In 1981, defectors from the moderate wing of the Labour Party, led by former Cabinet ministers Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party.

After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.

During the period the Giants were led by Hall of Fame coach Steve Owen, and Hall of Fame players Mel Hein, Red Badgro, and Tuffy Leemans.

He led the new party from March 1982 until after the 1983 general election, when Owen succeeded him unopposed.

He secured more votes than the candidate of the Continuing Social Democratic Party ( SDP ), led by former Foreign Secretary David Owen.

* February 2 – Battle of Mortimer's Cross: Yorkist troops led by Edward, Duke of York defeat Lancastrians under Owen Tudor and his son Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke in Wales.

While Owen was away recruiting new residents for New Harmony, a number of factors that led to an early breakup of the socialist community had already begun.

Headquartered at New Harmony, Owen conducted the first official geological survey of Indiana ( 1837 – 39 ), and, after his appointment as U. S. Geologist in 1839, he led federal surveys from 1839 to 1840 and from 1847 to 1851.

On 2 February 1461, as a man of advanced years, Owen led the Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross against Edward, Earl of March.

The Battle of Carham, by the River Tweed, was a victory for the Scots led by Máel Coluim and the men of Strathclyde led by their king, Owen the Bald.

He made little headway against the Irish led by Owen Roe O ' Neill and concluded an armistice ( called then a " convention ") with the rebel leaders upon terms which he knew the parliament would not ratify.

Owen led Liverpool to the Treble in 2001.

Owen helped reignite Liverpool's hunt for fourth spot, scoring his 150th goal for Liverpool in the subsequent match against Portsmouth on 15 February, and although suffering from further injuries, ultimately led Liverpool to the fourth and final Champions League spot.

This led many to believe that Owen would exercise his right to leave if the £ 9 million valuation was matched.

Following the establishment of the SDP by the ' Gang of Four ' ( Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams ), who had left the Labour Party in March 1981, the new party entered into an informal alliance with the existing centre party, the Liberals, led by David Steel.

He sought to prevent Lancastrian forces from Wales, led by Owen Tudor and his son Jasper from joining up with the main body of Lancastrian forces.

After four years of research, Owen led local and national debate to fight drug addiction problems in Canadian cities through a " Four Pillar Approach ", a comprehensive program with provisions for prevention, treatment, enforcement and harm reduction.

A superior harbour in the city of Owen Sound eventually led to the total demise of Leith as a commercial port.

In Parker v The Queen ( 1963 ), Chief Justice Sir Owen Dixon led a unanimous judgment which rejected a precedent of the House of Lords in DPP v Smith saying, " I shall not depart from the law on this matter as we have long since laid it down in this Court and I think that Smith's case should not be used in Australia as authority at all "; the following year the Privy Council upheld an appeal, applying the House of Lords precedent.

His Royalism was motivated by his Old English roots and his extreme personal dislike of Owen Roe O ' Neill, who led the opposing faction.

In 1984, the Canadian section of the UAW, under the leadership of Bob White and his assistants Buzz Hargrove and Bob Nickerson, broke from the UAW, led by Owen Bieber, because the American union was seen as giving away too much in the way of concessions during collective bargaining.

The unexpected death from a coronary illness of one of his brothers, Owen, a patent agent with Renault S. A., and its bizarre aftermath, have led to complicated litigation in the Belgian and English courts.

Audrey Zapp, Theodore Conrad, Morris Pesin and J. Owen Grundy were influential environmentals and historians who spearheaded the movement that led to the creation of Liberty State Park.

Most SDP members voted in favour of the merger, but SDP leader David Owen objected and continued to lead a " rump " SDP, with the merger of the two parties being completed in March 1988 to form the Social and Liberal Democrats, becoming the Liberal Democrats in October 1989.

As one of the so-called " Gang of Four ", he was a founder of the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) in January 1981 with David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

In 1981, unhappy with the influence of the far left in the Labour Party, she resigned from it to form the SDP, along with Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers.

The SDP was re-established under the leadership of one of the founders of the SDP, David Owen, who had objected to the merger of the two parties.

) Owen and the party's national executive dissolved the party in 1990, but another group of party members continue the party under the SDP name.

In 1981, Owen was one of the " Gang of Four " who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ).

In 1982, uneasy about the Alliance, Owen challenged Jenkins for the leadership of the SDP, but was defeated by 26, 256 votes to 20, 864.

Although elected, Jenkins resigned the SDP leadership and Owen succeeded to it without a contest among the 6 remaining SDP MPs.

However the progress of the SDP-Liberal Alliance as a whole was hampered with policy splits between the two parties, first over the miners ' strike ( 1984-5 ) where Owen and most of the SDP favoured a fairly tough line but the Liberals preferred compromise and negotiation.

Here Owen and the SDP favoured replacing of Polaris with Trident as a matter of some importance, where most Liberals were either indifferent to the issue or committed disarmers.

At the request of two of the remaining SDP MPs, John Cartwright and Rosie Barnes, Owen continued to lead a much smaller continuing SDP with three MPs in total.

After winding up the re-formed SDP, Owen announced his intent to stand down as an MP at the next General Election.

* David Owen resigns as SDP leader ( BBC News On This Day webpage, including news report footage )

Shortly afterwards David Owen replaced Roy Jenkins as leader of the SDP and the troubled leadership of the " Two Davids " was inaugurated.

Along with David Owen, Sainsbury opposed merging the SDP with the Liberal Party after the 1987 election, and provided office space for Owen to help him re-establish a separate political party, the " continuing " SDP, which was created in 1988.

With country music record sales declining as rock and roll took over, Atkins and Bob Ferguson took their cue from Owen Bradley and eliminated fiddles and steel guitar as a means of making country singers appeal to pop fans.

In the 1840s Ludwig Leichhardt discovered many Diprotodon bones eroding from the banks of creeks in the Darling Downs of Queensland and when reporting the find to Owen commented that the remains were so well preserved he expected to find living examples in the then unexplored central regions of Australia.

The historical classification of Diprotodon consisted of eight species ( Diprotodon optatum Owen, 1838 ; Diprotodon australis Owen, 1844 ; D. annextans McCoy, 1861 ; D. minor Huxley, 1862 ; D. longiceps McCoy 1865 ; D. loderi Krefft, 1873a ; D. bennettii Krefft, 1873b ( nec D. bennettii Owen, 1877 ); and D. bennettii Owen, 1877 ( nec D. bennettii Krefft, 1873b ); based on size or slight morphological differences of single specimens collected from isolated geographic regions.

U. S. District Judge Owen Panner issued a permanent injunction barring the government from prohibiting or penalizing the sacramental use of " Daime tea.

Notable rockabilly revivalists and psychobilly performers from the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century include Scott Owen ( from the Australian band The Living End ), Jimbo Wallace ( from the US band Reverend Horton Heat ), Kim Nekroman ( Nekromantix ), Patricia Day ( HorrorPops ), Geoff Kresge ( Tiger Army, ex-AFI ).

After the game, a bewildered Syd Owen said, " it was like playing people from outer space ".

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

Later in life he purportedly discovered a half-brother named James Owen, with whom he co-wrote the song " Theme from A Summer Place ".

* Scent of Orange Blossoms: Sephardic Cuisine from Morocco, by: Kitty Morse, Owen Morse ISBN 1-58008-269-6

Owain is perhaps best remembered outside Wales as the mysterious Welshman of ' Owen Glendower ' in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 who claims to be able to " call spirits from the vasty deep ," and proves later on that he can, at least, summon unearthly music.

Utopian socialists such as Robert Owen ( 1771 – 1858 ) tried to found self-sustaining communes by secession from a capitalist society.

“ You ’ ve got the hierarchy of the FDN sitting there ; you ’ ve got a representative, this guy Owen, from the NSC, CIA.

However, he was far from alone, as the Broncs ' rosters included Rick Monday, manager John McNamara, Vearl (" Snag ") Moore, Thorton (" Kip ") Kipper, Antonio Perez, Ron Koepper, Delmer Owen, Dick Green, Bud Swan, Bert Campaneris, John Israel, Dave Duncan, Al Heist, and as a player, later coach-manager Robert (" Gabby ") Williams.

Owen and Catherine had at least six children, Edmund, Jasper and Owen were all born away from court.

The inscription on the stone is a quotation from the work of a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

Pedigrees, elaborated by Cecil himself with the help of William Camden the antiquary, associated him with the Welsh Cecils or Sitsylts of Allt-Yr-Ynys, Walterstone on the border of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, and traced his descent from an Owen of the time of King Harold and a Sitsyllt of the reign of William Rufus.

The duel ends when Owen Lars shoots and kills Maul ; he then warns Obi-Wan to stay away from his nephew.