 1697, Altona-d. April 19, 1776, Altona ), was a leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed Orthodox Judaism in the face of the growing influence of the Sabbatean movement.

In April 1885, a short branch was opened off the Werribee line just past Newport to Williamstown Racecourse, and in November 1888, a branch was opened off the Racecourse branch to Altona, terminating at a station named Altona Beach.

Altona North Post Office first opened on 11 April 1960 as suburban development took place.

According to worldwide media reports in April 2005, toads in the Altona district of Hamburg were observed by nature protection officials to swell up with gases and explode, propelling their innards for distances of up to one metre.

After 1873 he lived successively at Altona, Berlin and Wiesbaden, where he died on April 19, 1892.

The passenger service was not extended to Westona until January 1985, then to Laverton in April the same year.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book's publication date.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

Replacing the discontinued Medical Technicians Bulletin, publication of which was suspended with the November-December 1959 issue, a section called `` Technical Notes '' was inaugurated on a bimonthly basis beginning with the April 1960 issue.

In April came a rapid thaw that produced high waters which did not recede until mid-June.

An adverse vote of 81 to 65 kept in the State Affairs Committee a bill which would order the referendum on the April 4 ballot, when Texas votes on a U.S. senator.

Pope Pius the Sixth, at Rome, in April, 1778, wrote the following: `` The faithful should be excited to the reading of the Holy Scriptures: For these are the most abundant sources which ought to be left open to everyone, to draw from them purity of morals and of doctrine, to eradicate errors which are so widely disseminated in these corrupt times ''.

On April 15, Lincoln called on all the states to send detachments totaling 75, 000 troops to recapture forts, protect Washington, and " preserve the Union ", which, in his view, still existed intact despite the actions of the seceding states.

When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

In China the symbolic ploughing of the earth by the emperor and princes of the blood took place in their third month, which frequently corresponds to April.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

* Earliest day on which Sechseläuten can fall, while April 21 is the latest ; celebrated on the third Monday in April.

The bill called for former President George W. Bush to recognize and use the word genocide in his annual April 24 speech which he never used.

* Earliest day on which Sizdah Be-dar can fall, while April 2 is the latest ; celebrated on the 13th day after vernal equinox.

* 1989 – People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests

In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.

The gathering of ormers is now restricted to a number of ' ormering tides ', from January 1 to April 30, which occur on the full or new moon and two days following.

The battle which followed on April 6, 402 ( coinciding with Easter ), was a victory for Rome, though a costly one.

On 6 April 1129, Afonso Henriques dictated the writ in which he proclaimed himself Prince of Portugal.

In April 1820, the Brontës moved into the a five-roomed Haworth Parsonage which became their home for the rest of their lives.

* Earliest day on which First Day of Summer or Sumardagurinn fyrsti can fall, while April 25 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Thursday after April 18.