-- Fifteen members of the Republican State Committee who are retiring -- voluntarily -- this year were honored yesterday by their colleagues.

Some suggested Schwarzlose's unexpected voter turnout foreshadowed Clinton's defeat in the general election that year by Republican challenger Frank D. White.

Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 in August of that year, which passed Congress without a Republican vote.

The Republican calendar year began at the Southward equinox and had twelve months of 30 days each, which were given new names based on nature, principally having to do with the prevailing weather in and around Paris.

1932 was not a good year for Republican candidates like LaGuardia, and the 20th Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population to a Puerto Rican population.

At the end of the year, concerned by Francisco Franco's Falangist uprising, ( supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.

With a split in the state Republican party, 1882 looked to be a Democratic year, and there were several contenders for that party's nomination.

Hoover briefly considered becoming a Democrat, but he believed that 1920 would be a Republican year.

Usually five epagomenal days are included within every year ( Egyptian, Coptic, Ethiopian and French Republican calendars ), but a sixth epagomenal day is intercalated every four years in some ( Coptic, Ethiopian and French Republican calendars ).

* 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

The title track was a big hit and was used for Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney's theme song for his campaign in 2011 and 2012. It reached platinum a year after its release.

One year after the United States invasion of the island, Dr. José Celso Barbosa embraced the idea of annexation as a U. S. state as a solution to the colonial situation and founded the Republican Party in 1899.

* 1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.

In that year Kansas, a Republican state, voted down two separate referenda granting suffrage to blacks and women, respectively.

In 1881, one year out of Harvard, he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he became a leader of the reform faction of his Republican party ( the " GOP ").

On February 8 of that year, another Republican, Senator Charles Sumner ( Radical Republican, Massachusetts ), submitted a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery as well as guarantee equality.

By 1910, 31 state legislatures had passed resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment allowing direct election, and in the same year ten Republican senators who were opposed to reform were forced out of their seats, acting as a " wake-up call to the Senate ".

The candidate running against Democrat James Traficant, a conservative Democrat with no Republican opposition that year, received 9 %.

* November 4 – United States presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter, exactly 1 year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.

A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican, after campaigning for the party's antislavery platform in Ohio.

In 1880, the Ohio legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate ; in that same year, the leading Republican presidential contenders – Ulysses S. Grant, James G. Blaine and John Sherman – failed to garner the requisite support at their convention.

As the year 1932 began, the Republican Party believed Hoover's protectionism and aggressive fiscal policies would solve the depression ; in any case, President Herbert Hoover controlled the party.

Dewey also played a major role that year in convincing Eisenhower to keep Nixon as his running mate ; Eisenhower had considered dropping Nixon from the Republican ticket and picking someone he felt would be less partisan and controversial.

In her sophomore year she had started going steady with Bobby Joe, who was a football player, Future Homemakers sweetheart, and president of Future Farmers.

Bobby Joe would be a senior this year, and he planned to graduate.

Joe Cronin was also elected that year.

Joe Niekro had a great year with 21 wins and 3. 00 ERA.

The same year, Rock landed his first acting role in the David Spade white trash comedy Joe Dirt.

That year, Joe Mauer became only the second catcher in 33 years to win the AL MVP award.

Among the pub rock bands that formed that year was The 101 ' ers, whose lead singer would soon adopt the name Joe Strummer.

Tose's first official act was to fire Coach Joe Kuharich after a disappointing 24 – 41 – 1 record during his five year reign.

In that season he was a member of what was referred to as the " Baby Bombers ", a group of young players ( most notably including Hird, Mark Mercuri, Gavin Wanganeen, Dustin Fletcher, Ricky Olarenshaw, David Calthorpe, Paul Hills and Joe Misiti ) that played a key role in the side winning the premiership that year.

The family moved to San Francisco, California, when Joe was a year old.

The following year she again performed with Joe Pass on German television station NDR in Hamburg.

( 1969 was also the year that Jack Buck divorced his first wife Alyce Larson-who he had married in 1948 and had six children with-and married his second wife, Carole Lintzenich, who gave birth to their son Joe Buck in the same year ).

Joe DiMaggio, in the last year of his career, was playing center field.

She does, however, confess to the murder of her husband, Joe St. George, almost 30 years before, after finding out that he sexually molested their fourteen year old daughter, Selena.

He was involved in the final play of the World Series that year, as he and Paul Molitor scored on Joe Carter's Series-ending home run.

Later that year, Warner Music Australia bought out the ailing Festival-Mushroom Records for only $ 12 million and closed the label down but retaining the use of the Mushroom label for a couple of acts like Eskimo Joe and Gabriella Cilmi ( who subsequently got signed to Island Records in the UK, one of the first Australian acts to do so ).

As a free agent during the summer of 1997, Joe Sakic signed a three year, $ 21 million offer sheet with the New York Rangers.

He denied matches to black heavyweights Joe Jeanette ( one of his successors as colored heavyweight champ ), Sam Langford ( who beat Jeanette for the coloured title ), and the young Harry Wills ( who was coloured heavyweight champ during the last year of Johnson's reign as world's heavyweight champ ).

Joe Nieuwendyk won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs that year.

That year he contacted Joe Simon and expressed a desire to re-enter the comic book industry and sought Simon's aid in creating a suitable character.

That same year, Joe Cocker recorded " Just Like Always " on his album Sheffield Steel, and The Everly Brothers recorded " She Never Smiles Anymore " on their album Living Legends.

In 1966, the same year as Joe Cuba's pop success, the Palladium closed because it lost its liquor license.

It is the U. S. state capital whose namesake was most recently alive: Joe Juneau died in 1899, a year after Otto von Bismarck ( North Dakota ).