" But the teenager made an impact on his first night at the London Coliseum, winning more laughs in his small role than the star, and he was quickly signed to a contract.

Karno selected his new star to join a fraction of the company that toured North America's vaudeville circuit ; he also signed Chaplin to a new contract, which doubled his pay.

Championship Hulbert signed multiple star players, such as pitcher Albert Spalding and infielders Ross Barnes, Deacon White, and Adrian " Cap " Anson, to join the team prior to the N. L.

On 20 April 1998, an eight-page typewritten letter in German was faxed to the Reuters news agency, signed " RAF " with the submachine-gun red star, declaring that the group had dissolved.

On 20 April 1998, an eight-page typewritten letter in German was faxed to the Reuters news agency, signed " RAF " with the machine-gun red star, declaring the group dissolved:

In 2011, Gellar signed on to star and work as executive producer for a new drama titled Ringer, in which she plays a woman on the run who manages to hide by living the life of her wealthy twin sister.

Prior to the 2001 season, star free agent shortstop Alex Rodriguez, was signed by the Rangers in the most lucrative deal in baseball history: a 10-year, $ 252 million contract.

After his performance in the studio's 1942 Kings Row, Warner decided to make Reagan a top star and signed him to a new contract, tripling his salary.

The same year, Jack Warner also signed newly released MGM actress Joan Crawford, a former top star who found her career fading.

In 1992, fed up with the lack of investment at the BBC, he signed a golden-handcuffs deal at ITV to star as Detective Inspector Jack Frost in the long-running TV series A Touch of Frost ( Yorkshire Television / ITV ).

After that season, Patrick Roy retired and the Avalanche signed star wingers Paul Kariya and Teemu Selänne from the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

Miami also signed former All-Star guard Gary Payton, former UCLA star Jason Kapono and first round pick and NCAA All American Wayne Simien.

In the 1997 off-season, the Stars signed star goaltender Ed Belfour as a free agent after a well publicized falling out with the San Jose Sharks, who had traded a number of players to Chicago to obtain him in January in the previous season.

Shirley Jones had already been signed as mother Shirley Partridge and star of the show.

As William Shatner was unwilling to return, Nimoy and Bennett spent eight months considering a prequel concept by Ralph Winter about the characters at Starfleet Academy, before Shatner received a pay increase and signed on to star.

In August 2004 Spears signed a development deal with Nickelodeon in which she'd star as the protagonist in her own scripted television series that would air on the network.

Shortly prior to the show's closing, however, it was announced that Rosalind Russell had been signed to star instead.

Following her role in Kids Incorporated and Be Somebody, Martika was signed by Columbia Records as a potential Madonna-like pop star.

Gathering the other league owners together to contribute to the unprecedented amount on the grounds that inking such a major star gave instant credibility to the new rival league that was competing directly against the entrenched NHL, Jets ' owner Ben Hatskin agreed to the sum, and signed Hull as a player / coach for a contract worth $ 1, 000, 000 over ten years.

* DeJuan Fulghum-Currently signed as an undrafted free agent linebacker for the Detroit Lions, former star at Harker Heights High School

Pop star Robbie Williams signed a 6 album deal in 2002 paying him over £ 80 million ($ 157 million ), which was not only the biggest recording contract in British music history at the time, but also the second biggest in music history behind that of Michael Jackson.

In 1966 Ayler was signed to Impulse Records at the urging of John Coltrane, the label's star attraction at that time.

He was signed on as a contract star with 20th Century Fox.

In December 1955 Burke was signed to Apollo, soon after gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Apollo's primary star, had left for Columbia Records, accusing Apollo of cheating her out of her royalties, and the owner, Bessie " Bess " Berman ( born June 3, 1902 in New York ; died October 29, 1997 ), of " having a plantation attitude toward Negroes.

Can you consider restricting any additional employee benefits to those paid for by profit-sharing money, such as was done in the union contract recently signed by American Motors Corporation??

The big, 22-year-old shortstop, the 1960 American league `` rookie-of-the-year '', flew here late this afternoon from Baltimore, signed his contract for an estimated $15,000 and was a spectator at tonight's 5-to-3 loss to Kansas City -- the winless Birds' sixth setback in a row.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

* 1980 – The Montevideo Treaty, establishing the Latin American Integration Association, is signed.

He signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.

On January 1, 1994, Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement into law.

In 1947, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier that had prevented talented African American players from entering the white-only major leagues.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

Under Veeck's leadership, one of Cleveland's most significant achievements was breaking the color barrier in the American League by signing Larry Doby, formerly a player for the Negro League's Newark Eagles in, eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.

Therefore, in 1890, Young signed with the Cleveland Spiders, a team which had moved up from the American Association to the National League the previous year.

On 11 June 1980, the United States signed a treaty with the Cook Islands specifying the maritime border between the Cook Islands and American Samoa and also relinquishing its claim to the islands of Penrhyn, Pukapuka, Manihiki, and Rakahanga.

* 1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

* 2004 – The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.

In power, he has made alliances with fellow Latin American socialists, namely Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and signed Nicaragua up to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.

El Salvador signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA ), negotiated by the five countries of Central America and the Dominican Republic, with the United States in 2004.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.

* 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, were able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.

For example, US President Clinton and the Central American presidents signed the CONCAUSA ( Conjunto Centroamerica-USA ) agreement at the Summit of the Americas in December 1994.

The United States and Guinea have signed an investment guarantee agreement that offers political risk insurance to American investors through OPIC.

The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 respected leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baha ' i Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.

To concentrate on the war in Europe, Napoleon signed the Louisiana Purchase in April, selling France's North American possessions to the United States.

He signed a treaty that made Haiti a de jure US protectorate, with American officials assuming control over the Financial Adviser, Customs Receivership, the Constabulary, the Public Works Service, and the Public Health Service for a period of ten years.

Among the most important figures of the federal era include the first democratically elected president in Honduras, Dionisio de Herrera, a lawyer, whose government, begun in 1824 established the first constitution, Gen. Francisco Morazán, Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835 – 1839, whose figure embodies the ideal American Unionist, and José Cecilio del Valle, editor of the Declaration of Independence signed in Guatemala on September 15, 1821 and Foreign Minister of Mexico in 1823.

At the conference, the five countries signed the General Treaty of Peace and Amity of 1907, which established the Central American Court of Justice to resolve future disputes among the five nations.

Honduran domestic manufacturers also suffered from increased Central American competition resulting from a trade liberalization pact signed in May 1991 by Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.