It is the largest church originating on American soil, and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.

* Proclamation Day, celebration started on the day following Christmas.

She started her own non-profit organization in the late 1970s, the Doris Day Animal Foundation and, later, the Doris Day Animal League.

While recovering, Day started to sing along with the radio and discovered a talent that she didn't know she had.

A facility to help abused and neglected horses opened in 2011 and bears her name: the Doris Day Horse Rescue and Adoption Center, located in Murchison, Texas, on the grounds of an animal sanctuary started by her late friend, author Cleveland Amory.

The Labour Day parade in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland started in 1921 and still continues today, over 90 years later.

This practice started in 1950, with the initiation of broadcasts the Day of Arafa, and increased until 1957, at which time Radio Makka became the most powerful station in the Middle East at 50 kW.

Until 1751 in England and Wales ( and all British dominions ) the new year started on 25 March – Lady Day, one of the four quarter days ( the change to 1 January took place in 1600 in Scotland ).

Since the 17th century, the Roman Catholic ecclesiastic year has started on the first day of Advent, the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day ( 30 November ).

During the Second World War, the D Day landings on the Normandy beaches under the code name Operation Neptune, started the lengthy Battle of Normandy which resulted in the Liberation of Paris, the restoration of the French Republic, and was a significant turning point in the war.

William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D. C., on the Washington Senators ' Opening Day.

The total number of Rifle Corps started at 62 on 22 June 1941, dropped to six by 1 January 1942, but then increased to 34 by February 1943, and 161 by New Year's Day 1944.

Radio St Helena started operations on Christmas Day 1967, transmissions being limited to the island apart from occasional short-wave broadcasts.

The original Poetry Slams started at ' The Night and Day Cafe ' on Oldham Street in Manchester's City Centre, then moved to the ' Frog and Bucket ' on the same road.

The regular season started one week earlier than usual in order to avoid having playoff games on Christmas Day, which fell on a Saturday in 1976.

This trend was started by Darryl F. Zanuck's production The Longest Day in 1962, based on the first day of the 1944 D-Day landings.

) – Greece's traditional Independence Day ( although more recent historical evidence suggests that the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire had started before this date ).

There he started his longest novel, The Eighth Day, which went on to win the National Book Award.

The Magic also amnestied Gilbert Arenas and signed Larry Hughes, Justin Harper, and DeAndre Liggins. The Magic started the season on Christmas Day at Oklahoma against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

In 1995, Massive Attack started a label under EMI, Melankolic, and signed Craig Armstrong, as well as a number of other artists: Horace Andy, Alpha, Sunna and Day One.

* On May 2, 1968 the public broadcasting channel Channel 1 ( then-called " The Israeli Television ") started broadcasting with a live broadcast of an army parade on the Israeli Independence Day in Jerusalem.

Effectively started by members of the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) on November 1, 1954, during the Toussaint Rouge (" Red All Saints ' Day "), the conflict shook the foundations of the French Fourth Republic ( 1946 – 58 ) and led to its eventual collapse.

Clarence W. Jones started transmitting on Christmas Day, 1931 from Christian missionary radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador.

This filly is a much better individual than either of her full-sisters, Valentine Day and Cerise -- more scale and much better underpinning.

-- Gaining her second straight victory, Norman B., Small, Jr.'s Garden Fresh, a 3-year-old filly, downed promising colts in the $4,500 St. Patrick's Day Purse, featured seventh race here today, and paid $7.20 straight.

Gorgeous Doris Day and her producer-hubby, Marty Melcher, drive in today from a motor tour thru New England.

Prince William and his wife took part in the events in Ottawa for Canada Day, 2011, the first time a member of the Royal Family other than the monarch and her consort had done so.

On Christmas Day 2009, Sally Webster told husband Kevin that she had breast cancer, just as he was about to leave her for lover Molly.

He proposed to her on Valentine's Day in 1916.

One pamphlet ( originally published anonymously ) entitled A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day after her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705, deals with interaction between the spiritual realm and the physical realm.

In Doris Day: Her Own Story, Day asserts " I was named by my mother in honor of her favorite actress, Doris Kenyon, a silent screen star of that year 1924.

Jazz pianist Jim Martinez, who organized her birthday celebration at the Cypress Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, claims that according to Doris Day's current assistant, when Day was a teenager, she added two years to her age so she would be old enough to sing with big bands.

Years later, Day said that Raine had the biggest effect on her singing style and career.

During the eight months of singing lessons, Day had her first professional jobs as a vocalist in the WLW radio program, Carlin's Carnival and in a local restaurant, the Charlie Yee's Shanghai Inn.

It was during her performances in the carnival that Day first caught the attention of Barney Rapp, who sought a girl vocalist and asked if Day would like to audition for the job.

The first song she had performed for him was " Day After Day ", thus the origin of her stage name.

It was while working with Brown that Day scored her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", released in early 1945.

This song is still associated with Day, and she re-recorded it on several occasions, including a version in her 1971 television special.

After her separation from her second husband, George Weidler, in 1948, Day reportedly intended to leave Los Angeles and return to her mother's home in Cincinnati.

After the disappointment of a dramatic film career, Day returned to her musical / comedic roots in 1957's The Pajama Game with John Raitt.

In 1967, Day recorded her album, The Love Album, essentially concluding her recording career, though not released until 1994.

Both columnist Liz Smith and film critic Rex Reed have mounted vigorous campaigns to gather support for an honorary Academy Award for Day to herald her film career and her status as the top female box-office star of all time.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

In Day, he found a co-star he could build a rapport with, such as he had had with Blondell at the start of his career.

During the Hillsborough Memorial Service on 15 April 2011, Liverpool MP Steve Rotherham announced he would submit an Early Day Motion to have Dalglish knighted, " not only for his outstanding playing and managerial career, but also the charity work he has done with his wife, Marina, for breast cancer support and what he did after Hillsborough.

The film he produced for Goldwyn, The Day of Faith, was a moderate success, putting his career back on track.

His 500th home run came on Father's Day in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium, with his father in the stands ; the homer tied Griffey with his father in career hits with 2, 143.

In a long and distinguished career, A Long Day ’ s Dying continues to be one of Buechner ’ s most successful works, both critically and commercially ( it was reissued in 2003 ).

The railway was also featured in an episode of Coronation Street ( transmitted on August Bank Holiday 2010 ) when Hayley and Roy Cropper travelled to their wedding aboard an ELR train of Mark 1 coaches hauled by LMS " Black 5 " No. 44871, and in the BBC television film Eric and Ernie, aired on New Year's Day 2011, about the early career of the British comedy act Morecambe and Wise.

That same year, Rockers Come East re-established his career and he began to release a series of critically acclaimed though somewhat inaccessible albums in the 1990s, including Blowing With the Wind and also producing several, such as " Night & Day " ( single ) ( Dawn Penn ) and " Jah Made Them All " ( Yami Bolo ).

During their early career they recorded in an acoustic gospel-folk style with various labels: United Records, Vee-Jay Records ( their " Uncloudy Day " and " Will The Circle Be Unbroken " were best sellers ), Checker Records, Riverside Records, and then Epic Records in 1965.

On Memorial Day, May 25, 2009, Stone re-emerged once again, granting an hour-long interview with KCRW-FM, a Los Angeles NPR affiliate, to discuss his life and career.

Johnston was a well-known session musician and Melcher ( the producer of The Byrds records and the son of actress / singer Doris Day ) had a minor solo career as Terry Day before becoming the youngest staff record producer in Columbia Records ' history.

They have cited hardcore bands Hatebreed and Madball, as well as fellow pop punk bands Green Day and Blink-182 as major influences on their career.

In his political career, Day has never campaigned on Sundays, choosing instead to set them aside as time for worship and to be with his family.

Day started his printing career in 1824, at the Springfield Republican.

Despite his acting commitments, he has still continued a successful career of celebrity impersonator on the BBC Radio and also did re-voicing of video footages of ' The Sports Review of the Year ' and Match of the Day which has turned him into a sideline sporting celebrity.

Moss's career began when Corinne Day shot black-and-white photographs of her, styled by Melanie Ward, for British magazine The Face when she was 16, in a photo shoot titled " The 3rd Summer of Love ".

During his Hollywood career and in his 1984 autobiography, Negulesco claimed to have been born on 29 February 1900 ; he was apparently motivated to make this statement because birthdays on Leap Year Day are comparatively rare.

In 1970 Wernher von Braun ( right ) was honored for his career in Huntsville, Alabama, with the celebration of " Wernher von Braun Day.

She also wrote her autobiography, Office Hours: Day and Night, which sheds light on her career and life.