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Pursuing a strategy of non-violent protest, Gandhi took the administration by surprise and won concessions from the authorities.
He won the seat for Labour for the first time, holding it until his surprise defeat by Dame Joan Vickers at the 1955 general election.
They next won a seat in 1967, when Winnie Ewing was the surprise winner of a by-election in the previously safe Labour seat of Hamilton.
She was appointed Opposition Leader in 1999, and won a surprise victory at the 2001 territory election, becoming the first Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) and first female Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.
Almost immediately after the Soviet withdrawal, the Battle of Jalalabad was fought between Afghan government forces and the mujahideen ; the government forces, to the surprise of many, repulsed the attack and won the battle.
In a surprise move, Gorton contested and won the position of Deputy Leader, forcing McMahon to make him Defence Minister.
The Heat were the biggest surprise and the league's most improved team in the season ; they won their first-ever Atlantic Division title with a 61 – 21 record, the best regular season record in Heat history at the time.
In 1657, and again in 1706, the town and castle were captured by the Swedes during their invasions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; on January 13, 1660 the invading Muscovite Russian army under Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky took the Brest castle in a surprise early morning attack, the town having been captured earlier, and massacred the 1700 defenders and their families ( according to captain Rosestein, Austrian observer ); on July 23, 1792 a battle was fought between the regiments of Duchy of Lithuania ( part of Polish Army ) defending the town and the invading Russian Imperial Army ; on September 19, 1794 the area between Brest and Terespol was the scene of a victorious battle won by the invading Russian Imperial army under Suvorov over the Kościuszko Uprising army division under general Karol Sierakowski known in Russian sources as ( Battle of Brest ).
To the surprise of almost everyone except Heath, the Conservatives won the election, with a majority of 31 seats.
" Romancing the Stone was a surprise hit: she won a Golden Globe for her role in the film, and it became one of the top-ten-grossing movies of 1984.
It was here that when most closely beset by his enemies, who had tracked him to his fastness by sleuth hounds, Bruce with the aid of a few faithful followers won a surprise victory over the English in 1307 which proved the turning-point of his fortunes.
Manley, who may have been taken by surprise by the maneuver, led his party in a boycott of the elections, and so the Jamaica Labour Party won all seats in parliament against only marginal opposition in six of the sixty electoral constituencies.
Morales has run for president in several recent elections with several close calls, and in 2005 he finally won a surprise victory, winning the largest majority vote since Bolivia returned to democracy and declaring himself to be the first indigenous president of Bolivia.
Unlike Toulouse, where Odo had won by achieving complete surprise over the Muslim forces when he relieved the city in 721, this time his forces were forced to face the Muslim cavalry in open battle and were utterly destroyed.
The SNP won a Parliamentary seat in 1967, when Winnie Ewing was the surprise winner of the Hamilton by-election, 1967.
In January 2006, the Islamic militant group Hamas won a surprise victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections.
In 1986 he won a WBC junior featherweight title with a surprise KO over rock-chinned Lupe Pintor in the fifth round and defended against the respected Juan Meza before being stopped by undefeated Australian Jeff Fenech.
A relative encouraged him to audition for a stage production of Tom Sawyer at Youth Performance Company and to his surprise, he won the part of Huckleberry Finn.
In 1809 he won a European reputation by a rapid and daring march over the frozen Gulf of Bothnia, which allowed him to surprise the enemy and seize Umeå in Sweden.
In January 1933, de Valera called a surprise election, which Fianna Fáil won comfortably.
In 1990, in a surprise victory, Bob Rae led the party to office in Ontario – the first that had won government east of Manitoba ( until their election in Nova Scotia in 2009 ).
After Jericho won the Heavyweight Championship from the Undertaker during Elimination Chamber, Edge turned face for the first time since November 2004 by challenging Chris Jericho for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XXVI after a surprise attack on Jericho.
Raven made a surprise return on ECW's debut on TNN and won the tag team title from the departing Dudley Boyz along with Tommy Dreamer on August 26, 1999.
To the surprise of many, Peterson won a narrow plurality of the popular vote.
Shankly announced his surprise retirement from football a few weeks after Liverpool won the 1974 FA Cup Final, having managed the club for fifteen years, and was succeeded by his long-time assistant Bob Paisley.

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He was selected for the squad which competed at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, but didn't kick a ball, something at which critics expressed surprise and bewilderment, even allowing for his lacklustre performance in Belgrade.
After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.
* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
Its military expansion into eastern Asia and the Pacific Ocean culminated in a surprise attack on the United States, bringing it into World War II.
** Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II.
Hitler went on to castigate the Navy, saying that Navy had done nothing in the wars of unification, that the High Seas Fleet " played no important role in the World War " and lacked "... men of action who were determined to fight with or without the Kaiser ", that the Navy were a nest of traitors whose only contribution to World War I was the High Seas Fleet mutiny of 1918, and that given this history, it was no surprise that the Navy's record in World War Two with the notable exception of the U-boats was one of failure after failure.
The Pennsylvania town shortened its name from Japan-Jeddo to Jeddo, after the 1941 surprise attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii which precipitated World War II.
Experiences from World War I battlefields emblazoned the concept of the trench warfare as an elongate depression defining an important boundary, so it was no surprise that the term “ trench ” was used to describe natural features in the early 1920s.
Brazil, to the surprise of many, went 24 years without winning a World Cup or even participating in a final.
* After another guard has his head eaten by ill-tempered mutated sea bass, his friends ( led by Rob Lowe, who would play the younger No. 2 in the sequel and has previously worked with Mike Myers in the film version of Wayne's World and with Seth Green in The Hotel New Hampshire ) hosting a surprise Bachelor's Party at a Hooters are notified of his death.
The beaten side included five of the same players who would go on later that year to win Germany's first World Cup in a surprise victory known as the Miracle of Bern.
The USSR and the U. S. became allies during World War II, after Nazi Germany's surprise attack on the USSR in 1941, but the U. S. government was highly suspicious of Joseph Stalin's long-term intentions.
Her announcement was a surprise because Henin was still ranked World No. 1 and was considered the favorite for the 2008 French Open, where she would have been the 3-time defending champion.
In a surprise, Rockefeller's running-mate for lieutenant governor, Maurice L. Britt, a decorated World War II veteran and a former professional football player, was narrowly elected to the second-ranking post over the Democrat James Pilkington of Hope, Arkansas.
Animal and Hawk made a surprise appearance on Raw on May 12, 2003 when they took on Kane and Rob Van Dam for the World Tag Team Championship.
In a surprise turn of events, the defendants, who included the union's most visible leader, one-eyed Big Bill Haywood, also a founder of the new Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), were acquitted by the jury.
He was even implicated in both scandal and controversy when, during World War II, Scotland Yard suspected him of fifth columnist sabotage and mounted a surprise raid to seize works thought to contain coded messages to the enemy.
* April 7 – Al McCoy defeats George Chip with a surprise first round knockout in Brooklyn, New York, to take the World Middleweight Championship.
During World War II the term was used by Soviet commanders to describe measures to create deception with the goal of inflicting surprise on the Wehrmacht forces.
He was also a surprise guest when she hosted a war bonds program called Guest Star, and they sang on other World War II victory shows together.
Advantages for World War I aircraft included speed, altitude, surprise, performance and numerical superiority.
In 1983, again in England, India were surprise winners of the 1983 Cricket World Cup under the captainship of Kapil Dev.

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