On Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent, some 200 local men clad in white and masked with long red noses — the Blancs-Moussis — parade through town throwing confetti and beating bystanders with dried pig bladders.

On Sunday they refused to attend church.

On a misty Sunday morning last month, a small band of militant anti-Communists called the Minutemen held maneuvers in a foggy field about fifteen miles east of here.

On that final Sunday at Pensacola neither Palmer nor Player was leading the tournament and, as it turned out, neither won it.

On Sunday January 7, it was announced that Randy Johnson would return to the Diamondbacks on a two year contract, pending a physical.

* 1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.

On 29 May 2007 it was reported that General Sir Mike Jackson, second-in-command of 1 Para on Bloody Sunday, said: " I have no doubt that innocent people were shot ".

On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, the first fatal clashes occurred when Croatian police from the Croatian Ministry of the Interior ( MUP ) entered the Plitvice Lakes national park to expel rebel Serb forces.

On 25 May 2006, the then British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was photographed by The Mail on Sunday playing croquet at his official residence, Dorneywood.

On Palm Sunday, 1084, Henry IV solemnly enthroned Clement at St. Peter ’ s Basilica and on Easter Day, Clement returned the favor and crowned Henry IV as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

On Midsummer's Day, Sunday, 1509, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were anointed and crowned together by the Archbishop of Canterbury at a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

On Palm Sunday, in April 2008, a brawl broke out when a Greek monk was ejected from the building by a rival faction.

On Sunday, November 9, 2008, a clash erupted between Armenian and Greek monks during celebrations for the Feast of the Cross.

On pro golf tours, professional caddies accompany their player to all events, which usually take place from Thursday through Sunday.

The 2006 " Days of Syn " was on 26 – 28 August ( UK August Bank Holiday weekend ) and featured a talk on Dr. Syn at the Anglican church at 6: 30 p. m. On Sunday at 3 p. m. there was a church service where Dr. Syn and the cast appeared in period costume.

On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, the Red Wings set the NHL record for most consecutive wins at home in a single season by winning their 21st home game with a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars, and on Sunday, February 19, 2012, defeated the San Jose Sharks to record their 23rd consecutive home victory, breaking the overall record previously held by the Boston Bruins over two seasons from 1929-1930.

On Sunday 12 August 2012, new president Mohamed Morsi announced a series of military appointments.

On 18 May 1152 ( Whit Sunday ), eight weeks after her annulment, Eleanor married Henry ' without the pomp and ceremony that befitted their rank '.

On November 3, 2004, the Federal Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, suggested that the " Day of the German Unity " be celebrated on a Sunday, for economic reasons.

On Sunday, 20 September 2009, MacLeod spoke at The " Rock Church ," in Anaheim, California.

On the morning of Sunday 17 December 1967, Holt, friends Christopher Anderson, Jan Lee and George Illson and his two bodyguards drove down from Melbourne to see the British lone yachtsman Alec Rose sail through Port Phillip Heads in his boat Lively Lady to complete a leg of his solo circumnavigation of the globe, which started and ended in England.

On 3 October 2010, CBS Sunday Morning aired an in-depth interview with Lennon that covered much of his life, including his relationship with his parents and sibling, his career, and his experience growing up as the son of one of the world's most famous celebrities.

On Sunday afternoons when we went calling on the older generation of relatives, those who had been active in the Sixties, I sat on the bony knees of veterans and the fat slippery laps of great aunts and heard them talk.

On Sunday, August 8, 2010, NBC announced the televised opening festivities of the evening would begin with Taylor Swift and Dave Matthews Band.

On Sunday 7 October 2001, American and British forces began an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban forces and al-Qaeda.

On a Sunday in 1962, the world stood still at the brink of nuclear war during the October Cuban missile crisis from the implementation of U. S. vs U. S. S. R. nuclear blackmail policy.

On 25 August 1476 in Berlin John married Margaret of Wettin, a daughter of Landgrave William III of Thuringia with Anne of Habsburg, Duchess of Luxembourg.

On 10 May 1940, Ribbentrop summoned the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg ambassadors to present them with notes justifying the German invasion of their countries, several hours after the Germans had invaded those nations.

On 14 October 1750, Louis XV agreed and sanctioned a display of 96 pieces from the royal collection, mounted in the Galerie royale de peinture of the Luxembourg Palace.

On the international level, the interwar period was characterized by an attempt to put Luxembourg on the map.

On 8 January 1817, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, William I published a constitutional law governing the organization of a Militia, the main provisions of which were to remain in force until the Militia was abolished in 1881.

On the other hand, Givet commune, several villages in the Ardennes département in France, which publishes the journal Causon wallon ( Let us speak Walloon ); and two villages in Luxembourg are historically Walloon-speaking.

On the basis of that speech, France, Italy, the Benelux countries ( Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg ) together with West Germany signed the Treaty of Paris ( 1951 ) creating the European Coal and Steel Community the following year ; this took over the role of the International Authority for the Ruhr and lifted some restrictions on German industrial productivity.

On November 2, 2010, a Dutch court ruled against Sanrio and ordered the company to stop marketing Cathy products in Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

On July 5, 1991, regulators persuaded a court in Luxembourg to order BCCI liquidated on the grounds that it was hopelessly insolvent.

On 27 December, after a severe frost the Duc de Luxembourg began to cross the ice of the Water Line with eight thousand men, hoping to sack The Hague, but a sudden thaw cut his force in half and he narrowly escaped to his own lines with the remainder.

On October 18, 1409, Vajk ( Voicu ), a Wallachian ( ethnicity is disputed with Vlach, Cuman and Slavic claims ), was rewarded for military bravery by Sigismund of Luxembourg, and received the domain of Hunedoara and the title of Kenez ( a Hungarian feudal title, see " Universitas Valachorum ").

On the morning of 1 July, Luxembourg marched his forces towards Fleurus.

On 26 September 1986, Prince Jean renounced his right of succession to the Luxembourg throne.

In 1977, rough mixes from acetates of " I Am The Walrus " and " The Fool On The Hill " appeared on bootlegs after being played on a Radio Luxembourg broadcast.

On 13 June 1364, the lands of Chiny were sold to Wenceslas, Duke of Luxembourg.

On the other hand, she was granted Saint-Domingue ( later to become Haiti ) and regained Pondicherry ( after paying the Dutch a sum of 16, 000 pagodas ) and Nova Scotia, while Spain recovered Catalonia, and the barrier fortresses of Mons, Luxembourg and Kortrijk.

On 10 May 1940, eight months after Britain and France had declared war on Germany, German troops marched into Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, marking the end of the Phoney War.

On 1 July Luxembourg secured a clear tactical victory over Waldeck at the Battle of Fleurus ; but his success produced little benefit – Louis XIV's concerns for the dauphin on the Rhine ( where Marshal de Lorge now held actual command ) overrode strategic necessity in the other theatres and forestalled a plan to besiege Namur or Charleroi.

On 6 December 1815 he was condemned, and executed by firing squad in Paris near the Luxembourg Garden on 7 December 1815 – an event that deeply divided the French public.

On 7 June 1795, Jourdan's army concluded the long but successful Siege of Luxembourg.

On July 1, 1996, all of the German states ( Bundesländer ), and the countries of Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, as well as some other countries with German-speaking minorities ( but notably not Luxembourg ) agreed to introduce the new spelling by August 1, 1998.

On 26 June 2008, Belgacom announced an agreement to acquire Tele2's Luxembourg division ( including the Tango cellular network in Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

On July 19, 2005, Metro, Inc. announced that it had reached an agreement with The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Inc. and its subsidiary, A & P Luxembourg S. à. r. l., to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of A & P Canada, for an acquisition price of $ 1. 7 billion, consisting of $ 1. 2 billion in cash and $ 500 million in the form of treasury shares of Metro.