** Design brief or Parti pris – an early ( often the beginning ) statement of design goals

** Isidore the Laborer, celebrated with festivals in various countries, the beginning of bullfighting season in Madrid.

** In the Spanish Basque country, Gascon was spoken in the centre of Donostia-San Sebastián, perhaps until the beginning of the 20th century.

** The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and the Soviet / Yugoslav split.

** WWII – Sonderaktion Krakau: Germans take action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of WWII.

** The world celebrates the beginning of the 20th century.

** Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge ( aka Marco Polo Bridge Incident ): Japanese forces invade China ( often seen as the beginning of World War II in Asia ).

** The Communist Party of China issues the ' May 16 Notice ', marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

** While waiting at a bus stop, Ralph Baer an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document which lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multi billion dollar industry.

** Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies in Madrid, effectively marking the end of the dictatorship established following the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of Spain's transition to democracy.

** The Pinwheel Network changes its name to Nickelodeon and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach.

** The Utah Expedition leaves Fort Leavenworth, effectively beginning the Utah War.

** A dispute over grazing rights leads to the beginning of the Mauritania – Senegal Border War.

** The death of Hu Yaobang, which sparks the beginning of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

** António Vieira arrives, with his parents, in Bahia ( present-day Salvador ) in colonial Brazil, an unpromising beginning for his great career as a diplomat, noted author, leading figure of the Church, and protector of Brazilian Indians in an age of intolerance.

** An insurrection breaks out in Tizimín, beginning the campaign for the independence of Yucatan from Mexico.

** Royal Arch Masons take this year as the epoch for dating their documents Anno Inventionis after the beginning of the Second Temple by Zerubbabel.

** At the beginning of Ice Cube's music video for the song, " Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It ", from his 2007 album Raw Footage, a line of text states that " By the year 2020, no child will be left behind " which is followed by an Orwellian classroom setting designed as a segue into the song's sarcastic theme of blame-shifting and anti-gansta rap propaganda during the waning days of the presidency of George W. Bush.

** Principate ( 27 BC – 284 AD ) – first period of the Roman Empire, extending from the beginning of the reign of Caesar Augustus to the Crisis of the Third Century, after which it was replaced with the Dominate.

** Left-sided colitis: Involvement of the descending colon, which runs along the patient's left side, up to the splenic flexure and the beginning of the transverse colon.

** The first Era of the Two Trees, and the beginning of the count of Time.

** During the beginning of Porky in Wackyland, a newspaper man arrives behind the title card, yelling " Extra!

** The 92 route provides crosstown trips through Windsor beginning at Copaco in Bloomfield and ending at the Shoppes at Buckland Hills in Manchester.

** The priest then reads the Last Gospel, the beginning of the Gospel of John,, which recounts the Incarnation of the Son of God.

** Note: This was edited by Marker essentially, this film is a 27-minute postscript to Le Joli Mai assembled from leftover footage and organized around a new commentary ( Film Comment ).

** Dennis the Menace Annual, now known as the Dennis and Gnasher Annual, a compilation of the comics plus new material

** The Post Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2011, soaring food prices, especially for grains, led to calls for the government to provide more immediate assistance to the population of more than 40 % in the " poverty tunnel " and to strike a " new deal " on agriculture policy and reform.

** Adeline in The Romance of the Forest-“ Her wicked Marquis, having secretly immured Number One ( his first wife ), has now a new and beautiful wife, whose character, alas!

** Student orientation, an induction program for new students at Universities

** Historic start of the new year ( Lady Day ) in England, Wales, Ireland, and the future United States until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752.

** June 1996 on Asian Americans as " the new Jews.

** It is also the traditional new year of the Dai peoples of Yunnan Province, China.

** Progressive Canadian Party, Canada's new progressive conservative party

** Body changed compared to earlier models to accommodate larger rear lamps, rear seat area modified to give room for new torque converter.

** Improvements to cooling in exhaust side at cylinder heads, steering rack, power steering pump, soundproofing, front cooling flaps deleted, new style shift knob with integrated leather booth in manual gearbox cars, etc.

** Extract Class moves part of the code from an existing class into a new class.

** Extract Method, to turn part of a larger method into a new method.

** Rename Method or Rename Field – changing the name into a new one that better reveals its purpose

** Plagiarism-Fabrication-the act of taking an unrelated figure from an unrelated publication and reproducing it exactly in a new publication ( claiming that it represents new data ).

** Peru's president Alberto Fujimori calls for new elections in which he will not run.

** Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal Building at the Edinburgh Airport.

** Canada: A Federal Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects a design to become the new official Flag of Canada.

** In the wake of deadly riots in January over control of the Panama Canal, the U. S. offers to negotiate a new canal treaty.

** At Jamestown, Virginia, Christopher Newport returns in a ship with the First Supply and about 100 new settlers ; he finds only 38 survivors.

** A new Polish government is declared in Western Galicia ( Central Europe ).

** Tansu Çiller of DYP forms the new government of Turkey.

** In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution.