* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

The US first obtained U-2 photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province, in western Cuba.

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

Major construction projects, such as the dockyard in the late 1890s and early 20th century brought large numbers of workers from Great Britain.

Major projects by the Port Authority include the One World Trade Center and other construction at the World Trade Center site.

Major renovation and construction followed in the 1990s at a cost of US $ 200 million.

Major efforts to re-open the rail network were started, and by the end of August, 18, 000 men, including 5, 000 prisoners of war, were engaged in railway construction.

Major Cement manufacturers like ' Tororo Cement Ltd ' caters to the need of building and construction material consumers across East Africa.

Three weeks later, he became special assistant for construction to the Quartermaster General, Major General Edmund B. Gregory.

Major employment in Barbour County is provided by health care and social service sectors, retail, education, accommodation and food services, logging and wood product manufacturing, trucking and construction.

After Major Gray died, the building was deemed in a state of ruin due to improper construction methods and torn down to erect a new courthouse.

Between 1835 and late 1839, Terre Haute served as the headquarters for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers under Major Cornelius A. Ogden during the construction of the National Road.

Dodger Stadium was the first Major League Baseball stadium since the initial construction of the original Yankee Stadium to be built using 100 % private financing, and the last until AT & T Park opened in 2000.

Russellville is named after Major William Russell, an early settler in the area who helped in the construction of Jackson's Military Road.

Major corporations in the city include the Nooter Corporation — makers of industrial equipment, UniGroup — owners of United and Mayflower van and truck lines, Wolff Shoe, and the Fabick Company — a large Caterpillar construction equipment dealer.

Major industries in the area are that of excavation, construction, and oil and water well drilling.

Major construction occurred from the 1880s through 1900.

Major Packs, which were larger-scale models, often of construction vehicles, were added in 1957.

Major re-development in Hereford town centre has resulted in the construction of a new canal bed which will eventually link to a new basin, to form the centrepiece of the Edgar Street Grid development.

Major campus development continues, including the construction of further Arts facilities which are due to begin in 2013.

Major construction work in the Precinct of Amun-Re took place during the Eighteenth dynasty when Thebes became the capital of the unified Ancient Egypt.

Major construction took place during the Victorian era, when houses were constructed to serve the nearby quarry.

Major Hartman Bache, a distinguished engineer of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, began work in 1848 and completed the task in 1850, at a construction cost of $ 53, 317.

In the Major Leagues, the most recent example of a swing at an intentional ball resulting in a hit occurred during a June 22, 2006 game between the Florida Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles.

* In Major, the protagonist's father, Shigeharu Honda, is hit in the head by a pitch during a major league match.

Major General Robert Ford, then Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, ordered that 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 1 PARA ) should travel to Derry to be used to arrest possible rioters during the march.

Major Croatian advances in foreign relations during this period have included:

From a Memorandum of 20 October 1963 by Major Raúl Castro, it can be seen that great importance was attached to the decent behaviour of the troops, with strict instructions being given on their proper conduct during foreign interventions.

Barred from Major League Baseball during his prime, Veeck's signing of the aging star in 1948 was viewed by many as another publicity stunt.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

The game's innovation was that " owners " in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics during the ongoing season to compile their scores.

Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike ; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league.

Major films of this type during the 1940s included Bicycle Thieves, Rome, Open City, and La Terra Trema.

Major air combat during the war in the Pacific began with the entry of the Western Allies following Japan's attack against Pearl Harbor.

* 1865 – Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.

Editing film as Major during World War II

He was one of the Spanish soldiers involved in the Siege of Baler together with Major Rafael Alonso Mederos, who died of beri-beri during the siege.

Most of those works on RN1 and RN2 who were already stopped suffer a Major setback during the earthquake of January 12, 2010.

During this interregnum, the heads of the dicasteries of the Roman Curia ( such as the prefects of congregations ) cease immediately to hold office, the only exceptions being the Major Penitentiary, who continues his important role regarding absolutions and dispensations, and the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, who administers the temporalities ( i. e., properties and finances ) of the See of St. Peter during this period.

Major was Prime Minister during the first Gulf War of 1991, and played a key role in persuading US President George H. W. Bush to support no-fly zones.

The Tories had slipped behind Labour in the opinion polls during 1989 and the gap widened during 1990, but within two months of Major taking over as prime minister the Tories had returned to the top of the opinion polls, briefly enjoying a comfortable lead after the Gulf War.

Major with Lieutenant General Michael Walker at the Ilidza Compound in Sarajevo, Bosnia, during Operation Joint Endeavor

His great grandfather, Major Alexander Stuart, commanded a regiment at the Battle of Guilford Court House during the American Revolutionary War.