" In an August 24, 1978, Rolling Stone interview, Bruce Springsteen told Dave Marsh, " I play Buddy Holly every night before I go on ; that keeps me honest.

The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts: While in the 1970s and 1980s many news servers only operated during night time to save on the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone cabal were available 24 hours a day.

Shoemaker – Levy 9, at the time captured by and orbiting Jupiter, was located on the night of March 24, 1993, in a photograph taken with the Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.

While conducting a program of observations designed to uncover near-Earth objects, the Shoemakers and Levy discovered Comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 on the night of March 24, 1993 in a photograph taken with the Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.

Many stores are in operation 24 hours a day with restocking and maintenance being carried out throughout the night.

During the night between 5 and 6 January, at Jerusalem, the Haganah bombed the Semiramis Hotel that had been reported to hide Arab militiamen, killing 24 people.

The Underground does not run 24 hours a day ( except at New Year and major public events – such as the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002 and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the London Olympics in 2012 ) because most lines have only two tracks ( one in each direction ) and therefore need to close at night for cleaning and planned maintenance work.

No work may be done from dusk until dusk, and the services run for 11 hours, although a large number spend 24 hours within the gates of the temples, sleeping and singing praises throughout the night.

Captain's outfits sometimes match a theme the team is promoting ; on Apr 24, 2010, he was dressed up like Elvis as part of an Elvis Presley themed night.

Some observers allege that most of these spoils were lost when a convoy of British ships led by HMS Fantome sank en route to Halifax off Prospect during a storm on the night of November 24, 1814, even though Fantome had no inolvement in that action.

* July 24 – WWII: Operation Gomorrha begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night ; the American planes bomb the city by day.

* September 24 – Earl Bascom and his brother Weldon Bascom produce the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.

* In the middle of the night on November 24 a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe.

In 1629, a moment's carelessness by two workmen caused much of the castle to go up in flames in the night between the 24 and 25 September.

On the night of 24 November, Dubček appeared with Václav Havel on a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, he was greeted with uproarious applause from the throngs of protesters below, embraced as a symbol of democratic freedom.

They migrate vertically from day to night, so the community structure changes on a 24 h cycle ; during the day many organisms take refuge at water depths in excess of 100 m. They range from the tropics to the poles.

At night the stars appear to drift overhead from east to west, completing a full circuit around the sky in 24 ( sidereal ) hours.

The sun shines 24 hours in the summer, and barely ever shines at all in the winter ( see midnight sun and polar night ).

The series aired at night once a week in black-and-white on the CBS Television Network from September 24, 1964 to May 12, 1966, for 70 episodes.

He noted that he was sleeping an extra 15 minutes each night and correctly calculated the date of his death on the day when the additional sleep time accumulated to 24 hours, November 27, 1754.

During the night he was bled another 24 ounces ( 680 ml ).

Stanley Lord ( 13 September 1877 – 24 January 1962 ) was captain of the SS Californian, a ship that was in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic the night it sank on 15 April 1912.

Michael invested Basiliskian with the Imperial title and this induced Basil to pre-empt events by organizing the assassination of Michael on the night of September 23 / 24, 867.

Two passers-by noticed the ruckus that Saturday afternoon and local rancher Jack Flagg rode to Buffalo ( the county seat of Johnson County ) where the sheriff raised a posse of 200 men over the next 24 hours and the party set out for the KC on Sunday night, April 10.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

Also on 5 August, Eugene reached Höchstädt, riding that same night to meet with Marlborough at Schrobenhausen.

Under Sir William Balfour, they broke through the Royalist lines on the night of 31 August, eventually reaching Plymouth 30 miles to the east.

For example, Ecuador has closed its main border crossing with Colombia every night since August 2002, when evidence emerged that Colombian guerrillas and paramilitaries were asserting control over Ecuador's border communities.

On the night of 10 August 1792, insurgents and popular militias, supported by the revolutionary Paris Commune, assailed the Tuileries Palace and massacred the Swiss Guards who were assigned for the protection of the king.

* 1704 night of 3 – 4 August – Heavy shelling targeted the castle and the town.

On the night of the 10 August, the Jacobins, who had mainly opposed the war, suspended the monarchy.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, he and Ribbentrop almost came to blows.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, Ribbentrop had an extremely heated exchange with the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who objected to Ribbentrop's demand, given at about midnight, that if a Polish plenipotentiary did not arrive in Berlin that night to discuss the German " final offer ", then the responsibility for the outbreak of war would not rest on the Reich.

After I had made experiments many nights, one night, the twenty-third of August 1499, there was a conjunction of the moon with Mars, which according to the almanac was to occur at midnight or a half hour before.

In August 1933 a motorcyclist named Arthur Grant claimed to have nearly hit the creature while approaching Abriachan on the north-eastern shore, at about 1 a. m. on a moonlit night.

In August 1979, after two warm-up shows in Copenhagen, Led Zeppelin headlined two concerts at the Knebworth Music Festival, playing to a crowd of approximately 104, 000 on the first night.

That night, Stalin replied that the Soviets were willing to sign the pact, and that he would receive Ribbentrop on 23 August.

The first graffiti was painted by Major Waldemar Fydrych and Wiesław Cupała on the night from the 30 to 31 August 1982 on one of the residences in the Wrocław district of Biscupin and Sępolno.

On the night of 20 – 21 August 1968, Eastern Bloc armies from four Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary — invaded the ČSSR.

As the opening attack of the British Operation Crossbow, the Operation Hydra air-raid attacked the HVP's " Sleeping & Living Quarters " ( to specifically target scientists ), then the " Factory Workshops ", and finally the " Experimental Station " on the night of August 17 / 18, 1943.

In August 2011 they headlined the first night of The Rhythm Festival in Bedfordshire.

On 28 August 1789, his first night of observation using this instrument, he discovered a new moon of Saturn.

** Sentences totalling 307 years are passed on 12 men who stole £ 2. 6m in used bank notes, after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.

* August 14 night – In London, instruments detect a massive burst of cosmic rays.

Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists are caught up in the police action that takes place during the night of August 6 and into the early morning of August 7.

Late on the night of August 15, Stark was awakened by the arrival of Parson Thomas Allen and a band of Massachusetts militiamen from nearby Berkshire County who insisted on joining his force.