The crowd at the twenty-first annual K. of C. Games, final indoor meet of the season, got a thrill a few minutes earlier when a slender, bespectacled woman broke the one-week-old world record in the half-mile run.

In the final month of the 1927 season, he hit seventeen home runs, a closing spurt never matched.

-- For its final change of bill in its London season, the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet chose tonight to give one of those choreographic miscellanies known as a `` gala program '' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

The Falcons defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 – 10 in the final game of the season to improve their record to 9 – 7.

Ajax won the ' 87 Cup Winners Cup and reached the final again the following season.

The season saw an unbeaten run in the national league and the final season for Frank Rijkaard, while striker Patrick Kluivert came off the bench to score a late winner to beat AC Milan in the final of the Champions League.

The following season, Ajax lost to Juventus on penalties in the European Cup final.

* 1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.

The series enjoyed excellent ratings throughout its run, although it had fallen out of the top 20 most watched shows during its final season.

* In both versions of the movie Bad News Bears, coach Buttermaker makes use of several unorthodox tactics during the season final.

He played three seasons with the Blades, and in his final year with the club he led the league in assists and points in both the regular season and playoffs.

The 1982 campaign saw Baltimore eliminated on the final weekend of the season by the Milwaukee Brewers.

They finished the season losing 11 of their final 12 games and 28 of their final 34.

Graham Hill took his final Formula One win in the unique " lobster claw ". Tauranac signed double world champion Graham Hill and young Australian Tim Schenken to drive for the 1971 season.

In 1996, the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears had enjoyed their best season to date, losing a preliminary final to the eventual premiers, North Melbourne.

The White Stockings won the 1900 American League pennant led by player-manager Dick Padden, the final WL / AL championship season as a minor league .< ref >

Entering the final game of the 1958 season, Cleveland needed to either win or tie against the New York Giants to clinch the Eastern Conference title and the right to host the championship game.

Due to the impending merger of the American Football League and the National Football League, which was due to take full effect in the season, Brown agreed to join the AFL as its tenth and final franchise.

Feller, who had pitched a no-hitter to open the season and won 27 games, lost the final game of the season to unknown pitcher Floyd Giebell of the Detroit Tigers.

In 1987 Charlton also returned to Wembley for the first time since the 1947 FA Cup final for the Full Members Cup final against Blackburn.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

Lemmon attended Phillips Academy ( Class of 1943 ) and Harvard University ( Class of 1947 ), where he lived in Eliot House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs-becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club-as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard.

At the U. S. Open in 1947, Snead missed a 2-foot putt on the final playoff hole to lose to Lew Worsham.

Einstein also became alarmed by press announcements that exaggerated the school's success at fundraising, and on June 22, 1947 he made a final break with the enterprise.

Following Czechoslovakia's brief consideration of taking Marshall Plan funds, and the subsequent scolding of communist parties by the Cominform at Szklarska Poręba in September 1947, Rudolf Slánský returned to Prague with a plan for the final seizure of power, including the StB's elimination of party enemies and purging of dissidents.

As there was no railway to the gas works, this traffic had ensured the maintenance of the canal, but it was transferred to road vehicles in 1944, and the canal carried its final commercial traffic in 1947.

Lynch captured a sixth Munster hurling medal in 1947 before going on to play in his seventh All-Ireland hurling final in less than a decade.

:* The " T " in the October 1, 1947 signature intersected the final " s " in " Sincerely yours ".

* The UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( originally comprising Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau ), after Allied military occupations, since 18 July 1947, had a dozen high commissioners, also presiding over the splitting off of Palau and Marshall Islands in 1980 and the 10 May 1979 granting of autonomy to the Federated States of Micronesia ( former Ponape, Truk and Yap districts of the Trust Territory ) until on 3 November 1986 the Trust Territory was dissolved by the U. S. ( a single Director of the Office of Transition, Charles Jordan, stepped in from 3 November 1986 – 30 September 1991, a while after the 22 December 1990 proclamation of final independence as the UN Security Council ratified the termination of US trusteeship ).

The radio producer Charles Maxwell had contracted Edwards, together with Joy Nichols and Dick Bentley, for the final series in 1947 of the radio show Navy Mixture for which Muir had provided some scripts, and after this show ended Maxwell received a commission for a new weekly comedy series to star Edwards, Nichols and Bentley.

* The final scenes of the 1947 film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple, are set at Daugherty Field.

The final blow came in 1947 when a fire of monumental proportions consumed many of the great estates.

The third and final album in the series, reverting to the title of the first and released in 1947, included " Snow White and Rose Red " and " Cinderella ," once more with full orchestral accompaniment.

The painting was shown in the Surrealists ' final show at the Galérie Maeght in Paris in 1947.

Star Dust's last flight was the final leg of BSAA Flight CS59, which had started in London on an Avro York named Star Mist on 29 July 1947, landing in Buenos Aires on 1 August.

The final four stories appeared much later, being published in widely-spaced intervals between 1947 and 1970.

As an infant, Wood appeared in Driftwood ( 1947 ), but her scene was deleted from the final version of the film.

Piersall led the Leavenworth High School ( Waterbury, Connecticut ) basketball team to the 1947 New England championship, scoring 29 points in the final game.

Hue and Cry ( 1947 ) is generally considered to be the earliest of the cycle, and Barnacle Bill ( 1957 ) the last, although some sources list Davy ( also 1957 ) as the final Ealing Comedy.

Firstly from January 1926 to 1939, then a short marriage beginning in 1939 before his final marriage to actress Althea Parker ( 1911 – 2001 ) on 3 October 1945 ; they had one son Nicolas ( b 1947 ).

New research has revealed that the final Land Rover design was well advanced by early December 1947 leaving the Centre Steer for use in publicity photographs that were used in the first sales brochure, though heavily air brushed to look like the production vehicle.

The club made it to the final of the 1947 championship, and claimed the premiership, beating SU Agen, 10 to 3.