First performed by the Ballets Russes in 1917, it succeeded in creating a scandal but in a different way than Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps had done almost five years earlier.

During the First World War, he and his wife performed many services for the public of Leicestershire, including opening up their home first as a VAD Hospital under the 5th Northern General Hospital, and later as a hospital for Naval Personnel.

Verdi rival Errico Petrella's most successful opera, Jone ( 1858 ), was based upon Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii, and was performed all over the world until the First World War.

First attempts to synthesise nuclei of hassium were performed using this reaction by the team at Dubna in 1983.

He destroyed many early works – including a Violin Sonata he had performed with Reményi and violinist Ferdinand David – and once claimed to have destroyed 20 string quartets before he issued his official First in 1873.

First published in 1991, this album gathers pieces composed and performed by Brother Dominique Catta and Carole Ouellet: solo kora pieces, songs with kora accompaniment and a Concerto for flute and three koras.

Allen ( 1971 ) comments that in the First Temple Era, there were essentially seer-priests, who formed a guild, divined, performed rituals and sacrifices, and were scribes, and then there were canonical prophets, who did none of these ( and were against divination ) and had instead a message to deliver.

First performed in the Yale University swimming pool in May 1974.

# " Just Dropped In ( To See What Condition My Condition Was In )" – written by Mickey Newbury ; performed by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition

First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations.

First Lady Edith Wilson performed most routine duties of government by reviewing all of Wilson's communications and deciding what he would be presented with and what she would delegate to others.

They performed 23 different plays, some only once, and their most popular play of the season, The First Part of Hieronimo, ( based on Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy ), 15 times.

* Radical mastectomy ( or " Halsted mastectomy "): First performed in 1882, this procedure involves removing the entire breast, the axillary lymph nodes, and the pectoralis major and minor muscles behind the breast.

First live tests were performed on the 11 Meter ham band-which was later given to the CB service in the US.

He performed concerts at the Macy's Auditorium ( to promote his new perfume " 3121 ") on Nicollet Mall, the Target Center arena, and First Avenue.

First performed at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, it was directed by Manfred Karge and Matthias Langhoff, and is still regularly revived in Germany.

Together with Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions he performed during the Battle of Mogadishu in October 1993.

First performed at La Scala in Milan, the opera starred Aureliano Pertile as Sly ( tenor ) and Mercedes Llopart as Dolly ( soprano ).

With the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. She sang before a crowd of more than 75, 000 people and a radio audience in the millions.

* Rihanna: First woman of the Caribbean to ever sell out the Garden, she performed a sold out show for her Last Girl on Earth Tour, promoting Rated R – the most critically acclaimed album of her career.

* Jacky Cheung: First Chinese artist performed at the Garden during his Yau Hok Yau " ( 友學友 ), literally a pun of " friendship Jacky Cheung " world tour in 1995.

First performed on 22 July 1787 at Drottningholm.

* ISEE-3 – 12 August 1978 – Solar wind investigations ; later redesignated International Cometary Explorer and performed Comet Giacobini-Zinner and Comet Halley flybys – First comet flyby

In the second half of the 20th century The Winter's Tale in its entirety, and drawn largely from the First Folio text, was often performed, with varying degrees of success.

* Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Michael, and Moffatt, Ann, Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, 17 – 19 May 1978 ( Australian National University, Canberra, 1979 ).

After publishing its own edition in 1979, the First Presidency announced in 1992 that the KJV was the church's official English Bible, stating " hile other Bible versions may be easier to read than the King James Version, in doctrinal matters latter-day revelation supports the King James Version in preference to other English translations.

Liverpool retained the European Cup in 1978 and regained the First Division title in 1979.

In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Kraikom, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a member of the Politburo in 1979.

* 1979: Jeff MacNelly, Shoe ( First " back-to-back " Winner )

In March 1979, NASA engineer and author James Oberg organized the First Terraforming Colloquium, a special session at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston.

The scenes of Air Force personnel aboard the Airborne Command Post receiving news of the incoming attack are footage of actual military personnel during a drill and had been aired several years earlier in a 1979 PBS documentary, First Strike.

* November 14 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1979 )

The club's notable achievements including winning promotion to the Football League First Division for the first time in 1979, staying there for four seasons, during the last of which they reached the FA Cup final and took Manchester United to a replay before losing 4 – 0.

First aired in 1979 on ITV, the series saw Pertwee as a scarecrow, as well as utilising several comedic voices.

* First PGA Tour player to shoot his age: 67 in the second round of the 1979 Quad Cities Open

Historically, there have been three major periods of declaring independence: the years from 1776 to the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe ; the immediate aftermath of the First World War with the breakup of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires ; and the decades from to 1945 to 1979, when seventy newly independent states emerged from the wreckage of the European colonial empires.

Alcatraz Island appears often in popular culture, including the films The Book of Eli ( 2010 ), X-Men: The Last Stand ( 2006 ), Catch Me If You Can ( 2002 ), The Rock ( 1996 ), Murder in the First ( 1995 ), Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ), and J. J. Abrams ' 2012 television series Alcatraz.

Integrating François Mitterrand's circle, he became the second highest-ranking member of the party in 1979, then its First Secretary when Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981.

* Dracula Sucks aka Lust at First Bite ( 1979 )

* Menachem Begin, The Revolt, W. H. Allen, London, First edition 1951, Revised edition 1979.

In 1979, when a vacancy opened on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ( which includes Cox's home state of Massachusetts ), Senator Edward M. Kennedy proposed Cox for the vacancy.

In 1979, under the leadership of Pastor J. D. Langford of the First United Pentecostal Church, the Kennett Christian Academy opened its doors with a student body of sixty.

The First Congregational Free Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Phillip I. Neel ( 1979 – 2007 ) First Fredericksburg soldier to die in Iraq.

In 1979 they again lost in the First round, drawing 4-4 with Accra Hearts of Oak SC of Ghana on aggregate but losing out on penalties 4-2.

:: 1979: First Round

* The First Great Train Robbery, 1979 film directed by Michael Crichton, based on his novel of the same name