At Francis C. Hammond High School in Alexandria, Virginia, he did poorly academically, having little interest in school work, but was popular with other students, and after leaving decided that he wanted to study painting at college, thereby beginning his studies at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1964, where he was a roommate of Peter Wolf.

* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

" At Capitol, slavery's story turns full circle ", The Boston GLobe, Boston, December 28, 2008.

At the end of the novel, Spenser leaves his father and uncles behind in Wyoming to attend college in Boston.

At the time the team played in Braves Field, the home field of the Boston Braves baseball team.

** At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain ( the only tie until 2002 in MLB All-Star Game history ).

At the end of his four years there were 10 branches, 5 minor branches, called ‘ reading rooms ,’ and 56 deposit stations … the library grew from a total of 610, 375 volumes at the close of 1894 to 716, 050 at the close of 1898 .” Another contribution made by Putnam towards the Boston Public Library was the addition of a room devoted to juveniles, “ believed to have been the first room wholly devoted to the service of children in any of the larger libraries of the country .”

At the hotel in Boston, the rabid crowd clawed at the newlyweds, Burton's coat was ripped and Taylor's ear was bloodied when someone tried to steal one of her earrings.

At that time, it was within the center of the up-and-coming folk-music scene, and Baez began performing near home in Boston and nearby Cambridge.

At the very end of Spock's life, he was advised to come ashore by his physician, Steve Pauker, of New England Medical Center, Boston.

At the same time, work on draining the fens to the west of Boston was begun, a scheme which displeased many whose livelihoods were at risk.

At the national level, the town is part of the Boston and Skegness parliamentary constituency, currently represented by Conservative Mark Simmonds.

At the end of March 2008, the Heat posted the third-lowest point total in the history of the NBA during the shot clock era during a 96 – 54 loss to the Toronto Raptors on March 19, followed by a new record for the fewest made baskets with seventeen, in another lost game against the Boston Celtics on March 30.

At age twenty Farrand was introduced to one of her primary mentors, the botanist Charles Sprague Sargent, who at Harvard University was both a professor of horticulture at the Bussey Institute and the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts.

At least two forts were named after Standish — an earthen fort on Plymouth's Saquish Neck built during the American Civil War and a larger cement fort built on Lovells Island in Boston Harbor in 1895.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Brilliant and Boston area was the most densely populated part of Marion County.

At its porte cochere, chauffeur-driven limosines from the estates deposited their owners in evening gowns and tuxedoes, to be joined by hotel patrons for dinner at 7: 30 p. m. Post-prandial entertainments included chamber music by a Boston Symphony ensemble in the lobby, or Saturday dancing and costume parties in the ballroom.

At the time, lands to the west of the Merrimack River, disputed between the two provinces, were treated by Belcher as part of Massachusetts, and he granted the town to several Boston families.

At this time only a single rail line ( Troy & Boston RR ) from Troy came through the southern limit of the village heading to Johnsonville, New York.

At the suggestion of Roddy McDowall, Astaire donated her papers and memorabilia — amounting to several trunks of material — to the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

At the same time, the settlers started developing their community, platted according to plans they had made in Boston.

At a mass meeting J. H. Smelser, a local resident and surveyor for the railroad, was selected to meet with railroad officials to secure the location of a depot at a point on the line nearest to Boston.

At the time of his climb, Mr. Welch was the station agent for the Boston & Maine Railroad in Northumberland, New Hampshire.

* July – At the Berkshire Festival, Benny Goodman recorded both the Clarinet Concerto ( with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Münch ) and the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings ( with the Boston Symphony String Quartet ) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for RCA Victor.

At the same time, however, the so-called bunyip skull was put on display in the Australian Museum ( Sydney ) for two days.

At first light on 11 July, the Australian 2 / 24th Battalion supported by tanks from 44th Royal Tank Regiment attacked the western end of Tel el Eisa hill ( Point 24 ).

At 06: 00 on 22 July, Australian 26th Brigade attacked Tel el Eisa and Australian 24th Brigade attacked Tel el Makh Khad toward Mieirya ( Ruin Ridge ).

At the 2005 Australian International Motor Show in Sydney, Holden paid homage to the FJ with the Efijy concept car.

At this time, the company was producing all of its passenger cars in Australia, and every model was of Australian design ; however, by the end of the decade, Holden was producing cars based on overseas designs.

At the time of the incident, the Australian Quarantine Inspection Services ( AQIS ) required imported dry pet food to be heated or irradiated to a minimum dose of 50 kGy.

At 105 – 5, things looked a little worrying for them, but an Australian win still seemed the most likely result.

At the Australian Open, he was defeated in the fourth round by Swiss Roger Federer.

At the 2007 Australian Open, Hewitt lost in the third round to tenth-seeded Chilean and eventual runner-up Fernando González, 2 – 6, 2 – 6, 7 – 5, 4 – 6.

At the end of the fourth day's play the Australian Board of Control for Cricket sent the following cable to the MCC in London:

At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between the states of New South Wales and Victoria as it flows to the northwest, before turning south for its final or so into South Australia, reaching the ocean at Lake Alexandrina.

At the same time, it was announced that 7-Eleven had on sold 29 South Australian service stations to Peregrine Corporation.

At independence it numbered 3, 750 all ranks, while another 465 Australian personnel augmented the force to assist in training and technical support.

At independence it numbered 3, 750 all ranks, while another 465 Australian personnel augmented the force to assist in training and technical support.

At the same time Australian models received the same 320 PS ( 235 kW / 316 hp ) engine management setup as other markets.

The album was nominated in the top 100 Australian albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine and the title track " At First Sight " remains a bona fide Australian classic.

At one time VB sold twice as much as any other full strength beer and was the only Australian beer brand that is in the top 3 sellers in every state.

* May 1 – At least 800 Indigenous Australian pastoral workers walk off the job in Northwest Western Australia, starting one of the longest industrial strikes in Australia.

* January 5 – WWII: At the Battle of Bardia in Libya, Australian and British troops defeat Italian forces, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation takes part.

At the end of the Australian tour, Nicks checked herself into the Betty Ford Center to overcome her cocaine addiction.

At the time, the Country Liberal Party had held office for the 27 years since self-government, and the Australian Labor Party had never come particularly close to government.

At the Federation Convention, Western Australian premier and future federal cabinet member, John Forrest, summarised the prevailing feeling: