On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912 and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use.

Signing Robinson opened the door to the integration of Major League Baseball finally putting an end to the professional discrimination that had characterized the sport since the 19th century.

* The most prestigious London revival was directed by John Burrell for The Old Vic Company at the New Theatre, which opened on 5 September 1944, starring Ralph Richardson ( Bluntschli ), Margaret Leighton ( Raina Petkoff ), Joyce Redman ( Louka ), and Laurence Olivier ( Major Sergius Saranoff ).

On August 15, 1944, airborne units of the 6th Army Group provisional airborne division, commanded by US Major General Robert T. Frederick, opened Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France, with a dawn assault.

Major horse racetracks in the U. S. were opened

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.

Originally named Valdosta Airfield when it opened on 15 September 1941, the airfield was renamed Moody Army Airfield on 6 December 1941 in honor of Major George Putnam Moody ( 13 March 1908-5 May 1941 ), an early Air Force pioneer.

The Merchants and Planters Bank opened in 1882, with Major R. W. Millsaps as president and I. N. Ellis as first cashier.

The building was opened by John Major, then Prime Minister, on 10 August 1993.

" Major transportation developments for the Township did not occur until the mid-1890s, when trolley service was opened to Newtown Square.

When a flag project opened in 2009 in the Moberly cemetery, General Bradley and his first son-in-law and West Point graduate, the late Major Henry Shaw Bukema, were memorialized with flags in their honor from grateful citizens.

On May 15, 1999 the Crew opened Columbus Crew Stadium, the first stadium built specifically for soccer in Major League Soccer, as the Crew beat the New England Revolution 2-0 before a sold-out crowd of 24, 741.

It opened with " Strike Up The Band " by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, followed by 5 – 10 minutes of 25-word POW messages read by Major Cousens.

The new airport opened ( with Terminal 1 ) on February 26, 1979, as part of the Ten Major Construction Projects pursued by the government in the 1970s.

Minute Maid Park ( also The Ballpark at Union Station, Enron Field, and Astros Field ) is a ballpark in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States that opened in 2000 to house the Major League Baseball Houston Astros.

Major renovations were made to Ewood Park: in 1905 the Darwen End was covered at a cost of £ 1680 and the new Nuttall Stand was opened on New Year's Day 1907.

One Major Mitchell's Cockatoo that has become quite famous is " Cookie ," a beloved resident of Illinois ' Brookfield Zoo near Chicago since it opened in 1934.

The previous scoreboard utilized light bulbs-still a popular scoreboard technology around the time the park opened, though they were quickly aging as LED displays became available and were installed around other Major League ballparks.

When it opened on March 31, 2000, the ballpark was the first Major League ballpark built without public funds since the completion of Dodger Stadium in 1962.

Major industries and state-owned corporations were opened to private sector and the doors of investment opportunities were opened to individuals of the private corporations.

Bret Saberhagen at one time opened and operated a sports entertainment facility featuring Major League-caliber indoor batting cages, pitching mounds, bowling, laser tag, and arcade games.

Having secured the radar equipment and under heavy enemy fire, Major Frost gave the order for the three detachments to withdraw to the evacuation beach ; it quickly became apparent, however, that the beach had not been secured by ' Nelson ' when a machine-gun opened fire on the airborne troops, severely wounding a Company Sergeant Major.

Prior to and during the 1994 Major League Baseball strike, Tom Glavine was heavily involved in negotiations between the union and team owners and was frequently interviewed and quoted in the press about the talks.

He was in talks to play the role of the Regimental Sergeant Major in Euan Lloyd's The Wild Geese before his death.

Major problems in the Franco-American talks were the issue of how the French were to pay for the American planes and the implications of American neutrality acts.

* Major Barry, retired officer talks endlessly about India

* British Prime Minister John Major visited then-President George H. W. Bush during Soviet talks in 1991

* Major Patrick Michaelis talks to PBS

In 1946, Rao was one of the CPC delegates to work with delegates of Kuomintang and U. S. on peace talks, with rank of Lieutenant General, many of his counterparts who got rank of Colonel General and General after they defeated Kuomintang in 1949 only got rank of Major General at that time, which could indicated Rao's appeal and importance to Mao Zedong.

Thawee returned to Calcutta to pick up OSS Major Nicol Smith and Lloyd George, a civilian reports officer, and to bring them to Bangkok for direct talks with Pridi.

It was reported by BBC Sport on 12 September 2008 that Kerr was in signing talks with Major League Soccer club Toronto FC.

He talks about the pain he went through pitching in the Major Leagues.

Just as I straightened up with my duffel bag, I heard: `` Sahjunt Yoorick, meet Mrs. Major J. A. Roebuck ''.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

Randy Johnson was awarded with his fourth consecutive Cy Young Award as well the Major League Baseball Triple Crown.

After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.

From then on, though of course with some exceptions, Christian art represented angels with wings, as in the cycle of mosaics in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ( 432-440 ).

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

By contrast, Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1987 ) portrays a wealthy, white protagonist, Sherman McCoy, getting lost off the Major Deegan Expressway in the South Bronx and having an altercation with locals.

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.

In 1887, Hugh Nicol set a still-standing Major League record with 138 stolen bases, many of which would not have counted under modern rules.

In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball ( MLB ) teams are divided into the National League ( NL ) and American League ( AL ), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central.

The factors cited are: smaller sized ballparks than in the past, " juiced baseballs " implying that the balls are wound tighter thus travel further following contact with the bat, " watered down pitching " implying that lesser quality pitchers are up in the Major Leagues due to too many teams.

Before the 1910 season, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highest batting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season.

In 1957, the term was first defined as someone with fewer than 75 at bats or 45 innings pitched in any previous Major League season.

* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.

* List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 RBI

* List of Major League Baseball players with 2, 000 hits

* List of Major League Baseball players with 1, 000 runs

* List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles

In September 2002 it was revealed that, prior to his promotion to the cabinet, Major had himself had a long-standing extramarital affair with a fellow MP, Edwina Currie.

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Major roles of clinical engineers include training and supervising biomedical equipment technicians ( BMETs ), selecting technological products / services and logistically managing their implementation, working with governmental regulators on inspections / audits, and serving as technological consultants for other hospital staff ( e. g. physicians, administrators, I. T., etc .).

However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.