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In June 1752 he is reputed to have attached a metal key to the bottom of a dampened kite string and flown the kite in a storm-threatened sky.
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The Jockey Club governed the sport from 1752 until its governance role was handed to the British Horseracing Board, ( formed in June 1993 ) and while the BHB became responsible for strategic planning, finance, politics, race planning, training and marketing, the Jockey Club continued to regulate the sport.
She was born June 9, 1752 and died September 20, 1807, and was the daughter of Brigadier General Joseph Dwight of Great Barrington and his second wife, the widow Abigail Williams Sargent.
* David Stoker, Blomefield, Francis ( 1705 – 1752 ), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 17 June 2007
Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 24 June 1687, Winnenden – 2 November 1752, Stuttgart ), was a Lutheran pietist clergyman and Greek-language scholar known for his edition of the Greek New Testament and his commentaries on it.
However, after many difficulties and the departure of Oglethorpe, the trustees proved unable to manage the proprietary colony and on June 23, 1752, the trustees submitted a deed of reconveyance to the crown, one year before the expiration of the charter.
It became a town on 25 June 1752 when founded by José de Zárate during a military campaign known as " La Valerosa ".
The couple had two daughters ; Marianne ( 1745 – 1752 ) and Maria Antonia ( 13 June 1749 – 28 May 1813 )
* Joseph Anton Sambuga, theologian, born June 9, 1752 in Walldorf, died January 15, 1815 at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich
Christian August Heinrich Kurt Graf von Haugwitz ( 11 June 1752 – 1832 ) was a German statesman, best known for serving as Foreign Minister of Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars.
Hardy Murfree ( June 5, 1752 – April 6, 1809 ) was a Lieutenant Colonel from North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.
In the June 1752 conference at Logstown, Croghan was on the Indian Council and Andrew Montour acted as translator.
They arrived by the vessel Charming Sally at Yorktown, Virginia, on 2 June 1752, and made their early performances in nearby Williamsburg.
On 5 February 1735, Elizabeth was married to Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg, Herr of Mirow ( 23 February 1707 – 5 June 1752 ), the youngest son of Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg, and half-brother to Adolphus Frederick III.
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In sixteen states, the fiscal year ending of the cities ( June 30 ) is the same as that of the state: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii ).
The United States Government shall have the right to terminate the financing of further sales under this Agreement of any commodity if it determines at any time after June 30, 1961, that such action is necessitated by the existence of an international emergency.
However, if their United States income is not subject to the withholding of tax on wages, their returns are due June 15, 1962, if they use a calendar year, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of their fiscal year.
If you are a nonresident alien and a resident of Puerto Rico, your return is also due June 15, 1962, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of your fiscal year.
This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.
This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.
* Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is the latest ; celebrated 40 days after Easter ( Christianity ), and its related observances
In June 2010, Transport Minister Manuk Vartanian revealed that Yerevan is seeking as much as $ 1 billion in loans from China to finance the railway ’ s construction.
This listing was removed from CITES in June 2010 by the South African government and South African abalone is no longer subject to CITES trade controls.
André-Marie Ampère ( 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836 ) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as " electrodynamics ".
The Prince of Asturias, Alfonso, is the person chosen to develop the new roadmap proposed by Canovas, which led to the June 1870 abdication of Queen Isabel II in favour of her son Prince Alfonso.
Alarums and Excursions ( A & E ) is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold ( at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in Apa-L, the APA of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society ).
There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675 ; the second is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834.
Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church he is also considered a saint, his feast day being celebrated on 15 June .< ref >
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