* 1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth.

At last, however, Marlborough called a halt to the pursuit shortly after midnight near Meldert, from the field.

At midnight on 5 November, Thomas ' breathing became more difficult and his face turned blue.

At the stroke of midnight the Paschal celebration itself begins, consisting of Paschal Matins, Paschal Hours, and Paschal Divine Liturgy.

At higher latitudes in summer, when the sun does not sink below the horizon, a day is counted from midday to midday, and in the winter, when the sun does not rise above the horizon, from midnight to midnight.

At right is displayed the web color midnight blue.

At midnight on New Year's Eve 1929, Nehru hoisted the tricolour flag of India upon the banks of the Ravi in Lahore.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

At the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, Luthor sets in motion a calculated plot to discredit Supernova, a new hero who has taken over defending Metropolis in Superman's absence.

At four minutes past midnight of 6 September, one of them ( likely Issa ) turned on the hostages in the eastern helicopter and fired at them with a Kalashnikov assault rifle from point-blank range.

At five past midnight ( CET ) on 18 October, the plane was stormed in a seven-minute assault by the GSG 9, an elite unit of the German federal police.

At around midnight, white rioters again assembled outside the courthouse, this time in smaller but more determined numbers.

At the same Turnmills gig, the Brothers also played a previously unreleased song at midnight to welcome 2007, which went down well with the crowd.

At the midnight marking the end of fašiangy, a symbolic burial ceremony for the contrabass is performed, because music has to cease for the Lent.

At midnight on 28 February 1994 South Africa formally transferred sovereignty over Walvis Bay and the Penguin Islands to Namibia.

: At midnight sharp came Allan in

At midnight on November 2, the people light candles and ride winged boats called mariposas ( butterflies ) to Janitzio, an island in the middle of the lake where there is a cemetery, to honor and celebrate the lives of the dead there.

At midnight General Dietrich Kraiss, commander of the 352nd division, reporting the total loss of men and equipment in the coastal positions, advised that he had sufficient forces to contain the Americans on D + 1 but that he would need reinforcements thereafter, only to be told that there were no more reserves available.

At midnight on 10 August 1945, two Army lieutenant colonels arbitrarily selected the 38th parallel as the dividing line, and the division of the peninsula into military occupation zones was agreed by the two superpowers — a northern zone administered by the Soviet Union and a southern zone administered by the United States.

At midnight on 20 July 1947, the Dutch launched a major military offensive called Operatie Product, with the intent of conquering the Republic.

At midnight in the warehouse, Strutt is trying to sell the heroin to Leon when he realizes who Leon is and why Leon is working against him.

At this first ball, Cinderella remembers to leave before midnight.

At midnight the devil Chernabog summons evil spirits and restless souls from their graves.

:< span style =" font-size: 90 %"> There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life ; Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse: Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem .</ span >

At the meeting of the Board of Trustees, on March 3, 1910, Miss Upton presented the annual report of the President.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27, 1957, the Best Foreign Language Film category was introduced.

At the time Caesar was killed on the Ides of March ( the 15th ) 44 BC, Octavius was studying and undergoing military training in Apollonia, Illyria.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

At approximately 7: 15 on March 31, 2007 the AMPS / TDMA network ceased to function.

At the 18th Party Congress ( 10 – 21 March 1939 ) the department specializing in industry was abolished and replaced by a division focusing on personnel management, ideology and verification fulfillment.

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

At the Sejm in Wiślica, 11 March 1347, he introduced salutary legal reforms in the jurisprudence of his country.

At the end of March 1959, Porter took over as chief engineer at RCA's Nashville studio, in the space now known as " Studio B ".

At the Eighth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party which lasted from 26 February – 8 March 1948, Xoxe was implicated in a plot to isolate Hoxha and consolidate his own power.

At the closure of the UK Film Council on 31 March 2011, The Guardian reported that " The UKFC's entire annual budget was a reported £ 3m, while the cost of closing it down and restructuring is estimated to have been almost four times that amount.

* 1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.

At its prime, the site attracted around 80, 000 visitors a year, but in March 2010 BT announced that the visitor centre would be " Closed for Easter and beyond, until further notice.

At the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit on March 10, a Chinese government official asked the European Commission why it no longer wanted to work with China, and when China ’ s cash investment in Galileo would be returned.

At the same time, a series of deaths left the Greek political scene in disarray: Kondylis died in February, Venizelos in March, Demertzis in April and Tsaldaris in May.

At the Bridgeport, California Mountain Warfare Training Center in March 1997, a test HMMWV drives through the snow, equipped with Mattracks treads.

At the Crossbarry Ambush in March 1921, 100 or so of Barry's men fought a sizeable engagement with a British column of 1, 200, escaping from the British encircling manoeuvre.

At the meeting of ICANN in Rome, which took place from March 2 to March 6, 2004, ICANN agreed to ask approval of the US Department of Commerce for the Waiting List Service of VeriSign.

At one point during his career, in an effort to get fit after an injury, in March 1980 he joined the football club Scunthorpe United, where he played as a centre half and made 11 appearances in the Football League.

At 15, he ran away from Geneva ( on 14 March 1728 ) after returning to the city and finding the city gates locked due to the curfew.