By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

By late February 1896, supplies on both sides were running low.

By February 1948, because of massive post-war military cuts, the entire United States army had been reduced to 552, 000 men.

By February 2006, six hundred remained in custody, facing trial in March.

By February 2006, hundreds remained in custody, facing trial in March.

By Roman custom, February 24 is the day added to a leap year in the Julian calendar.

By February 1945 David Astor had invited Orwell to become a war correspondent for the Observer.

By late autumn, the death toll began to slow until, in February 1666, it was considered safe enough for the King and his entourage to return to the city.

By threatening to withdraw his troops, William in February 1689 convinced a newly chosen Convention Parliament to make him and his wife joint monarchs.

By this time Himmler, who had been under the care of his doctor since 18 February, had fled to a sanatorium at Hohenlychen.

By early February Adenauer finally realized that all talk and all attempts at compromise with the Nazis were futile.

* The BYTE 6809 Articles ( Jan – February 1979 ) ( PDF ) – By Terry Ritter and Joel Boney, co-designers of the 6809 ; BYTE magazine reproductions by tim lindner

By 19 February 1938, when the group was picked up by the ice breakers Taimyr and Murman, their station had drifted 2850 km to the eastern coast of Greenland.

By the third week in February 1941, 680, 000 German troops were stationed on the Romanian-Soviet border.

By February 2004, a full tour was announced, and tickets for nearly all the initial tour dates sold out within minutes.

By Executive Order of the President of the United States, the Purple Heart was revived on the 200th Anniversary of George Washington's birth, out of respect to his memory and military achievements, by War Department General Orders No. 3, dated February 22, 1932.

By February 2009, there were more than 4. 8 million broadband users in Singapore.

By 1977 the band were performing their own three-chord pop punk material, which was performed alongside cover versions at concerts, primarily at The Casbah, where the band began to perform in February.

By February 1945, 73 % of children received milk in school, compared with 50 % in July 1940.

By 9 February 1942, Peenemünde engineer de Beek had documented the radio interference area of a V-2 as 10, 000 meters around the “ Firing Point ”, and the first successful A-4 flight on 3 October 1943, used radio control for Brennschluss.

By 1986, outside organizations had begun asking for X. X10R2 was released in January 1986, then X10R3 in February 1986.

By February 2007, over 80 % of U. S. Internet users were connected via broadband and broadband internet has been almost a required standard for quality internet browsing.

By 23 February 1877 he had completed a second and more extensive prose draft of the work, and by 19 April of the same year he had transformed this into a verse libretto ( or “ poem ”, as Wagner liked to call his libretti ).

By adding a second leap day ( Friday, February 30 ) Sweden reverted to the Julian calendar and the rest of the year ( from Saturday, March 1 ) was in sync with the Julian calendar.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

By the mid-twenties the British film industry was losing out to heavy competition from Hollywood, the latter helped by having a much larger home market-in 1914 25 % of films shown in the UK were British, but by 1926 this had fallen to 5 %.

By 1926, Stalin-Bukharin alliance ousted Zinoviev and Kamenev from the Party leadership, and Bukharin enjoyed the highest degree of power during the 1926-1928 period.

By acquiring the successful Balaban & Katz chain in 1926, he gained the services of Barney Balaban ( who would eventually become Paramount's president in 1936 ), his brother A. J. Balaban ( who would eventually supervise all stage production nationwide and produce talkie shorts ), and their partner Sam Katz ( who would run the Paramount-Publix theatre chain from New York City ).

By 1926 the market for commercial radio had expanded, and RCA purchased the WEAF and WCAP radio stations and networks from AT & T, merged them with its WJZ ( the predecessor of WABC ) New York to WRC ( presently WTEM ) Washington chain, and formed the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ).

By 1926, six SS-Gaus were established, supervising all such units in Germany.

By 1926 quartz crystals were used to control the frequency of radio broadcasting stations and were popular with amateur radio operators.

By the early 1920s, several formats had successfully split the amateur home movies market away from 35 mm: 28 mm ( 1. 1 in ) ( 1912 ), 9. 5 mm ( 0. 37 in ) ( 1922 ), 16 mm ( 0. 63 in ) ( 1923 ), and Pathe Rural, a 17. 5 mm format designed for safety film ( 1926 ).

* French — Fourest, Georges: " The Blonde Negress " ( 1909 ); Klingsor, Tristan: " By Moonlight " ( 1908 ), " At the Fountain " ( 1913 ); Magre, Maurice: " The Two Pierrots " ( 1913 ); Rouault, Georges: Funambules ( 1926 ).

By 1926, he was the main feature of the " World Famous Indians " of LaRue which sponsored traveling football, baseball and basketball teams.

In 1926, Glasgow Corporation bought the Cardonald estates, They gave opportunity to private development replicating Kelvindale cottage flats By Western Heritable and Council housing in the area.

By 1926 he had his first exhibition in the United States at the Reinhardt gallery of New York which included about 100 works, although he did not travel to the opening.

By 1926 Rank was persona non grata in the official psychoanalytic world.

By 1926 Joyce had largely completed both Books I and III.

By 1926, management of the club had passed on to a new generation of members, and it was through their efforts that Odd were finally admitted into the regional series in 1927, ten years after the club was founded.

By the beginning of 1991 almost of oil had been produced in the county since discovery in 1926.

By 1926, construction of the Belgrave Hospital for Children — designed by Henry Percy Adams and Charles Holden-was complete.

By the 1930s residential expansion had peaked in Wimbledon and the new focus for local growth had moved to neighbouring Morden which had remained rural until the arrival of the Underground at Morden station in 1926.

By 1926 Cunard's fleet was larger than before the war, and White Star was in decline, having been sold by IMM.

By early 1926, had been cleared and planted with tangerine, orange and grapefruit trees, plus grapes.

By 1926, Brooks had two general stores, a grocery store, a bank, hardware store, butcher shop, blacksmith shop, a livery barn, two saloons, a community hall and a hotel to accommodate travelers.

By 1926, the era of large-scale timber operations in the area had come to a close.

By 1926, the Toastmaster Company began to market the first household toaster using a redesigned version of Strite's toaster.

By 1926, the monument had a chalet and seven two-bedroom cabins.