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A crowd of 5, 000 people, many with heads bowed, assembled at the base of the statue of Father Duffy on Times Square where two trumpeters blew taps.
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In July 1964, the Blue Angels participated in the Aeronaves de Mexico Anniversary Air Show over Mexico City, Mexico, before an estimated crowd of 1. 5 million people.
The record stood until the Los Angeles Dodgers drew a crowd in excess of 92, 500 to watch Game 5 of the 1959 World Series at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum against the Chicago White Sox.
* On December 31, 1994, the New Year's Eve celebrations featured a Rod Stewart concert, which featured 3. 5 million, making it the largest concert crowd ever.
The crowd was estimated to be between 5, 000 and 30, 000.
Eventually, on 5 and 6 October 1789, a crowd of women joined by some members of the national guard from Paris invaded the castle to protest bread prices and forced the royal family to move to Paris.
* February 27 – Russian troops fire upon a crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule over Poland, killing 5 protesters.
The league announced a national television deal with sports channel The Score, while a crowd of 5, 100 took in the league's inaugural game in London, Ontario.
A crowd of over 5, 700 watched the final game in CBL history end in a tie.
Despite the 5 – 1 loss, Carolina was given a standing ovation by their home crowd as the game ended, erasing some of the doubts that the city would not warm up to the team.
At Hull on 5 August, Chamberlain began his election campaign by addressing an enthusiastic crowd in front of large posters declaring him to be ' Your coming Prime Minister '.
A crowd of between 5, 000 and 8, 000 gathered to watch the executions — a large group considering the entire population was only around 12, 000.
On September 5, 1936, in wet conditions, local driver Jack Chambers lost control of his Riley beneath the railway bridge coming into Newtownards, and crashed into the crowd killing eight spectators.
An increasingly large number of people not only participated in the now summertime event, but a crowd of 5, 000 came to watch it.
When she sought a stay of execution to deliver her baby, the Massachusetts Council rejected her petition, and she was promptly hanged before a crowd of 5, 000 spectators.
These first races were very successful for the time, drawing a crowd of over 5, 000.
After dusk on March 5, 1770, a crowd of colonists confronted a sentry who had struck a boy for complaining that an officer was late in paying a barber bill.
On 5 October 1789, a Parisian crowd, composed mostly of rough women working in the markets selling fish, marched to Versailles in response to the scarcity of bread.
On July 5, at their concert in Milwaukee, Rick Nielsen announced to the crowd that the show was being recorded for a future CD and / or DVD release.
Hutchinson was still acting governor when protests over the Townshend taxes erupted into the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers fired into a crowd, killing five people.
* June 26: Cardiff, Wales-The 1996 European Rugby League Championship is won by England who defeated Wales 26-12 at Cardiff Arms Park before a crowd of 5, 245
* May 5 – 1953 – 54 Challenge Cup final replay is won 8 – 4 by Warrington against Halifax before a world record crowd for a rugby football match of either code of over 120, 000 at Odsal Stadium.
The Hong Kong match, which drew a crowd of 39, 000 to see the All Blacks ( which had already clinched the Bledisloe Cup ) defeat the Wallabies 19 – 14, proved to be a financial success for the two unions, generating a reported £ 5. 5 million.
At the time of the conspiracy of Cinadon, the beginning of the fourth century BC, only forty Peers, or citizens, could be counted in a crowd of 4000 at the agora ( Xenophon, Hellenica, III, 3, 5 ).
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An estimated orderly crowd of over 300, 000 celebrated at the Diamondbacks victory parade, held at Bank One Ballpark and the surrounding downtown Phoenix streets on November 7, 2001.
On 17 July 2010, the band performed their first UK gig in almost four years to a crowd of around 30, 000 at Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Southwold.
In The Road To Bloody Sunday, local GP Dr. Raymond McClean estimated the crowd as 15, 000, which is the figure that was used by Bernadette Devlin McAliskey in Parliament.
The concert had one of the highest live audiences in Australian history with the crowd being estimated at between 120, 000 and 250, 000 people.
A large crowd of over 10, 000 fans welcome the Australian team on completing the first World Cup Hat-trick # Cricket | hat-trick – Martin Place, Sydney.
However, that Yale / Harvard game was played three weeks after St. Louis completed 45 and 48-yard passes against Kansas before a crowd of 7, 000 at Sportsman's Park.
The marriage united the Gruzinsky and Mukhrani branches of the former Georgian royal family, and drew a crowd of 3, 000 spectators, officials, and foreign diplomats, as well as extensive coverage by the Georgian media.
At Geelong's first practice match, a crowd of 20, 000 attended just to witness his legendary skills.
In 2005, he produced Philadelphia's official July 4 concert for a crowd estimated at 500, 000 people.
In Melbourne, a crowd estimated at 750, 000 turned out to welcome Johnson, although a vocal anti-war contingent demonstrated against the visit by throwing paint bombs at Johnson's car and chanting " LBJ, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?
The crowd was estimated at 450, 000 people.
His last shows were greeted with positive reviews, and one of his final concert appearances at the Irish Oxegen festival in Punchestown in 2006 was performed for a record crowd of 80, 000 people.
* 1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100, 000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre!
* 1976 – Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15, 000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
* 1987 – Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10, 000 – 15, 000 demonstrators at Malacañan Palace, Manila, killing 13.
On May 17, 1875, in front of an estimated crowd of 10, 000 people, a field of 15 three-year-old horses contested the first Derby.
Multiple news agencies estimated the crowd at between 800, 000 and 1 million – a show of force for the Sunni, Christian and Druze communities.
In August 1979, after two warm-up shows in Copenhagen, Led Zeppelin headlined two concerts at the Knebworth Music Festival, playing to a crowd of approximately 104, 000 on the first night.
A world record crowd of 56, 000 for a rugby union club match watched Llanelli RFC beat Neath RFC by 28 points to 13 points in the final of the Schweppes Cup ( WRU Challenge Cup ) on 7 May 1988.
Until the 1970s, more than 120, 000 people sometimes crammed into the venue – the record crowd standing at around 130, 000 for a Billy Graham evangelistic crusade in 1959, followed by 121, 696 for the 1970 VFL Grand Final.
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