I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.

Our meeting took place in May, 1961, during one of the Maestro's stop-overs in New York, before he left for Europe.

The achievements which dispelled our fears of the cosmos took place three centuries ago.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

The subject of immortality brings to mind a vivid incident which took place in 1929 at Montreux in Switzerland.

The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.

All this remembering took place the other night when I had supper with the Ziegfeld Girls at the Beverly Hills Club.

The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

A dinner and celebration in honor of this piece of engineering took place July 4, 1793, in a tavern erected by the corporation on the island.

Following the kick-off of SAAMI's shooting development program in 1954, a most interesting meeting took place in Washington, D.C..

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

Interesting evidence can be found in the results of the Chamber of Commerce elections, which took place three weeks before national elections.

but all too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took place in the early first millennium.

Horse races took place here in the Middle Ages.

Motion-picture exhibitions took place in stores in a general atmosphere like that of the penny arcade which can still be found in such urban areas as Times Square.

A taxi took him back to the bar and grill where he had left his car, and a few minutes later he found a parking place across the street from his apartment.

The Fulton County Grand Jury said Friday an investigation of Atlanta's recent primary election produced `` no evidence '' that any irregularities took place.

It was when he attempted to end the relationship that the murder took place.

The executions took place at dawn only a few hours after Havana radio announced their conviction by a revolutionary tribunal at Pinar Del Rio, where the executions took place.

The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

Apollo helped Admetus win Alcestis, the daughter of King Pelias and later convinced the Fates to let Admetus live past his time, if another took his place.

On February 16, Steele took his seat in Parliament.

From October 1960 to February 1961, the U.N. forces in the Congo took little action.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

Pillow took up a position at nearby Clarksville, Tennessee and did not move into the fort itself until February 7, 1862.

The first recorded aircraft hijack took place on February 21, 1931, in Arequipa, Peru.

Colangelo's group was so certain that they would be awarded a franchise that they held a name-the-team contest for it ; they took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the February 13, 1995 edition of the state's leading newspaper, the Arizona Republic.

On March 14, 2002, an agreement was signed to transform the FRY into a loose state union called Serbia and Montenegro ; it took effect on February 4, 2003.

As the February 28, 2008 deadline to approve or reject CAFTA loomed, Arias decided to call for the referendum himself, and it took take place on October 7, 2007.

He took the oath of office on 18 February 2010.

In February, the people rose again: Alexius IV was imprisoned and executed, and Murzuphlus took the purple as Alexius V. He made some attempt to repair the walls and organise the citizenry, but there had been no opportunity to bring in troops from the provinces and the guards were demoralised by the revolution.

The current National Chairman is Colin Valentine, who took over from Paula Waters in February 2010.

The current executive secretary is Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, who took up this post on 15 February 2012.

as it took place following a popular uprising that began on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 and is still continuing as of February 2012.

In February 1809 one Thomas Windeatt, from Bridgetown, Totnes, took over the lease of a plot of land ( a " newtake ") of about 582 acres in the valley of the River Swincombe.

Ratings reached a low of 8 million in February 1973, Pat Phoenix quit as Elsie Tanner, Violet Carson ( Ena Sharples ) was written out for most of the year due to illness, and Doris Speed ( Annie Walker ) took two months ' leave.

After the federation dissolved, Dominica became an associated state of the United Kingdom on February 27, 1967 and formally took responsibility for its internal affairs.

The Paquisha War was a brief military clash that took place between January and February 1981 between Ecuador and Peru over the control of three watchposts.

Capello took charge of his first game on 6 February 2008 against Switzerland, in which England won 2 – 1.

In February 1913, a military coup took place in the Mexican capital led by General Victoriano Huerta, the military commander of the city.

Bacon took his third parliamentary seat for Middlesex when in February 1593 Elizabeth summoned Parliament to investigate a Roman Catholic plot against her.

In February 1944, Operation Hailstone, one of the most important naval battles of the war, took place at Truk, in which many Japanese support vessels and aircraft were destroyed.

An interim government turned over power in February 2000 when opposition leader Kumba Ialá took office following two rounds of transparent presidential elections.

Further to the north, Saint-Barthélemy and the northern French part of Saint Martin once came under the jurisdiction of Guadeloupe but on 7 December 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity, a decision which took effect on 22 February 2007.

However, in February 1852, Palmerston took revenge on Russell by voting with the Conservatives in a " no confidence " vote against the Russell government.

In February 1912, Princip took part in protest demonstrations against the Sarajevo authorities, for which he was expelled from school.