His first action as mayor was to order the chief of police to arrest mob boss Lucky Luciano on whatever charges could be found.

They built the first school within the current boundaries of the city, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833 and their settlement was left vacant.

* William Howley Archbishop of Canterbury has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury.

A mob killed the Christian Fyodor and his son Ioann ( later, after the overall christening of Kievan Rus, people came to regard these two as the first Christian martyrs in Rus and the Orthodox Church set a day to commemorate them, July 25 ).

The first mob of bullocks to attempt to use the stock route set out in January 1911 ; however the party of three drovers, George Shoesmith, James Thompson and an Aboriginal stockman who was known as ' Chinaman ', were killed by Aborigines at Well 37.

On the 7th of September 1911 it was reported that the first mob of cattle to traverse the entire length of the stock route had successfully arrived in Wiluna.

In the first film, Morticia and Gomez discussed how Mother and Father Addams were killed by an angry mob, removing any possibility that Grandmama could be Gomez's and Fester's mother.

It is believed that Gordon was first to be shot by the mob, which had surrounded the crash site.

German selig ‘ blessed ’, Middle High German sælde ‘ bliss, luck ’, and Zelda, a Middle Eastern female first name ) and even formal status ( e. g. English mob ).

Oscar first appeared on the January 11, 2008 episode of the television game show 1 vs. 100 as a member of the mob.

Although the palace guard at first refused to admit John without proof of his father's wishes, the mob surrounding the new emperor simply forced entry.

He was first taken to the jail in Gainesville, but when a potential lynch mob began gathering in Gainesville, Knox was moved to a jail in Atlanta.

F. L. Lucas's novel The English Agent – A Tale of the Peninsular War ( 1969 ), about the Battle of Bailén and its aftermath, is the account of a British Army officer who, gathering information before the first British landings, buys a Frenchwoman at auction to save her from the Spanish mob.

In the 1066 Granada massacre, the first large pogrom on European soil, a Muslim mob crucified the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacred about 4, 000 Jews In 1033 about 6, 000 Jews were killed in Fez, Morocco by Muslim mobs.

In 1506, after an episode of famine and bad harvests, an enormous pogrom happened in Lisbon, Portugal, in which more than 500 " New-Christian " ( forcibly converted Jews ) people were slaughtered and / or burnt by an angry Christian mob, in the first night of what became known as the " Lisbon Massacre " or " Lisbon's great massacre of 1506 ".

Eleven years before Germany's first attempt at democracy really took its last breath, when the Nazis came to power in 1933, in this poem Tucholsky already pointed a finger at those responsible – the poem describes the " mob " living off the republic, sabotaging it and scrawling swastikas on its doors.

It marked the first time the federal government had gotten involved in a civil rights case and how in the end a grand jury in the town allowed " mob justice " to rule.

In the massacres of August, the relatives of the Gastines family were among the first to be killed by the mob.

The French 18th century historian Louis-Pierre Anquetil, in his Esprit de la Ligue of 1767, was among the first to begin impartial historical investigation, emphasizing the lack of premeditation ( before the attempt on Coligny ) in the massacre and that Catholic mob violence had a history of uncontrollable escalation.

Some host species may try to directly prevent cuckoos laying eggs in their nest in the first place – birds whose nests are at high risk of cuckoo-contamination are known to mob cuckoos to drive them out of the area.

The Riksdag Ordinance of 1617 first converted a turbulent and haphazard mob of " riksdagsmen " huddling together like a flock of sheep or drunken boors, into a dignified national assembly, meeting and deliberating according to rule and order.

The first recorded incident in America occurred in 1766: Captain William Smith was tarred, feathered, and dumped into the harbor of Norfolk, Virginia, by a mob that included the town's Mayor.

Wasik avoided such problems during the first successful flash mob, which occurred on June 3, 2003, at Macy's department store, by sending participants to preliminary staging areas — in four Manhattan bars — where they received further instructions about the ultimate event and location just before the event began.

The first documented use of the term flash mob as it is understood today was in 2003 in a blog entry posted in the aftermath of Wasik's event.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

The first two forces are directly interrelated and depend upon film thickness, whereas Af is independent of these two and is a constant for a given knife/coating combination.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

In about seven years Griffith either invented or first realized the possibilities of virtually every resource at the disposal of the film maker.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.

( Coincidentally, Hickson had played a housekeeper in the first film in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple.

There, he met director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance is mine.

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, A Little Princess, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

It was the first all-talking non-musical film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.

* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.