The oldest roots of crokinole, from the 1860s, suggest the British and South Asian games are the most likely antecedents of what became crokinole.

At an official age of 42, Paige became the oldest rookie in Major League baseball history, and the first black pitcher.

In 1978, Gaylord Perry ( age 40 ) became the oldest pitcher to receive the award, only to have the record broken in 2004 by Roger Clemens ( age 42 ).

" The Free Academy later became the City College of New York, the oldest institution among the CUNY colleges.

La Isabela was abandoned and Santo Domingo became the new capital, and remains the oldest continuously inhabited European city in the Americas.

Day became the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material, according to the Official Charts Company, entering at Number 9.

In addition to being the source of the Roman alphabet, it has been suggested that it passed northward into Venetia and from there through Raetia into the Germanic lands, where it became the Elder Futhark alphabet, the oldest form of the runes.

It later became known as Camp Wyman, now a part of Wyman Center, and is one of the oldest camps in the United States.

However, there was a catch: the land would remain independent of France until Eleanor's oldest son became both King of the Franks and Duke of Aquitaine.

Skipper Jack McKeon became the oldest manager ever to win a World Series title.

Arthur, the next oldest, donned a curly red wig and became " Patsy Brannigan ", a stereotypical Irish character.

Victorious, Edgar, the oldest of the three, became king in 1097.

Construction of Northwode Chapel by the monks of Jumiéges, Normandy, began in about 1140 and this became the present St Peter's Church and now the oldest surviving church on the Island.

Hedeby was the largest Nordic city during the Viking Age and used to be the oldest city in Denmark until the site became part of Germany.

The Leipzig Trade Fair, started in the Middle Ages, became an event of international importance and is the oldest remaining trade fair in the world.

This is supported by the fact that in 1502, he became Duke of Camerino, one of Cesare's recent conquests, hence the natural inheritance of the Duke of Romagna's oldest son.

On June 21, with a single in the 5th inning against the Colorado Rockies, Clemens became the oldest New York Yankee to record a hit ( 44 years, 321 days ).

With his 2004 win, he joined Gaylord Perry, Randy Johnson and Pedro Martínez as the only pitchers to win it in both leagues and became the oldest pitcher to ever win the Cy Young.

" Washington quickly became the oldest team in the NFL and earned the nickname " The Over the Hill Gang.

At 38 years old, Elway became the oldest player ever to be named Super Bowl MVP.

To distinguish at Rome the oldest and best known of these images it was called the vera icon ( true image ), which in the common tongue soon became " Veronica.

* In Maryland, the Jesuits Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase arrived with Lord Leonard Calvert on March 25, 1634, and in that year established an institution of higher learning at St. Mary's which later became known as Georgetown University, North America's oldest university.

It is one of the oldest characters in Commedia dell ' arte but over the course of time became subdivided into a number of similar characters with specific traits.

The colony, established in 1620, became the second successful English settlement ( after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 ) and later the oldest continuously inhabited British settlement in what was to become the United States of America.

In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

Federko scored at least 90 points in seven of the eight seasons between 1978 and 1986, and became the first player in NHL history to record at least 50 assists in 10 consecutive seasons.

On March 19, 1988, Federko became the 22nd NHL player to record 1000 career points.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

With these innings he became the second player to score two Test triple centuries, the second player to score two career quadruple centuries, the only player to achieve both these milestones, and regained the distinction of being the holder of both the record first-class individual innings and the record Test individual innings.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

A healthy Walker became the first player in club history to win the NL Most Valuable Player award in 1997, batting. 366 with 49 homers and 130 RBI.

In the process, Jennings became the first Rockies player to win the National League Rookie of the Year award.

He became the second player in major league history to hit for the cycle and have an unassisted triple play, which he did on April 29, 2007, in his career.

In that same year, Smith became the first player to win the Super Bowl, the NFL rushing title ( i. e. lead the league in rushing ), the NFL Most Valuable Player Award, and the Super Bowl MVP all in one season.

These referees were used mainly for maintaining order ( as drinking games often became rowdy ) and for reviewing faults that could be punished with a player drinking a penalty cup.

He scored the second quickest hat-trick ever at a FIFA World Cup tournament against Poland — in doing so, he became only the second English player to score a hat-trick at a FIFA World Cup.

In later seasons, harmonica player Charlie McCoy joined the cast and eventually formed the Hee Haw Band, which became the house band for the rest of the series ' run.

Control of trade, the flow of resources and prestige goods, became ever more important to the elites of Southern Britain ; as the provider of relatively limitless wealth and patronage, Rome steadily became the biggest player in all their dealings.

In the 1950s, hi-fi became a generic term, to some extent displacing phonograph and record player.

Greenberg became the first major league player to hit 25 or more home runs in a season in each league.

Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).

Greenberg became the first major league player to hit 25 or more home runs in a season in each league.

Cedeno made his first All-Star game in 1972 and became the first Astros player in team history to hit for the cycle in August versus the Reds.

On June 28, second baseman Craig Biggio became the 27th MLB player to accrue 3, 000 career hits.

In that season, Aaron became the third player to steal 30 bases and hit 30 home runs in a single season.