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** The Senate ( Sénat ) has 348 members, 328 of which are elected for six-year terms by an electoral college consisting of elected representatives from each département, 8 of which are elected from other dependencies, and 12 of which are elected by the French Assembly of French Citizens Abroad ( Assemblée des Français de l ' étranger ) which has replaced the High Council of French Citizens Abroad ( Conseil Supérieur des Français de l ' Étranger ) a 155-member assembly elected by citizens living abroad.
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** Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
** United States Senate hearings on MKULTRA are held.
** Thirteen years after its proposal and nearly 2 years after its passage by the United States Senate, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
** The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters.
** Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his dealings with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
** Strom Thurmond becomes the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Senate ( 41 years and 10 months ).
** The U. S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begins its closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U. S. President Harry S Truman.
** The United States Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.
** Harry Reid, American politician and U. S. Senate Majority Leader
** The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States Senate, and this nation becomes the third one to join the new international organization.
** The U. S. Senate accepts the British-German treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands.
** Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
** In a special election for the U. S. Senate, Harris Wofford scores an electoral upset against Dick Thornburgh, who had led him by 44 points in an August opinion poll.
** The United States Senate confirms Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence.
** On a vote of 58 – 42, the United States Senate rejects President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
** Iran-Contra affair: U. S. Senate and House panels release reports charging President Ronald Reagan with ' ultimate responsibility ' for the affair.
** After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide.
** The Blaine Act passes the United States Senate, submitting the proposed 21st Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification.
** January 1 – The Roman Senate receives a proposal from Julius Caesar that he and Pompey should lay down their commands simultaneously.
** January 10 – Julius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon, which separates his jurisdiction ( Cisalpine Gaul ) from that of the Senate ( Italy ), and thus initiates a civil war.
** February – Pompey's flight to Epirus ( in Western Greece ) with most of the Senate.
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** Trichotomy: If two sets are given, then either they have the same cardinality, or one has a smaller cardinality than the other.
** Every surjective function has a right inverse.
** 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.
** Tukey's lemma: Every non-empty collection of finite character has a maximal element with respect to inclusion.
** Antichain principle: Every partially ordered set has a maximal antichain.
** Every vector space has a basis.
** The closed unit ball of the dual of a normed vector space over the reals has an extreme point.
** Every field has an algebraic closure.
** Every field extension has a transcendence basis.
** The theorem that every Hilbert space has an orthonormal basis.
** Every Tychonoff space has a Stone – Čech compactification.
** Gödel's completeness theorem for first-order logic: every consistent set of first-order sentences has a completion.
** SBA / ATT — Stolen base attempts: total number of times the player has attempted to steal a base ( SB + CS )
** He has the most centuries for a West Indian
** He has scored centuries against all Test-playing nations.
** If a team is penalized in the final minute of a half and the penalty causes the clock to stop, the opposing team now has the right to have 10 seconds run off the clock in addition to the yardage penalty.
** Improved version of BMR-2 that has been seen fitted with a wide variety of mine roller designs.
** The reinforce band is only present if the cannon has two reinforces, and it divides the first reinforce from the second.
** Condensed milk, milk which has been concentrated by evaporation, with sugar added for reduced process time and longer life in an opened can
** Khava, milk which has been completely concentrated by evaporation, used in Indian sweets ( gulab jamun, pedha and many more )
** Baked milk, a variety of boiled milk that has been particularly popular in Russia
** a linear equation has degree one,
** quadratic equation has degree two,
** cubic equation has degree three,
** quartic equation has degree four,
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