In 1979, Jane Byrne, the city's first female mayor, was elected.

The legal doctrine was first formulated by Baron Pollock in the 1863 English case Byrne v Boadle.

* July 6 – Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne presents his first edition of The Late Late Show.

In 1980, Tharp's work first appeared on Broadway with Twyla Tharp Dance performing When We Were Very Young, followed in 1981 by The Catherine Wheel, her collaboration with David Byrne at the Winter Garden.

Many of his father's old allies blamed the son for splitting the white vote with Byrne and allowing the relatively unknown legislator Congressman Harold Washington to become Chicago's first black mayor.

Jane Margaret Byrne ( born May 24, 1934 ) was the first and to-date only female Mayor of Chicago.

Byrne first entered politics to help John F. Kennedy get elected President in 1960.

Although she was a product of the Daley political machine, Byrne positioned herself as a reformer in her first campaign.

Byrne made some progressive moves as mayor, such as hiring the first black school superintendent, and she was the first Mayor to recognize the gay community.

In the 1974 Candidates ' matches, Spassky first defeated American Robert Byrne in San Juan, Puerto Rico by 4½ – 1½ (+ 3 − 0 = 3 ); he then lost the semifinal match to Anatoly Karpov in Leningrad, despite winning the first game, (+ 1 − 4

For their first 25 seasons in New Jersey, the Devils were based in East Rutherford and played their home games at Brendan Byrne Arena / Continental Airlines Arena.

* In Superman: The Animated Series, " The Last Son of Krypton ", the first part of a three-part pilot episode, depicts Krypton as being basically similar to the pre-Crisis version ( it was scientifically advanced, Kal-El appeared to be about one to two years old as in the Silver Age comics, there are depictions of peculiar animals ) although with elements of the John Byrne version ( such as the appearance of the characters ' wardrobe ).

Rei Momo ( 1989 ) was the first solo album by Byrne, after leaving Talking Heads, that features mainly Afro-Cuban, Afro-Hispanic, and Brazilian song styles including popular dances including merengue, Cuban Son, samba, mambo, cumbia, cha-cha-chá, bomba, and charanga.

Byrne says that the point in this project was to allow people to experience art first hand, by creating the music with the organ, rather than simply looking at it.

Busman's Honeymoon first saw the light of day as a stage play by Sayers and Muriel St. Clare Byrne, which opened in December 1936.

Tessa first appeared in The X-Men # 132 ( April 1980 ), and was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne.

At the 5th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in 2007, Byrne was presented with the first of the newly created Volta awards, for lifetime achievement in acting.

Byrne described himself as an entertainer first.

Plans for connecting Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx were first announced by Edward A. Byrne, chief engineer of the New York City Department of Plant and Structures, in 1916.

In May 2009, Ryan Tubridy was appointed by RTÉ to succeed Pat Kenny as host of the television station's long-running chat show The Late Late Show, whose first host ( and producer ) was Gay Byrne until Kenny took over in 1999.

Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist / co-writer John Byrne, he first appeared in Uncanny X-Men # 141 ( January 1981 ).

The first, and only woman to hold the office was Jane Byrne.

Brendan Byrne Arena, named for the sitting governor, opened July 2, 1981, with the first of six sold-out shows by the rock musician Bruce Springsteen.

Originally named Brendan Byrne Arena ( after Brendan Byrne, the sitting governor of the state, who was also a member of the ownership group seeking to bring an NHL team to the State ), the arena opened July 2, 1981, with the first of six concerts by New Jersey rock musician Bruce Springsteen.

She was played by Patsy Byrne and appeared in all six episodes.

On 21 April 2009, the Ospreys had six players included in the British and Irish Lions ' squad for the 2009 South African tour: Lee Byrne ( Fullback ), Tommy Bowe and Shane Williams ( Wings ), Mike Phillips ( Scrum Half ), Alun-Wyn Jones ( Lock ) and Adam Jones ( Prop ).

Byrne was in a relationship with Australian writer, director and actor Brendan Cowell for over six years.

He narrated a retelling ( scripted by Steven Byrne ) of the great Irish Myths and Legends over a six CD set in 2006.

Byrne and Denton separated for six months in 1997.

Byrne and Sherritt were later convicted of stealing a bullock and served six months in HM Prison Beechworth.

Since joining Ferrari in 1997 Byrne designed cars have won over seventy Grands Prix, seven constructors titles and six drivers titles.

Gerry L ' Estrange was born in Correaly, Street, County Westmeath, the eldest of six children of farmer Patrick Joseph L ' Estrange and Maud ( née Byrne ).

Strong went on to play in almost every outfield position over the next six seasons, but he eventually settled in at left back after Gerry Byrne hung up his boots.

His scene-stealing abilities led Gabriel Byrne, his co-star in Defence of the Realm, to say: " Never act with children, dogs or Denholm Elliott.

A year later, in 1988, Byrne married Barkin, with whom he has two children, John " Jack " Daniel ( born 1989 ) and Romy Marion ( born 1992 ).

Getz married Beverly Byrne, a vocalist with the Gene Krupa band, on November 7, 1946 ; they had three children together.

She already had three children with him: William Pitt Byrne ( born 1806 ), Charles ( born 1807 ) and Mary ( born 1809 ).

Barkin is the mother of two children, Jack Daniel ( born 1989 ) and Romy Marion ( born 1992 ), from her first marriage, to actor Gabriel Byrne.

In 1951, Murphy married Joan Byrne, also from New Rochelle, and they had eight children.

He is married to the author and biographer Paula Byrne, with whom he has three children.

Karen Ralls has cited Freemason Patrick Byrne, who believes the Ark was moved from Rennes-le-Château at the outbreak of World War I to America.

Club captain Roger Byrne was also killed, along with Mark Jones, Billy Whelan, Eddie Colman and Geoff Bent.

This fact was one of the main inspirations for the 1980s reboot of the Clark Kent half of the Superman character, according to writer and artist John Byrne in the article " Super-Discussions " published by Attic Books in Comics Values Monthly Special # 2 ( 1992 ).

Based on these descriptions and the Byzantine sources, John Haldon and Maurice Byrne reconstructed the entire apparatus as consisting of three main components: a bronze pump ( the σίφων, siphōn proper ), which was used to pressurize the oil ; a brazier, used to heat the oil ( πρόπυρον, propyron, " pre-heater "); and the nozzle, which was covered in bronze and mounted on a swivel ( στρεπτόν, strepton ).

This led Haldon and Byrne to theorize that the device was fundamentally different, " a simple syringe squirted both liquid fire ( presumably unignited ) and noxious juices to repel enemy troops.

Polgár " was unrecognizable in her first-round encounter with Viswanathan Anand ", wrote GM Robert Byrne in his New York Times column, " making more errors than she normally would in a dozen games.

Upon the John Byrne reboot of the Superman mythos after Crisis on Infinite Earths, kryptonite was made much rarer in the DC Universe and many of the multicolored varieties were eliminated.

The novel Busman's Honeymoon was originally a stage play by Sayers and her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne.

The idea that there was a standard formation for English longbow armies was argued by Alfred Byrne in his influential work on the battles of the Hundred Years ' War, The Crecy War.

Chicago, 1974: In the early morning hours of 18 October 1974, Officer Michael Byrne and Leonard Ciagi of the Chicago police were called to investigate a report that a kangaroo was standing in someone's porch.

The album was produced by Pat Dillett ( David Byrne ) and The Dust Brothers ( Beck, Beastie Boys ).

The revived series was illustrated by Cockrum, and later by John Byrne, and written by Chris Claremont.

Throughout the decade, Uncanny X-Men was written solely by Chris Claremont, and illustrated for long runs by John Byrne, Dave Cockrum, Paul Smith, John Romita, Jr., and Marc Silvestri.

Byrne was then replaced by Nicieza and Scott Lobdell, who would take over the majority of writing duties for the X-Men until Lee's own departure months later when he and several other popular artists ( including former X-title artists Liefeld, Portacio, and Marc Silvestri ) would leave Marvel to form Image Comics.

Gelbart-scripted films for television included Barbarians at the Gate ( 1993 ), a true story about the battle for control of the RJR Nabisco corporation starring James Garner that was based on the best-selling book of that name ; Weapons of Mass Distraction ( 1997 ) starring Ben Kingsley and Gabriel Byrne as rival media moguls and And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself ( 2003 ) starring Antonio Banderas as the Mexican revolutionary leader.

Margaret, Anderson and Byrne all issued immediate denials, but the damage was already done.

Byrne was narrowly defeated in the 1983 Democratic primary for Mayor by Harold Washington.

Byrne ran against Washington again in the 1987 primary but was defeated.