In August 1825, he passed entrance exams at Harvard University, though when the college requested payment of tuition fees for the first two years which he had successfully challenged by examination, he chose not to attend.

On August 16, 1996, the Republican Party chose Kemp as its vice presidential nominee, running alongside former Senator Dole.

In Germany, the Electors met at Rhense on 20 August 1400 to depose the unworthy Wenceslaus as German King and chose in his place Rupert, Duke of Bavaria and Rhenish Count Palatine.

The August convention chose Louis St. Laurent as the new leader of the Liberal Party.

" Pitt chose for himself the office of Lord Privy Seal, which required his elevation to the House of Lords, and in August he became Earl of Chatham and Viscount Pitt.

Liszt chose the date in honour of Weimar's most famous citizen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was born on 28 August 1749.

On 3 August, Edward asked Balliol and Bruce to choose 40 arbiters each, while he chose 24, to decide the case.

But with a mixed command he was reorganizing and training up on the fly ( Many Australian units were drilling with wooden mockups of rifles in August 1942 ) before MacArthur's people could set up his planned defensive bases on the north coast of eastern Papua, the Japanese Army had moved in and taken both north-coast villages he'd targeted for bases as reinforcements and war materials finally began to trickle in from the States in July — Buna and Gona — several weeks before the forces and transports his staff was organizing could have reached them in strength — at a time when Japan's Navy and Air forces were dominant every where they chose to go.

He chose not to run for re-election in 1992, citing in a front page cover story in the Sunday New York Times Magazine ( August 9, 1992 ), frustration with the ever increasing role of money in politics to the exclusion of focus on public policy.

Major Gen. Uzal Girard Ent, who had led the August, 1943, raid on the Romanian oil refineries in Ploesti, chose Col. Paul Tibbets to lead the 509th Composite Group, asking him to organize and lead a combat force to deliver a new type of explosive device that is so powerful, its full potential was unknown.

In August 1955, the US DOD Committee on Special Capabilities chose the Navy's proposal as it appeared most likely, by spring 1958, to fulfill the following:

" On August 19, the New York Right to Life Party, in convention, chose Buchanan as their nominee, with 90 % of the districts voting for him.

He might have avoided the impending storm of Parliamentary prosecution, if he had remained in England and stood trial but instead he chose to depart for France on 8 August 1715 and initially stayed in Paris with Lord Bolingbroke.

I recall that I vehemently objected to August Bebel, who was indignant over these suicides, that if one could argue against the age at which the Lafargues chose to die-for here we were dealing not with the number of years, but with the possible usefulness of a political figure-then one could by no means argue against the very principle of a political figure departing from this life at the moment when he felt that he would no longer bring any benefit to the cause to which he had devoted himself.

Mosaddegh was removed from power in a coup on 19 August 1953, organised and carried out by the United States CIA at the request of the British MI6 which chose Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi to succeed Mosaddegh.

On August 26, 1848, after painful hesitation, Frederick William chose what seemed the lesser of two evils, and Prussia signed at Malmö a convention which yielded practically all the Danish demands.

On August 9, 1776, he was promoted to be one of the four new major generals and was put in command of the Continental Army troops on Long Island ; he chose the place for fortifications, and built the redoubts and entrenchments of Fort Putnam ( the site of current day Fort Greene Park ) east of Brooklyn Heights.

The South Australian House of Assembly chose John McKinlay to lead the South Australian relief expedition that left Adelaide on 16 August 1861.

At the start of the Civil War, in August 1642, Charles I chose Nottingham as the rallying point for his armies, but soon after he departed, the castle rock was made defensible and held by the parliamentarians.

The village is best known for being the " plague village " that chose to isolate itself when the plague was discovered there in August 1665, rather than let the infection spread.

In August 1985, Dibiase formed a tag team with fellow gaijin: Stan Hansen and the two became the PWF Tag Team Champions when Hansen chose Dibiase to replace Bruiser Brody who left for New Japan Pro Wrestling.

In August 2011 Stephen Fry chose the lighter as the greatest gadget in his Channel 4 programme Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets, one of the 100 Greatest strand, describing it as " fire with a flick of the fingers ".

On 28 August 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya chose not to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on International Criminal Court ( ICC ) charges of genocide when he arrived on Friday for a ceremony for the East African nation's new constitution.

Following the death of Jack Layton in August 2011, the New Democratic Party chose Thomas Mulcair as leader on March 24, 2012, in Toronto, winning with 57. 2 % of the vote on the fourth and final ballot.

Fentie's majority government was reduced to minority government status in August 2006, when three Yukon Party MLAs resigned or chose to sit as independents.

She chose to undergo a mastectomy rather than a lumpectomy and the breast was removed on October 17, 1987.

In 2006, Bayreuth chose its first CSU member and mayor, the lawyer, Michael Hohl, and, in 2007, a Youth Parliament, consisting of 12 young people, aged 14 – 17 years, was elected for the first time.

TV Guide chose The Powerpuff Girls as # 17 in a list of the 50 Greatest cartoon characters of all time.

With their own # 4 pick, they chose guard Dion Waiters from Syracuse, and with pick # 17 ( which was acquired from Dallas on draft night ), they chose center Tyler Zeller from North Carolina.

The Jordans ' participation in Look Who's Laughing was set up in the Fibber McGee & Molly episode " Amusement Park " ( 6 / 17 / 41 ), in which Gale Gordon played an RKO pictures representative who followed the McGees around the amusement park and chose the McGees as a representative American couple to star in a movie with Edger Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.

Upon petitioning the Assembly for a town charter, the citizens of Mudfort chose to name their town for the South American revolutionary leader, Simón Bolívar ( July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830 ).

He returned to Oxford, and about 17 March 1645 the king bestowed upon him a canonry at Christ Church ; the university chose him to be public orator at the same time, and he was made one of the royal chaplains.

Trojan Records provided Greenwood with its extensive catalog of songs, of which he chose 17.

In 1584, at the age of 17, Masamune succeeded his father, Terumune, who chose to retire from his position as daimyo.

One post-revolutionary opinion poll found 61 % of students in Tehran chose " Western artists " as their role models with only 17 % choosing " Iran's officials.

After Ialá was ousted in a military coup on 14 September 2003, the military junta chose Sanhá as Prime Minister of the transitional government, although its choice of Sanhá was opposed by 15 of the 17 involved political parties because Sanhá was not a political independent ; concerns also remained about the 2001 incident.

Boycott told the BBC in 1965 that he chose to leave school at 17 because he no longer wished to be a financial strain on his parents, and because he wanted to pursue his cricketing career.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers chose the arena as the venue to film their video " Snow ( Hey Oh )", on October 17 – 18, 2006, including shots of the stairwells and tunnels of the stadium.

However the rain returned during the first round of scheduled pit stops, and when the championship contenders pitted – Montoya on Lap 17, Räikkönen on Lap 19 and Schumacher on Lap 20 – they all chose to stay with dry tires.

A large rally in New York's Steinway Hall on November 17, 1873 led by future Secretary of State, William Evarts, took a moderate position and the meeting adopted a resolution that war would be necessary, yet regrettable, if Spain chose to "... consider our defense against savage butchery as a cause of war ..."

If one chose the I30t ( t standing for Touring "), then the vehicle would come equipped with High-Intensity Discharge ( HID ) xenon headlamps with darker colored headlamp surrounds, a Limited-Slip Differential, larger, 17 " wheels, and the availability of a Sport Package which consisted of a rear decklid-mounted spoiler and side-sill body extensions.

Generally, it was the mother who chose the name, as in the account of Jacob's sons, but there were occasions on which the father chose the child's name, for instance in Genesis 16: 15, 17: 19, and 21: 2.

Fraser had about five different labels offer her deals and chose to sign a multi-album deal with Sony Music at the age of 17.

He chose to wear jersey number 17 which is the date of his birthday.

Between 1982 and 2000, the 17 players that Sather chose first ( excluding Jeff Beukeboom in 1983 and Jason Arnott in 1993 ) never turned out to be successful for the Oilers.

After covering the Cowboys through the 1996 season, Bayless chose to leave Dallas after 17 years and become the lead sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

On January 17, 1977, Gilmore is executed by the method he chose, firing squad, making him the first person to be judicially executed in the United States since Luis Monge died in the Colorado gas chamber June 2, 1967.