At the 1856 Republican National Convention, Lincoln placed second in the contest to become the party's candidate for vice president.

At the Democratic Convention, when he came in second on the first ballot and faded from there, it became clear that he was too unpopular to run.

At the Southern Commercial Convention of 1854, Pike said the South should remain in the Union and seek equality with the North, but if the South " were forced into an inferior status, she would be better out of the Union than in it.

At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Clinton gave a widely praised speech nominating Barack Obama.

At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.

At the 2010 10th Conference of Parties ( COP ) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in October in Nagoya, Japan, the Nagoya Protocol was adopted.

At the same time the article's protection is limited in that it only prohibits discrimination with respect to rights under the Convention.

At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.

At a special " Leadership Convention " in Kilkenny on 6 October 2001, Trevor Sargent was elected the first official leader of the Green Party.

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kemp, along with allies such as Gingrich and Lott, added a plank to the party platform that put President Reagan on record as ruling out tax increases.

At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, there were a number of references to judicial review.

At the time of the Constitutional Convention, there had been cases in the state courts of at least seven states involving judicial review of state statutes.

Merril records later " At the end of the Convention week, the taste of America was sour in all our mouths ," and " by the end of the Sixties, Merril was a political refugee living in Canada.

Mob Convention — September 7, 1853: At the convention, young men greeted her with “ a perfect storm ,” hissing and groaning.

At the Republican Convention in Chicago, despite being the incumbent, Taft's victory was not immediately assured.

At the time of the Frostbitten Convention, it appeared that Ohio had won the conflict.

At the 1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention, when debating the ratification of the new United States Constitution, Patrick Henry stated, " One of our first complaints, under the former government, was the quartering of troops among us.

At the 1996 Democratic National Convention, Clinton and incumbent Vice President Al Gore were renominated with token opposition.

* July 16 – At the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, U. S. presidential nominee Barry Goldwater declares that " extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice ", and " moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue ".

** At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton accepts his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the " forgotten middle class ".

* June 29 – 1928 Democratic National Convention: At the Democratic National Convention in Houston, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

At the time of King Louis XVI's trial, the Girondists had, however, lost their majority in the Convention.

At the 1968 Republican National Convention, Agnew's nomination was supported by many conservatives within the Republican Party, and by Nixon himself.

At the Convention, Bush's primary campaign opponent Pat Buchanan gave his famous " culture war " speech, criticizing Clinton and Gore's social progressiveness, and voicing skepticism on his " New Democrat " brand.

* 2012 – At least 30 people have been killed as a result of heavy monsoon rain in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

* 2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.

* 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3, 000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.

* Columbus, Ohio based pop / rock band Casey At The Bat, formed in 2012.

At the 2012 meeting in Vancouver, Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( the world's biggest science conference ), support was reiterated for a cetacean bill of rights, listing cetaceans as " non-human persons ".

At Gen Con 2012, FASA Games, Inc. was revealed, which includes FASA Corporation co-founder Ross Babcock on the Board of Directors.

At the December, 2012, World Conference on International Telecommunications, ITU secretary-general Hamadoun Touré will convene member-state delegations in Dubai to renegotiate the ITR treaty.

* 2012 – At least 171 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

* 2012 – At least 107 people are killed and more than 250 others wounded in a string of bombings and attacks in Iraq.

At the beginning of the 2012 season Sporting started a perfect 7 – 0 – 0, and with the new addition of players such as Bobby Convey the team has remained on top of the league, setting an MLS record for most minutes played without allowing a shot on goal.

At the 2012 Golden Globe Awards Kelsey Grammer won the award for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama for his role on Boss.

He has appeared in thirteen episodes since the show's inception in 1989, the most recent being " At Long Last Leave " that aired in February 2012, in which his character makes a cameo speaking appearance.

At the time it was the oldest known germination, remaining so until a new record was set in 2012.

At the 2012 Game Developers Conference, EA announced a new SimCity along with a new logo for the Maxis brand.

At the 2012 French presidential election the voter turnout in New Caledonia was 61. 19 %.

At the 2012 WSIA Summit in Snow board of directors meeting the creation of a parasail committee chaired by Daytona Beach Parasail's president, Matthew Dvorak was created.

At an August 1, 2012 price of about $ 27. 50 USD per troy ounce, silver is about 1 / 58th the price of gold.

At approximately 9: 40 AM Eastern Daylight Time on April 27, 2012 Enterprise took off from Dulles International Airport en-route to a fly-by over the Hudson River, New York's JFK International Airport, the Statue of Liberty, the George Washington and Verrazano-Narrows Bridges, and several other landmarks in the city ; in an approximately 45-minute " final tour ".

At $ 360 billion in 2012, the GDP of the UAE ranks second in the CCASG ( after Saudi Arabia ), third in the Middle East — North Africa ( MENA ) region ( after Saudi Arabia and Iran ), and 30th in the world.

At the opening of Yeosu Expo 2012, Kook Jin Moon, a son of Moon responsible for economic development of the movement, sat in front of the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak among the VIP group.

Smith at the At Long Last Leave # Promotion | Simpsons 500th Episode Marathon, February 2012

* At the beginning of August 2012, Schmidt gave an interview on German television where he revealed that at 93 years of age he had fallen in love again.

At the OMG March 2012 meeting the OMG recommended the new IDL to C ++ 11 language mapping for adoption.

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, for the first time at an international athletics event, the guides will receive medals, such as the pilots in cycling, and the guides at the Paralympic Winter Games have done for a while.