On August 31, the Diamondbacks acquired former World Series MVP David Eckstein to fill the hole at second base which was opened after Orlando Hudson was placed on the disabled list.

* 1900: Thorold Gosset enumerated the list of semiregular convex polytopes with regular cells ( Platonic solids ) in his publication On the Regular and Semi-Regular Figures in Space of n Dimensions, including one regular cubic honeycomb, and two semiregular forms with tetrahedra and octahedra.

On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially inscribed bullfighting on a list enumerating the country's cultural heritage, a decision which Bardot is currently publicly contesting.

On the other hand, Thompson does accept that some peoples on the list are plausible e. g. Burgundians, Sciri and Franks.

On November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University computer science graduate student, unleashed what became known as the Morris worm, disrupting an estimated 10 % of the computers then on the Internet and prompting the formation of the CERT Coordination Center and Phage mailing list.

On being asked to name the ten most influential guitarists of the 20th century, he named Django Reinhardt to the first position, and also placed himself on the list.

On the Bourbons returning to power, David figured in the list of proscribed former revolutionaries and Bonapartists — for having voted execution for the deposed King Louis XVI ; and for participating in the death of Louis XVII.

On ARPAnet's SPACE mailing list, the presumption was that new users would download archived past messages through ftp.

On the fugitive group wanted poster, The FBI did not list the persons in any particular stated order, except perhaps for the consistent placing of bin Laden in the number one position of the top row.

On September 2, 2000, Jeremy Irish emailed the gpsstash mailing list that he had registered the domain name geocaching. com and had set up his own Web site.

On July 31, 1969, Aaron hit his 537th home run, passing Mickey Mantle ; this moved him into third place on the career home run list, after Willie Mays and Babe Ruth.

On the May 2012 FIDE rating list for women, Krush has a FIDE rating of 2457, 28th best among active female players, and second best among active American female players.

On 31 January 1919 the IRA organ, An tÓglách (" The Volunteer ") published a list of principles agreed between two representatives of the Aireacht, acting Príomh Aire Cathal Brugha and Richard Mulcahy and the Executive.

On Women's International Day in 2007, Dixit topped Rediff's list of the Best Bollywood Actresses Ever.

On August 10, Nathan recorded his 255th save, passing Rick Aguilera for first place on the franchise's all-time saves list.

In November, Trench's report was not a list of unregistered words ; instead, it was the study On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries, which identified seven distinct shortcomings in contemporary dictionaries:

The Holy See's Annuario Pontificio, in its list of popes and antipopes, attaches a footnote to its mention of Stephen II ( III ): " On the death of Zachary the Roman priest Stephen was elected ; but, since four days later he died, before his consecratio, which according to the canon law of the time was the true commencement of his pontificate, his name is not registered in the Liber Pontificalis nor in other lists of the Popes.

On his December 7, 1903 Third Annual Message to the Senate and House of Representatives he enumerated an extensive list of interventions the U. S. armed forces had made in Panama since 1850 explaining:

On 12 December, five more French voters arrived, and though they could not advance the candidacy of their favorite, Ippolito d ' Este, they did have Cardinal Cervini on their list of possible candidates.

On May 5,, Clemens recorded his 4, 137th career strikeout to place him second on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan.

On 27 February 2008, the three hostages and Jorge Eduardo Gechem Turbay ( who was added to the list due to his poor health ) were released by FARC-EP.

On February 15, 2006, Sosa's agent Adam Katz stated: " We're not going to put him on the retirement list.

On June 16, 2009 the New York Times reported Sosa was on a list of players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.

In 2008, King's book On Writing was ranked 21st on Entertainment Weekly list of " The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 ".

On 20 October, a list of ships and commanders at the time of the division of the fleet in 1666 was demanded from Pepys.

On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.

* On 29 October 2009, the Google homepage of a great number of countries displayed a logo ( called Google Doodle ) commemorating 50 years of Asterix.

On 1 January 913 an army, led by the eunuch Badr, conquered the fortress of Écija, at some 50 km from the capital.

On February 5, 2002, George W. Bush visited the RODS laboratory and used it as a model for a $ 300 million spending proposal to equip all 50 states with biosurveillance systems.

On July 1, 2005, Selig suspended Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers for 20 games and fined him $ 50, 000.

On 30 December 1966, the US and the UK executed an agreement through an Exchange of Notes which permit the US to use the BIOT for defense purposes for 50 years ( through December 2016 ), followed by a 20-year optional extension ( to 2036 ) to which both parties must agree by December 2014.

On almost all ships in 1623 40 to 50 soldiers were stationed, possibly to assist in the hijacking of enemy ships.

On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.

On 8 June 2007, during the 33rd G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Sarkozy set a goal of reducing French CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions by 50 % by 2050 in order to prevent global warming.

On large display kites these tails, spinners and spinsocks can be 50 feet ( 15 m ) long or more.

On March 7,, Wayne Huizenga, CEO of Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation, announced he had purchased 15 percent of the NFL's Miami Dolphins and 50 percent of the Dolphins ' home, Joe Robbie Stadium, for an estimated $ 30 million.

On January 12, 2010, Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake, magnitude 7. 0 with a death toll estimated by the Haitian government at over 300, 000, and by non-Haitian sources from 50, 000 to 220, 000.

On May 29, 1948, the British initiated United Nations Security Council Resolution 50 and declared an arms embargo on the region.

On 5 December, the Soviets launched a counteroffensive, pushing German troops back 40 – 50 miles from Moscow, the Wehrmacht's first significant defeat of the war.

On a one inch diameter ( size 50 ) needle for instance, the shaft begins to taper one and three quarter inches from the tip.

On the 6th of February 2008, the BBC reported that heavy rain might lead to a release of water from the dam, which would force 50, 000 people downstream to evacuate.

" It remains one of the strangest aberrations in the past 50 years of popular music ... On its release in 1967, it came and went quietly without troubling the charts.

On the other hand the light from a semiconductor laser typically exits the tiny crystal with a large divergence: up to 50 °.

On 14 January, an all-time record Adelaide Oval crowd of 50, 962 watched Australia finish off England's first innings.

On the surface of the Earth, an object with a mass of 50 kilograms weighs 491 Newtons ; on the surface of the Moon, the same object still has a mass of 50 kilograms but weighs only 81. 5 Newtons.

On May 30, 1925, police from the International Settlement in Shanghai followed the orders of a British policeman and opened fire on a group of protesters, killing 10 and wounding 50.

On 17 October a Montoneros bomb blast in an Army Club Cinema in downtown Buenos Aires killed 11 and wounded about 50 officers and their families.

On 23 May 1909, the first manual telephone exchange with a 50 line capacity entered service in the Büyük Postane ( Grand Post Office ) of Sirkeci.

On November 2011 one euro was worth 4. 05 soles, by April 2012 one euro worth 3. 50 soles.