On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and ignited the Space Race, a part of the Cold War.

Likewise the draft encyclical Humani Generis Unitas (" On the Unity of the Human Race "), which was ready in September 1938 but, according to those responsible for an edition of the document and other sources, it was not forwarded to the Holy See by the Jesuit General Wlodimir Ledochowski.

On 1 August 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin left the Fallen Astronaut on the surface of the Moon as a memorial to all the American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts that died in the Space Race, with Yuri Gagarin listed among 14 others.

Lansky's 1979 computer music piece " Her Song ", from the Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion ( re-released on the album Fantasies and Tableaux, 1994 ), has also been sampled by Caural for his song " I Won't Race You ", from his 2006 album Mirrors For Eyes, with the main synthesized vocal line of Lansky's piece being used ( and being the basis for the title of the latter ).

On Broadway, this has happened in the past year with Martin McDonagh's " Behanding in Spokane " and Mamet's " Race " although these shows were packaged with stars ( Christopher Walken in the former ) and with playwrights who are well established in the profession.

On 6 November 2006, Numan took part in the Sky1 reality show The Race.

On October 16, 1999, in the winner's circle at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, the U. S. Postal Service honored Secretariat, unveiling a 33-cent postage stamp with his image.

On 30 August 1955, Korolev managed to get the Soviet Academy of Sciences to create a commission whose purpose was to beat the Americans into Earth orbit: this was the defacto start date for the Space Race.

On April 21, 2007, Eddie Van Halen served as an Honorary Race Official for the Subway Fresh Fit 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at Phoenix International Raceway.

A. Robertson duetted on with Maggie Bell on the single " Hold Me ", and The Stray Cats backed Dave Edmunds on his 1981 single " The Race Is On ".

On 5 December 1974, students turned the funeral of former UN Secretary General U Thant into a demonstration, snatching the coffin on display at the Kyaikkasan Race Course and erecting a makeshift mausoleum on the grounds of the former Student Union building in protest against the government for not honouring their famous countryman with a state funeral.

On 25 January 2012, Triple Eight Race Engineering announced it would run a pair of works GT models under NGTC regulations in the 2012 British Touring Car Championship season.

He made an appearance on stage alongside Stray Cats, at the Brixton Academy in London, on 10 September 2008, playing " The Race Is On " and " Tear It Up " with the band.

On April 23, 2010, Waitzkin married Desiree Cifre, a screenwriter and former contestant on The Amazing Race.

On 23 April, the Race Relations Bill had its second reading in the House of Commons.

On a cold, wet day in May, he broke from post position nine ( only Layminister in 1910 and Canonero II in 1971 won from the ninth post ) and was the runaway winner of the 2003 Preakness Stakes at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course.

On July 4, 2007, lured to Finger Lakes Race Track by an extra $ 50, 000 added to the purse, Funny Cide took the $ 100, 000 Wadsworth Memorial Handicap by three lengths under Alan Garcia, breaking his six-race winless streak.

* On September 27, 2009, Herbert " Flight Time " Lang and Nate " Big Easy " Lofton participated in the 15th season of The Amazing Race, finishing fourth out of twelve teams, having forfeited a task in the penultimate leg.

On February 12, 1908, the " Greatest Auto Race " began with six entrants, starting in New York City and racing westward across three continents.

On February 7, 1969, Diane Crump was the first female rider to ride in a Thoroughbred race in the United States at the Hialeah Park Race Track in Florida.

On May 7, 1925 Hines dedicated the landing field at the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington to the memory of Lieutenant Alexander Pearson, Jr. who was killed on September 2, 1924 in Fairfield, Ohio while flying the Curtiss R-8 in preparation for the upcoming Pulitzer Trophy Race.

On July 9, 2003, during the Milwaukee Brewers ' " Sausage Race ," in which four contestants wearing sausage costumes have a footrace on the field, Simon leaned over the dugout railing and hit college student Mandy Block ( in the Italian sausage costume ) with a bat, causing her to fall into the path of another racer.

B. Warfield reached the same conclusion in " On The Antiquity and Unity of the Human Race ", commenting that " it is precarious in the highest degree to draw chronological inferences from genealogical tables ".

On the evening of 14 April, in the wireless room on the boat deck, Phillips was sending messages to Cape Race, Newfoundland, working to clear a backlog of passengers ' personal messages that had accumulated when the wireless had broken down the day before.

On 2002, the first secure encrypted digital cinema feature was Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones by Cinecomm Digital Cinema ( then led by Russell J. Wintner ).

On July 3, 1875, during the Carlist Wars, the pretender to the throne Don Carlos of the house of Borbón also visited Guernica and swore the oath.

On the other hand, many historians now point out that most of the negative social factors popularly associated with the medieval period – poverty, warfare, religious and political persecution, for example – seem to have worsened in this era which saw the rise of Machiavellian politics, the Wars of Religion, the corrupt Borgia Popes, and the intensified witch-hunts of the 16th century.

On June 12, 2008 Intel demonstrated a special version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, titled Quake Wars: Ray Traced, using ray tracing for rendering, running in basic HD ( 720p ) resolution.

On December 14, 1995, the Dayton Agreement was signed and the Yugoslav Wars temporarily ended for a few more years.

* On August 29, 1842, the first of two Opium Wars ended between China and Britain with the Treaty of Nanking.

* On the CGI animated show Beast Wars: Transformers, Cheetor, one of the main characters on the Maximal faction, had the beast form of a cheetah.

On November 15, 2006 LucasArts announced that Jedi Outcast would feature with Star Wars: Battlefront, Star Wars: Empire at War, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: Republic Commando and a 14-day trial of Star Wars Galaxies in a compilation release entitled Star Wars: The Best of PC.

On June 4, 1796, during the Napoleonic Wars, Mantua was besieged by Napoleon as a move against Austria, who joined the First Coalition.

On May 12, 2000, Christensen announced that he would be starring as Anakin Skywalker in the next two prequels Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones ( 2002 ) and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ( 2005 ).

On the commentary soundtrack to the 2004 DVD release of Star Wars, writer and director George Lucas describes R2-D2 as " the main driving force of the movie ... what you say in the movie business is the MacGuffin ... the object of everybody's search ".

On the other hand, Alcibiades argued that a campaign in this new theatre would bring riches to the city and expand the empire, just as the Persian Wars had.

Shiva's focus on water has seen her appear in a number of related films: " Ganga from the ground up " a documentary on water issues in the river Ganges ,, Blue Gold: World Water Wars by Sam Bozzo, Irena Salina's documentary Flow: For Love of Water ( in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival ) and the PBS NOW documentary On Thin Ice.

On 11 December 1792, during the French Revolutionary Wars, the French under General De Miranda conquered Roermond, but by 5 March 1793, was under Habsburg control again.

On 24 August 1454, a skirmish took place and was the first meeting of the two families involved in the Percy-Neville feud, the feud which eventually helped provoke the Wars of the Roses.

On January 31, 1998, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith was released as an expansion to Jedi Knight.

* Andy Kubiszewski has filled in as the drummer for a handful of Prick shows, joined a new project called Affected with Chris Schleyer, written and produced several songs for the popular Russian pop duo t. A. T. u., and has composed music for dozens of TV shows ( including Monster Garage, Monster House, Ax Men, America's Toughest Jobs, The Colony ), SWORDS-Life On The Line, Hillstranded, and most recently Storage Wars.

In Chapter 47 of his India, entitled " On Vasudeva and the Wars of the Bharata ," Abu Rayhan Biruni attempted to give a naturalistic explanation as to why the struggles described in the Mahabharata " had to take place.