On April 12, 2012, Bir and 30 other officers were taken in custody for their role in the 1997 military memorandum that forced the then Turkish government, led by the Islamist Welfare Party, to step down.

By April 1938, Ribbentrop had ended all German arms shipments to China and had all of the German Army officers serving with the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek recalled ( with the threat that the families of the officers in China would be sent to concentration camps if the officers did not return to Germany immediately ).

A POW camp for officers, Oflag X-C, was located near the city from 1940 until April 1945.

After Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father Oliver as Lord Protector in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers ' coup in April, 1659, the officers re-summoned the Rump Parliament to sit.

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 2010, Arizona enacted SB 1070, a law that would require law-enforcement officers to verify the citizenship of individuals they stop if they have reasonable suspicion that they may be in the United States illegally.

In April 1968, a group of senior military officers who called themselves the Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement led by Brigadier General John Amadu Bangura overthrew the NRC junta.

On 29 April 1992, a twenty five year old Captain Valentine Strasser lead a group of seven junior officers in the Sierra Leone army that that included Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Sergeant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma, Captain Julius Maada Bio and Captain Komba Mondeh came all the way from their military baracks in Kailahun District and launched a military coup in Freetown, which sent president Momoh into exile in Guinea and the young soldiers established the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) with Strasser as its chairman and Head of State of the country.

In April 1946, the last French officers were forced to leave Syria due to sustained resistance offensives ; the Levantine Forces then became the regular armed forces of the newly independent state and grew rapidly to about 12, 000 by the time of the 1948 Arab − Israeli War, the first of four Arab − Israeli wars between 1948 and 1986.

* April 29 – Los Angeles riots: Acquittal of four police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers massive rioting in Los Angeles.

* April 9 – Somali military officers stage an unsuccessful coup against the government of Siad Barre ; security forces thwart the attempt within hours, and several conspirators are arrested.

* April 5 – During the Cold Food Festival, Chinese Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has his chief ministers of court, sons-in-law, and high-ranking military officers engage in the festive game of tug of war within a palace of Chang ' an City.

In April, Whistler and other senior officers at the fort were removed ; Whistler was replaced as commandant of the fort by Captain Nathan Heald.

On April 22, 1921, a month after he turned 18, Beiderbecke was arrested by two Davenport police officers on a charge brought by the father of a young girl.

In April 1918 the RNAS, which at this time had 67, 000 officers and men, 2, 949 aircraft, 103 airships and 126 coastal stations, merged with the RFC to form the Royal Air Force.

On 11 April 1901, Louis Botha corresponded with Kitchener, complaining that British officers were inducing the Swazis to fight against the Boers.

President Barack Obama addresses United States Secret Service Uniformed Division officers before a group photo at the South Portico of the White House, April 4, 2011.

Military officers had revolted against the provisional Junta to restore Bosch, whereupon U. S. President Lyndon Johnson, under the pretext of eliminating Communist influence in the Caribbean sent 42, 000 U. S. troops to defeat the revolt in Operation Power Pack, on April 28.

The listed Police Members were Corp. Thomas Whitwell, Troopers John, Patrick Monahan, Thomas Cornwark and Dismounted Trooper Edward Beech ; these officers were Gazetted on 30 April 1839.

The mutineers turning Lt. Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift from His Majesty's Ship HMS Bounty | Bounty, 29 April 1789.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

You must attach a statement to your return, if you take advantage of this automatic extension, showing that you were in Alaska or were outside the United States or Puerto Rico on April 15 or other due date.

On that cold, but bright, April day we were guests of your government in the reviewing stand of Red Square to witness the poeple's celebration for Yuri Gagarin and later on that day we attended the somewhat more exclusive reception for him in one of the impressive palaces of the Kremlin.

April sales also were 5% below those of April last year, when volume reached a record for any month, $18.9 billion ( see chart on Page One ).

Commerce Department officials were inclined to explain the April sales decline as a reaction from a surge of consumer buying in March.

For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

Johnston and his wounded horse, named Fire Eater, were taken to his field headquarters on the Corinth road, where his body remained in his tent until the Confederate Army withdrew to Corinth the next day, April 7, 1862.

April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

In April 1718 fresh confessions were extorted from, and in regard to, Alexei.

As the countdown began, the crew of Apollo 16 were participating in final training exercises in anticipation of a launch on 16 April.

On 15 April, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants were pumped into the spacecraft, while the astronauts rested in anticipation of their launch the next day.

The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872 and an estimated one million trees were planted that day.

On the first Arbor Day, April 10, 1872, an estimated one million trees were planted.

On April 6, 2006, in a case arising from a game involving community college baseball teams, the Supreme Court of California ruled that baseball players in California assume the risk of being hit by baseballs even if the balls were intentionally thrown so as to cause injury.

On the latter front Marshal Vendôme defeated the Imperial army at Calcinato on 19 April, pushing the Imperialists back in confusion ( French forces were now in a position to prepare for the long-anticipated siege of Turin ).

The arrival of troops on 16 December put a final end to the republican resistance without bloodshed, and 57 insurgents were tried ; 38 were condemned to deportation ( though several were pardoned in April ).

The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.

In 1931, the castle gardens were first opened to the public, and are now open daily between April and the end of July, after which the Queen arrives for her annual stay.

These were the Yaoundé II Declaration of 4 April 1971 and the Maroua Declaration of 1 June 1975, which were devised to outline maritime boundaries between the two countries following their independence.