During the narco-terror war waged by Pablo Escobar on the Colombian government, it is believed a hired assassin attempted to kill Herrera while he was attending a sports event.

It has been argued that drug lords, such as Pablo Escobar, may have masterminded the operation in order to get rid of several criminal investigations recorded in the documents lost during the event.

In the 1987 season, Earnhardt earned his nickname " The Intimidator " after spinning out Elliott in the final segment of " The Winston ", a non-points event now known as the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

The event has earned its name as the Mardi Gras of the Mountains.

The event earned Christian II the nickname of Kristian Tyrann in Sweden which he has retained till this day.

During every Washington Nationals home game at Nationals Park, the Theodore Roosevelt mascot ( a. k. a. Teddy ) earned a reputation of not being able to win the Presidents Race, a promotional event held in the middle of the fourth inning, due to various incidents.

138, 950 people attended and the event earned a profit.

Mawer and Stenton, who published their book on the Place Names of Buckinghamshire in 1925, thought that belle could have meant a hill as well as a bell and suggested that the conspicuous hill at Kimble would have impressed itself on the minds of the first settlers and might have been called ' royal ' as the largest visible hill in the locality or that it earned the epithet by reason of some royal burial or other unknown event.

He finally earned his PGA Tour card in 1982 and won his first event on the tour at that year's Quad Cities Open.

Reyes dominated the event and beat Niels Feijen in the finals 15-7 and earned the ¥ 20M ($ 170K ) first prize.

Districts that can normally qualify at least one entrant in each event, and have either earned 900 or more new members and degrees over the school year or increase their members and degrees by 20 % or more over the previous school year is eligible to send 2 entries in each event to the national tournament.

After going through 1971 undefeated, including winning the 110m hurdles event at the 1971 Pan-American Games, the Opelousas, Louisiana athlete earned the nickname " Hot Rod ", and was awarded the Track and Field News Athlete of the Year Award.

* At the 2005 National Science Bowl, the Wootton Science Bowl team earned 5th place out of 63 schools nationwide, all of which had won their respective regional event.

In each event, the contenders earned points based on their performance.

He earned just under £ 1 million in prize money, reached a high ranking of eight, and was ranked within the top 16 for many years despite never winning a ranking event.

The event became known as the Lennoxville massacre, and its extreme nature earned the Quebec chapter of the Hells Angels a notorious reputation.

OFS is very good for repairing the filesystem in the event of a problem, although the so called DiskDoctor provided by Commodore quickly earned the name DiskDestroyer, because it could not repair No-DOS type autostart disks provided by third-party software manufacturers as bootable disks for games.

For a Marine Corps Marksmanship Qualification Badge to be earned, a Marine must obtain a passing score at an annual weapons qualification event.

The badge hangs from an elaborate attachment bar which bears the name of the event where the badge was earned.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation was established by ERISA to provide coverage in the event that a terminated defined benefit pension plan does not have sufficient assets to provide the benefits earned by participants.

At the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, he earned the silver medal in the 400 m Men's Hurdles, behind Edwin Moses, who set the World Record and effectively opened a new chapter in the event in that race.

Reportage of the event later earned the Star and its associated publication the Kansas City Times a Pulitzer Prize for local news reporting in 1982.

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of eighth in the K-4 500 m event at Athens in 2004.

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of eighth in the K-4 500 m event at Athens in 2004.

Competing in three Summer Olympics, Buday earned his best finish of seventh in the C-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.

If, as a home movie maker, you shoot the inevitable footage of your child taking its first steps, you have merely recorded an historical event.

for, in either event, the first possibility is excluded.

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

Press coverage of the event first aroused significant American interest in the automobile.

The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event

Gassmann's first act was to take Salieri to the Italian Church to consecrate his teaching and service to God, an event that left a deep impression on Salieri for the rest of his life.

Alexander was also one of the first scholastics to participate in the Quodlibetal, a university event in which a master had to respond to any question posed by any student or master over a period of three days.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

After this event many Jews emigrated, in two waves ; some fled to the Muslim lands of the Ottoman Empire, but many also went to Christian Europe, first to northern Italy, then to the Netherlands, and later to England.

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

As the official show of the Confederation of Passenger Transport, the UK ’ s trade association for the bus, coach and light rail industry, the three day event offers visitors from Europe and beyond the chance to see and experience, at first hand, the very latest vehicles and product and service innovations right across the industry.

The theme of descendants marks the first event in Numbers, the census of Israel's fighting men: the huge number which results ( over 600, 000 ) demonstrates the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham of innumerable descendants, as well as serving as God's guarantee of victory in Canaan.

As acting commissioner, Selig represented MLB during the 1994 players strike and cancelled the World Series, marking the first time the annual event had not been staged since 1904.

The idea of organizing a ' marathon race ' came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens.

This event was first held in 1958.

Saint Paul viewed the Nativity of Jesus as an event of cosmic significance which by the Incarnation of Christ brought forth a new world of harmony to undo the damage caused by the fall of the first man, Adam.

The publication of the first six volumes of the Collected Papers ( 1931 – 35 ), the most important event to date in Peirce studies and one that Cohen made possible by raising the needed funds, did not prompt an outpouring of secondary studies.

It might be argued, however, that the Big Bang is not an acceptable first cause as the event clearly began and is quite finite.

The ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2007 was the first international cricket event to have cheerleaders.

The first event in West Saxon history, the date of which can be regarded as reasonably certain, is the baptism of Cynegils, which occurred in the late 630s, perhaps as late as 640.

The first One-Day International event was played on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971, to fill the time available and as compensation for the frustrated crowd.

The South African cricket team participated in the event for the first time, following the fall of the apartheid regime and the end of the international sports boycott.