I was surprised at Mayor Miriani's defeat, but perhaps Mayor-elect Cavanagh can accomplish some things that should have been done years ago.

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

He was elected as an alderman and as Mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee before being elected to the state assembly.

In 1829 Johnson helped organize a mechanics ' party ticket ; he was elected as a town alderman, and re-elected until he was elected Mayor in 1834.

The choice of Bonn was made mainly due to the advocacy of West Germany's first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, a former Cologne Mayor and a native of that area.

A committee of public heath was created on 8 December ; on 9 December the inhabitants of Jausiers and its surroundings formed a colony under the direction of general councillor Brès, and Mayor Signoret of Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye.

For instance, Tomás Mac Curtain, the Mayor of Cork, was assassinated in March 1920 by local RIC men and the massacre of 13 civilians at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday was also carried out by the RIC although a small detachment of Auxiliaries were also present.

Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.

In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics.

Emanuel was sworn in as Mayor on May 16, 2011.

The City and County's financing of the investment through the issuance and delivery of Bonds was delayed for two years, when Mayor Henry P. Coon, and the County Clerk, Wilhelm Loewy, each refused to countersign the Bonds.

His cadaver was taken to the public Plaza Mayor of Cuzco and displayed as a sign of defeat and his severed head as a warning to other would-be rebels.

In 1821 he was appointed Physician Extraordinary to King George IV, a great national honour, and was also made Mayor of Berkeley and Justice of the Peace.

The tale was highlighted by the Lord Mayor of London, Gilbert Inglefield, at the bicentennial of the Britannica.

The Lord Mayor, Thomas Skinner, was also involved.

The charter came into effect on September 29, 1688, and a Corporation was established comprising a Mayor, 12 Aldermen, 60-100 Burgesses and sergeants.

Nathaniel Higginson, who was then the second member of the Council of Fort St George took office as the Mayor of Madras.

The 90th anniversary was celebrated with military parade in Dublin on Easter Sunday, 2006, attended by the President of Ireland, the Taoiseach and the Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947 ) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican.

Roosevelt was an admirer of LaGuardia ; after meeting Winston Churchill for the first time he described him as " an English Mayor LaGuardia.

The party leaders approached Cleveland, and he agreed to run for Mayor of Buffalo, provided that the rest of the ticket was to his liking.

Subsequently, production of autogyros was licensed to a number of manufacturers, including the Pitcairn Autogiro Company in the U. S. and Focke-Wulf of Germany.

Eastern Air Lines was a composite of assorted air travel corporations, including Florida Airways and Pitcairn Aviation, the latter of which was established on April 19, 1926, by Harold Frederick Pitcairn, son of Pittsburgh Plate Glass founder John Pitcairn, Jr.

This was planned with the aid of the son of the founder of Eastern, Stephen Pitcairn, who has since passed away.

The name is from Helen Pitcairn, the daughter of a landowner, and the community was founded in 1819.

Pitcairn was established in 1836 from parts of the Towns of Edwards and Fowler.

Pitcairn was the birthplace of bandleader Ted Weems and of musical instrument maker Carl Thompson, as well as early NFL football player Harry Robb.

Pitcairn was also the birthplace of Dewees " Cutty " Cutshall, a trombonist who played with the Jan Savitt orchestra, Benny Goodman Band, Eddie Condon Band, and an original member of the Larson / Haggart " World's Greatest Jazz Band ".

Pitcairn Yard, which opened in 1892 and was for many decades a major switching yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad, later the Penn Central Railroad and Conrail, is now, since the 1990s, an intermodal freight transport yard for the Norfolk Southern Railway, where containers are taken off trains and transferred to trucks for delivery, or from trucks to trains.

In 1971 the first Fox's Pizza Den was opened on Broadway Boulevard in Pitcairn.

Duffy was an acquaintance of Major John Pitcairn.

Pitcairn was with the Royal Marines and was part of the British force that was occupying Boston, Massachusetts at the outset of the Revolution.

Pitcairn was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Glencairn was originally the private residence of millionaire philanthropist Raymond Pitcairn.

Cairncrest was built as a home for John Pitcairn's son, Harold Pitcairn, an aviation pioneer and developer of the autogyro.

John Adams ( 4 December 1767 – 5 March 1829 ) was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny.

The American sailing ship Topaz was the first to rediscover Pitcairn in 1808.

He was represented in each of the other islands units by a Resident Commissioner, Consul ( representative ) or other official ( on tiny Pitcairn a mere Chief Magistrate ).

From 1926 to 1942 Pitcairn used the airfield for design, construction and testing of a number of aircraft, including the Mailwing which was used by the United States Postal Service.

But not a single human life was lost, and property damage in the Hawaiian Islands did not exceed $800,000.

The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.

In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago ( from medieval Greek * ἀρχιπέλαγος ) was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ).

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

The Almoravid power was at its height at Yusuf's death, and the Moorish empire then included all North-West Africa as far as Algiers, and all of Iberia south of the Tagus, with the east coast as far as the mouth of the Ebro, and included the Balearic Islands.

General Loganathan, of the Indian National Army, was Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which had been annexed to the Provisional Government.

On 26 December 2004, the coast of the Andaman Islands was devastated by a high tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

At the same time, the most western island of the Juan Fernández Islands was renamed Alejandro Selkirk Island although Selkirk probably never saw that island ( 97 miles west ).

During the first invasion, Thrace, Macedon and the Aegean Islands were added to the Persian Empire, and Eretria was duly destroyed.

One is on Medny Island ( Commander Islands, Russia ), which was reduced by some 85 – 90 %, to around 90 animals, as a result of mange caused by an ear tick introduced by dogs in the 1970s.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

Along with six other islands, the island was administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

In January 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

There is no record of any native Amerindian population in the British Virgin Islands during this period, although the native population on nearby St. Croix was decimated.

A new constitution was adopted in 2007 ( the Virgin Islands Constitution Order, 2007 ) and came into force when the Legislative Council was dissolved for the 2007 general election.

In 1911, Italy launched an invasion of Tripolitania, which was quickly followed by the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands.

Bonaparte demanded that his fleet be permitted entry to the fortified harbour of Valletta, and when the demand was refused the French general responded by ordering a large scale invasion of the Maltese Islands, overrunning the defenders after 24 hours of skirmishing.

Coarser ikat from the Lesser Sundas was traded for sago from the Kei Islands, Aru and Seram.

The battle was over within hours, with the Dutch surrendering Fort Nassau-after some subterfuge-and within days the remainder of the Banda Islands.

After the Dutch surrender, Captain Charles Foote ( of the Piedmontaise ) was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Banda Islands.