144 commemorates the assassination there of the Huguenot leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572.

The name commemorates the name of Mariano Chaves, a governor of New Mexico when it was part of Mexico.

The name of the bird commemorates Joan Gideon Loten, the Dutch governor to Sri Lanka ( Ceylon ) who commissioned the artist Pieter Cornelis de Bevere to illustrate the natural history of the region from living and collected specimens.

This 1934 monument commemorates the 300th anniversary of Johannes van Walbeeck, the first director of the Dutch East India Company in Curaçao and first governor of the Netherlands Antilles.

Reuvein Margolies suggests that as the Mishnah was redacted after the Bar Kochba revolt, Rabbi Judah could not have included discussion of Hanukkah which commemorates the Jewish revolt against the Syrian-Greeks ( the Romans would not have tolerated this overt nationalism ).

The Jewish feast of Hanukkah (" Dedication ") commemorates the restoration of Jewish worship at the temple in Jerusalem in 165 BCE, after Judah Maccabee removed the Hellenistic statuary.

Historically, the fast commemorates the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia — an event that began on that date and ultimately culminated in the destruction of Solomon's Temple ( the First Temple ) and the conquest of the Kingdom of Judah ( nowadays: southern Israel ).

Its name commemorates the uprisings in East Berlin of 17 June 1953.

Project Gutenberg, the oldest digital library, commemorates Gutenberg's name.

The name of " Elizabeth Gaskell " commemorates the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell who lived in Plymouth Grove nearby.

The name Magnolia campbellii commemorates two people: Pierre Magnol, a French botanist, and Archibald Campbell, a doctor in British India.

Its present name commemorates Henry Bailey, second Warden of St Augustine's College and a good friend of the King's School.

The name commemorates the abbey in France which held the patronage of Tintagel during the Middle Ages ( the commune is now known as Fontevraud-l ' Abbaye ), founded by Robert of Arbrissel.

According to this legend, the town's name Kielce commemorates the mysterious tusks ( kieł in Polish ).

The name of the district comes from the statue of La Défense de Paris which commemorates the Siege of Paris ( 1870-1871 ) | Parisian resistance during the Franco-Prussian War.

The name of the county commemorates Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Marengo over the Austrian armies on June 14, 1800.

The name Coma Berenices or Berenice's hair, applied to a constellation, commemorates this incident.

“ Réunion ” was the name given to the island in 1793 by a decree of the Convention with the fall of the House of Bourbon in France, and the name commemorates the union of revolutionaries from Marseille with the National Guard in Paris, which took place on 10 August 1792.

The specific name commemorates Jeffery Whitehead, the father of John Whitehead.

Its name commemorates two important Transylvanian figures, the Romanian physician Victor Babeş and the Hungarian mathematician János Bolyai.

Whitsun ( also Whitsunday, Whit Sunday or Whit ) is the name used in the UK for the Christian festival of Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ's disciples ( Acts of the Apostles chapter 2 ).

The name commemorates Joseph Sanger Jr., secretary-treasurer of the Railroad Yardmasters Association, who visited California in 1887.

The town name commemorates Sylvester M. Wait, who established a mill there in 1864.

Its scientific name commemorates American ornithologist Robert Ridgway.

The name Osakis is thought to mean place of the Sauk and commemorates a small group of Sauk Indians who lived near the lake in the early 19th century.

The name was adopted by the railway workers ' club for miniature model trains, and by a small museum housed in one of the oldest railroad buildings commemorates the historical event and consequent local industry of national importance.

The genus name commemorates a mountain peak named " Ayesha " due north of the Wapta Glacier.

The settlement's first name, Bergeytown, commemorates the arrival of the first inhabitants, Susanna Bergey and her husband Michael around 1830.

It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 ; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

* Elafonisi ( Chania ), which commemorates a shipwreck and an Ottoman massacre.

A photograph of the 1875 Tufts team which hangs in the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana commemorates this match as the generally accepted first intercollegiate football game between two US institutions.

The modern sports nickname of Golden Tornadoes commemorates the " Golden Tornado " of May 11, 1914 when a major tornado struck the college, most notably taking the gold colored roof from the top of Old Main, which was the origin of the associated color.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate two feast days in honor of Gregory: January 25 as his primary feast and January 30, known as the feast of the Three Great Hierarchs, which commemorates him along with John Chrysoston and Basil of Caesarea.

The feast of the Annunciation ( which commemorates the virginal conception and the Incarnation of Jesus ) is celebrated on 25 March, nine months before Christmas Day.

Sukkot commemorates the years that the Jews spent in the desert on their way to the Promised Land, and celebrates the way in which God protected them under difficult desert conditions.

It commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt.

On the morning of the Passover seder, firstborn sons are commanded to observe the Fast of the Firstborn which commemorates the salvation of the Hebrew firstborns.

No trace of them remains today, but this likely commemorates the Cornish foundation myth, being the point, Lam Goemagot-the Giant's Leap-from which the Giant was cast into the sea by the hero Corin.

Her memorial, which commemorates her martyrdom, is 21 January in both the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and in the General Roman Calendar of 1962.

The 1962 calendar includes a second feast on 28 January, which commemorates her birthday.

In this painting, which commemorates France's Revolution of 1830, a half-clothed Liberty leads an armed mob over the bodies of the fallen.

This ceremony commemorates the willow ceremony at the Temple in Jerusalem, in which willow branches were piled beside the altar with worshipers parading around the altar reciting prayers.

This commemorates the Water Libation Ceremony in which water was carried up the Jerusalem pilgrim road from the Pool of Siloam to the Temple in Jerusalem.

King Stephen died on the feast day which commemorates the bodily assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Feast of the Assumption on 15 August, in the year 1038, at Esztergom-Szentkirály or Székesfehérvár, where he was buried.

X: The Unheard Music was released on DVD in 2005, as was the concert DVD X-Live in Los Angeles, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the band's landmark debut album, Los Angeles.

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean Lennon to create the song " Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue ", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city.

This day commemorates the Mexican Revolution which started on November 20, 1910 when Francisco I. Madero planned an uprising against dictator Porfirio Díaz's 31-year-long iron rule.

The First Sunday of Great Lent is the Feast of Orthodoxy, which commemorates the restoration of the veneration of icons after the Iconoclast controversy, which is considered to be the triumph of the Church over the last of the great heresies which troubled her ( all later heresies being simply a rehashing of earlier ones ).

Holy Saturday commemorates the day during which Christ lay in the tomb.