On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution which set the stage for elections in 2006.

On 20 September 2003, in a nationwide referendum, the Latvians voted to join the European Union and Latvia's EU membership took effect on 1 May 2004.

* 1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.

The text of the new Constitution was put to a nationwide referendum in August 1992 and approved by a wide margin, despite efforts by federalists to disrupt balloting in several coastal areas.

In 2005 a referendum was held to consult the population about their opinion on the possibility to forbid the sale and civilian possession of firearms and ammunition nationwide.

* proclaiming the holding of a nationwide referendum ( a consent of the Senate is required )

The Legislative Yuan also proposed to give itself the power to summon the president for an annual " state of the nation " address and launch a recall of the president and vice president ( proposed by one fourth and approved by two thirds of the legislators and be submitted to a nationwide referendum for approval or rejection by majority vote ).

The Charlottetown Accord was even more ambitious than the Meech Lake Accord, but it failed to win support in a nationwide referendum.

A new constitution drawn up under close FLN supervision was approved by nationwide referendum in September, and Ben Bella was confirmed as the party's choice to lead the country for a five-year term.

* October 26: The Charlottetown Accord is rejected in a nationwide referendum

The president cannot decide to stage a nationwide referendum on matters of national importance unless he has been given explicit permission to do so by the Senate.

" The referendum, the first nationwide plebiscite to be held in the UK during the 20th century, was of constitutional significance.

In August 2008, a nationwide referendum was held, the prefect of Cochabamba, Manfred Reyes Villa, was not confirmed by the voters of the department.

* December, 1991-In a nationwide referendum, Azerbaijani voters approve the Declaration of Independence adopted by the Supreme Council ; Soviet Union is dissolved, Azerbaijan is recognized as independent state by Turkey, Israel, Romania and Pakistan.

It became the unofficial national flower of China following a nationwide referendum in 1994.

Switzerland is often cited as an example where only 50, 000 signatures are required for a nationwide referendum.

In the referendum that proved the Norwegian will to dissolve the union, retention of the union garnered a mere 184 votes nationwide, which represented only one vote out of every 2000 cast.

The vote was largely seen as a referendum on Truman, whose approval rating had sunk to 32 % over the president's controversial handling of a wave of post-war labor strikes, such as a nationwide railroad strike in May, at a time when Americans depended on train service for both commuter and long-distance travel.

In Latvia the opposition, primarily the organization Abrenian Union ( consisting of people deported from Pytalovo and surroundings, sometimes referred to as the Association of Abrene Residents ), lobbied for nationwide referendum on such treaty as they saw it as violating the constitution of Latvia ( principle of territorial unity ).

In a nationwide referendum on June 5, 2005, the Swiss people approved by 58 % a registered partnership law, granting same-sex couples the same rights and protections as opposite-sex couples, except:

By the late 1980s, Solidarity was strong enough to frustrate Jaruzelski's attempts at reform, including a failed attempt to gain a popular mandate for changes in a national referendum held in November, 1987, and nationwide strikes in May and August 1988 were one of the factors that forced the government to open a dialogue with Solidarity on 31 August 1988.

The text of the measure reads in part: " Except in the event of an attack or invasion the authority of Congress to declare war shall not become effective until confirmed by a majority of all votes cast thereon in a nationwide referendum.

On 19 May 1991, the Croatian government held a nationwide referendum on a declaration of sovereignty.

The proposed constitution would have been approved in the referendum if both a majority of voters nationwide voted " yes " and there were no more than 2 of the country's 18 governorates where two-thirds of the voters voted " no.

A successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour.

Continued anti-Japanese uprisings, such as the nationwide uprising of students in November 1929, led to the strengthening of military rule in 1931.

Video Concert Hall, created by Jerry Crowe and Charles Henderson, launched on November 1, 1979, was the first nationwide video music programming on American television, predating MTV by almost three years.

A humorous pact he had made with Penny Arcade to live to be a century old, with a decade off for good behaviour, proved prophetic: in November 1999, Quentin Crisp died, nearly one month before his 91st birthday, in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester, on the eve of a nationwide revival of his one-man show.

After the beginning of the regeneration, the estate gained nationwide notoriety in the media when 10-year-old Nigerian resident Damilola Taylor was stabbed to death on the estate on 27 November 2000.

On November 21, 1915, the Liberty Bell passed through Greenville on its nationwide tour returning to Pennsylvania from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

On 21 November 2006, after the merger with NTL, The Register reported that Subscriber Traffic Management was being trialled in areas in the north of England and was rolling out nationwide.

Tera Patrick's Indonesian non-pornographic horror movie, Rintihan Kuntilanak Perawan ( Moaning of Virgin Ghost ) was presented nationwide from October 14, 2010, through November 16, 2010, and it is still being shown in at least seven movie theaters in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, and in the surrounding area on Java.

Rizal and Bonifacio, however, are given the implied recognition of being national heroes because they are commemorated annually nationwide – Rizal Day on 30 December and Bonifacio Day on 30 November.

On 2 November Washington then released his Farewell Order to the Philadelphia newspapers for nationwide distribution to the furloughed men.

However, nine days later on November 3, following an intensive, heavily publicized investigation and a nationwide search, Smith confessed to letting her 1990 Mazda Protegé roll into nearby John D. Long Lake, drowning her children inside.

Screen announcing the nationwide test of the EAS, November 9, 2011, mainly generated by the EAS decoder at cable operator headends, listing that the test was generated within the District of Columbia rather than locally.

On November 4, 2008, Barr received 523, 686 votes, 0. 4 % of the national vote This was the second highest number of votes nationwide that a Libertarian Party presidential candidate has received.

Ride with the Devil premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States on November 26, 1999 grossing $ 635, 096 in domestic ticket receipts.

UB40 announced that after completing a coast to coast 2010 American tour they would be playing a nationwide UK tour of theatres in October / November 2010 performing their seminal album ' Signing Off ', in full, along with a second set of popular UB40 songs.

A much more successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip, also entitled Li ' l Abner, opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour.

The Hungarian Revolution or Uprising of 1956 ( or felkelés ) was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956.

November 1994: Mid-term election held nationwide, minority government of CPN ( UML ) formed, different coalition government formed after the failure of minority government.

In November 2006, Vidéotron and other Canadian ISPs partnered with Cybertip. ca, a nationwide tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children, to create Project Cleanfeed Canada, an initiative designed to block access to hundreds of child pornography sites.

On November 4, 2002, the day before the release of The Wraith: Shangri-La, 10 release parties were held by Psychopathic Records nationwide.

A full-page advertisement placed in The New York Times in November 1957 provoked a nationwide response, and by 1958 the membership of the organization had grown to 25, 000.

In the November 2004 presidential election, Cobb placed sixth in the popular vote total nationwide, earning over 118, 000 votes ( 0. 096 percent ), but received no electoral votes.

The New Hampshire primary is the first in a series of nationwide party primary elections held in the United States every four years as part of the process of choosing the delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions which choose the party nominees for the presidential elections to be held the subsequent November.

In November 1997, two events on campus attracted nationwide media attention.