** DI — Defensive Indifference: if the catcher does not attempt to throw out a runner ( usually because the base would be insignificant ), the runner is not awarded a steal.

** Darfur peace process, an attempt to resolve the War in Darfur, finilized in 2009

** Paris Peace Accords, 1973 attempt to resolve the War in Vietnam

** In the UK, a protective trust is a life interest which terminates on the happening of a specified event such as the bankruptcy of the beneficiary or any attempt by him to dispose of his interest.

** The Bay of Pigs Invasion ( 1961 ) – an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

** In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters.

** The murder of a 3-year-old girl in Blackburn, England leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40, 000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.

** WWII: Over 500 Japanese prisoners-of-war attempt a mass breakout from the Cowra POW Camp.

** Resistance fighters ambush and attempt to execute SS general Hanns Albin Rauter, the arch-persecutor of the Dutch.

** Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.

** The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a coup d ' état attempt which lasts 5 days.

** Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin ( the first major news story for CNN ).

** Bob Marley and his manager Don Taylor are shot in an assassination attempt in Kingston, Jamaica.

** A Soviet-backed communist coup attempt fails in Estonia.

** Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace ( the former Imperial residence ) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.

** Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.

** Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there ( no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp ; all U. S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid ).

** In Chipping Norton, England rioters attempt to free the Ascott Martyrs – sixteen women sentenced to imprisonment for attempting to dissuade strikebreakers.

** Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D. C .; police and military units arrest as many as 12, 000, most of whom are later released.

** The Indonesian army, led by General Suharto, crushes an alleged communist coup attempt ( see Transition to the New Order and 30 September Movement ).

** Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR ; five of his bodyguards are killed.

** Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors ( the so-called Four Georgians ) discover gold at Last Chance Gulch ; it is their last and agreed final attempt at weeks of trying to find gold in the northern Rockies.

** A failed coup attempt against President of Haiti Prosper Avril leads to a standoff between mutinous troops and the government which ended on April 10 with the government regaining control of the country.

** A military coup attempt begins in the Philippines against the government of Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino, ending by December 9.

** Daniel Boone leads the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in Kentucky, but is turned back in an attack by American Indians in which his son is killed.

** Zorn's lemma: Every non-empty partially ordered set in which every chain ( i. e. totally ordered subset ) has an upper bound contains at least one maximal element.

** Additional bibliography is available online at

** World Day for Safety and Health at Work ( International )

** Amos ( Judaica Press ) translation Rashi's commentary at Chabad. org

** Online Bible at GospelHall. org ( English Standard Version )

** Amos at Wikisource ( Authorised King James Version )

** ( Actual − 12. 7 ) A full Moon reflects 30 % more light at full phase than a perfect diffuse reflector predicts.

** Big Dipper ( Blackpool ), a wooden roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

** Big Dipper ( Geauga Lake ), a wooden roller coaster currently Standing but not operating at Geauga Lake

** Big Dipper ( Luna Park Sydney ), a wooden roller coaster operating at Luna Park Sydney from 1935 until 1981

** Cyclone ( Dreamworld ), a steel roller coaster which operated as Big Dipper at Luna Park Sydney from 1995 to 2001

** Luxembourg — no voltage change at the border ( the line Arlon-Luxembourg is at 3 kV DC and the line Gouvy-Luxembourg is at 25 kV AC )

** Channel Tunnel — voltage remains at 25 kV AC.

** UK — voltage remains at 25 kV AC — voltage change 750 V DC third rail ( The Southern Region ).

** won the Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

** won the Golden Palm at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.

** nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin

** י ְ הו ֹ ש ֻׁ ע ַ Yehoshua – Joshua ( Hebrew – English at Mechon-Mamre. org, Jewish Publication Society translation )

** Joshua ( Judaica Press ) translation Rashi's commentary at Chabad. org

** Online Bible at GospelHall. org

** Joshua at Wikisource ( Authorised King James Version )

** במדבר Bamidbar-Numbers ( Hebrew – English at Mechon-Mamre. org )

** Numbers at Mechon-Mamre ( Jewish Publication Society translation )