* 1891 – Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.

" This led to a fine and a public exchange of insults with Major League Baseball executive Sandy Alderson who accused Schilling of whining and wanting balls to be called strikes.

Major actions in which the fleet was involved included Operation Meridian, air strikes in January 1945 against oil production at Palembang, Sumatra.

When Captain Atom and his squad pursue them to Japan, Power Girl strikes at the Major.

Major gold strikes on the Jordan River encouraged other prospectors to follow the nearby Thomson River in their search for the valuable metal.

Starting his strafing run from low altitude, Major Harris scored numerous strikes on one of the enemy aircraft.

In 1901 Cleveland renamed itself the " Bluebirds " when the American League broke with the National Agreement and declared itself a competing Major League.

In, Cleveland broke another color barrier with the hiring of Frank Robinson as Major League Baseball's first African American manager.

Its fortunes have risen since the Red Sox ' 1967 " Impossible Dream " season, and on September 8, 2008 with a game versus the Tampa Bay Rays, Fenway Park broke the all-time Major League record with its 456th consecutive sellout, surpassing the previous record held by Jacobs Field ( now Progressive Field ) in Cleveland, Ohio.

Major protests and demonstrations against the constitutional amendment broke out, with large support gaining for the opposition leader Kim Dae-jung, but Park was again re-elected in the 1971 presidential election.

Williams was referring to two of the most famous names in the Negro Leagues, who were not given the opportunity to play in the Major Leagues before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947.

His cavalry captured a Union artillery battery and then he broke out of a Union Army siege headed by Major General Ulysses S. Grant.

Major urban fires broke out in the city in the following days, destroying what little remained of historical significance.

In a move that broke from his father's domineering industrial and economic policies, Ching-kuo launched the " Fourteen Major Construction Projects ", the " Ten Major Construction Projects " and the " Twelve New Development Projects " which contributed to the " Taiwan Miracle.

When the winter finally broke the residents were able to harvest tremendous amounts of shad in Black Hole Creek and in the West Branch Susquehanna River with a seine that was delivered to them by the father-in-law of Major Ten Brook, Mr. Emmons.

" Lamont's view expressed in his memoirs was more nuanced: without the discipline of the ERM, the Major government would have given up on the fight against inflation before Black Wednesday ; ERM membership delivered a sharp break in Britain's inflation performance ; the judgment of the markets that the higher rates needed to maintain Britain's membership was undoubtedly correct ; " the ERM was a tool that broke in my hands when it had accomplished all that it could usefully do.

From April 1914 he was placed aboard armored cruiser HNLMS Noord Brabant and, just before the first World War broke out, with that ship he was part of a mission to Albania to recover the mortal remains of Major Louis Thomson, who was killed in action there.

Although he would not win another batting title after 1988 ( his batting title that year broke Bill Madlock's Major League record of four by a third baseman ), he regularly appeared among the league leaders in hitting.

An Indian servant who worked for Morgan managed to escape and later alerted the Massachusetts Bay troops under the command of Major Samuel Appleton, who broke through to Springfield and drove off the attackers.

The writer-artist team broke into comics with Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's landmark New Fun, debuting with the musketeer swashbuckler " Henri Duval " and the supernatural-crimefighter strip Doctor Occult in issue # 6 ( Oct. 1935 ).

Banks signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in and broke into the Major Leagues in with the Chicago Cubs as their first black player.

Alomar broke into the Major Leagues in 1988 with the Padres, where he was regarded as an excellent fielder with speed and a solid bat.

Sasaki's 37 saves in his rookie season with the Seattle Mariners remained a Major League Baseball record for saves by a rookie until Neftali Feliz broke it in 2010 with 40.

The cyclist, British Army Major Stuart Lane, was thrown over the handlebars of his bicycle and broke two vertebrae in his neck " which could hinder his Army career ".

Most notably, his 60 home runs that year broke his own record and remained the Major League mark for 34 years until Roger Maris broke it.

After nine hours taking heavy losses, including the brigade commander, Major General Wauchope, without managing to advance at all, they finally broke and retreated in disorder.

On 1 October 2002, another news story broke about someone illegally selling acorns from the Major Oak on an Internet-based auction website.

Major riots broke out in numerous cities, including 91 in U. P.

The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.

After receiving the Austrian letter, Serbia arrested Major Voja Tankosić ( a member of the Black Hand committee who had been pointed out by the assassins ) but then promptly released him and returned him to his unit.

Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with Kuomintang ( KMT ) pulling out of the mainland, with the government relocating to Taipei and maintaining control only over a few islands.

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 Wheeler-Nicholson remained for a year, but cash-flow problems continued, and he was forced out.

The Red Sox have sold out every home game since May 15, 2003 ; in 2008, the park sold out its 456th consecutive Red Sox game, breaking a Major League Baseball record.

Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.

Since Major's election as leader, Kinnock spent the end of 1990 and most of 1991 putting pressure on Major to hold the election that year, but Major had held out and insisted that there would be no general election in 1991.

Major conservation work has been carried out since, due to the effects of London's air pollution, and extensive repairs took place after the Second World War, including the reconstruction of the Commons Chamber following its bombing in 1941.

Others, such as Major Strangways ( 1658 ) and John Weekes ( 1731 ), refused to plead, even under 400 pounds ( 180 kg ), and were killed when bystanders, out of mercy, sat on them.

Titled Major Effects, Jittlov's work stood out as the best part of the special.

However, the Giants would rebound and put out a solid effort all season long, culminating with a division title and the best record in the Major Leagues.

At the beginning of the 2010 Major League Baseball season only one ( Jim Caple of ESPN. com, although he later recanted his pick before the NLCS, saying the Philadelphia Phillies would beat the Giants and advance to the World Series ) out of literally dozens of baseball writers and pundits picked the Giants to even reach the World Series, with most not expecting the Giants to even make the playoffs.

Major land reforms were carried out by Christian Democracy in the poorer rural regions in the early postwar years, with farms appropriated from the large landowners and parcelled out to the peasants.

* July 2 – Major John Talcott and his troops begin sweeping Connecticut and Rhode Island, capturing large numbers of Native Americans from Algonquian tribes and exporting them out of the Thirteen Colonies as slaves.

The French garrison of Fort Vaux, led by a Major Raynal, finally surrendered on 7 June when the defenders had run out of water.

In 1737, planter William Byrd II commissioned Major William Mayo to lay out the original town grid.

Major floods in 1935 and 1936 resulted in a number of deaths, and washed out the Ferry Street Bridge ( now the Clinton Street Bridge ).

Stebbins states he used to think the Major was unaware of his existence, but it turns out that the Major has numerous illegitimate children nationwide.