* 1598 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

* 1599 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O ' Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.

Conceived while Atkinson and Curtis were working on Not the Nine O ' Clock News, the series dealt comically with a number of medieval issues in Britain – witchcraft, Royal succession, European relations, the Crusades and the conflict between the Church and the Crown.

Anderson is a comedy sketch writer who has written for Frankie Howerd, Not the Nine O ' Clock News, and Griff Rhys Jones / Mel Smith.

Between 1594 and 1603, Elizabeth faced her most severe test in Ireland during the Nine Years ' War, a revolt that took place at the height of hostilities with Spain, who backed the rebel leader, Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone.

In a Not the Nine O ' Clock News sketch, a bishop who has made a scandalous film called The Life of Christ is hauled over the coals by a representative of the " Church of Python ", claiming that the film is an attack on " Our Lord, John Cleese " and on the members of Python, who, in the sketch, are the objects of Britain's true religious faith.

He is most famous for his work on the sketch comedy shows Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Griff Rhys Jones.

Lloyd later got the opportunity to develop the idea that became the satirical BBC television series Not the Nine O ' clock News.

* Not the Nine O ' Clock News ( 1979 )

* Not The Nine O ' clock News ( 1979 )

Worf was the only character to be a regular in more than one live-action Star Trek series ( While Miles O ' Brien was featured in both The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, he was not a regular cast member in the former series ).

A sketch in the BBC comedy series Not the Nine O ' Clock News showed Scotland Yard's rotating sign being hand-cranked by the Commissioner.

J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories ( 1953 ) experimented with point of view and voice, while Flannery O ’ Connor's story A Good Man is Hard to Find ( 1955 ) reinvigorated the Southern Gothic style.

The Ninety Nine Names of God are found as calligraphic inscriptions in Persian nastNastaʿlīqinscription style of calligraphic on the sides of the actual tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, in the crypt including " O Noble, O Magnificent, O Majestic, O Unique, O Eternal, O Glorious ... ".

Nine plays later, O ' Donnell threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Yancey Thigpen with just 13 seconds left in the half, cutting Pittsburgh's deficit to 13-7.

* March 31 – The Nine Years War ( Ireland ) is ended by the submission of Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, to the English Crown and the signing of the Treaty of Mellifont.

** Nine Years ' War: In Ireland, Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Hugh Roe O ' Donnell form an alliance to try to overthrow English domination.

There are two daily English-language newspapers, Bucharest Daily News and Nine O ' Clock, as well as numerous other magazines.

In the UK, it moved to stage performances by Cambridge Footlights, such as Beyond the Fringe and A Clump of Plinths ( which evolved into Cambridge Circus ), to radio, with such shows as It's That Man Again and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, then to television, with such shows as Monty Python's Flying Circus and Not the Nine O ' Clock News.

* Not the Nine O ' Clock News

Some of the definitions originally appeared in the Not the Nine O ' Clock News spin-off book Not 1982 ( ISBN 0-571-11853-4 ), where they were headed " Today's new word from the Oxtail English Dictionary ".

When the format of Lloyd's satirical TV show Not the Nine O ' Clock News was sold to America to become Not Necessarily the News, the producers also took the made-up word definition concept, which became Sniglets.

The phenomenon that was famously parodied by BBC television comedy program Not The Nine O ' Clock News who produced a spoof music video " Nice Video, Shame About The Song ".

Pope also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Spitting Image including British Number 1 hit single " The Chicken Song " with Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and along with Simon Franglen, he did the main theme for Round the Bend for Yorkshire TV, a three series comedy shown on CITV, later shown on Channel 4 and Nickelodeon.

McGrath and Mulville went on to write for shows such as Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones, and they were part of the team of writer / performers behind the Channel 4 comedy sketch series Who Dares Wins.

In 1980, WGN-TV debuted the first hour-long primetime newscast in the midwestern United States, when the station moved its half-hour 10 p. m. newscast one hour earlier to 9 p. m. and expanded it to an hour ; at this point, the newscast was retitled from Newsnine to The Nine O ' Clock News.

Not the Nine O ' Clock News is a television comedy sketch show which was broadcast on BBC 2 from 1979 to 1982.

Originally shown as a comedy alternative to the BBC Nine O ' Clock News on BBC 1, it featured satirical sketches on current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, and spoof television formats.

Not the Nine O ' Clock News was produced by John Lloyd.

The sketch with Cleese was broadcast later that year, when the final episode of Fawlty Towers went out during the broadcast run of the first series of Not the Nine O ' Clock News, though the significance of the sketch was lost.

Not the Nine O ' Clock News became a stage show in Oxford and London in 1982, but the main performers decided to end the project while it was a success: Stephenson began a Hollywood film career, Atkinson recorded the first series of Blackadder in 1983, and Smith and Jones became a double act in Alas Smith and Jones.

The show's name derived from its schedule – it was originally on BBC 2 at the same time as the Nine O ' Clock News on BBC 1.

In August 2003 these videos were released on DVD under the title of The Best of Not the Nine O ' Clock News: Volume One.

The Best of Not the Nine O ' Clock News: Volume Two came a year later.

Three vinyl albums were released at the time the series was screening, entitled Not the Nine O ' Clock News, Hedgehog Sandwich, and The Memory Kinda Lingers respectively.

* Wendy Kingston, Australian newsreader for Nine News

Among these writers, the pairing of series-creator Paul Smith with Terry Kyan, ( who had previously collaborated on Not the Nine O ' clock News and Alas Smith and Jones ) is particularly notable.

Nine began using the slogan " Let Us Be The One " ( based by The Carpenters song ) in 1977, and achieved widespread success, becoming the number 1 free to air network in Australia and National Nine News became the most watched news service.

Meanwhile, National Nine News was overtaken by Seven News, while Today was beaten by Seven's Sunrise.

In 2006, Nine continued on its downward trend, losing most news weeks to Seven News and just winning the year thanks to its coverage of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

On 20 December 1989, in Fiji, Connolly married Pamela Stephenson, the New Zealand-born comedy actress he had met when making a cameo appearance on the BBC sketch show Not the Nine O ' Clock News, in which she was one of four regular performers.

In 1998, Russell Gilbert got his own Somers-Carroll sketch comedy show on Nine, The Russell Gilbert Show, which lasted a year.

* Not the Nine O ' Clock News, satirical sketch show, notable for launching the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Pamela Stephenson and Mel Smith on BBC2, ( 1979-1982 ).

On beginning his comedy career, he initially worked in a team with writing partner Andrew Marshall, the pair of them providing material to popular sketch shows such as The Two Ronnies and Not the Nine O ' Clock News during the late 1970s and early 80s.

Crawford Productions ' Melbourne-based police drama Homicide premiered on 20 October 1964 on HSV-7, soon followed on 11 November by the ATN-7 satirical sketch comedy series The Mavis Bramston Show ( which at its peak drew an unprecedented 59 % of the audience ), the rural soap opera Bellbird on the ABC ( 1967 ), and for interstate viewers Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight or the Graham Kennedy Channel Nine Show.

The SPG was a frequent butt of jokes on Not the Nine O ' Clock News, including a sketch where Rowan Atkinson criticises a racist police officer with the conclusion " There's no room for men like you in my force, Savage.

As was the style of the day, the show often featured speciality acts such as a female singer who sang unconvincing renditions of popular songs whilst her male partner sketched caricatures of famous people connected with the song on a flip chart ( e. g. a sketch of Marilyn Monroe was drawn whilst the Elton John song Candle in the Wind was performed ) who were Trevillion and ( Sadie ) Nine.

Comedy Inc. was an Australian sketch comedy television series, which ran on the Nine Network from 1 February 2003 to 26 December 2007.

Pamela Stephenson was born in New Zealand, made her name in Australia, went to Britain and starred in the sketch comedy Not the Nine O ' Clock News and currently lives in America with her husband Billy Connolly.

In Not the Nine O ' Clock News, there is a sketch lampooning Ask The Family, in which the Brainie and Smaughtarse families ( played by exactly the same actors in different costumes ) are all Quantity Surveyors.

He was a series regular on the Nine Network late night sketch comedy series Comedy Inc-The Late Shift.

Game for a Laugh was spoofed in Not the Nine O ' Clock News, in a sketch showing a man ( Rowan Atkinson ) returning home from work to find his wife brutally beheaded.

In 2006, he joined the cast of the popular late night sketch comedy show Comedy Inc-The Late Shift, airing in Australia on the Nine Network.

The song also features in a sketch in Not The Nine O ' Clock News, in which Pamela Stephenson sings it in relation to her " husband ", Rowan Atkinson.

He also appeared in a sketch on Not the Nine O ' Clock News, impersonating the Welsh trade union leader Clive Jenkins in a spoof edition of Question Time ( TV series ).