 From the 1960s until the late 1970s, Kabul was a major stop on the famous Hippie trail.By the beginning of the 1970s, Kabul became known for its street sales of hashish and became a major tourist attraction for western hippies.On April 28, 1978, President Daoud and most of his family were assassinated in Kabul's Presidential Palace in what is called the Saur Revolution.