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.

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.

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.

In April 1972, Vaughan recorded a collection of ballads written, arranged and conducted by Michel Legrand.

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.