* 1983: Brian Lawton ( first overall )

The North Stars selected Modano as the first overall draft pick in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft at the age of 18, an honor shared by only five other Americans: Brian Lawton ( 1983 ), Bryan Berard ( 1995 ), Rick DiPietro ( 2000 ), Erik Johnson ( 2006 ), and Patrick Kane ( 2007 ).

Final Conflict were formed in 1985, by Andy Lawton and Brian Donkin.

In the entry draft, Brian Lawton became the first American to be chosen first overall by the Minnesota North Stars.

Brian Lawton and Bryan Berard were drafted 1st overall in the NHL Entry Draft.

Several months later, his rights would be traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Anders Hakansson, a left winger from Sweden who had recently been traded to the Penguins along with Ron Meighan from the Minnesota North Stars for the Penguins ' first round pick of the 1983 draft ( Brian Lawton ).

Brian Rua O ' Cearbhain had prophesied that ' carts on iron wheels ' would carry bodies into Achill on their first and last journey.

According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had briefly attended Dalhousie Law School, although failed after his first year.

He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low ( 1977 )— the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno over the next two years.

Working with Brian Eno while sharing an apartment in Schöneberg with Iggy Pop, he began to focus on minimalist, ambient music for the first of three albums, co-produced with Tony Visconti, that would become known as his Berlin Trilogy.

Edinburgh has been home to the actor Sir Sean Connery, famed as the first cinematic James Bond ; Ronnie Corbett, a comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies ;, actor Brian Cox and Dylan Moran, the Irish comedian.

The game's designers took inspiration from the post-apocalyptic novels and movies of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s ; the first edition rules cite Brian Aldiss's Hothouse, Andre Norton's Star Man's Son ( also published as Daybreak-2250 A. D .), Sterling E. Lanier's Hiero's Journey, and Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

However, this did not give them enough capital to publish the rules for Dungeons & Dragons and, worried that other companies would be able to publish similar projects first, the two convinced acquaintance Brian Blume to join TSR in December 1973 as an equal one-third partner.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

The example program from that book prints "" ( without capital letters or exclamation mark ), and was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial, which contains the first known version:

) Brian Wilson, formerly a councillor for the Alliance Party, won the Green Party's first seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly in the 2007 election.

* 1966 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert.

Much of this material was first printed in the " MONTYPYTHONSCRAPBOOK " that accompanied the original script publication of The Life of Brian and then subsequently reused.

The first language to make a clean distinction between structure and presentation was Scribe, developed by Brian Reid and described in his doctoral thesis in 1980.

* 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

She defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, the Workers ' Party and independent senators, the first elected president in the office's history not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil.

* Brian Stableford references human culture as a possible delirium or fever dream of the noösphere in his novella Mortimer Gray's History of Death, first published in 1995.

The 6 × 10 case was first solved in 1960 by Colin Brian and Jenifer Haselgrove.

In early 1976, Brian Gaskin designed, created and tested the first 16-gore canopy design which he named " Waterbird ".

) Brian Aldiss has argued that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) was the first work of science fiction.

The five students — Allison Reynolds ( Ally Sheedy ), Andrew Clark ( Emilio Estevez ), John Bender ( Judd Nelson ), Brian Johnson ( Anthony Michael Hall ), and Claire Standish ( Molly Ringwald )— who seem to have nothing in common at first, come together at the high school library, where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats or sleep by the antagonistic assistant principal, Richard Vernon ( Paul Gleason ), supervising them.

Also at the first rehearsal were guitarist Geoff Bradford and vocalist Brian Knight, both of whom refused to join the band citing objections to playing the Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs preferred by Jagger and Richards.

Shen Lin and Brian Kernighan first published their method in 1972, and it was the most reliable heuristic for solving travelling salesman problems for nearly two decades.

For the first time in his NHL career, Gretzky was not named captain, although he briefly wore the captain's ' C ' in 1998 when captain Brian Leetch was injured and out of the lineup.

In 1988, instigated by Brian Powers, the first American taipan of Jardines, the entire corporate structure of Jardine, Matheson & Co., including all its allied companies, were restructured so that a holding company based in London and controlled by the Keswick family would have overall policy and strategic control of all Jardine Matheson Group companies.

* 1959 – Brian Thompson, American actor

* 1967 – Anton Newcombe, American singer-songwriter and musician ( The Brian Jonestown Massacre )

* 1981 – Brian Buscher, American baseball player

* 1925 – Hugh O ' Brian, American actor

* 1982 – Nicole O ' Brian, American model, Miss Texas USA 2003

* 1982 – Brian Barton, American baseball player

* 1950 – Brian J. Doyle, American Deputy Press Secretary in the United States Department of Homeland Security

Brian Russell De Palma ( born September 11, 1940 ) is an American film director and writer.

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

* 1956 – Brian Backer, American actor

* 1968 – Brian Bell, American guitarist ( Weezer )

* 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress ( b. 1906 )

* 1947 – Brian Daley, American science-fiction writer ( d. 1996 )

He was also able to give a number of British writers — Michael Moorcock, E. C. Tubb, Brian Stableford, Barrington Bayley, Michael Coney — a new American audience.

* 1931 – Brian Kelly, American actor ( d. 2005 )

* 1973 – Brian Rolston, American ice hockey player

* 1941 – Brian Holland, American songwriter and producer

* 1971 – Brian Stepanek, American actor

* 1980 – Conor O ' Brian, American wrestler

* 1976 – Brian Moorman, American football player

* 1978 – Brian Russell, American football player

* 1972 – Brian Daubach, American baseball player