On the north the upper Rhône valley separate them from the Bernese Alps and the Furka Pass and the upper Reuss valley separates them from the Urner Alps ; on the west the Simplon Pass separates them from the Pennine Alps ; on the north-east the Oberalp Pass and the Vorderrhein valley separate them from the Glarus Alps ; on the east the Splügen Pass separates them from the Central Eastern Alps ( Oberhalbstein Range ).

On the western edge of the county lies the Wellsville Mountains and on the eastern edge lie the Bear River Mountains, both northern branches of the Wasatch Range.

On 10 June 1993, during a check-up at a hospital in Whalley Range, Manchester, Les Dawson died suddenly after suffering a heart attack.

On about 18 April 1942, Walter Maiersperger, the Commanding Officer of 33 Bomb Squadron of the United States Army Air Force's 22nd Bomb Group, carried out an aerial reconnaissance flight over the Iron Range area.

On 27 October 1942, Headquarters Detachment of the 46th Engineers left Townsville and arrived at Iron Range on 29 October 1942.

On National Parks Day 2010 ( Sunday, 28 March 2010 ), the Queensland State Government announced the addition of 6, 510 hectares to the Paluma Range National Park.

On October 21, 1902, Governor William Wright Heard issued a proclamation declaring that Section 16, Township 4, North Range 10 West was incorporated as Hornbeck ; with W. M.

Jeffrey City began in 1931 as " Home On the Range, Wyoming ," the homestead of a Nebraska couple named the Petersons, who relocated because Mr. Peterson was sick after having been gassed in World War I. Mrs. Peterson opened two gas pumps when the highway came through, and began cooking for those who stopped.

Home On the Range became Jeffrey City when those who came to mine uranium sought to honor Dr. C. W. Jeffrey, a wealthy doctor from Rawlins, Wyoming, who initially financed the costs for prospector and businessman Bob Adams to start the Western Nuclear Corporation mining firm and open a Uranium mine near the area in 1957, during the cold war and the height of uranium demand.

* Pokhran-I ( Smiling Buddha ): On 18 May 1974 India detonated an 8 Kiloton nuclear device at Pokhran Test Range becoming the first nation to become nuclear capable outside the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council as well as dragging Pakistan along with it into a nuclear arms race with the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto swearing to reciprocate India .< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

* Pokhran-II ( Operation Shakti ): On 11 May 1998 India detonated another 5 nuclear devices at Pokhran Test Range.

On the east end bordering Mie is the Daikō Mountain Range, including the 1695 m high Mount Ōdaigahara.

On the other hand, the covert operations of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol ( LRRP ) of Sri Lanka Army had a profound impact of the Tiger command structure.

On 5 November 1940 these were reformed as the Long Range Bombardment Aviation of the High Command of the Red Army ( until February 1942 ) due to lack of combat performance during the conflict with Finland.

) On its southwestern side, at the southern end of the Mosquito Range, it is connected by Trout Creek Pass to the upper valley of the Arkansas River near Buena Vista.

On 27 October 2009, the JMSDF Myoko fired a SM-3 missile at a ballistic threat launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility and successfully intercepted the missile over the waters of the Pacific.

On a hilltop facing the Presidential Range is the grandest, The Mountain View House ( now called the Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa ), established in 1866.

On December 31, 2011, CN completed the merger of Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company ; Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Company ; and Wisconsin Central Ltd. into its Wisconsin Central Ltd. subsidiary.

On June 1, 1948, the U. S. Navy transferred the former Naval Air Station Banana River to the U. S. Air Force, with USAF renaming the facility the Joint Long Range Proving Ground ( JLRPG ) Base on June 10, 1949.

On October 1, 1949, the Joint Long Range Proving Ground Base was transferred from the Air Materiel Command to the Air Force Division of the Joint Long Range Proving Ground.

On May 17, 1950, the base was renamed the Long Range Proving Ground Base, but three months later was renamed Patrick Air Force Base, in honor of Army Maj. Gen. Mason Patrick.

On the Australian mainland these are the south-eastern section of the country's Great Dividing Range while there are also significant elements of montane grassland in Tasmania.

On 22 May 1839 the New England District was gazetted thus: New England District: Bounded on the east by a line north by compass from the top of Werrikimber Mountain which is at the head of the Hastings River ; on the south by a line west by compass from the top of Werrikimber Mountain to the Great Dividing Range ; on the west by the western extreme of the Great Dividing Range so as to include the Tableland and on the north the boundary is indefinite.

On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

On the third ballot Pennsylvania put him over the top.

On an approval ballot, the voter can vote for any number of candidates

On the second ballot, Tammany threw its support behind Butler, but the rest of the delegates shifted to Cleveland, and he was nominated.

On January 8, 2002 Smith learned via a phone call he had been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on his first ballot by receiving 91. 7 % of the votes cast.

On 19 December 1991, Keating defeated Hawke in a party-room ballot for the leadership by 56 votes to 51, and become Prime Minister the following day.

On the first ( secret ) ballot, he had a majority of the votes, and at the accessio a sufficient number joined his majority to form the required two-thirds.

On the first vote, Rafael Altamira y Crevea of Spain, Dionisio Anzilotti of Italy, Bernard Loder of the Netherlands, Ruy Barbosa of Brazil, Yorozu Oda of Japan, Charles Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven of Cuba and Lord Finlay of the United Kingdom were elected by a majority vote of both the Council and Assembly on the first ballot taken.

On November 15, Jake Peavy won the National League Cy Young Award by unanimous ballot.

On May 17, 1980, the eve of the presidential elections, it burned ballot boxes in the town of Chuschi.

On July 30, 2008, the Michigan Natural Law Party nominated Ralph Nader for president, ensuring the appearance of the Nader / Gonzalez campaign on the Michigan ballot.

On the fourth ballot Willkie surged into first place, with Taft close behind ; other candidates began to drop out in favor of the two frontrunners.

On the second ballot, Bryan still stood second, but had gained as other candidates had fallen away.

On the fifth ballot, the Illinois delegation, led by Governor Altgeld, switched its votes from Bland to Bryan.

On the next day the same four electors met at Rhens to ballot for Rupert as next German king, thus the majority of the college including the Elector Palatine's own vote.

On the ballot in Iowa, he finished 6th in his home state, receiving more votes than Libertarian Andre Marrou in Iowa, finishing 18th nationwide ( 1, 149 votes,. 09 % of the popular vote in Iowa ).

On February 17, on the 36th ballot, Jefferson was elected.

On the first ballot, Fillmore received all delegate votes from the South save four, but only received 18 northern delegate votes.

On the second ballot, with only minor opposition, King finally obtained the Democratic vice-presidential nomination.

On the 57th ballot, Douglas was still ahead, but still 50. 5 votes short of nomination.

On the 36th ballot, Garfield garnered 399 delegate votes, surpassing Grant ( who had 306 ), Blaine ( 42 ), and Sherman to win the nomination.

On February 20, 1992, he appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and announced his intention to run as an independent if his supporters could get his name on the ballot in all fifty states.

On 4 February 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the first ballot by 130 votes to 119, with Fraser coming in a distant third with 16 votes.

Luke was also on the ballot for the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Heroes and Villains On their list of the 100 Greatest Fictional Characters, Fandomania. com ranked Luke at number 14.