The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.

On 27 April 2007, in advance of the 4 November 2007 presidential election, and in reaction to the politics of Abdullah Gül, who has a past record of involvement in Islamist political movements and banned Islamist parties such as the Welfare Party, the army issued a statement of its interests.

The current bans and restrictions on the legal ownership of all semi-automatic rifles ( as well as semi-auto and pump-action shotguns ) was a result of the Port Arthur massacre of April 1996 ( for more information, see Gun politics in Australia ).

(), better known just as Ibn Rushd (), and in European literature as Averroes (; April 14, 1126 – December 10, 1198 ), was an Andalusian Muslim polymath ; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics.

In April 1923 he would speak at its first reunion, later however involvement in politics was " discouraged ".

In April 2004, following a complaint by the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, The Nation magazine refused to accept advertising from the IHR, stating " here is a strong presumption against censoring any advertisement, especially if we disagree with its politics.

Following his defeat in April 2002, Jospin immediately declared his decision to leave politics and stepped down as Prime Minister.

In April 1977, Paisley declared he would retire from politics if a forthcoming United Unionist Action Council general strike was unsuccessful.

* Breen, John, " The Imperial Oath of April 1868: ritual, power and politics in Restoration Japan ," Monumenta Nipponica, 51, 4 ( 1996 )

After his premiership, Van Agt remained in active politics and became the Queen's Commissioner of North Brabant serving from June 1, 1983, until April 22, 1987, when he resigned as Queen's Commissioner because of criticism on his performance and his cooperation with the States-Provincial.

In April 1998, Charest gave in to considerable public and political pressure, especially among business circles, to leave federal politics and become leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.

In April 2006, Anneli Jäätteenmäki announced to the Finnish media that she was going to take some time out of her parliamentary work due to breast cancer, but she returned to politics following her successful recovery.

Long active in United States Republican Party politics, he is now an author, speaker, and, since April 5, 2004, the host of the weekday radio program Morning in America on the Dallas, Texas-based Salem Communications.

At an enlarged Politburo meeting in Shanghai, held from March 25 – April 1, Peng openly criticized Mao in the Chairman's presence for the first time, accusing him of " taking personal command " of national politics and disregarding the collective leadership of the Chinese government and the Party.

Rae returned to active politics on April 16, 2002, two days after Mike Harris announced his resignation as premier, with an opinion piece in the National Post newspaper.

Even after she died on 7 April 1830, many atrocities continued to be committed in the name of Miguel, some against foreign nationals who intervened in the politics of Portugal.

In April 2010 Salon hired Alex Pareene, a writer for Gawker Media, to write about politics.

On 24 April 1758 the Dodsley brothers signed a contract with Edmund Burke ( 1729 – 97 ) to write and edit the material for The Annual Register, which was conceived as an annual publication which would review the history, politics and literature of the day.

Four days later, on April 18, 2008, Matthews told Bill Maher that he has " made a commitment to covering politics in a liberal way, starting in 1987, and is honoring that commitment, not getting involved in it.

He stated his intention to return to politics, though he briefly left Liberia again on 7 April due to death threats he had received from the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy ( LURD ) rebel group.

On April 26, 2005, the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir reported that the trilingual Pettigrew, who speaks English, French and Spanish, would leave Canadian politics to serve as the Secretary General of the Organization of American States.

Under these unstable conditions Venizelos entered into politics in the elections of 2 April 1889 as a member of the island's liberal party.

One of the older written examples of it can be found in the Combahee River Collective Statement of April 1977, subsequently reprinted in a number of anthologies, and Barbara Smith and the Combahee River Collective have been credited with coining the term ; which they defined as " a politics that grew out of our objective material experiences as Black women.

He became even more present in politics after organizing, together with Jean-Marie Collot d ' Herbois, the great Fête de la Liberté on 15 April 1792, in honour of the released soldiers of Chateau-Vieux.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

There must have been special feelings of joy and patriotism in the heart of Daniel Morgan too, when the news was received on April 30th of the recognition by France of the independence of the United States.

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

Replacing the discontinued Medical Technicians Bulletin, publication of which was suspended with the November-December 1959 issue, a section called `` Technical Notes '' was inaugurated on a bimonthly basis beginning with the April 1960 issue.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

The seasonal adjustment takes into account such factors as Easter was on April 2 this year, two weeks earlier than in 1960, and pre-Easter buying was pushed into March.

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

It was a Saturday evening in April with a mist-like rain, and I was a little high on the good taste of life.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

On April 9, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox and the war was effectively over.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.