Following its construction, the Arc de Triomphe became the rallying point of French troops parading after successful military campaigns and for the annual Bastille Day Military Parade.

Earnhardt also became the first repeat winner of the annual all-star race, The Winston.

Fantasy Football Index became the first annual fantasy football guide in 1987.

That same year, he became the first non-American to receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center ’ s annual award for cinematic achievement.

Organized by an early GLF leader Brenda Howard, the Stonewall riots were commemorated by annual marches that became known as Gay pride parades.

The game became so popular that the first " world championship " of ice hockey was featured in Montreal's annual Winter Carnival in 1883 and the McGill team captured the " Carnival Cup.

In November 1781, Hanson became the first President of the Continental Congress to be elected for an annual term as specified in the Articles of Confederation, although Samuel Huntington and Thomas McKean had served in that office after the ratification of the Articles.

By 2008, worldwide sales of televisions with LCD screens exceeded annual sales of CRT units ; the CRT became obsolete for most purposes.

In the United States, the New York parade became an annual event that year, and in 1894 was adopted by American president Grover Cleveland to compete with International Workers ' Day ( May Day ).

Amidst the martial arts craze in the United States in the 1970s, the book became very popular, surviving until issue # 125 ( June 1983 ), a run including four giant-size issues and a king-size annual.

Starting in 1996 the Padres became the first national sports team to have an annual military appreciation event.

From 1981-1995, the economy grew at an annual rate of 7. 52 %, and the service sector became the largest sector at 51. 67 %, surpassing the industrial sector and becoming a major source of the economy's growth.

Iceland became Europe's first modern republic, with an annual assembly of elected officials called the Althing, though only goði ( wealthy landowners ) had the right to vote there.

The conference became the first in what would become the museum's annual American Music Masters Series conference.

Grace accepted the offer and became the club's secretary, manager and captain with an annual salary of £ 600.

Camp Shriver became an annual event, and the Kennedy Foundation ( of which Shriver was executive vice president ) gave grants to universities, recreation departments and community centers to hold similar camps.

He quickly became a top employee, one year filling his annual sales quota in two weeks, and tried to pitch his ideas to supervisors who largely ignored him.

But it is certain that though Paul II opposed the humanists, he was the best in providing for popular amusements: in 1466 he permitted the horse-race that was a feature of Carnival to be run along the main street, the Via Lata, which now became known from this annual event as the Via del Corso.

Named after Joseph Sweetman Ames and founded on December 20, 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) laboratory, ARC became part of NASA in 1958 as part of the turnover from the dissolution of NACA, having now ( at the last estimate ) over $ 3. 0 billion in capital equipment, 2, 300 research personnel and a $ 600 million annual budget.

Holst became an occasional organist and choir master at Thaxted Parish Church and began an annual music festival at Whitsuntide in 1916, at which students from Morley College and St Paul's School performed.

They became dependent upon annual federal payments guaranteed by treaty.

* Carl Ferdinand von Arlt ( 1812 – 1887 ), the elder ( Austrian ) proved that myopia is largely due to an excessive axial length, published influential textbooks on eye disease, and ran annual eye clinics in needy areas long before the concept of volunteer eye camps became popular.

Howard also originated the idea for a week-long series of events around Pride Day which became the genesis of the annual LGBT Pride celebrations that are now held around the world every June.

The first " Esso Opera in the Park " in the Sydney Domain quickly became an annual event, and it is now called " Opera in the Domain ".

He became the representative man of the university, and his speeches at the annual commencements were eagerly awaited.

Hercule Poirot became famous with the publication, in 1926, of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, whose surprising solution proved controversial.

In 1709 he became professor of botany and medicine, and in that capacity he did good service, not only to his own university, but also to botanical science, by his improvements and additions to the botanic garden of Leiden, and by the publication of numerous works descriptive of new species of plants.

The concept of the decisive battle became popular with the publication in 1851 of Edward Creasy's The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World.

In the intervening years, the social world of music had seen dramatic changes: international publication and touring had grown explosively, concert societies were beginning to be formed, notation had been made more specific, more descriptive, and schematics for works had been simplified ( yet became more varied in their exact working out ).

State archives became more accessible, and some social statistics that had been kept secret became open for research and publication on sensitive subjects such as income disparities, crime, suicide, abortion, and infant mortality.

However, this sort of story became much more popular after the coining of the phrase " serial killer " in the 1970s and the publication of The Silence of the Lambs in 1988.

Especially noteworthy is Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ( 1730 ), which " became, very soon after its publication, the focal center of the deist controversy.

A third journal became part of the conversation with the publication in 1884 of The Christian Oracle, later to become The Christian Century, with an interdenominational appeal.

The possibility of linking humans with earlier apes by descent only became clear after 1859 with the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

The National Geographic Society was founded in the USA in 1888 and began publication of the National Geographic magazine which became and continues to be a great populariser of geographic information.

The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried ( Hungary 1804 – 1886 ), based on the very strict Hungarian customs of the 19th century, became immensely popular after its publication due to its simplicity.

The e-journal soon became the central point for publication and debate within the nascent memeticist community.

From this publication, she cut out or toned down what she saw as the more unpleasant aspects of the Witch-Cult, such as animal and child sacrifice, and her use of language became " emotionally inflated and coloured with religious phraseology.

In 1967 Baba personally supervised the editing and publication of a new three-volume version of the Discourses, which became known as the sixth edition.

After the publication of this article, the Orange Alternative became of interest to a number of Polish and foreign media.

He became well known throughout Vienna after the publication of a book of his fragmentary observations of women and children in everyday street activities.

Educated as a mathematician, he became, through his coauthorship and 1913 publication of Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell, a major logician.

The ragtime composer Scott Joplin became famous through the publication in 1899 of the " Maple Leaf Rag " and a string of ragtime hits that followed, although he was later forgotten by all but a small, dedicated community of ragtime aficionados until the major ragtime revival in the early 1970s.

Brian Aldiss, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Norman Spinrad, Roger Zelazny are writers whose work, though not considered New Wave at the time of publication, later became to be interpreted under the label.

In 1861 he became the editor and proprietor of the Dublin University Magazine and he began to take advantage of double publication, first serializing in the Dublin University Magazine, then revising for the English market.

Its use became popularized after publication of the anthology, Sex Work: Writings By Women In The Sex Industry in 1987.

After his first publication in La Revue Blanche in 1891, he became increasingly a writer and adopted the pseudonym Tristan.

After the publication of the improved method of flame spectroscopy by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff and the discovery of caesium and rubidium in the years 1859 to 1860, flame spectroscopy became an approved method to determine the composition of minerals and chemical products.

Sometime after the publication of the Eclogues ( probably before 37 BC ), Virgil became part of the circle of Maecenas, Octavian's capable agent d ' affaires who sought to counter sympathy for Antony among the leading families by rallying Roman literary figures to Octavian's side.