* 1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.

After posting the worst record in baseball for the 1999 season, the Marlins had the first overall pick in the 2000 first-year player draft and selected first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, a 16-year-old native of Bonita, California.

That season emerging international talents such as Adrian Mutu, Mauro Camoranesi, Alberto Gilardino, Martin Laursen, Massimo Oddo, Marco Cassetti and coach Alberto Malesani failed to capitalize on an excellent start and eventually dropped into fourth-to-last place for the first time all season on the very last matchday, enforcing relegation into Serie B.

The feast is supposed to commemorate the dedication of this church, and is first mentioned in the Sacramentary of Adrian I ( 772-95 ).

Minnesota began the 2006 season 4 – 2 ( Childress became the first coach in Vikings history to start 2 – 0 in his first year ), but would finish the year at 6 – 10, receiving the 7th pick in the NFL Draft ; with it, the Vikings selected Adrian Peterson out of the University of Oklahoma.

Adrian Willaert, Ludwig Senfl, and Cipriano de Rore were among the most prominent composers of ceremonial motets during the first half of the 16th century.

At a young age he was raised at the Lateran Palace during the pontificate of Pope Adrian I, and it was under Stephen's predecessor Pope Leo III that he was first ordained a Subdeacon before he was subsequently made a Deacon.

* 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.

The Padres dealt starting pitcher Adam Eaton, middle reliever Akinori Otsuka, and minor-league catcher Billy Killian in exchange for starting pitcher Chris Young, left fielder Terrmel Sledge, and first baseman Adrian Gonzalez.

In order to perform these more complex arrangements the band toured with an expanded group that included Adrian Belew and Bernie Worrell, among others, first at the Heatwave festival in August, and later in their concert film Stop Making Sense.

* Millard, Alfred L., Early history of Lenawee County and of the city of Adrian from the first settlement of the county Adrian, Mich .: Times and Expositor Steam Print, 1876.

He is the first Polish pope in history, and the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI ( 1522-1523 ).

FreeCell Pro, the enhanced Windows-based Solitaire implementation by Adrian Ettlinger and Wilson Callan ( formerly freeware, later licensed under GPL ), first integrated Don Woods ' solver and later on used Fish's Freecell Solver and Holroyd's Patsolve.

The orchestral premiere of The Planets suite, conducted at Holst's request by Adrian Boult, was held at short notice on 29 September 1918, during the last weeks of World War I, in the Queen's Hall with the financial support of Holst's friend and fellow composer H. Balfour Gardiner It was hastily rehearsed ; the musicians of the Queen's Hall Orchestra first saw the complicated music only two hours before the performance, and the choir for " Neptune " was recruited from pupils from St Paul's Girls ' School ( where Holst taught ).

It was a comparatively intimate affair, attended by around 250 invited associates, but Holst regarded it as the public premiere, inscribing Boult's copy of the score, " This copy is the property of Adrian Boult who first caused the Planets to shine in public and thereby earned the gratitude of Gustav Holst.

The McLaren MP4 / 13 was the first car designed by Adrian Newey, aerodynamicist who had the merit of having designed the best car when he was with the Williams team.

His 1992 anthology Uncanny Banquet was notable for including the first ever reprint of the obscure 1914 horror novel The Hole of the Pit by Adrian Ross.

: Adrian Bell was the first to set The Times Crossword from 1930 and was one of those responsible for establishing its distinctive cryptic style.

He was tutored by William de Croÿ ( who would later become his first prime minister ), and also by Adrian of Utrecht ( later Pope Adrian VI ).

One of his first acts was to exile the Patriarch of Constantinople, Photios, and restore his rival Ignatios, whose claims were supported by Pope Adrian II.

What Hannibal achieved in extricating his army was, as Adrian Goldsworthy puts it, " a classic of ancient generalship, finding its way into nearly every historical narrative of the war and being used by later military manuals ".

Adrian Lewis achieved a nine-dart finish in the third leg of the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship final against Gary Anderson, winning £ 10, 000.

Artists on the label included Alvin Stardust, Matchbox, Adrian Baker, Silver Convention, Guys ' n ' Dolls, Darts, Kissing the Pink, Bad Manners, David D ' Or, Blue Zoo and Chris Rea, who all achieved success during the 1970s and 1980s.

Adrian Greenoak, the Show ’ s horticultural director, achieved a continuous improvement in the standards ; the 1991 Show introduced a British Rose Festival, with the joint involvement of the Royal National Rose Society and the British Rose Growers ’ Association.

* Dorne Dibble, wide receiver for the Detroit Lions was born in Adrian

" Also in 1978, Adrian Norman published a mock consulting study on the feasibility of setting up a company providing a wide range of data haven services, called " Project Goldfish.

Adrian Bridgwater has edited the news section of Dr. Dobb's since 2010, he continues the title's pedigree for covering real world software application development issues across platforms, across languages and across a wide range of developmental methodologies and use case scenarios.

The Vikings used the picks to select wide receiver Troy Williamson and cornerback Adrian Ward.

Corral ( 1957 ), The Devil's Disciple ( 1959 ), The List of Adrian Messenger ( 1963 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), Victory at Entebbe ( 1976 ) and Tough Guys ( 1986 ) which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public imagination.

In his 1996 inaugural speech as President of the Royal Statistical Society, Adrian Smith held out evidence-based medicine as an exemplar for all public policy.

* Adrian W. B. Randolph, Engaging symbols: gender, politics, and public art in fifteenth-century Florence.

Following weeks of public rumors about a reunion of the band, an official press conference on January 31, 2007 announced that No Angels had reformed and were working on a new studio album with producers Boogieman, Tobias Gustafsson, Steve Mac, Adrian Newman, and the Redfly team.

The intervening book, Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years, mixes these themes, with events such as the Gulf War seen from Adrian's naive and frustrated point of view, as well as depictions of his experiences of unemployment and public spending cutbacks, both major political issues at the time.

Her association with the " sarong " dress designed for Dorothy Lamour in The Hurricane made her well-known among the general public, although Head was a more restrained designer than either Banton or Adrian.

The piece did not find great favour with the public until rediscovered by the conductor Sir Adrian Boult in the 1960s, it also being the subject of his final performance.

Some of his constituents and members of the D. C. Council ( including his successor, Adrian M. Fenty ) criticized Williams ' deal with Major League Baseball for conceding too much and not providing a spending cap on the public financing of the new baseball park.

The former head of Section 1, Adrian, plans of revealing the Gemstone File first to George, head of Oversight, and then to the public in order to shatter Operations's bid for power, though Nikita ends up siding with Operations, as simulations predict world chaos and destruction should Hussein be removed from power.

For example, from an interview published the day before the letter was made public: "' earned his medals, he did what he was supposed to do in Vietnam ,' said retired Coast Guard Captain Adrian Lonsdale, who was in the chain of command above Kerry and oversaw various operations dealing with Navy swift boats of the type Kerry commanded.

After the resignation of David Howard, the Department of Tourism and Leisure's Director of leisure, Mike Ball, stepped in as acting director of public transport and in early 2007 the leisure and public transport divisions of the department combined into " service delivery ", Mike Ball becoming " Director of service delivery " under the minister Adrian Earnshaw appointed in November 2006.

There were many public expressions of sympathy for Buller, especially in the West Country, where in 1905 by public subscription a notable statue by Adrian Jones of Buller astride his war horse was erected in Exeter on the road from his home town of Crediton ( facing away from Crediton to the annoyance of the inhabitants of Crediton.

expansion before the infrastructure would be severely tested, and over the next few years a Heritage Marquee was set up for the NCCPG and its national collections – initially a rather quiet area, but increasing steadily in public interest ; crafts pavilions, which under Adrian Boyd were the first sight to greet the visitor, were gradually moved to a less prominent position ; there was room for a couple of dozen display gardens, plus a separate section, on the other side of the Long Water from the major part of the exhibition, for ten water gardens.

Knox County Schools operates five public schools in the Halls community including Halls Elementary School, Adrian Burnett Elementary School, Brickey Elementary School, Halls High School, and Halls Middle School.

* NHC's public advisory archive on Hurricane Adrian

Adrian C. Wilcox High School is a public school located in Santa Clara, California.

The book relates the life of Adrian Healey, a public school and Oxbridge educated man who excels at lying and, along with other characters, forming an old boy's club, partakes in a makebelieve espionage game solely to avert boredom.

This book takes the reader from the protagonist ’ s public school days to his life as an adult: Adrian Healey is " the liar " spoken of in the title.

In the narrative of the school years, Adrian is at a public boys school ( Harrow ), portrayed as an intelligent and irreverent young man.

Adrian has carefully groomed himself to convey the image of a witty, highly extroverted gay boy ; however, despite his image, and, despite regarding sex as his " public pride ", he finds himself unable to express his love for the beautiful Hugo Cartwright.

Adrian is later expelled from Harrow for writing an article discussing the tradition of hidden behaviours at mixed sex public schools that could be considered homosexual ; consequently, he does his " A " levels in a Gloucestershire state school.