On the eve of his return to their native Naxos he speaks with his wife of the masterpiece which rises before them in its completed perfection.

On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.

On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as Agamemnon had done before the Trojan expedition, but the Thebans intervened to prevent it, an insult for which he never forgave them.

On the eve of trial, the case settled worldwide to the parties ' " mutual satisfaction "; the amount that CBS paid to the Orwell Estate was not disclosed.

On the eve of the election, Davenport citizens acquired the temporary service of Dubuque laborers so they could vote in the election.

On the eve of the National Equality March in Washington, D. C., October 10, 2009, Obama stated in a speech before the Human Rights Campaign that he would end the ban, but he offered no timetable.

On the eve of the First World War in 1914, Beatty was knighted with the KCB, and promoted to acting Vice-Admiral a month later.

On the eve of K .' s thirty-first birthday, two men arrive at his apartment.

On the eve of War, an agreement about rendering the military help for Ethiopia was concluded.

On the eve of World War II, Soviet archives indicate a combined camp and colony population upwards of 1. 6 million in 1939, according to V. P. Kozlov.

On the eve of his death in 1556, the Mughal empire spanned almost one million square kilometers.

On the eve of Yom Kippur, before candles are lit, a prefast meal, the " seuda mafseket ", is eaten.

* 1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.

On May Day eve, country women won ’ t work in the field as well as in the house to avoid devastating storms and hail coming down on the village.

On the eve of his tour of Pakistan later that year, doubts were cast on his ability to trouble subcontinental batsmen.

On the eve of the marathon, all the entrants of the race except for the Finns, whose positions were known, filed a petition asking Nurmi's entry to be accepted.

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

On the eve of the 1st century AD, the settlement was seized by the Romans and became a military camp.

On Valentine ’ s Day, February 14, 2003, on the eve of the Iraqi invasion by the Americans and the British, Ono heard about a romantic couple holding a love-in protest in their tiny bedroom in Addingham, West Yorkshire.

** Internal conflict in Peru: On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho.

On the eve of his flight, he wrote:

On the eve of the election the Democrats widely published a letter — allegedly over Garfield's signature — which favored Chinese immigration, in an attempt to affect the outcome of the election.

On the eve of perestroika the ECP claimed about 100, 000 members ; less than half were ethnic Estonians and they totalled less than 7 % of the country's population.

On December 31, 2010, on the eve of leaving office, Richardson turned down the pardon request, citing a " lack of conclusiveness and the historical ambiguity " over Wallace's actions.

On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

On June 30, 1945, before ENIAC was made, mathematician John von Neumann distributed the paper entitled First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.

On 21 January 1994, on the 75th anniversary of the First Dáil Éireann, Continuity IRA volunteers offered a " final salute " to Tom Maguire by firing over his grave, and a public statement and a photo were published in Saoirse Irish Freedom.

On January 1, 2000, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles released a proclamation entitled " The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles ".

On 14 October 1964 the Central Committee, alongside the Presidium, made it clear that Khrushchev himself did not fit the model of a " Leninist leader ", and he was forced to resign from all his post, and was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

On September 9, 2010, Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America that the ban on service by openly gay servicemembers was an unconstitutional violation of the First and Fifth Amendments.

On 13 May, Dewar was nominated as First Minister, and was officially appointed by the Queen on 17 May at a ceremony in the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

On 1 March 1913 he received the appointment of Rear-Admiral Commanding the First Battle Cruiser Squadron.

On September 24, 1789, the House of Representatives voted to recommend the First Amendment of the newly drafted Constitution to the states for ratification.

: De Principiis ( On First Principles ).

On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.

On 16 April 1963, an astonishing game at Filbert Street against Manchester United, which saw both Ken Keyworth and Denis Law score a hat-trick each, ended in a 4 – 3 victory for Leicester, which meant Leicester sat top of the First Division and 11 days later Banks put in one of the performances of his career to keep out Liverpool as Leicester beat them 1 – 0 in the FA Cup semi-final despite being completely outplayed all game.

On December 15, 2006, the college filed a federal lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, alleging that a decision by the state to block the college from participating in the state sponsored CareerLink job service amounted to a violation of the college's First Amendment rights.

On 4 August 1789, the Assembly abolished feudalism, in what became known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate ( nobility ) and the tithes gathered by the First Estate ( clergy ).

On 6 June 1944 the Allies landed in Normandy ; on 15 August Allied forces landing in Provence included 260, 000 men of the French First Army.

* 1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme – On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19, 000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40, 000 wounded.

On Christmas Eve 1917, Admiral Jellicoe was rather abruptly dismissed as First Sea Lord by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, and was succeeded by Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss.

On 21 December 1941, the Partisans created the First Proletarian Brigade ( commanded by Koča Popović ) and on 1 March 1942, Tito created the Second Proletarian Brigade.

On 2 November 1985 Gorbachev replaced Turdakun Usubaliyev the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kirghizia, who had been in power for 24 years, with Absamat Masaliyev.

On July 15, 2010, it was confirmed that Bacon would appear in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class.

On the evening of 23 January 1963, Philby vanished from Beirut, failing to meet his wife for a dinner party at the home of Glen Balfour-Paul, First Secretary at the British Embassy.

On 22 February 1975, in an ambush in the Lomas de Zamora suburb of Buenos Aires, three policemen ( First Sergeant Nicolás Cardozo, Corporal Roberto Roque Fredes and Constables Eugenio Rodriguez and Abel Pascuzzi ) were killed after their patrol car came under fire from Montoneros guerrillas.