Indeed, during the Battle of Midway, five aircraft carriers were sunk without either fleet coming into direct contact.

: In the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, the entries for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry.

Midway through his college studies at Oregon State University ( then called Oregon State College ), near the end of World War II, he was drafted into the US Navy, serving two years as a radar technician in the Philippines.

The county is divided into seventeen townships: Abbotts Creek, Alleghany, Arcadia, Boone, Conrad Hill, Cotton Grove, Emmons, Hampton, Healing Spring, Jackson Hill, Lexington, Midway, Reedy Creek, Silver Hill, Thomasville, Tyro, and Yadkin College.

Midway City ultimately turned down incorporation, leaving Barber City to be absorbed into the newly incorporated Westminster.

In August 1967, at the peak of Elyria's population, Midway Mall was opened and changed the face of the local economy as local businesses either moved into the mall or closed down.

It also caused Japan to withdraw its powerful aircraft carrier force from the Indian Ocean to defend their Home Islands, and the raid contributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's decision to attack Midway — an attack that turned into a decisive rout of the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) by the U. S. Navy near Midway Island in the Central Pacific.

The loss of eight battleships and 2000 sailors and airmen at Pearl Harbor forced the US to rely on its remaining aircraft carriers, which won a major victory over Japan at Midway just six months into the war, and on its growing submarine fleet.

Midway through WW II after the Italian capitulation to the Allies, it was the departure port for the Italian Navy when it steamed into British hands at Malta.

After the devastating carrier losses at Midway and in the Solomon Islands campaign, the Navy re-organized into a number of " Area Fleets " for local operational control of various geographic zones.

Midway into the third quarter, the Vikings held a 17 – 9 lead.

Midway through the season, the premise changed and Margaret moved into the basement of her parents ' house.

Midway into the film, Theseus ' Ship Paradox does come into question when the character of Gina Parker Smith ( Kyra Sedgwick ) shares that she would rather have the new parts removed, a statement that prompts Trace ( Alison Lohman ) to explain that such an attempt would kill the individual because it would mean removing a part of one's brain.

The Navy was drawn into World War II after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, and over the next four years fought many historic battles including the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, multiple naval battles during the Guadalcanal Campaign, and the largest naval battle in history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Melodeon ( organ ) | MelodeonAbout a decade later, L. L. Pinkerton, who was a member of the Midway, Kentucky church brought a melodeon into the church building.

The NBA was then approached by several developers, but declined to enter into an exclusivity agreement, instead granting long-term licenses to Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive, Midway Games, Sony, and Atari.

Midway into the fourth quarter, Malone and Olajuwon scored in four consecutive possessions by their teams, leading up to a 93 – 93 tie.

Rochefort's team was also able to trick the Japanese Navy into sending a message which revealed that it was Midway that was the focus of the attack, not the Aleutians, as Washington cryptanalysts maintained.

The break into one of them, JN-25, famously led to the US victory in the Battle of Midway ; and to the publication of that fact in the Chicago Tribune shortly after the battle, though the Japanese seem not to have noticed for they kept using the JN-25 system.

Breaking into the version in use in the months after December 7, 1941 provided enough information to lead to U. S. naval victories in the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, stopping the initial Japanese advances to the south and eliminating the bulk of Japanese naval air power.

Public notice had actually been served that Japanese cryptography was dangerously inadequate by the Chicago Tribune, which published a series of stories just after Midway, starting on 7 June 1942, which claimed ( correctly ) that victory was due in large part to U. S. breaks into Japanese crypto systems ( in this case, the JN-25 cypher, though which system ( s ) had been broken was not mentioned in the newspaper stories ).

Midway into its short-lived run, the show switched to an all-celebrity format.

* The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar ( 24 April 2007 )-Co-published with Midway Games in the US, Codemasters in Europe, Tecmo in Japan, and CDC Games in China.

On February 1, 2007, Air Midwest began operations at Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to three Illinois airports: Decatur, Marion, and Quincy.

Midway through the 2007 season, Citgo sponsored the # 23 SAMAX Motorsport entry in the IndyCar Series for Duno.

* Battlestations: Midway ( 2007 )

As of January 2007, 100 ducks call Midway ’ s Sand and Eastern Island home.

* Unreal Tournament III ( 2007 ), Midway Home Entertainment, Inc.

In 2007, Midway Games released the game Stranglehold.

In January 2007, SOE announced that it has licensed rights from Midway Home Entertainment to develop and release six classic Midway games for PlayStation 3 Digital Download, including Mortal Kombat II, Gauntlet II, Joust, Rampage World Tour, Rampart, and Championship Sprint, which will be available from the PlayStation Store.

On Friday, November 30, 2007, it was confirmed by Midway Games, that through a mutual agreement Harvey Smith had left Midway.

This was followed with an audio director position at Midway Home Entertainment in San Diego until 2007 when he started the audio department at Obsidian Entertainment.

It is published by Midway Games, and was released for Microsoft Windows on November 19, 2007, PlayStation 3 on December 11, 2007, and Xbox 360 on July 3, 2008.

Area 51 is a first-person shooter survival horror video game that was released in 2005 ( 2006 in Japan ) and it was developed by Midway Studios Austin and published by Midway for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows, and is a loose remake of the 1995 light gun video game of the same name, and was followed in 2007 by the loosely related BlackSite: Area 51.

Midway during the 2007 / 08 season, speculation linked Drummond with a move back to Morecambe, and in January 2008, it was announced that Morecambe had re-signed Drummond from Shrewsbury Town for a fee of £ 15, 000

* 1867 – The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.

* 1972 – United Airlines Flight 553 crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45.

* 1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.

* Midway College – Midway, Kentucky

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway.

* 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.

* 1867 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.

* Bad Day on the Midway ( CD-ROM ) – 1995

* June 8 – U. S. President Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet at Midway Island.

* June 4 – June 7 – WWII: The Battle of Midway: The Japanese naval advance in the Pacific is halted.

* May 24 – Lofton R. Henderson, American naval aviator, died in The Battle of Midway ( d. 1942 )

* September 30 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.

Its success led to a wave of other popular fighting games, such as Mortal Kombat by Midway Games, Fatal Fury: King of Fighters ( 1992 ) by SNK, Killer Instinct ( 1994 ) by Rare, and The King of Fighters ( 1994 – 2005 ) by SNK.

Midway through the 1991 – 92 season, the Clippers made yet another coaching change.

Midway through the 1994 – 95 season Francis resigned and very quickly became manager of Tottenham Hotspur and Ray Wilkins was installed as player-manager.

* Saint Louis County Road 13 – Midway Road

* 20px Saint Louis County Road 13 – Midway Road

* County Road 13 – Midway Road

* 1893 – 1894 – Midway Plaisance, Chicago:

Samuel Adams ( April 10, 1912 – June 6, 1942 ) was an officer in the United States Navy decorated for action in the Battle of Midway during World War II.