At one point late in the day, when Palmer was lining up a 25-foot putt on the 16th, a thunderous cheer from the direction of the 18th green unmistakably announced that Player had birdied the final hole.

At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

At the end of the 18th century, the first form of solid chocolate was invented in Turin by Doret.

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 18th Party Conference ( 15 – 20 February 1941 ) it was concluded that the abolition of the Central Committee Department on Industry had led to the neglect of industry.

At COCU's 18th plenary meeting in St. Louis, Missouri ( January 1999 ), CUIC was proposed as a new relationship among the nine member communions.

At the end of the 18th century it became fashionable for wealthy people to spend the Summer by the sea.

At the start of the 18th century a large house, called Delville-known at first as The Glen-was built on the site of the present Bons Secours hospital.

At the same time, Catalan and Galician became the standard languages in their respective territories, developing important literary traditions and being the normal languages in which public and private documents were issued: Galician from the 13th to the 16th century in Galicia and nearby regions of Asturias and Leon, and Catalan from the 12th to the 18th century in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, where it was known as Valencian.

At the same time there was from the latter part of the 18th century an increased interest in depicting in the form of history painting moments of drama from recent or contemporary history, which had long largely been confined to battle-scenes and scenes of formal surrenders and the like.

At the end of the 18th century, however, when the concept of a chemical compound had not yet been fully developed, the law was novel.

At the same time, by the middle of the 18th century another genre was gaining popularity in France: opéra comique.

At the time of his death at the age of 95, his was the longest papacy in Church history until it was surpassed by the 24-year papacy of Pius VI in the late 18th century.

At the end of the 18th century, the British gained control of the colony, imposing the English language on the colonists, who were now developing a culture of their own.

At least 25 major outbreaks followed in the Americas throughout the 18th and 19th centuries including particularly serious ones in Cartagena, Colombia in 1741, in Cuba in 1762, and in Santo Domingo in 1803.

At the start of the 18th century, Jethro Tull, an English gentleman, introduced an improved grain drill that systemized the planting of seed and invented a horse-drawn weed hoe, the two of which allowed fields once choked with weeds to be brought back to production and seed to be used more economically.

At the end of the 18th century Baba Mahommed tried in vain to batter down the tomb with artillery.

At first, only India ink was used, then some prints were manually colored with a brush, but in the 18th century Suzuki Harunobu developed the technique of polychrome printing to produce nishiki-e.

At the end of 18th century the University was restored.

At the end of the 18th century, Thomas Malthus concluded that, if unchecked, populations would be subject to exponential growth.

At the end of the 18th century, the Bohemian lands underwent a considerable change-the Habsburg emperor Josef II put an end to the feudal system and supported a new religious and ideological tolerance.

At the beginning of the 18th century Provence suffered from the economic malaise of the end of the reign of Louis XIV.

At the end of the 18th century, and even more at the beginning of the nineteenth, the Maghreb suffered from the deadly combination of plague and famine.

At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy.

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.

* 1969 – At the U. S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.

At the 1st Academy Awards, Chaplin was given a special award " For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus.

At the Academy Awards gala, Chaplin was given a twelve-minute standing ovation, the longest in the Academy's history.

At that time, a friend " Swede " Hazlet was applying to the Naval Academy and urged Dwight to apply to the school, since no tuition was required.

At each failure he became increasingly frustrated with the Academy for denying him the prize, and this dissatisfaction sowed the seeds of a long-standing grudge against the institution.

At the 1993 British Academy Awards ( BAFTA ) the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film was introduced.

* 1996 – At the Academy Awards ceremony, director Quincy Jones organised a tribute to the just-deceased Kelly, in which Savion Glover performed the dance to " Singin ' in the Rain ".

At the request of Azam, Paul Broca, and others, the French Academy of Science, who had examined Mesmerism in 1784, examined Braid's writings shortly after his demise.

* 1802 – At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.

At the beginning of July 1863, Booth finished the acting season at Cleveland's Academy of Music, as the Battle of Gettysburg raged in Pennsylvania.

At the 1973 Academy Awards ceremony, Brando refused to accept the Oscar for his performance in The Godfather.

At the Academy, he was moved by the Neo-classical art of the Renaissance and paid close attention to the works of Michelangelo and Raphael.

At the 82nd Academy Awards Sheedy, Hall, Ringwald and Nelson all appeared in a tribute to John Hughes, along with other actors who had worked with Hughes, including Jon Cryer from Pretty in Pink, Matthew Broderick from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone.

At the 33rd Academy Awards, the score was nominated for Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, losing to Ernest Gold's score for Exodus.

At the age of 17, with the help of his father, Grant was nominated by Congressman Thomas L. Hamer for a position at the United States Military Academy ( USMA ) at West Point, New York.

At first Hertz thought the electrical disturbances would be too turbulent and irregular to be of any further use, but when he had discovered the existence of a neutral point in the middle of a side-conductor, and therefore of a clear and orderly phenomenon, he felt convinced that the problem of the Berlin Academy was now capable of solution.

** At the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony, Ben-Hur wins a record number of Oscars, including Best Picture.

* April 5 – At the 37th Academy Awards, My Fair Lady wins 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

* July 4 – At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.

At the age of 19, soon after his graduation for college, Gibbs was inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, a scholarly institution composed primarily of members of the Yale faculty.