Twenty years ago her daughter Betsey Long, then 13 years of age, won the Grand Challenge Trophy, Children's Handling Class ( as they were called then ) at Westminster.

On that final Sunday at Pensacola neither Palmer nor Player was leading the tournament and, as it turned out, neither won it.

On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

In 1967, he won the annual European Junior Championship at Groningen.

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

Australia won the Third and Fourth Tests at Bramall Lane and Old Trafford respectively.

England won the last Test at The Oval by one wicket.

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 – 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.

Australia won 4 – 0 in 1958 – 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.

The First Test at Lord's was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest victory by a runs margin in Ashes history, and the second-closest such victory in all Tests.

After a rain-affected draw at Edgbaston, the fourth match at Headingley was convincingly won by Australia by an innings and 80 runs to level the series.

Finally, England won the Fifth Test at The Oval by a margin of 197 runs to regain the Ashes.

The First Test at Brisbane ended in a draw, but England won the Second Test, at Adelaide, by an innings and 71 runs.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

In 1710 he convinced the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III to declare war against Russia, and the Ottoman forces under Baltacı Mehmet Pasha won a major victory at the Battle of Prut.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.

In the funeral games at the pyre of Patroclus, he contended with Odysseus and Antilochus for the prize in the footrace ; but Athena, who was hostile towards him and favored Odysseus, made him stumble and fall, so that he won only the second prize.

Adam Nelson has won silver medals in the shotput in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics to go along with his gold medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.

The battles of Tampere and Viipuri, won by the Whites, and the Battle of Helsinki, won by German troops, were the decisive military actions of the war.

Finland holds the record for the largest number of people singing karaoke at one time, for over 80, 000 people singing " Hard Rock Hallelujah " on 26 May 2006 in Helsinki after Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest 2006.

In addition to the Olympic and World titles, Pérec also won the European Championship 400 m individual and 4 x 400 m relay titles in Helsinki in 1994.

Four years later, still a strong hurdler, Dillard did qualify for the 110 m hurdles event, and won the event in Helsinki.

They were to have been held in London, England, United Kingdom, which won the bid in a June 1939 IOC election over Rome, Detroit, Lausanne, Athens, Budapest, Helsinki and Montreal on the first ballot.

At Helsinki 1952, he played second board, and won the individual gold medal with 10. 5 / 13.

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Zátopek won gold in the 5 km run, 10 km run, and the marathon.

He and his brothers were known as the ' Fighting Toweels ' as they'd all won various regional boxing titles acround the world and Willie Toweel won bronze medal at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

The Tillsonburg Livingston's Basketball Team ( representative of Tillsonburg's largest industry ) won the Canadian Championships in 1952 and represented Canada in the Olympics at Helsinki, Finland.

Bobby Begley was Irish Team Manager when Eamonn Coughlan won the 5, 000 meters World Championship in Helsinki.

He won 24 national titles, and set 26 national records ; in 1951 he possessed all Belgian records on distances ranging from 1000 m to 10000 m. In 1952, he failed to retain his Olympic title in Helsinki, and had to abandon the final.

Tetsuo Okamoto won a bronze medal in Helsinki in 1952, swimming 1500 m freestyle.

She won a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, losing only to Tirunesh Dibaba.

Four years later, at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1500 metres runner Josy Barthel of Luxembourg won Puma's first Olympic gold in Helsinki, Finland.

He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, ahead of many established architects.

At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he won a silver medal in the 200-meter.

With the Lions, Ralston won the bronze medal in the European Championships in Helsinki, Finland in 1991.

After studying at the Central Music School of Moscow and at the Moscow Conservatoire under Leonid Kogan, she won first prize at the 1980 International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki and the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982.

His most remarkable game there was on 9 December 1998 when he came on as a substitute against HJK Helsinki and scored a second half hat-trick as Kaiserslautern won 5 – 2, helping them to win their group in the 1998 – 99 UEFA Champions League, before going out in the quarter-finals to FC Bayern Munich.

One year later in 1952, he won another silver medal again in Helsinki, this time in 1952 Summer Olympics.

In 1990, at a World Cup race in Helsinki he proved his skill at top level for the first time, finishing first in the 1, 500 metres leaving Johann Olav Koss and Michael Hadschieff behind him, and the next day he won the 1, 000 metres by outpacing Dan Jansen and Eric Flaim.