The welcome Mohammed Daoud Khan received on returning to power on July 17, 1973 reflected the citizenry's disappointment with the lackluster politics of the preceding decade. Zahir Shah's "New Democracy" had promised much but had delivered little. Daoud's comeback was a return to traditional strongman rule and he was a particularly appealing figure to military officers. As prime minister, Daoud had obtained large supplies of modern arms from the Soviet Union and he had been a former army officer himself. Also, his s ...

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On April 19, 1978 a prominent leftist, Mir Akbar Khyber, was killed by the government of Mohammed Daoud Khan. His death served as a rallying point for the Afghan communists. Fearing a communist coup d'etat, Daud ordered the arrest of certain PDPA leaders, including Taraki and Babrak Karmal, while placing others such as Hafizullah Amin under house arrest. On April 27, 1978 the coup was initiated, reportedly by Hafizullah Amin while still under house arrest. Mohammed Daoud Khan was killed the next day along with most of hi ...

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Nur Muhammad Taraki, Nur Muhammad Taraki - Early Political Career, Nur Muhammad Taraki - President of the Republic April 1978 -- October 1979, Nur Muhammad Taraki - Assassination

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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). 1978 - Events. January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 - Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay - 213 dead. January 4 - Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet. January 6 - The Hungarian Holy Crown (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) returned to Hungary from the U ...

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See also: 1977 in music, other events of 1978, 1979 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1978 in music - Events. January 14 - The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. April 22 - The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live. The duo of Jake & Elwood Blues (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) was introduced by Paul Shaffer (as Don Kirschner) and performed "Hey Bartender". Ap ...

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Angamaly (Malayalam: അങ്കമാലി) is a rapidly growing town in Ernakulam district of Kerala, south India, famous as the intersection of Main central road and National Highway 47. Also a Municipality and a Legislative Assembly constituency in Ernakulam district. Starting as a Panchayat in May 1952, Angamaly was raised to a municipality in April 1978. Situated 33 km north of Ernakulam, Angamaly is the northe ...

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Yitzhak Navon (or Yitschak Navon) (born April 9, 1921) was an Israeli political figure. He served as the fifth president of Israel between 1978 and 1983. Born in Jerusalem, Israel, he was first elected to the Knesset in 1965. Between 1984 and 1990 he served as vice prime minister and minister of education. Presidents of Israel ...

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Charon (shar'-ən or karr'-ən, Greek Χάρων) is the largest satellite of Pluto. It was discovered by astronomer James Christy on June 22, 1978 by carefully examining highly magnified images of Pluto on photographic plates taken a couple of months before and noticing that a slight bulge appeared periodically. Later, the bulge was confirmed on plates dating back to April 29, 1965. It received the temporary designation S/1978 P 1, according to the then-recently instituted convention. It is not to be confu ...

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Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, 1933) is an American physicist and winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. He was born in Munich, Germany. Aged six he fled to Britain as part of the Kindertransport. Six months later his parents also left Germany, and the family moved to the garment district of New York City in 1940. In 1946, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He received a bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1954. From Columbia University, he re ...

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The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics. The Conservatives and their leader Margaret Thatcher won and replaced the Labour government. Labour had been in power from February 1974, with James Callaghan succeeding Harold Wilson after his surprise resignation in April 1976. The administration had been a minority government for most of its term, and from March 1977 to August 1978 the government had reached an agreement with the Liberal Party, in a so-c ...

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Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Waldman was born in Millville, New Jersey and grew up on MacDougal Street in New York City. She received her B.A. from Bennington College in 1966. During the 1960s, along with poets, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, Waldman became part of the East Coast poetry scene, giving frequent readings at the St. Mark's Church Poetry Project. She ran the project from 1966-1978. She has published more than forty books. Waldman became a Buddhist, practicing with the Tibetan Chogyam ...

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Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) was one of the most successful female comedians on American television, thanks largely to her eponymous variety show that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978. Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas to two alcoholic parents, Jodie and Louise Burnett, who left her with her grandmother. Carol moved to Hollywood, California with her grandmother where she graduated from Hollywood High School and then attended University of California, Los Angeles and worked her way up through bit parts on ...

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Abraham Thomas Kovoor (April 10, 1898 - September 18, 1978) was a Sri Lankan professor and Rationalist who gained prominence after retirement for his campaign to expose as frauds various Indian "god-men" and so-called paranormal phenomena. His direct, trenchant criticism of spiritual frauds and organized religions were enthusiastically received by audiences, initiating a new dynamism in the Rationalist movement, especially in India. Born at Thiruvalla in Kerala, Kovoor was the son of Rev. Kovoor Eipe Thomma Katthanar, Vi ...

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Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明 Toriyama Akira, born on April 5, 1955 in Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 1978 with the story Wonder Island, published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, and gained fame for Dr. Slump, serialized weekly in Shonen Jump from 1980 to 1984. He is probably best known for his series Dragon Ball. This work was one of the linchpins for what is known as the Golden Age of Jump. Its success "forced" Toriyama to work on Dragon Ball f ...

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Dallas was a long-running primetime television soap opera about the Ewings, a wealthy Texas oil family. It aired on the CBS network from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991. It was broadcast around the world, and is probably the most famous and successful American soap opera outside of the U.S. The series is probably best-known for the central character of J.R. Ewing, the vain, greedy, scheming, crass oil baron played by ...

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1978 in aviation - January. January 1 - British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley, and Scottish Aviation are absorbed into British Aerospace 1978 in aviation - April. April 1 - The Canadian Snowbirds aerobatic team officially becomes the 431 Air Demonstration Squadron. April 18 - the Vickers Viscount becomes the first turboprop airliner to see 25 years in service April 20 - a Korean Airlines Boeing 707 makes a crash landing after being attacked by Soviet fighters over the Kola P ...

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1978 in sports - January-March. January 4 - Dominik Hrbaty, Slovakian tennis player January 8 - Gennaro Gattuso, Italian football player January 12 - Bonaventura Kalou, Ivorian football player January 14 - Shawn Crawford, American athlete January 18 - Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist January 18 - Bogdan Lobont, Romanian football player January 18 - Stev Theloke, German swimmer January 19 - Zbigniew Malkowski, Polish football player Janua ...

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Men's golf Grand Slam of golf results: May - The Masters - Gary Player June - US Open - Andy North July - British Open - Jack Nicklaus August - PGA Championship - John Mahaffey PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Tom Watson - $362,429 Women's golf US Women's Open - Hollis Stacy LPGA Championship - Nancy Lopez Nancy Lopez: leading money winner on ...

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1978 in South Africa - January. Former African National Congress member, Steve Mtshali who turned state witness in various trials is shot and wounded 1978 in South Africa - February. An unexploded bomb "capable of destroying 22 story building is found in a Johannesburg office block and defused 2 February - Guerrillas attack the Daveyton police station 1978 in South Africa - March. 10 March - Bomb explodes outside the offices of the Bantu Affairs building in Port Elizabeth. ...

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Born into a rural Pashtun family, Taraki attended night school while working as a clerk in Bombay, India, where he learned English. In the late 1940s he worked in the press department of the Afghan government and in 1953 was appointed attaché at the Afghan embassy in Washington D.C. On returning to Kabul he opened a business that translated materials for foreign organizations, and his clientele included the US Embassy. On January 1, 1965, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) was founded. The PDPA, a communist party in ...

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Nur Muhammad Taraki, Nur Muhammad Taraki - Early Political Career, Nur Muhammad Taraki - President of the Republic April 1978 -- October 1979, Nur Muhammad Taraki - Assassination

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