Construction for the new eastern tunnel, in diameter, started on 27 June 1960, and was opened on 2 August 1967 by Desmond Plummer, Leader of the Greater London Council.

Arthur Desmond Herne Plummer, Baron Plummer of St Marylebone ( known as Desmond Plummer ) ( 25 May 1914 – 2 October 2009 ) was a Conservative Party politician in London and the longest serving Leader of the Greater London Council.

Desmond Plummer continued to work and to attend the House of Lords well into his nineties.

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In the previous decade she had become one of the century ’ s most famous feminist writers with three more novels, and a series of essays including the moving late memoir “ Sketch of the Past ”, It was also in the 1930s that Desmond MacCarthy became perhaps the most widely read – and heard – literary critic with his columns in The Sunday Times and his broadcasts with the BBC.

The north and east of Cork were taken by the Hiberno-Norman FitzGerald dynasty, who became the Earls of Desmond.

Vice President Desmond Hoyte became the new executive president and leader of the PNC.

The original Balmville School building stood on what later became the Desmond Estate.

The film was directed by William Desmond Taylor, whose later, unsolved, murder became one of Hollywood's biggest scandals.

He died childless and was succeeded by his nephew, William Feilding, 2nd Earl of Desmond, who now also became the third Earl of Denbigh ( he also succeeded in the barony of St Liz according to the special remainder ).

Thomas's son, John FitzThomas FitzGerald, became the first Baron Desmond upon receiving, for his homage and service, a grant in 1259 of the lands of Decies and Desmond from Prince Edward of England.

He became editor of the Irish Bulletin after the arrest of Desmond FitzGerald.

" Honour Your Mother and Father " was a hit and was followed by " Sinners Come Home " and " Labour for Learning ", and at this time Desmond Dacres became Desmond Dekker.

After the second defeat in 1970 Goodwin became more aggressive in his opposition to Sir Desmond Plummer's Conservative GLC.

In his junior season in 1997, Woodson became the third Michigan player to win the Heisman Trophy, joining Tom Harmon ( 1940 ) and Desmond Howard ( 1991 ).

These tracks were created especially for the serial by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, overseen by Desmond Briscoe ; their work on Quatermass and the Pit was one of the productions for which Briscoe and the Workshop became most renowned.

In addition to this, he became the second of four players to win the Heisman Trophy and Super Bowl MVP, Roger Staubach before him, and Marcus Allen and Desmond Howard after him.

The economic slowdown of 1974 and 1975 again saw the project been temporarily put on hold, but when Desmond O ' Malley became the new Minister for Industry, Commerce and Energy in 1977 the project once again became a priority of government policy, this time the plans becoming more serious and controversial, the government wanted to build a 650 MW plant at Carnsore at a cost of £ 350 million ( Punt ) at the then prices.

" Israelites " is a song written by Desmond Dekker and Leslie Kong that became a hit for Dekker's group, Desmond Dekker & The Aces.

In 1329 Maurice Fitzgerald became the first Earl of Desmond and held amongst his possessions the manor of “ Liskifti ”.

" Former Archbishop Desmond Tutu later said " ' Beyers became a leper in the Afrikaner community.

Father Desmond Macready Chute ( 1895 – 1962 ) was an English artist, who became a Catholic priest in 1927.

Following the founding of the Progressive Democrats by Desmond O ' Malley in 1985, O ' Dea became the only Fianna Fáil TD in the five-seat Limerick East constituency.

Morgan first became drawn into scientific writing when reading popularizers of the savannah hypothesis of human evolution such as Desmond Morris.

* 1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U. S. Medal of Honor.

Desmond had first met Dave Brubeck in 1944 while still in the military.

In 1578, to further the plans of exiled English and Irish Catholics such as Nicholas Sanders, William Allen, and James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, Gregory outfitted adventurer Thomas Stukeley with a ship and an army of 800 men to land in Ireland to aid in the hope for overthrow of Elizabeth's rule through the Catholic leader and former leader of the first Desmond rebellion, Fitzmaurice.

* 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

Green Bay forced New England to punt on the opening possession of the game and started their first drive with great field position after receiver Desmond Howard returned the ball 32 yards to the Packers 46-yard line.

** Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.

In 1967, the hypothesis was briefly mentioned in The Naked Ape, a book by Desmond Morris in which can be found the first use of the term " aquatic ape ".

* Desmond T. Doss, first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor

In 1953, John Desmond opened the first architectural firm in Hammond.

A Bernal sphere is a type of space habitat intended as a long-term home for permanent residents, first proposed in 1929 by John Desmond Bernal.

He was the son of Desmond FitzGerald, the first Minister for External Affairs of the nascent Irish state following independence from the United Kingdom in 1922.

Although Desmond Saunders and Lane were available to direct the first and second episodes, while veteran AP Films director Brian Burgess also contributed, the Andersons needed to transfer some of the more junior production personnel to replace the outgoing staff.

Sir Edward was the first of the Dennys to settle in Tralee and we learn from a recent history of Tralee by Gerald O ' Carroll that only in 1627 did the Dennys actually occupy the castle of the earls of Desmond.

About six months after his visit to Portsmouth, he first saw at Court, and fell in love with, his cousin, Lady Elizabeth Preston, only child and heiress of Sir Richard Preston, Earl of Desmond.

In 1569 – 1570 the divisions in Irish politics took on a religious tinge with the first Desmond Rebellion in Munster and the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis issued in 1570.

The outcome was the first ever coalition government for Fianna Fáil, whose junior partner were the Progressive Democrats led by former Fianna Fáil TD Desmond O ' Malley.

The Bull was issued in support of, but following, the 1569 " Northern Rebellion " in England, and the first Desmond Rebellion in Ireland, with foreign Catholic support, and hardened her opinion against her landowning Catholic subjects.

Gilbert's actions in the south of Ireland played a significant part in the outbreak of the first of the Desmond Rebellions.

The album was produced by Desmond Child and the first single is called Livin ' in a World Without You.

For the first few years, all of his projects were co-designs with either Pete Dye or Desmond Muirhead, who were two of the leading golf course architects of that era.

They escalated into the first of the Desmond rebellions, led by James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald.

This was the first major event to be held in what Archbishop Desmond Tutu had dubbed " the Rainbow Nation.

John FitzGerald, 1st Baron Desmond, of Shanid, County Limerick, Lord of Connelloe and Decies, married ( first ) Margery, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Fitz-Anthony, Lord of Decies and Desmond.