A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.

A professor at the University of Constantinople, where his first course of lectures was on Nietzsche and the `` philosophy of action '', Vincent Berger becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Embassy in Turkey.

Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

* 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

* 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

* 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

* 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

* 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

The first approach is to compute the statistical moments by separating the data into bins and then computing the moments from the geometry of the resulting histogram, which effectively becomes a one-pass algorithm for higher moments.

If we neglect higher than first order terms in the fluctuations, the mass balance equation becomes

* 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

* 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state

* 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

* 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.

* 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel ( she drops out less than a week later ).

* 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan ( modern day Tohoku University ) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.

* 1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.

* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

* 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.

* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

The person of the artist becomes a final bastion of meaning in a world rendered meaningless by the march of events and the decay of classical religious and philosophical systems.

In later books she becomes more modern and a kinder person.

* 2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.

* 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.

Wallace refuses the bribe sent with Isabella by Longshanks, but after meeting him in person, Isabella becomes enamored with him.

Bankruptcy is filed when a person or a company becomes insolvent and cannot pay their debts as they become due and if they have at least $ 1, 000 in debt.

He becomes the first person to ever complete the Trinity Great Court Run – running around the college courtyard in the time it takes for the clock to strike 12.

A triatomine becomes infected with T. cruzi by feeding on the blood of an infected person or animal.

In Victoria on 21 December 2011, legislation was passed by the Victorian Parliament allowing new trials where there is " fresh and compelling DNA evidence, where the person acquitted subsequently admits to the crime, or where it becomes clear that key witnesses have given false evidence ".

After a very high level of consumption, the respiratory system becomes depressed and the person will stop breathing.

* 1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.

* 1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.

This person also becomes prime minister of the cabinet.

* 1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes ; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.

* 1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.

In an ideological context, a grokked concept becomes part of the person who contributes to its evolution by improving the doctrine, perpetuating the myth, espousing the belief, adding detail to the social plan, refining the idea or proving the theory.

* 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

* 1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

* 2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.

* 1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.

A person who speaks truth becomes trustworthy like a mother, venerable like a preceptor and dear to everyone like a kinsman.

* 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.