Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

Alexander died in a fall from his horse in the dark while riding to visit the queen at Kinghorn in Fife on 18 March 1286 because it was her birthday the next day.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

Bloody Sunday remains among the most significant events in the Troubles of Northern Ireland, chiefly because those who died were shot by the British army rather than paramilitaries, in full view of the public and the press.

Mansur hoped to establish a Transcaucasus Islamic state under shari ' a law, but was unable to fully achieve this because in the course of the war he was wounded and captured, and for unknown reasons, died.

It did not catch on as did Dewey's system because Cutter died before it was completely finished, making no provision for the kind of development necessary as the bounds of knowledge expanded and scholarly emphases changed throughout the 20th century.

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

The police forces once again attempted to contain the protests, and this time, 42 people were killed in Addis Ababa, including seven policemen, and another of whom later died because of fatal injuries caused by a hand grenade detonation.

The police forces once again attempted to contain the protests and this time forty-two people were killed in Addis Ababa, including seven policemen, and another of whom later died because of fatal injuries caused by a hand grenade detonation.

In the next year he died because of illness.

Sometimes people died for their political opinions or actions, but many for little reason beyond mere suspicion, or because some others had a stake in getting rid of them.

Cossiga died on 17 August 2010 because of respiratory problems.

His health was noticeably worsening by the following year and when Gummo died, aged 84, on April 21, 1977, in Palm Springs, California, the death of his younger brother was not reported to Groucho because it was thought too detrimental to his health.

Nobody from the fashion world attended, mainly because no one knew about her death until months after she had died.

On December 23, 1927 Hawk's sister Grace died of tuberculosis after Hawk's mother refused to allow medical treatment because of her Christian Science beliefs.

Thousands succumbed to a yellow fever during the summer months and more than half of the French army died because of disease.

In the summer of 1775, his sister Elizabeth ( age 7 ) and his brother Reuben ( age 3 ) died in a dysentery epidemic that swept through Orange County because of contaminated water.

He never married or had children ; because his brother Henry died before him ( in 1192 ) also without issue, after Otto II's death in 1205 Brandenburg was inherited by his younger half-brother Albert II, son of Otto I and Ada.

Investigators determined that Orton died first, because Halliwell's body was still warm.

The later Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm remarked that " One cannot say Marx died a failure " because, although he had not achieved a large following of disciples in Britain, his writings had already begun to make an impact on the leftist movements in Germany and Russia.

He died of a heart attack on August 29, 1987 after being hospitalized for more than two weeks because of " a run-down condition related to the flu.

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor once again asked for help of Gustav I of Sweden, and The Kingdom of Poland ( 1385 – 1569 ) also began direct negotiations with Gustav, but nothing resulted because on September 29, 1560, Gustav I Vasa died.

He was born in the Manisa Palace, the brother of Ahmed I ( 1603 – 17 ), who died because of typhus at a young age.

In 1998, coral reefs experienced the most severe mass bleaching events on record, when vast expanses of reefs across the world died because sea surface temperatures rose well above normal.

For ten years a small group of European and U.S. critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28.

That same year, both his parents died, leaving him a small inheritance which he quickly spent.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

However, the indigenous people have influenced modern Costa Rican culture to a relatively small degree, as most of these died from diseases such as smallpox and mistreatment by the Spaniards.

The disease has also been shown to result from use of Human Growth Hormone obtained from the pituitary glands of persons who died from Creutzfeldt – Jakob Disease, though the known incidence of this cause is ( as of April 2004 ) quite small.

The most famous was Masada, where, in 70-73 CE, a small group of Jewish zealots held out against the might of the Roman legion, and Machaerus where, according to Josephus, John the Baptist was imprisoned by Herod Antipas and died.

Although only a small number of soldiers died it was still a bad ending for a brilliantly fought campaign.

) There are numerous schools and a small museum ; a large cemetery is the resting place of many French soldiers who died of disease ( chiefly cholera ) during the Crimean War.

However, urban people — especially small children — died due to diseases spreading through the cramped living conditions.

His father, a small peasant-farmer named Ivar Jonsson, died in 1826.

In 1774 at the age of 16, Monroe's father died and he inherited his small plantation and slaves, officially joining the ruling class of the planter elite in what had become the slave society of Virginia.

His father, who was a lawyer, died while he was a child, and his mother was left with very small means ; but her sister, who was lady of the chamber to the Landgravine of Hesse, helped to support and educate her numerous family.

They were primarily farmers who lived in towns, organized into small kingdoms, however, within three decades an estimated Indian population of one million plummeted to a few tens of thousands, as approximately half of the indigenous people in western Nicaragua died of diseases brought by the Spaniards.

It was impossible to reestablish the species with just a few captive birds, and the small captive flocks weakened and died.

Desiderius, abbot of Monte Cassino was first chosen pope as Victor III when Gregory VII died in 1085, but after Victor's short reign, Otho was elected Pope Urban II by acclamation ( March 1088 ) at a small meeting of cardinals and other prelates held in Terracina in March 1088.

Hugh Cressingham, Edward's treasurer in Scotland, died in the fighting and it is reputed that his body was subsequently flayed and the skin cut into small pieces as tokens of the victory.

When the sea otter finally received federal protection in 1911, Washington's sea otter had been hunted to extinction, and although a small remnant population still existed in British Columbia, it soon died out.

Almost half the children born in Britain throughout the 19th century died before the age of 5, and in the crowded living conditions of early 19th century Lyme Regis, infant deaths from diseases like small pox and measles were particularly common.

Born to a farmers family in the small village of Zagorica east of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Jurij was 6 years old when his father Jernej Veha died.

Buick sold his stock for a small sum upon departure, and died in modest circumstances 25 years later.

One such cycle of Arabic tales centres around a small group of historical figures from 9th-century Baghdad, including the caliph Harun al-Rashid ( died 809 ), his vizier Jafar al-Barmaki ( d. 803 ) and the licentious poet Abu Nuwas ( d. c. 813 ).

Yet before the reign of terror reached its climax, Georg Forster died of a stroke after a rheumatic illness in his small attic apartment at Rue des Moulins in Paris in January 1794, at the age of thirty-nine.

Inside they encounter the slugs ' hosts from Titan, small elf-like creatures, who died when Earth's air entered the ship.

In November 1999, González, his mother, and twelve others left Cuba on a small aluminum boat with a faulty engine ; González's mother and ten others died in the crossing.