At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

At the same time, he was doing his National Service with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Shrewsbury, where Busby had advised him to apply as it meant he could still play for United at the weekend.

At the outbreak of World War II he volunteered for the Royal Air Force, but was unable to serve because of a childhood illness.

At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown " dwarf " galaxies in this constellation ; follow-up observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope revealed that ultra compact dwarfs are much smaller than previously known dwarf galaxies, about across.

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 ).

* 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

At the time the British public were disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a victory on the scale of Trafalgar.

At the Battle of Coronel, it inflicted the first major defeat on the Royal Navy in over one hundred years, although the German squadron of ships was subsequently defeated at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, only one ship escaping destruction.

* 1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.

* 1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.

* 1666 – At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.

At the age of eight, he entered the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand at La Flèche.

At Henley Royal Regatta two crews compete side by side in each round, in a straightforward knock-out format, with no repechages.

At the same time the Royal Air Force was having problems with their IRBM missile project, the Blue Streak, which was long overdue.

At the UPenn Museum the exhibition Iraq's Ancient Past, which includes many of the most famous pieces from the Royal Tombs, is expected to be open to visitors in late Spring 2011.

* February 15 – At 04: 51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London, United Kingdom with a bomb.

At sea, the powerful Royal Navy blockaded much of the coastline, conducting frequent raids.

At the end of the first performance, the audience called for Wagner, who appeared at the front of the Royal box, which he had been sharing with King Ludwig.

At MABOT's pumping lock the team's landing zone was covered in concertina wire that was unreported by their intelligence and so the SEALs and Royal Marines were forced to hover several feet off the ground.

At the time of her death, Princess Margaret's full style was: Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon, Companion of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

* November 28 – At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found " a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning " ( later known as the Royal Society ).

At the Theatre Royal, Marylebone, an epicene production was staged with Mary Warner, Fanny Vining, Anna Cora Mowatt, and Edward Loomis Davenport.

At the same time, on 9 July, Albert Kalonji proclaimed the independence of South Kasai.

At Maastricht, 14 February 1499, Albert settled the succession to his possessions, and endeavoured by this arrangement to prevent further partition of his domain.

At the outset of cognitive-behavioural therapy during the 1950s, hypnosis was used by early behaviour therapists such as Joseph Wolpe and also by early cognitive therapists such as Albert Ellis.

* At the death of antipope Theodoric, the partisan of the Holy Roman Emperor choose Albert as the new antipope.

At Princeton, he went to lectures and seminars, where he heard Oswald Veblen, James Alexander, and Albert Einstein.

At the same time, the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming were adapted into an increasingly fantastical series of tongue-in-cheek adventure films by producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, with Sean Connery as the star.

At about 6 a. m. on April 6, 1862, when Grant's army was surprised and virtually routed by the sudden appearance of the Confederate States Army under Albert Sidney Johnston, Grant sent orders for Wallace to move his division up to support the division of Brig.

At age seven, Edward embarked on a rigorous educational programme devised by Prince Albert, and supervised by several tutors.

At the age of 24 she was betrothed to Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, but six weeks after the announcement of the engagement he died unexpectedly of pneumonia.

At first, she failed to notice the nanny's abuse of the young Princes Edward and Albert, and her youngest son, Prince John, was housed in a private farm on the Sandringham Estate, in the care of Mrs. Bill, perhaps to hide his epilepsy from the public.

At the age of sixteen, she was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent of Queen Victoria.

At the beginning of World War I, Albert complied with a British demand that he not acquiesce to a German request to move troops through Belgium in order to attack Britain's ally, France, which Germany anticipated was about to declare war on Germany in support of Russia ; Britain was the guarantor of Belgian neutrality under an 1839 treaty.

At RADA, he was in the same class as Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Brian Bedford.

At the beginning of the First World War, during the September 1914 Race to the Sea, the Somme became the site of the Battle of Albert.

Following the April 4, 2006 release of At War with the Mystics, the band began a tour to support the album in the United Kingdom, including a finale at the Royal Albert Hall and performances at the O2 Wireless Festival.

At least one researcher in the 1900s ( Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing, who was a self-professed sadist ) thought that algolagnia was a psychological disorder, however this view began to change once the Kinsey Reports noted that many seemingly " normal " people often enjoy pain in a sexual context, and later Norman Breslow found that, before 1977, only four previous studies in all the scientific literature were empirical in nature.

At Sliter's Corners Dr. Albert Ball and Dr. Joseph H. Elmore were early physicians.

At the end of the war the government ceased operation, and in 1949 Albert LaPierre and Jack Peterson bought the abandoned airstrip and began filling it with modest cinder-block houses.

At Göttingen he studied Plato with Arnold Heeren ; history with Heeren and Gottlieb Jakob Planck ; Arabic, Hebrew, New Testament Greek and scripture interpretation with Albert Eichhorn ; natural science with Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ; German literature with Georg Friedrich Benecke ; French and Italian literature with Artaud and Bunsen ; and classics with Georg Ludolf Dissen.

At a Zappa concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Mothers Of Invention keyboardist Don Preston climbed up to the legendary venue's pipe organ, usually used for classical works, and played the signature riff ( this can be heard on the 1969 Zappa album Uncle Meat ).

At one time, Albert Tatum owned over 4, 000 acres ( 16 km² ) of land around the current town of Tatum.

At the age of eight, he was discovered at the famous Albert Cuyp Market by comedian Johnny Kraaykamp and made his television debut in AVRO's Weekendshow.

The French writer Albert Camus died in a Facel Vega FV3B driven by his publisher, Michel Gallimard At the time of his death, Camus had planned to travel by train, with his wife and children, but at the last minute accepted his publisher's proposal to travel with him.

* " Holding Hands ( You Don't Say Nothing At All )" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer

At his trial the following January, the prosecution produced documents showing that Haddon's enlistment papers, marriage certificate, officer's commission, demobilisation papers and employment records all showed he was born in or before 1887, at least two years before Albert Victor met Mrs. Haddon.