General manager Pat Quinn originally intended to draft Bure in the eighth round, but after receiving word that the Edmonton Oilers had similar intentions, he selected him in the sixth.

The Toronto Sun held that the contract was a five-year, US $ 22. 5 million deal, and that it was signed prior to either game six or seven of the opening round against the Flames after Bure's agent, Ron Salcer, told general manager Quinn that Bure would not play if the deal was not made.

He grew up on the deprived Cantril Farm housing estate, and went to school with Micky Quinn, who became a professional footballer.

O ' Brien filmed the Jerusalem scene, and ( according to Omar Sharif ) Bentley's political discussion with Ali, but he became ill due to a heart attack on location and had to be replaced at the last moment by Kennedy, who was recommended to Lean by Anthony Quinn.

Frank Quinn rode with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, then later moved to Los Angeles and became an assistant cameraman at a movie studio.

Among the other players chosen by Vancouver were centre Orland Kurtenbach, who was named the Canucks ' first captain, as well as defenceman Pat Quinn, who later became the team's general manager and coach in the 1990s.

Paul Quinn became the first of the original members to withdraw from the league when it did so in 1929.

In 1859 James Quinn was appointed Bishop of Brisbane, Brisbane becoming a diocese, and Pugin's small church became a cathedral.

The current Governor of Illinois is Pat Quinn, a Democrat who became governor upon the vote of the Illinois Senate to remove Rod Blagojevich from office, and then was elected to a full term in 2010.

In 1997 Ruairi Quinn became the new Labour Party leader.

The previous Fianna Fáil and Labour Programme for Government was substantially adopted by the new government and in return for making John Bruton the Taoiseach, Ruairi Quinn of Labour became the first ever Labour Minister for Finance.

In the Fianna Fáil – Labour Party coalition government of 1993 – 1994 Quinn became Minister for Enterprise and Employment.

The year before Quinn became an economic Minister in 1993, Irish economic growth was 2. 5 % ( 1992 ).

Proinsias De Rossa of the latter party became the largely symbolic party president, while Quinn remained as leader of the party.

Quinn became Labour Party spokesperson on Education and Science as a member of Eamon Gilmore's front bench in September 2007.

On the 10th March, 2012, Quinn became the Labour Party's longest ever serving Cabinet Minister passing out the tenure in office of Dick Spring.

Pat Quinn became head coach in 1998, and the two men reportedly had a frosty relationship.

On 1 April 2007, Teilifís na Gaeilge became an independent statutory corporation, with former Gaelic Athletic Association president Peter Quinn becoming first chairman of the corporation.

In doing so, he became the first 18-year-old to play for the Flames since Dan Quinn in 1983.

He became executive editor in 1968 and, in 1978, married fellow journalist Sally Quinn.

In 1995, Quinn was hired by Saturday Night Live as a writer and featured player until 1997 – 1998 season, when he became a full cast member.

Quinn became host of Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn on Comedy Central in December 2002.

Pearlman, who had introduced Quinn, became adversarial and DeCamillis subsequently resigned as Chief Executive Officer of the airline.

Ugly " six pack " units were banned with design guidelines overhauled and Suburban Centre Improvement Schemes were also commenced in 1996 to revitalise traditional local shopping strips and are now widespread throughout the city., Mr Quinn became Brisbane's Lord Mayor following Lord Mayor Jim Soorley's retirement from politics in 2003 after serving as Deputy Mayor since 1997.

The first successful port of the CDC Pascal compiler to another mainframe was completed by Welsh and Quinn at the Queen's University of Belfast ( QUB ) in 1972.

One anecdote has Quinn arriving on-set for the first time in full costume, whereupon Lean, mistaking him for a native, asked his assistant to ring Quinn and notify him that they were replacing him with the new arrival.

Quinn grew up first in El Paso, Texas, and later the Boyle Heights and the Echo Park areas of Los Angeles, California.

Quinn wanted to play the lead role of Zapata but Brando coming off his recent success in the film Streetcar Named Desire was Kazan's first choice.

Later, Quinn studied briefly under Frank Lloyd Wright through the Taliesin Fellowship — an opportunity created by winning first prize in an architectural design contest.

Spock was portrayed by Jeffrey Quinn for the first three episodes of Star Trek: Phase II.

As the team's performance continued to worsen, starting the 1997 – 98 season with three wins in the first sixteen games, Quinn was fired as general manager after ten years with the team.

The cast includes Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Joseph Cotten, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, Terry O ' Quinn, Mickey Rourke, and Willem Dafoe, in his first film role.

In 1843, Peter and Louisa Quinn, the first European settlers to live in Bloomington, built a cabin along the Minnesota River in this area.

Quinn did commercials for Pepsi and Ray-Ban, appeared in the music video for the Richard Marx song " Satisfied ," and had his first speaking line in the pilot of Beverly Hills, 90210 after having endured eight separate auditions for the roles of both " Brandon Walsh " and then " Steve Sanders.

In 1991, Quinn had his first major role in a movie, Shout, which starred John Travolta and in which he shared an on-screen kiss with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Quinn hired Paul W. Fairman to be the first editor, but early circulation figures were disappointing, and Quinn fired Fairman after only three issues.

By the time the third issue reached the news stands, the disappointing sales figures for the first issue were in, and Quinn decided to let Fairman go.

In an attempt to improve Ifs circulation, Quinn hired writer Damon Knight, whose first issue was October 1958.

The pilot introduces the four original Sliders: Quinn Mallory ( Jerry O ' Connell ), a graduate student in physics who discovered and refined the Sliding technology ; Professor Maximillian Arturo ( John Rhys-Davies ), Quinn's mentor ; Wade Wells ( Sabrina Lloyd ), Quinn's friend ; and Rembrandt " Cryin ' Man " Brown ( Cleavant Derricks ), a professional singer who is accidentally caught in the first major test of the vortex and is forced to join the others.

Their first slide lands them on an Earth that is suffering from a second ice age, and Quinn, against his better judgement, uses the timer to open the vortex prematurely to save the group from an ice tornado bearing down on them.

He decided against becoming a minister and went to work first as a bank clerk in Derry, where Mrs Mitchel's brother, William Haslett, was director of a bank, and then in late 1835 or early 1836, he entered the office of a Newry solicitor, John Quinn, who was a friend of his father.

35-year-old striker Jimmy Quinn was put in charge of the first team alongside midfielder Mick Gooding and guided Reading to runners-up in the final Division One table – only to be denied automatic promotion because of the streamlining of the Premier League, from 22 teams to 20.

In 2009 The Manfreds ; Mike D ’ Abo, Mike Hugg, Paul Jones and Tom McGuinness joined Klaus Voorman performing a version of Mighty Quinn for his first solo collection A Sideman's Journey credited to " Voormann & Friends.