* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

Sullivan's failure to scoop the TV industry with Presley made him determined to get the next big sensation first.

This was not the first incident of apparent network censorship on Sullivan's show.

English-language operettas were first composed in England in the 1860s — for example, Arthur Sullivan's Cox and Box ( 1866 ).

Helmore encouraged the young Sullivan's composing talent and arranged for one of his pieces, " O Israel ", to be published in 1855, Sullivan's first published work.

Sullivan's first attempt at opera, The Sapphire Necklace ( 1863 – 64 ) to a libretto by Henry F. Chorley, was not produced and is now lost, except for the overture and two songs from the work, which were separately published.

Trial, starring Sullivan's brother Fred as the Learned Judge, became a surprise hit, earning glowing praise from the critics and playing for 300 performances over its first few seasons.

The first comic opera produced by the new company was Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer in 1877, involving a tradesmanlike London magician and his patented love potion.

Despite this, the number ends with another example of Sullivan's counterpoint, with the chorus singing the second melody of the piece (" Let us gaily tread the measure ") while the orchestra plays the first (" Climbing over rocky mountain ").

It was the first of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas to premiere at the Savoy Theatre.

" The Times praised both the libretto and the music of the first act (" Everything sparkles with the flashes of Mr. Gilbert's wit and the graces of Sir Arthur Sullivan's melodiousness ... one is almost at a loss what to select for quotation from an embarrassment of humorous riches.

Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.

O ' Sullivan's first usage of the phrase " Manifest Destiny " attracted little attention.

In 1889, The Great John L. Sullivan-one of the world's first sports superstars-came to Belfast to train for the last bare knuckle boxing championship with Belfast resident William Muldoon for what was arguably the most important fight of Sullivan's career.

In May 2006, the Town of Sullivan's Island became the first municipality in South Carolina to ban smoking in all public places.

" The singer never again appeared in Sullivan's show, although in February 1964 at the start of the first of three broadcasts featuring the Beatles ( see below ), Sullivan announced that a telegram had been received from Presley and Parker wishing the British group luck.

This was the first Savoy Opera to use Sullivan's larger orchestra, including a second bassoon and third trombone.

Gilbert thought that Sullivan's first setting ( in 6 / 8 time ) was too similar to many of the other tenor ballads in the Savoy Operas, and he urged the composer to rewrite it.

He appeared as himself on several television shows during his retirement, first on Ed Sullivan's variety show Toast of the Town June 5, 1949 and again on July 6, 1958.

The term fisking was first applied soon after on Instapundit and Sullivan's blog.

The first concert at the Hall was Arthur Sullivan's cantata, On Shore and Sea, which was performed on 1 May 1871.

O ' Sullivan's first husband was Australian-born writer, award-winning director and Catholic convert John Farrow, from September 12, 1936 until his death on January 28, 1963.

Anne Sullivan's first month with Helen Keller is chronicled in the novel, Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller, by Sarah Miller.

* In Preston Sturges ' 1941 film Sullivan's Travels, Joel McCrea, playing a Hollywood film director who wants to experience how the downtrodden masses live, ends up in his first foray in an " owl wagon ", where he meets failed actress Veronica Lake, who buys him ham and eggs.

Sullivan's Travels went into production on 12 May 1941 and wrapped on 22 July.

Keller mimics the words Sullivan spells into her hand throughout the film by spelling them back in Sullivan's hand, so at this moment it would only seem that Keller was continuing to mimic without understanding the concept.

As Greene and Sullivan's columns pushed into the town, Washington moved to high ground north of King and Queens streets to see the action and direct his troops.

Sullivan's oldest nephew, Herbert, stayed behind in England as his uncle's ward, and Sullivan threw himself into the task of orchestrating the score of Princess Ida.

However the studio came into trouble during the advent of sound cartoons in the early 30's when the popularity of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse was rising above Sullivan's Felix.

In 1947-48, Sullivan's Royal Commission investigated arsons and bombing attacks in British Columbia, and recommended a number of measures intended to integrate the Doukhobors into the Canadian society, notably through the participation of their children in public education.

Sullivan's Expedition marched up the Susquehanna to Elmira, pushing the Seneca to Fort Niagara ; despite a costly manoeuvre that led the whole of the army straight into a swamp, which they forded nearly twenty times before arriving at Cathrine ’ s town, from this point on, with the league undeniably dissolved, the nation settled in new villages along Buffalo Creek, Tonawanda Creek, and Cattaraugus Creek in western New York.

A small watercourse, called Baldwin Creek, ran through the hollow and emptied into the Chemung River ( referred to as the Cayuga branch in Sullivan's reports ).

" Climbing over rocky mountain " is the best known piece from Thespis, as it was transplanted in 1879 into one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most successful operas, The Pirates of Penzance.

Confederate Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island looking east into Charleston Harbor

Further modernization in the 1880s turned all of Sullivan's Island surrounding the old fort into a military complex.

And although he " brought O ' Sullivan back into the fold as an editor ," the periodical's " jingoism achieved an even higher pitch than O ' Sullivan's dog-whistle stridency.

Sullivan's team was sold to a new ownership group who renamed them the Catskill Cougars and moved them to the North Atlantic League while Mohawk Valley moved to West Warwick, Rhode Island, expanding the league into New England as the team became the Rhode Island Tiger Sharks.

From here, the Leith flows initially south into a reservoir formed behind Sullivan's Dam, which was constructed in 1916.

Soon another talent competition was held, this time it was the All Army Talent Competition, to find service personnel to appear on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town ( which later evolved into The Ed Sullivan Show ).

After the Shubenacadie Canal was largely abandoned in the 1860s due to unsustainable competition from the Nova Scotia Railway, Sullivan's Pond fell into disrepair and homes gradually began to surround the pond.

When he died at age 72 in Fort Myers, Florida, in February 2003 after suffering a stroke, Boston baseball observers such as Peter Gammons took a fresh view of Sullivan's impact on the Red Sox and gave him renewed credit for building the team into contenders, and keeping them there, from 1966 forward.