After a protracted, hysterical trial scene more notable for the frankness of its language than for dramatic credibility, the jury, to no one's surprise, leaves the legal question unresolved.

After a protracted development cycle the initial AAM-N-2 Sparrow entered limited operational service in 1954 with specially modified Skyknights all weather carrier night fighters.

After a protracted struggle Mexico declared its independence from Spain in 1810.

After protracted patent litigation, in 1892 a federal court ruled that Edison and not Emile Berliner was the inventor of the carbon microphone.

* February 23 – After protracted testimony, the U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11 – 9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense.

After a protracted siege and various skirmishes, the Meccans withdrew again.

After protracted difficulties in obtaining the production of his opera, Mussorgsky was compliant with Nápravník's demands, and even defended these mutilations to his own supporters.

After a protracted siege ended on 8 September of the same year, which became known in history as the Great Siege, the Ottoman Empire conceded defeat as the approaching winter storms threatened to prevent them from leaving.

After a protracted courtship, Elizabeth agreed to marry him.

After a protracted series of bitter court battles, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes to government investigators ; he ultimately complied.

After a protracted struggle, the government withdrew the tax.

After Kennedy's assassination, Johnson ordered in more US forces to support the Saigon government, beginning a protracted United States presence in Southeast Asia.

After protracted haggling the two leaders met near Pontoise on 19 August 1359 ; on the second day Charles of Navarre publicly renounced all his demands for territory and money, saying he wanted nothing more than what he had at the beginning of hostilities and ' wanted nothing more than to do his duty to his country '.

After protracted negotiations on costs and conditions, the work was completed by 1810 so that boats drawing 5 ' 9 " could pass from Athlone to Killaloe.

After protracted and testy negotiations, Fields agreed to a reduced stake of 25 % in the airline ( renamed Virgin Atlantic ) and became its first chairman.

After a protracted illness, he died at home of a heart attack on 27 November 1955 and was interred in the Saint-Vincent Cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris.

After a protracted campaign South Uist residents took control of the island on 30 November 2006 in Scotland's biggest community land buyout to date.

After a protracted campaign, local residents took control of parts of the island on 30 November 2006 in a community buy-out.

After a protracted lawsuit that lasted five years and cost $ 1. 3 million, The Kingsmen won the rights to their song " Louie Louie ".

After protracted negotiations, they absorbed the Stainforth and Keadby Canal in 1849.

After a protracted siege, he took Rhegium in 386 and sold the inhabitants as slaves.

After a protracted war, the Treaty of the Pyrenees ( 1659 ) secured Roussillon and part of the Cerdanya ( Cerdagne ) to the French crown, creating the French province of Roussillon.

After a protracted legal battle, Besant took custody of Krishnamurti and Nitya.

After serving two years, he resigned as president of the World Bank Group ending what a Reuters report called " a protracted battle over his stewardship, prompted by his involvement in a high-paying promotion for his companion.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

* 1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.

After the capture of the city in June, 1098, and the subsequent siege led by Kerbogha, Adhemar organized a procession through the streets, and had the gates locked so that the Crusaders, many of whom had begun to panic, would be unable to desert the city.

* 1555 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army.

After a three-year siege, Thasos was recaptured and forced back into the League.

After an 18 month siege Jerusalem was captured in 587 BC, thousands of Jews were deported to Babylon and Solomon's Temple was razed to the ground.

Cuitláhuac was made tlatoani of Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest of Mexico ; After Pedro de Alvarado had ordered the massacre in the Main Temple, the Aztecs were very upset and started to fight and put a siege to the Spaniards.

After the success of his siege of Carcassonne, which followed the massacre at Béziers, Simon de Montfort was designated as leader of the Crusader army.

* 1761 – Seven Years ' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.

After his demise, but still during the siege of Valencia, legend holds that Jimena ordered that the corpse of El Cid be fitted with his armor and set atop his horse Babieca, to bolster the morale of his troops.

After a brief siege, with no Carthaginian help in sight, Syracuse made peace with the Romans.

* 1344 March – After a two-year siege, Algeciras was taken over by the Castilian forces.

After a five-month siege with several unsuccessful and costly attempts, Spanish troops gave up and retired.

After the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland ( notably at the siege of Drogheda in 1649 ), Irish prisoners were transferred to Montserrat.

* 1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.

* 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.

After the Jewish garrison of Yodfat fell under siege, the Romans invaded, killing thousands ; the survivors committed suicide.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3, 000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

* 1991 – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.

* 1147 – After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.

* 1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.

* 1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops ( under Oliver Cromwell ) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2, 000 Irish Confederate troops and 1, 500 civilians.

After the siege was raised, Innocent again spared no efforts to induce the Christian princes to lend a helping hand for the expulsion of the Turks from Hungary.

After a six months ' siege, Constantinople was taken by Theodosios ; Anastasios, who had fled to Nicaea, was compelled to submit to the new emperor in 716 and retired to a monastery in Thessalonica.