The note reads: " The first years of his life Virgil spent in Cremona, right until the assumption of his toga virilis, which he accepted on his 17th birthday, when the same two men held the consulate, as when he was born, and it so happened that on the very same day Lucretius the poet passed away.

Despite the fact that he was in his forty-ninth year, and Marie Thérèse had barley passed her fourteenth birthday, Monsieur Geoffrin had inherited a substantial fortune from his first wife, and the chance for " an excellent settlement " was thought to be quite suitable by Madame Chemineau.

The birthday of Queen Victoria was a day for celebration in Canada long before Confederation, with the first legislation regarding the event being in 1845 passed by the parliament of the Province of Canada to officially recognize May 24 as the Queen's birthday.

Fisher passed the seamanship examination for the rank of Lieutenant, and was given the acting rank of Mate, on his nineteenth birthday, 25 January 1860.

On April 7, 1959, de los Santos ' birthday, Republic Act No. 2140 was passed, renaming the avenue to honor him.

In July 2003, just short of his 95th birthday, he passed his driving test for the first time.

Since then, the date of the king or queen's birthday has been determined throughout the British Empire and later the Commonwealth according to either different royal proclamations issued by the sovereign or governor or by statute laws passed by the local parliament.

The monarch's birthday had been observed in Canada since 1845, when the parliament of the Province of Canada passed a statute to officially recognize Queen Victoria's birthday, 24 May.

By that time, Wooden was in failing health and could not attend ; he passed away three weeks later, slightly more than four months before his 100th birthday.

He missed the entire 1985 – 86 season due to a toe injury but, having passed his 40th birthday, he was able to re-establish himself in the first-team during the 1986 – 87 season.

However, a sliced box kick from Gloucester fly-half Ryan Lamb ( on his birthday ), followed by a catastrophic error by Iain Balshaw who passed metres behind Willie Walker, allowed Leicester's former All-Black Aaron Mauger to score under the posts and close the gap to 22 – 20.

Following musical lessons from his father, he passed the examination for admission to the second tenors ( later transferring to the basses ) of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society on his fifteenth birthday, and in the same year took part in the concerts at the opening of the Philharmonic Hall.

On the January 2008 FIDE rating list, published just before Karjakin's eighteenth birthday, he passed the 2700 mark for the first time, often seen as the line that separates " elite " players from other grandmasters, with a new rating of 2732 and a world rank of 13.

Having passed his 42nd birthday, Clough was still registered as a player which possibly explained his apparent lack of ambition to move into League management ( his father bitterly lamented the premature curtailment of his own playing career ).

He passed the normal retirement age of 75 for Curial positions in 2004, though this is frequently waived ( Cardinal Noe had remained in office past his 80th birthday ).

He won the AT & T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am five times, but he passed his 41st birthday in January 1998 without having won a major championship as a professional.

To be eligible, candidates must be Peruvian citizens, have passed their 25th birthday, and not have had their right to vote suspended.

As he passed his fiftieth birthday he turned to his boyhood compositions which he reshaped into The Wand of Youth suites during the summer of 1907.

Having just passed his tenth birthday, he played against the then world champion Garry Kasparov in a simultaneous exhibition.

* The Globe and Mail, 13 December 1985, p. B3, Martineau Walker Advocate ( this obituary states that Martineau died in his 91st year ; i. e. he is assumed to have passed his 90th birthday )

In a new sentence passed on her birthday of 10 May 1944 at Stuttgart, she was condemned to death.

On Tina's birthday, she is despondent because another birthday has passed and she does not have a boyfriend.

The motion to carry out a revolution in October 1917 was passed with 10 in favour, and two against by the Central Committee.

On 17 October 2006, the NSW Parliament passed legislation abolishing the rule against double jeopardy in cases where:

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

The proposal was passed on 8 October 2008 by 503 votes to 96 ( 15 abstentions ).

In October 1940 Holt was elevated to Cabinet, becoming Minister for Labour and National Service, and one of his most significant achievements in this portfolio was the introduction of the Child Endowment Act, passed in April 1941.

A law was passed 11 October 2006 by a unanimous vote with only 138 of 275 representatives present, with the remaining representatives boycotting the vote.

In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

The first known appearance of the spelling Krakatau was by Wouter Schouten, who passed by " the high tree-covered island of Krakatau " in October 1658.

In October 1935, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the recently passed Neutrality Acts and placed an embargo on arms and munitions to both sides, but extended a further " moral embargo " to the belligerent Italians, including other trade items.

He encouraged other tradesmen also to work for only eight hours a day and in October 1840, a workers ' meeting passed a resolution supporting the idea.

) Although formerly operated by the U. S. Navy and known as NAVSPASUR ( short for " Naval Space Surveillance "), command passed to the Air Force 20th Space Control Squadron on October 1, 2004.

Koizumi subsequently won this election, gaining the necessary supermajority and a mandate for reform, and in October 2005, the bill was passed to privatize Japan Post in 2007.

Prohibition was instituted with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 16, 1919, which prohibited the "... manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States ..." Congress passed the " Volstead Act " on October 28, 1919, to enforce the law, but most large cities were uninterested in enforcing the legislation, leaving an understaffed federal service to go after bootleggers.

A Special Law to this effect was passed on October 31, 1960.

On October 1, 2010, squatting was finally outlawed in The Netherlands after the Squatting Ban Bill was passed into law by both houses of Parliament.

The Government of the Republic of Macedonia enacted a statute of the national holiday in October 2006 and the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia passed a corresponding law at the beginning of 2007.

In October 1971, Resolution 2758 was passed by the UN General Assembly, expelling " the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek " and replacing the China seat on the Security Council ( and all other UN organs ) with delegates from the People's Republic of China.

The next day on October 24, 2001, the Act passed the House 357 to 66, with Democrats comprising the overwhelming portion of dissent.

The following day on October 25, 2001, the Act passed the Senate by 98 to 1, with Russ Feingold the only opposition.

On October 19, 1882, he appeared in court before Judge George Hillyer to take his examination for the bar, which he passed easily.

Yale traces its beginnings to " An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School ", passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701, in an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut.

* October 30 – American Civil War: The bill for Missouri's secession from the Union is passed.

* October 14 – Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.

On October 17, the Senate passed a unanimous resolution demanding Palmer explain what actions he had or had not taken against radical aliens and why.