* 1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

* 1749 – First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.

First, the increase in traded volume may have been reducing the market anomalies that are a source of hedge fund performance.

* 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.

* 1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

* 1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.

The US Supreme Court dealt what many considered a major blow to government whistleblowers when, in the case of Garcetti v. Ceballos, 04-5, 547 US 410, it ruled that government employees did not have protection from retaliation in performance evaluations by their employers under the First Amendment of the Constitution if the alleged speech was produced as part of his / her duties.

** First public performance of Cox and Box by Francis Burnand and Arthur Sullivan, at the Adelphi Theatre, London.

* c. 430 BC: First performance of Sophocles's Oedipus the King.

* March 17 – First performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

* December 26 ( St. Stephen's night ) – First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, before King James I of England in the banqueting hall of Whitehall Palace.

* March 23 Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's First Köthen Funeral music at the St. James Church, Köthen in the evening in honor of the Funeral of his former employer Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

* April 14 – First performance, in London, of Joseph Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.

; 1908, Paris – First performance outside Russia

; 1935, London – First performance of the 1869 Original Version outside Russia

; 1959, Leningrad – First performance of the Shostakovich orchestration

First held in 1949, the Badminton event was created after a poor performance by the British Eventing Team at the 1948 Olympic Games, with the purpose of being a high-class preparation event, and as extra exposure for the military horses, who very rarely had the chance to compete.

First performance in Bayreuth, 1876

While Plaid Cymru regarded itself as the natural beneficiary of devolution, others attributed its performance in large part to the travails of the Labour Party, whose nomination for Assembly First Secretary, Ron Davies, was forced to stand down in an alleged sex scandal.

* 1845: Poésies ( complete ) | First performance of comedy " Le Tricorne enchanté "

* 1847: First performance of comedy " Pierrot posthume "

Julius Caesar was originally published in the First Folio of 1623, but a performance was mentioned by Thomas Platter the Younger in his diary in September 1599.

Originally published in the First Folio of 1623 ( where it was first labelled as a comedy ), the play's first recorded performance was in 1604.

Zhou herself was from a very poor background and in her youth had narrowly escaped a future in the sex trade, but she became one of China's iconic seven great singing stars on the strength of her performance, and the film became one of the last great hits of the First Golden Age of Chinese Cinema before the 1937 Japanese invasion of China.

Despite defeat, his performance was seen to mark a revival of the Socialists as a strong force in French politics and he returned to being the First Secretary of the party.

First he barely touched the blade on the hand which shaded the eyes.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

A third Thomas Bushell ( 1594-1674 ), `` much loved '' by Bacon, called himself `` The Superlative Prodigall '' in The First Part of Youths Errors ( 1628 ) and became an expert on silver mines and on the art of running into debt.

First and foremost, they depend on the inhuman idiocies of the Communist regime.

First, we can encourage responsibility by establishing as conditions for assistance on a substantial and sustained scale the definition of objectives and the assessment of costs.

and overhead projector transparency sets on the subjects of Military Sanitation: First Aid For Soldiers ; ;

First on my own list would be two arms -- a rifle and a handgun -- that qualify as new in the strictest sense.

First was a 1958 cut of more than 50% on that portion of the load in excess of 40,000 lb ; ;

First of all, the six figures of the Buddha you heisted -- four Siamese heads, a black obsidian statuette in the earth-touching position, and a large brass figure of the Dying Buddha on a teakwood base.

First of all, as we had surmised, the highly compulsive children in the structured setting score significantly better ( Af ) on achievement than do similar children in the unstructured schools.

First, it appears to be based on the fact that on its title page Utopia is described as `` festivus '', `` gay ''.

First, the student trains on his hapless parents the heavy artillery of his newly acquired psychological and sociological insights.

Already the President and the First Lady have deputized him to advise on matters ranging from the furnishing of the White House to the renovation of Lafayette Square.

Curtis Allen Huff, 41, of 1630 Lake Av., Wilmette, was arrested yesterday on a suppressed federal warrant charging him with embezzling an undetermined amount of money from the First Federal Savings and Loan association, 1 S. Dearborn St., where he formerly was employed as an attorney.

One of the most interested `` students '' on the tour which the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

First plutonium-239 nitrate (< sup > 239 </ sup > PuNO < sub > 3 </ sub >) solution was coated on a platinum foil of about 0. 5 cm < sup > 2 </ sup > area, the solution was evaporated and the residue was converted into plutonium dioxide ( PuO < sub > 2 </ sub >) by annealing.

* Easter, or Resurrection Day ( Christians )-celebrated the First Sunday after the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox, near March 21st ( between March 22 and April 25 )

* The Philippines celebrates National Heroes Day in commemoration of the First Cry of the Philippine Revolution on August 23, 1896.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.