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

At the party's first electoral contest, Jenkins narrowly failed to win a by-election at Warrington in July 1981, describing it as his " first defeat, but by far ( his ) greatest victory ".

At the end of his term, Frei had accomplished many noteworthy objectives, but he had not fully achieved his party's ambitious goals.

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 the party's height it boasted 3, 000 cumainn, an average of 75 per constituency.

At the time, each party's Congressional Caucus chose presidential candidates, and in 1808 the Democratic-Republicans chose Madison.

Prima facie evidence need not be conclusive or irrefutable: At this stage, evidence rebutting the case is not considered, only whether any party's case has enough merit to take it to a full trial.

At this time, Saddam moved up the ranks in the new government by aiding attempts to strengthen and unify the Ba ' ath party and taking a leading role in addressing the country's major domestic problems and expanding the party's following.

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

At the same time, the party's nominally socialist ideology faced a legitimacy crisis as it gradually adopted capitalist practices.

At the time, Jiang Qing and associates held effective control of mass media and the party's propaganda network, while Zhou and Deng held control of most government organs.

At the 1979 general election the party's vote share declined from 10. 8 % to 8. 1 % and Carmarthen was again lost to Labour.

At the end of the 1970s, Le Pen refurbished his party's appeal, by breaking away from the anticapitalist heritage of Poujadism.

At the 2001 federal election, the party's vote was halved, from nine percent to 5. 5 percent.

At the First Congress of the Communist Party in Shanghai, Chen was elected ( in absentia ) as the party's first General Secretary ; and, with the assistance of Li Dazhao, he developed what would become a crucial cooperative relationship with the international Communist movement, the Comintern.

At the party's nomination convention in Albany on April 23, Stern won the required two-thirds majority on the first ballot, receiving 287 of the 381 votes cast ( 75. 33 %).

At a UFP congress in 1961, Smith publicly denounced the party's platform on Southern Rhodesia constitutional proposals.

At this time, COPE made an official overture to the Green Party of Vancouver, the local affiliate of the Green Party of British Columbia, offering the group some minor policy concessions, joint billing in the party's ballot name (" COPE-Green ' 93 ") and assurances that important party members would ensure some Greens were nominated.

At around this time, the government also established several collective farms to placate the party's left-wing faction ; the establishments of collective farms soon halted.

At the party's convention in Whistler, British Columbia, he prevailed over 11 other candidates by winning on the fourth ballot.

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kirkpatrick delivered the " Blame America First " keynote speech, which re-nominated Reagan by praising his administration's foreign policy while excoriating the leadership of what she called the " San Francisco Democrats "— the Democrats had just held their convention in San Francisco — for the party's shift away from the hawkish policies of former Democratic presidents such as Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy to a more strident anti-war position that the left-wing of the Democratic Party had pushed since Vietnam.

At a public meeting in Glasgow on 25 August 1888 the Scottish Labour Party ( not the same party as the modern Scottish Labour Party ) was formed, with Hardie becoming the party's first secretary.

At the August 2004 State Convention, the Native American activist Leonard Peltier was nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

At the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, she became the first woman to have her name be placed in nomination for the presidency at a major political party's convention.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

At last he found it in the paper of April 2.

At the premier in April 2001, Pat Sajak was the narrator.

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 Indiana University in 1999 he organized such a symposium, and in April 2000, he organized a larger symposium entitled " Spiritual Robots " at Stanford University, in which he moderated a panel consisting of Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, Kevin Kelly, Ralph Merkle, Bill Joy, Frank Drake, John Holland and John Koza.

At an extraordinary Congress in Brussels held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union, the ELDR Party incorporated itself under Belgian law and later became a European political party.

At her funeral on 28 April, the coffin was taken to Westminster Abbey on a hearse drawn by four horses hung with black velvet.

At the arrangement of editor Max Eastman, the American magazine Reader's Digest also published an abridged version in April 1945, enabling The Road to Serfdom to reach a far wider audience than academics.

At 5 a. m. on the foggy morning of 12 April 2, 000-3, 000 German soldiers from the Brigade von Tshirsky attacked the city from the north-west, supported via the Helsinki-Turku railway.

At his inauguration, Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

At the end of April 2005, they celebrated the decommissioning of the Obrigheim nuclear power station.

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.

In April 2007 former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet released his memoir titled At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA.

At the end of April the Romans captured the fortress of Pirisabora, which guarded the canal approach from the Euphrates to Ctesiphon on the Tigris.

At the April 2008 " Toward a Science of Consciousness " Conference held in Tucson, Arizona, Marcel Kuijsten ( Executive Director and Founder of the Julian Jaynes Society ) and Brian J. McVeigh ( University of Arizona ) hosted a workshop devoted to Jaynesian psychology.

At the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, NAB Show, on 11 April 2010, EditShare announced that they plan to transform Lightworks into Lightworks Open Source.

At the age of seventy, Webster published his dictionary in 1828, registering the copyright on April 14.

At the Presidium of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in April, Dubček announced a political programme of " socialism with a human face ".

At the Jülich Institute of Neurosciences and Biophysics, the world's largest PET / MRI device began operation in April 2009: a 9. 4-tesla magnetic resonance tomograph ( MRT ) combined with a positron emission tomograph ( PET ).

At the time of his 200th win in April, Martínez had the highest winning percentage of any 200-game winner in modern baseball history ( he eventually slipped. 003 behind Whitey Ford ).

At the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the PLAN, 52 vessels were shown in manoeuvres off Qingdao in April 2009 including previously unseen nuclear submarines.

At the April 1974 elections, the DP increased its majority in the Legislative Assembly by three seats, gaining all but two of the fifteen seats with only 52 % of the popular vote.

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 a neighborhood coffee shop near a carnival, he meets and becomes friends with a female midget named Clarice ( April Kent ), who is proportionately his equal, with him being slightly taller.