Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

Chaplin was eager to start with the new company, and offered to buy out his contract with First National.

In 1957 Ted Lindsay, who scored 30 goals and led the league in assists with 55, teamed up with Harvey to help start the National Hockey League Players ' Association ( NHLPA ).

A National Assembly, composed entirely of the PFDJ, was established as a transitional legislature ; elections have been postponed indefinitely following the start of the border conflict with Ethiopia.

The construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ( now Canadian National Railway ) through this district made it of some importance at the start of the 20th century.

Mongolian TV Broadcasting started on 27 September 1967 with the start of Mongolian National Television.

* 1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.

* 1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

After his fast start, Clemente finished his rookie season with an average of. 255, owing at least in part to the recurrence, or perhaps persistence, of the counterproductive batting tics noticed three years before by Dodger scout Al Campanis-and, more to the point, the fact that National League pitchers were noticing as well.

But most importantly, he helped the team out of the National League West basement for the first time in 1975, under the guidance of manager John McNamara, who took over the club at the start of the 1974 season.

" However, the National Assembly has not officially changed the national borders, as doing so may be seen as a prelude to formal Taiwan independence ( the People's Republic of China has threatened to start a war if the government of Taiwan formalizes independence ).

* November 21 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

Scientists at the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research argue in the article that this drought response, coupled with the effects of deforestation on regional climate, are pushing the rainforest towards a " tipping point " where it would irreversibly start to die.

The CPB initially collaborated with the pre-existing National Educational Television system, but in 1969 decided to start the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ).

There were also two professional circuits in existence at the start of the Open Era: World Championship Tennis ( WCT ), which was men only, and the National Tennis League ( NTL ).

# In February 1991, the government of the Republic of China, resolutely seeking to establish consensus and start the process of unification, adopted the " Guidelines for National Unification ".

National Hunt races are started by flag, which means that horses line up at the start behind a tape.

* National Recovery Administration ( NRA ), the logo displayed at start of film

From the Southern Suburbs side, the Nursery Ravine and Skeleton Gorge routes start at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden.

The start of Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, at Cape Leeuwin.

Wells posted a 12 – 8 record with a 3. 73 ERA to start off his second stint in the National League.

Visits within the property are run by The National Trust, and start from The Beatles Experience at the Albert Dock.

There was some consolation at the start of 1948 as Lynch claimed another National Hurling League medal, however, Tipperary quickly became the dominant force in the Munster Championship.

Further, Kim Sung-ho, director of South Korea's National Intelligence Service, told lawmakers in a closed parliamentary session in Seoul that " Kim appeared to be recovering quickly enough to start performing his daily duties.

* The start of Black History Month ( United States and Canada )

* The start of LGBT History Month ( United Kingdom )

The 2008 – 09 season started well for McCarthy as he won the August Championship Manager of the Month Award, after seeing his side reach the top of the table, eventually going on to match Wolves ' record start to a season ( equaling the 1949 – 50 season ).

As a result of this tremendous start, Wise was awarded the Manager of the Month award.

His start to the season also earned him the O < sub > 2 </ sub > Player of the Month award from Arsenal fans for August, September and October, as well as the Premier League Player of the Month for September.

The rookie jumped out to a hot start in the American League, earning a record of 4 – 1 with 18 strikeouts and a 2. 41 ERA over 32. 2 innings through the month of April, and was selected the AL Rookie of the Month.

Regardless of such rumours, Clough stayed at Derby and was rewarded by overseeing the clubs's best start to the season in 106 years as they opened the season with four victories from four and earned a Championship Manager of the Month nomination, losing out to Brighton & Hove Albion's Gus Poyet.

Despite a promising start which saw him voted Premier League Manager of the Month and having also spent nearly £ 20 million on new players in his first four months in charge, he was unable to save them from being relegated from the Premier League ( just four years after being champions ) and Kidd was dismissed on 3 November 1999 with Rovers standing 19th in Division One.

Better results in following matches led to the best start in a Premier League Season by the club, and Di Matteo was also named Premier League Manager of the Month for September 2010.

It is also known as the " Glorious Twelfth " in the United Kingdom, as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season.

In pubs in the United Kingdom, beers generally range from 3. 5 %– 5. 5 % ABV, and continental lagers start at around 5 % ABV.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to " Vietnamize " the war effort.

In the United States, on the other hand, alcopops often start out as un-hopped beers, depending on the state in which they are sold.

Autumn, particularly in most parts of the United States, also has a strong association with the start of a new school year, particularly for children in primary and secondary education.

Shortly after the start of World War I, Germany launched a biological sabotage campaign in the United States, Russia, Romania, and France.

The motivation for community colleges was a new way of thinking about education and training in Canada ( more specifically in Ontario ), and was economically based as opposed to the much earlier start in the United States of Junior and Community Colleges which was driven by an integrative social policy.

He emigrated to Kentucky, United States around 1900, established a successful tile and terrazzo company, then returned to Italy to marry and start a family.

* Earth Days, a 2009 documentary feature film about the start of the environmental movement in the United States.

The resulting " Helium Privatization Act of 1996 " ( Public Law 104 – 273 ) directed the United States Department of the Interior to start emptying the reserve by 2005.

The adoption of the ITRs in 1988 is often taken as the start of the wider liberalization process in international telecommunications, though a few countries, including United States and United Kingdom, had made steps to liberalize their markets before 1988.

* 1991 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.

* 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.

At the start of his term, Madison was a party to the United States Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison ( 1803 ), in which the doctrine of judicial review was asserted by the high Court, much to the annoyance of the Jeffersonians who did not want a powerful federalist judiciary.

The Wizards would get off to a great start as Jose Burciaga caught United unprepared as he scored a long range goal in the 6th minute.

Now, however, the Navy Chief of Staff Osami Nagano argued that if war with the United States was inevitable, it should start right away.

The largest failure for the Kampfgeschwader, however, was saddling them with an aircraft meant to be as big and as apparently capable as any Allied four-engined " heavy bomber " – the perpetually-troubled Heinkel He 177 – which had been condemned to being designed to carry out moderate angle dive bombing missions from the day that the RLM accepted it for production in November 1937, making it overweight from the start, and mandating design features that led its " welded-together engines ", a pair of cumbersome Daimler-Benz DB 606 " power systems ", to perpetually catching fire in flight during operational missons over both the Eastern Front and the United Kingdom.

* 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America

Ironically, Mazda's version was unsuccessful, while the Ford ( available from the start as a 4-door or 2-door model ) instantly became the best selling sport-utility vehicle in the United States and kept that title for over a decade.

** 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.