The night was cold but the crowd kept one warm.

It was a quarter of seven when the crowd washed me up among the other gallants who had established the Astor steps as the beach-head from which to launch their night of merrymaking.

All went home happy except the Newport police, who feared that the throng departing at 6:35 might meet head-on the night crowd drawing nigh, and those deprived of their happy hour at the cocktail bar.

In August 1979, after two warm-up shows in Copenhagen, Led Zeppelin headlined two concerts at the Knebworth Music Festival, playing to a crowd of approximately 104, 000 on the first night.

It wasn't anything tangible anybody said to anyone else, it was just kind of like everything over the years had come to a head on that one particular night in the one particular place, and it was not an organized demonstration .... Everyone in the crowd felt that we were never going to go back.

The night of the Haymarket Riot in 1886, Harrison walked unmolested through the crowd of anarchists and advised the police to leave the demonstrators alone.

The tour included five shows in Argentina, one of which drew the largest single concert crowd in Argentine history with an audience of 300, 000 in Buenos Aires and two concerts at the Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, where they played to an audience of more than 131, 000 people in the first night ( then the largest paying audience for a single band anywhere in the world ) and more than 120, 000 people the following night.

A glittering crowd attended the first night in London, including Captain ( later Captain Sir ) Eyre Massey Shaw, head of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, whom the Fairy Queen apostrophizes in the second act (" Oh, Captain Shaw / Type of true love kept under / Could thy brigade with cold cascade / Quench my great love, I wonder ?").

The Glen Island date according to author Gunther Schuller attracted " a record breaking opening night crowd of 1800 ..." With the Glen Island date, the band began a huge rise in popularity.

Although he was a member of the Bruins, the Atlanta crowd cheered Savard the entire night.

A 10-minute standing ovation followed the concert ; the DVD shows several rock luminaries in the crowd, such as Roger Daltrey, Paul Weller, Sir George Martin and Sir Paul McCartney ( although neither Martin nor McCartney attended the opening night, contrary to what the DVD implies ).

However, the same night a crowd gathered and attacked the Roman Catholic Sardinian Embassy Chapel in Duke Street.

A postcard from the event still exists, showing a crowd standing next to Washington ’ s charred corpse with the words on the back “ This is the barbecue we had last night.

On the night of June 14, 1909, the crowd gathered in Hodgkins during and after the election became unruly.

Describing the tour, Stevens remarked that seeing a crowd of over 13, 000 fans each night coming to see them was " such an unbelievable feeling ", and the other members of the group shared an " adrenaline rush " as well as a wave of emotion before going on stage.

In his arguments, Adams called the crowd “ a motley rabble of saucy boys, negros and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tarrs .” In particular, he charged Attucks with having “ undertaken to be the hero of the night ,” and with having precipitated a conflict by his “ mad behavior .”

At night, a crowd, led by Ebenezer MacIntosh, a veteran of the Seven Years ' War and a shoemaker, cut down the mock Oliver and took it in a funeral procession to the Town House where the legislature met.

Daily progress bulletins were issued on the inflation ; and the crowd was so great that on the 26th the balloon was moved secretly by night to the Champ de Mars, a distance of 4 kilometres.

The size of the crowd was larger than concert organizers had planned for and by the second night many of the event policies were logistically unenforceable.

The next night Hutchinson's Boston mansion was surrounded, and the crowd demanded that he formally deny arguing in favor of the Stamp Act in his correspondence with London.

Kool Herc instead originated the idea of creating a sequence for his own purposes, introducing the idea of the DJ as the " feature " of parties, whose performance on any given night would be examined critically by the crowd on both a technical and entertainment level.

Highlights of the show include the evacuation of the last Americans in Saigon from the Embassy roof by helicopter while a crowd of abandoned Vietnamese scream in despair, the victory parade of the new communist regime and the frenzied night club scene at the time of defeat.

The actual treatment of the hostages was far different from that purported in Iranian propaganda: the hostages described beatings, theft, the fear of bodily harm while being paraded blindfold before a large, angry chanting crowd outside the embassy ( Bill Belk and Kathryn Koob ), having their hands bound " day and night " for days or even weeks, long periods of solitary confinement and months of being forbidden to speak to one another or stand, walk, and leave their space unless they were going to the bathroom.

There were ten men on the patrol which Sergeant Prevot led out that next night.

In the ninth, Robinson led off with his second double of the night, a blast off the fence 375 feet deep into left.

Nostalgia week at Lewisohn Stadium, which had begun with the appearance of the 70-year-old Mischa Elman on Tuesday night, continued last night as Lily Pons led the list of celebrities in an evening of French operatic excerpts.

The incident inspired Henry David Thoreau, whose similar protest led to a night in jail and his essay " Civil Disobedience ".

However, the need to engage targets at night, in depth or hit the target with the first rounds quickly led to predicted fire being developed in World War I.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

The main weapons of assassination chosen organised the successful assassination of King Alexander I of Serbia and his consort Draga ; he confirmed that Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic, who had personally led the group of Army officers who killed the royal couple in the Old Palace at Belgrade on the night of 28 / 29 May 1903 ( Old Style ), was also the Black Hand's leader.

In 1989, the first full season with night baseball at Wrigley Field, Don Zimmer's Cubs were led by a core group of veterans in Ryne Sandberg, Rick Sutcliffe and Andre Dawson, who were boosted by a crop of youngsters such as Mark Grace, Shawon Dunston, Greg Maddux, Rookie of the Year Jerome Walton, and Rookie of the Year Runner-Up Dwight Smith.

The smooth coordination among the three, leading their, by now battle-hardened, troops in the dark of the night, led the bewildered enemy to scatter.

The crisis, called " night frost " by Nikita Khrushchev, led to Soviet pressure against Finland in economic matters.

Some observers allege that most of these spoils were lost when a convoy of British ships led by HMS Fantome sank en route to Halifax off Prospect during a storm on the night of November 24, 1814, even though Fantome had no inolvement in that action.

Count Dietpald led soldiers to Otto's camp during the night.

In addition, he underlined his preference for the night scene which led him to buy a nightclub.

On the night of 10 June, at Bramham Moor, outside Tadcaster, Lovell led 2, 000 men on a night attack against 400 Lancastrians, led by Lord Clifford.

On the night of April 19 there was an assault on San Felipe is deemed final, led by three columns of grenadiers supported by the Jamaicans and several British companies, conveniently aided by the darkness and the constant bombardment from ships.

This led to the introduction of a far more substantial pay lead for nurses in geriatric and psychiatric hospitals, together with ( for the first time ) premium rates for weekend and night work.

* The amount of criminal activities that take place on Saturday nights has led to the expression, " Saturday night special " a pejorative slang term used in the United States and Canada for any inexpensive handgun.

In Middlesex, Virginia, on the night of October 2, 1988, troubled teenager Donnie Darko ( Jake Gyllenhaal ) is awakened and led outside by a figure in a monstrous rabbit costume, who introduces himself as " Frank " and tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds.

CNN's debate and election night coverage led to its highest ratings of the year, with January 2008 viewership averaging 1. 1 million viewers, a 41 % increase over the previous year.

" Jefferson suggested a depiction of the Children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night for the front of the seal ; and Hengest and Horsa, the two brothers who were the legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain, for the reverse side of the seal.

These objects provide enough light for " valleydwellers " to see at night and have led to speculation, by valleydwellers and fans, that the Riverworld is located in the galactic core.