After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas.

After making a series of westerns and comedies, Dwan directed fellow Canadian Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood.

* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903 – 04.

After winning the First Test by an innings after being controversially sent in by Hutton, Australia lost its way and England took a hat-trick of victories to win the series 3 – 1.

After narrowly winning the Second Test at Lord's, dubbed " The Battle of the Ridge " because of a protrusion on the pitch that caused erratic bounce, Australia mounted a comeback on the final day of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford and sealed the series after a heavy collapse during the English runchase.

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

After a rain-affected draw at Edgbaston, the fourth match at Headingley was convincingly won by Australia by an innings and 80 runs to level the series.

After this success, director Sydney Pollack hired Cuarón to direct an episode of Fallen Angels, a series of neo-noir stories produced for the Showtime premium cable network in 1993 ; other directors who worked on the series included Steven Soderbergh, Jonathan Kaplan, Peter Bogdanovich, and Tom Hanks.

After taking the first two games at home against the Cubs, in the National League Division Series, they took the series to Wrigley Field, where they completed their sweep, earning their first berth in the National League Championship Series since 2001.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

After the eruption of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883, a remarkable series of red sunsets appeared worldwide.

After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, ( most notably the American Base Ball Association, which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers ) the current American League, evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901.

After producing a Vindication of the English Constitution, and some political pamphlets, Disraeli followed up Vivian Grey with a series of novels, The Young Duke ( 1831 ), Contarini Fleming ( 1832 ), Alroy ( 1833 ), Venetia and Henrietta Temple ( 1837 ).

After a series of wars they were decisively beaten by the Romans in a battle near Mutina ( Modena ) and their territory became part of the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul.

After a one day series against South Africa, he scored his first Test century against the visiting Pakistanis in the first Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados which the West Indies eventually won.

After World War II, the French Constitution of 1946 inaugurated the first of a series of reforms that led eventually to complete independence for all French territories in western and equatorial Africa.

After the death of Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king in 627 BC, the Assyrian empire descended into a series of bitter dynastic civil wars.

After hiring Buddy Bell as the club's third manager, O ' Dowd proceeded to make a series of offseason deals that would change the face of the franchise.

After losing each of the first two games by two runs, the Rockies opened up a 5 – 2 lead against Matt Cain in the finale of the series on August 30.

After 1922, Cheka groups underwent a series of reorganizations, with the NKVD, into bodies whose members continued to be referred to as " Chekisty " ( Chekists ) into the late 1980s.

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

After producing the third volume of his series in 1976, he expressed such frustration with the nascent state of the then newly-developed electronic publishing tools ( especially those that provided input to phototypesetters ) that he took time out to work on typesetting and created the TeX and METAFONT tools.

After a brief and unpopular animated series in 1973 by Nippon Television, Doraemon remained fairly exclusive in manga from until 1979 when a newly formed animation studio, Shin-Ei Animation ( Now owned by TV Asahi ) produced an anime series of Doraemon.

After scouring around a bit in the open area, I came across what proved to be tar-soaked logs which crackled and burned brightly, giving off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky.

After this initial chemotherapeutic compound proved effective, others pursued similar lines of inquiry, but it was not until in 1928 that Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium.

After the glittering decade of the 1950s, the first tour of the 1960s proved not nearly as successful as previous ones.

After the 1974 invasion following a Greek junta-based coup attempt, Makarios secured international recognition of his Greek Cypriot government as the sole legal authority on Cyprus, which has proved to be a very significant strategic advantage for the Greek Cypriots in the decades since.

After it proved popular in the clubs, this Coldcut " Seven Minutes of Madness " remix ended up being promoted as the single in the UK.

After the club's return, Curbishley proved an astute spender and by 2003 he had succeeded in establishing Charlton in the top flight.

After the birth of Ibrahim, other wives of Muhammad alleged that Ibrahim was not his son, which proved not to be the case.

After a campaign that included the near destruction of Guayaquil, the forces of Gran Colombia, under the leadership of Sucre and Venezuelan General Juan José Flores, proved victorious.

After the United States Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Black Ships forcibly opened Japan to foreign trade and the shogunate proved incapable of hindering the " barbarian " interlopers, the Emperor Kōmei began to assert himself politically.

After 1984's Marvel Super-Heroes proved the viability of the concept, TSR revised Gamma World, Star Frontiers, and Top Secret to use similar tables.

After the basic form of the theorem is proved, it will be easy to extend it to the case of predicate calculus with equality.

After his son Philip married Queen Mary of England, it appeared that France would be completely surrounded by Habsburg domains, but this hope proved unfounded when the marriage produced no children.

After World War II, Hoover's mining work in the Kyshtym area of Russia proved invaluable to American intelligence agencies.

After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the 1920s, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis powers in the 1930s.

After tests proved that the bite marks were his, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges, while the sodomy charge was dropped.

After this contribution, which is now called the rebirth of Turkish Cinema's reconciliation with its audience ; Altioklar carried on his road and proved the permanence of his success by shooting Kolera Street ( 1997 ).

After 1800, the heirs of Prithvi Narayan Shah proved unable to maintain firm political control over Nepal.

After conferring with veteran teammate Gene Tenace, Smith went ahead with the backflip, and it proved to be wildly popular.

After a few days, a junta emerged, freed some political prisoners, arrested Francia's secretary Polycarpo Patiño, and soon proved itself ineffectual at governing.

After the 1984 elections had proved inconclusive with neither the Alignment nor Likud able to form a government, a national unity government was formed with a rotating prime ministership – Shimon Peres took the first two years, and was replaced by Shamir midway through the Knesset term.

After six months of combat against the Germans, the stavka abolished the Rifle Corps intermediate level between the Army and Division level because, while useful in theory, in the state of the Red Army in 1941, they proved ineffective in practice.

After the death of Ruprecht in 1410, his succession at first proved difficult, as both Wenceslaus ' cousin Jobst of Moravia and Wenceslaus ' brother Sigismund of Hungary were elected King of Germany.

After all, nothing in the usual definition said that the identity element e was unique ; if there is another identity element e, then it is ambiguous which one should be the value of the nullary operator e. However, this is not a problem because identity elements can be proved to be always unique.

After his act proved successful, he proceeded to Paris, where he took the act to the Moulin Rouge in 1892.