Roger Bacon and Leonardo da Vinci were some of the first modern Europeans to study aeronautics.

* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

In December of that year, allegations by Arkansas state troopers Larry Patterson and Roger Perry were first reported by David Brock in the American Spectator.

He also became the first starting pitcher to win this award since Roger Clemens had accomplished the feat in 1986.

Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season ( 1927 ), a mark first eclipsed by Roger Maris in 1961 with 61.

The hypothesis was first formulated by Roger Penrose in 1969, and it is not stated in a completely formal way.

The Steelers won Super Bowl X and Super Bowl XIII ; both games were decided in the final seconds, first on a last-second throw by Roger Staubach, then as a fourth-quarter rally by Dallas fell short on an onside kick.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.

Katharine's son from her first marriage, Roger Angell, has spent decades as a fiction editor for The New Yorker and is well known as the magazine's baseball writer.

When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.

In 1991, the first hydrogen fuel cell automobile was developed by Roger Billings.

* 1707 24 December – The first British Governor directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, took up residence in the Convent of the Franciscan friars.

Hurst settled into international football quickly but as the World Cup approached, it seemed clear that his inclusion in Ramsey's squad of 22 would merely be as a different option to the first choice partnership of Jimmy Greaves and Roger Hunt.

In Europe, one of first mentions of gunpowder use appears in a passage found in Roger Bacon's Opus Maius and Opus Tertium in what has been interpreted as being firecrackers.

The acquisition of Roger Metzger from the Chicago Cubs in the off-season moved Menke to first base and Bob Watson to the outfield.

The first, championed by Roger Sherman Loomis, Alfred Nutt, and Jessie Weston, holds that it derived from early Celtic myth and folklore.

The party continued to struggle until the general election of 1989 when the again renamed party won its first seat in parliament, the Dáil, when Roger Garland was elected in Dublin South.

He bigamously married Adelaide del Vasto, regent of Sicily, in 1113, but was convinced to divorce her as well in 1117 ; Adelaide's son from her first marriage, Roger II of Sicily, never forgave Jerusalem, and for decades withheld much-needed Sicilian naval support.

Apart from his first actual feature, Who's That Knocking at My Door and Boxcar Bertha, a directing project given him by early independent maverick Roger Corman, this was Scorsese's first feature film of his own design.

* 1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.

The theory of errors may be traced back to Roger Cotes's Opera Miscellanea ( posthumous, 1722 ), but a memoir prepared by Thomas Simpson in 1755 ( printed 1756 ) first applied the theory to the discussion of errors of observation.

Of the various U. S. states, California was the first to throw away the fiction of a warranty and to boldly assert the doctrine of strict liability in tort for defective products, in 1963 ( under the guidance of then-Associate Justice Roger J. Traynor ).

Sosa made his major league debut on June 16, 1989, with the Texas Rangers, and he hit first career home run off Roger Clemens.

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

However, despite having Howe, Delvecchio, Norm Ullman, and Parker MacDonald as consistent goal-scorers, Lindsay's sudden one-year comeback in 1964 – 65, and Sawchuk and later Roger Crozier between the pipes, the Wings came away empty-handed.

Edward's downfall came in 1326 when his Queen Isabella travelled to her native France and then, along with her lover Roger Mortimer, invaded England.

In July 1128, the two armies came in contact with each other on the banks of the Bradano, but Roger refused to engage, believing that the papal armies would soon fall apart, and soon enough some of the Pope ’ s allies began deserting to Roger.

In 1853 the case of the patent came before the U. S. Supreme Court where, after very lengthy investigation, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that Morse had been the first to combine the battery, electromagnetism, the electromagnet and the correct battery configuration into a workable practical telegraph.

They came to regard Roger Williams ' colony and the Narragansetts as a common enemy.

Clive Bell polemicized post-impressionism in his widely read book Art ( 1914 ), basing his aesthetics partly on Roger Fry ’ s art criticism and G. E. Moore ’ s moral philosophy ; and as the war came he argued provocatively that " in these days of storm and darkness, it seemed right that at the shrine of civilization-in Bloomsbury, I mean-the lamp should be tended assiduously ".

The band's drummer Roger Taylor commented ; " We never thought we would tour again, Paul came along by chance and we seemed to have a chemistry.

Following Freddie Mercury's death on 24 November 1991 from bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS, the remaining members of Queen ( John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor ) came together with Queen Manager Jim Beach to organise an open air concert to celebrate the life and legacy of Mercury, as well as raise money for AIDS research, and spread awareness about the disease.

However, when Roger Lancelyn Green asked him how a lamp post came to be standing in the midst of Narnian woodland, Lewis was intrigued enough by the question to attempt to find an answer by writing The Magician's Nephew, which features a younger version of Professor Kirke from the first novel.

He travelled past the Port Arthur historic site toward a Palmer's Lookout Road property owned by the Martins, where he came across Roger Larner driving out of his driveway.

This came after cutting a deal with Roger Corman, wherein Corman would let Howard direct a film in exchange for Howard starring in Eat My Dust !, with Christopher Norris.

The promo film to Call Me Lightning ( 1968 ) tells a story of how drummer Keith Moon came to join the group: One fine day, the other three band members are having tea inside what looks like an abandoned hangar when suddenly a " bleeding box " arrives, out of which jumps a fast-running, timelapse, utterly out-of-control Moon that Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and John Entwistle subsequently try to get a hold of in a sped-up slapstick chasing sequence to wind him down.

' Roger Bigod or Bigot was a Norman Knight who came to England in the Norman Conquest.

Roger Bigod ( died 1107 ) was a Norman knight who came to England in the Norman Conquest.

Roger came from a fairly obscure family of poor knights in Normandy.

" Escape Route " was directed by the show's star, Roger Moore, who later recalled that Sutherland " asked me if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important part ... they came to view a rough cut at the studio and he got The Dirty Dozen ".

Entries came in from writers who were later to become well-known, including Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, and Andrew J. Offutt, whose story " And Gone Tomorrow ", about a man unexpectedly sent a hundred years into the future, won first prize and appeared in the December 1954 issue of If.

After touring in the early 1950s in several theater productions, his first motion picture appearance came in 1955 and the following year he gained stardom with his performance opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman.

Various recurring characters came and went, notably Dennis Paladino as a mob boss named Donnie " Dogs " DiBarto ; John Byner as Cotton Dunn, a cunning but likable con artist ; Scott Atkins as Officer Perry, a rookie cop ; Kim Morgan Greene as Mellisa Cassidy, a late night radio talk show host, sex therapist, and old flame of Chris's ; Danny Gans as Roger, a coroner who frequently ( and unsuccessfully ) tried to get Rita to go out with him ; Marie Marshall as Solange, a local photographer with a faux French accent who crossed paths with Chris and Rita in the second season ; and Lucy Lin, who played forensic expert Dr. Noriko Weinstein.

Many great programmes came out of Ealing from Alistair Cooke's America edited by Alan Tyrer to Z-Cars edited by Shelia Tomlinson and Cathy Come Home edited by Roger Waugh.

The latter game finished 2 – 0 with Roger Hunt getting both England goals, one of which came after Charlton, venturing forward to add height to the attack, hit the post with a header.

She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Serial Mom and Prizzi's Honor.

" Roger Warren, however, argues that the scene provides strong evidence that The Contention is a reported text ; " it is not hard to conjecture how the Quarto's version came about.