During one recent day of driving about Los Angeles there were actually a dozen occasions when oncoming drivers stopped an entire lane of traffic to permit me to pull out of an impossible side street.

During the period leading up to his death, his wife had been lying comatose in a Los Angeles hospital

During the season, the Marlins to made one of the biggest trades in club history as Los Angeles got P Brad Penny, 1B Hee Seop Choi and Double-A left-hander Bill Murphy in exchange for P Guillermo Mota, C Paul LoDuca and OF Juan Encarnacion.

During high school, gangs began to intensify in the Los Angeles school system.

During his career with the NBA ’ s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards.

During their marriage, several of Grammer and Donatacci's homes were featured in magazines, including ones in: Malibu, California ( February 2001, InStyle ), Maui ( May 2004, InStyle ), Long Island, New York ( April 2008, InStyle ), Bachelor Gulch, Colorado ( Architectural Digest ), and Bel Air, Los Angeles ( Architectural Digest ).

During a stop in Los Angeles, Parker had a nervous breakdown that landed him in the Camarillo State Mental Hospital for several months, and Davis found himself stranded.

During the early 20th century under his fellowship, about 2, 000 Molokans ( mostly of the Jumpers and Leapers Sect ) left for the United States and settled in the Los Angeles area near the area of Boyle Heights.

During World War II, the first atomic bombs were designed and manufactured at Los Alamos and the first was tested at Trinity site in the desert on the White Sands Proving Grounds between Socorro and Alamogordo.

During her freshman year, she was selected from a pool of 700 candidates for the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team — the famed Laker Girls.

During filming, star Lana Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery.

During his ownership, the team's colours were changed to silver and black, presaging the change in team jersey colours when he played for the Los Angeles Kings.

During the LA Riots in 1992, when portions of south central Los Angeles erupted in chaos, overwhelming the Los Angeles Police Department's ability to contain the violence, the California Army National Guard and selected units of the California Air National Guard was mobilized to help restore order.

During the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos hosted thousands of employees, including many Nobel Prize-winning scientists.

During the late-1950s, a number of scientists including Dr. J. Robert " Bob " Beyster left Los Alamos to work for General Atomics ( GA ) in San Diego.

During his recuperation, many friends visited, including Nicholas Metropolis from Los Alamos and the famous mathematician Paul Erdős, who remarked: " Stan, you are just like before.

During his years at Los Alamos, Ulam was a visiting professor at: Harvard, 1951 / 52, MIT, 1956 / 57, the University of California, San Diego, 1963, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1961 / 62 and 1965 / 67.

During this time, they recorded a new album at the Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles and Musicland Studios, Munich, and several members of the band explored side projects and solo work.

During the summer, Davenport won the tournament in Los Angeles, defeating Graf for the first time in her career in the semifinals, before defeating Anke Huber in the final.

During the Wen Ho Lee scandal, involving stolen nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory, hearings were called in Congress regarding the Department of Energy's handling of the matter.

During the ' 80s even the protest music niche of Nueva canción would be invaded by bands from other genres like punk-inspired Los Prisioneros, although Latin American music would in general move away from political topics.

During that interim period with Gentry, the Heat got their best win of franchise history when they beat the Los Angeles Clippers 126 – 83.

During the offseason, they traded All-Star Sam Cassell and a protected future first-round draft pick to the Los Angeles Clippers for Marko Jaric and Lionel Chalmers.

During the summer of 2005, the Clippers announced they would build a state-of-the-art practice facility ( the first NBA practice facility within the four corners of the City of Los Angeles ) in the Playa Vista development.

During the 1960 offseason, the Lakers became the NBA's first West Coast team when owner Bob Short decided to move the team to Los Angeles.

During the offseason, Los Angeles picked up Jamaal Wilkes from Golden State and signed first-round draft pick Norm Nixon.

During the 1999 NBA preseason, the Lakers played their home games at the Forum before officially moving into Staples Center, and once again hosted a preseason game versus the Golden State Warriors on October 9, 2009, this time to commemorate the team's 50th anniversary season in Los Angeles.

During the 2011 off-season, the team again made several moves to bolster the offence and defence, trading for fan favourite Ryan Smyth from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for centre Colin Fraser and a 7th round draft pick.

During this part of shooting construction was being done at Chaplin Studios beacuse the city of Los Angeles had decided to widen La Brea Avenue and Chaplin was forced to move several building away from the road.

During his career, he pitched for the New York Giants ( 1952 – 1956 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1957 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1957 – 1958 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1958 – 1962 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1963 – 1968 ), California Angels ( 1969 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1969 – 1970 ; 1971 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1970 ), and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1971 – 1972 ).

During this period, publisher Stan Lee relocated to Los Angeles to better oversee Marvel's animation, television and film projects, leaving Shooter largely in charge of the creative decision-making at Marvel's New York City headquarters.

During the French Revolution, the unpopularity of the Directory led to riots and rebellions.

During the Dark Avengers ' arrival in San Francisco to enforce martial law and squelch the anti-mutant riots occurring in the city, Xavier appears ( back in his wheelchair ) in the company of Norman Osborn and publicly denounces Cyclops ' actions and urges him to turn himself in.

During riots where tear gas or CS-gas is employed by riot police, gas masks are commonly used by police and rioters alike.

During the 1920 Jerusalem riots, the 1921 Palestine riots and the 1929 Palestine riots, Palestinian Arabs manifested hostility against Zionist immigration and Jewish communities, which provoked the reaction of Jewish militias, sometimes supported by British troops.

During the 2006 riots in Bangkok, Red-Shirt protestors carried " Sapatda ," which resemble an over-sized bowie knife with sawback cuts in the spine.

During the early 20th century, riots were common against Irish and French-Canadian immigrants in Providence, Rhode Island.

During the three decades between Freud's death in 1939 and the Stonewall riots in 1969, conversion therapy received approval from most of the psychiatric establishment in the United States.

During the Birmingham riots of 1791 ( in which Priestley's home was demolished ) he prepared to flee from Edgbaston Hall, but his staff kept the rioters at bay until the military arrived.

During the confusion after the death of Duke Albert IV in 1404 their situation worsened sharply, culminating in the blaze of the Vienna synagogue on 5 November 1406, followed by riots and lootings.

During the 1960s, the various unaffiliated Mattachine Societies, especially the Mattachine Society in San Francisco and the Mattachine Society of New York, were among the foremost gay rights groups in the United States, but beginning in the middle 1960s and, especially, following the Stonewall riots of 1969, they began increasingly to be seen as too traditional, and not willing enough to be confrontational.

During the ensuing general election campaign against Vice President Hubert Humphrey — which took place against a backdrop of urban riots and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, culminating in the violent confrontations at the Democratic convention in Chicago — Agnew repeatedly hammered the Democrats on the issue of " law and order ".

During the Soviet offensive the Army of Manchukuo, on paper a 200, 000-man force, performed poorly and whole units surrendered to the Soviets without firing a single shot ; there were even cases of armed riots and mutinies against the Japanese forces.

During his time, he has faced several shocking incidents, such as the Gothenburg riots in 2001, the 2003 murder of the minister of foreign affairs, Anna Lindh, the tsunami disaster in 2004, and the conflict over the publication of satirical Muhammed cartoons in Danish newspapers, leading to threats of violence against Scandinavians and burning of embassies in the Middle East and the resignation of Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds.

During the 1960s, new issues such as civil rights, the Vietnam War, affirmative action, and large-scale urban riots tended to split the coalition and drive many members away.

During the 2011 England riots Woolwich, on Monday 8 August, was one of the areas affected.

* Gulbarg Society massacre: During the 2002 Gujarat riots, a mob attacked the Gulbarg Society, a lower middle-class Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad.

During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, 2, 383 people were injured, 8, 000 were arrested, 51 were killed and over 700 businesses burned.

During the " communal riots " of 1934, walls around the Masjid and one of the domes of the Masjid were damaged.

* During the 2011 London riots, gangs of youths undertook looting in a number of areas across the capital.

During his tenure as Governor, Rajaji's priorities were to deal with refugees and to bring peace and stability in the aftermath of the Calcutta riots.

His first political involvement was to found a student organization called “ Hulda ,” whose regulations stated it was dedicated “ solely to the revival of the Hebrew nation in a new state .” During the 1929 riots in Palestine, Jewish communities came under attack by local Arabs, and Stern served with the Haganah, doing guard duty on a synagogue rooftop in Jerusalem ’ s Old City.

During the riots, at least fourteen were killed, an estimated fifty people were injured, two hundred fled their homes, and damage totaled $ 150, 000.

During the summer of 1990, anti-government riots erupted all over the city which later contributed to the toppling of the Communist Regime in Albania.