On 24 August 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the surrounding cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under metres of ash and lava ; the following year, a fire broke out in Rome which lasted three days and which destroyed a number of important public buildings.

Playing acoustic guitar, she formed a group with Bowie and bassist John Hutchinson ; between September 1968 and early 1969, when Bowie and Farthingale broke up, the trio gave a small number of concerts combining folk, Merseybeat, poetry and mime.

The CIA broke into his hotel room and photocopied his passport, which gave them his full name, birth information and passport number for the first time, and alerted them that he held an entry visa to the United States.

In 2009, of the 429 Florida manatees recorded dead, 97 were killed by commercial and recreational vessels, which broke the earlier record number of 95 set in 2002.

In the late 1960s, due to Ne Win's propaganda that the Chinese were responsible for crop failures, and the increasing number of ethnic Chinese students supporting Mao Zedong, by carrying the Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong books, anti-Chinese riots broke out in June 1967.

From the 1960s an increasing number of American youths started to come into contact with new religious movements ( NRM ), and some who converted suddenly adopted beliefs and behaviors that differed greatly from those of their families and friends ; in some cases they neglected or even broke contact with their loved ones.

From the 1620s, Dutch raiders seriously troubled Spanish shipping and, after a number of battles which went both ways, the Dutch Navy finally broke the long dominance of the Spanish Navy in the Battle of the Downs ( 1639 ).

During the Tonian, rifting commenced which broke Rodinia into a number of individual land masses.

However, a number of churches, particularly those associated with the School of Edessa, supported Nestorius – though not necessarily his doctrine – and broke with the churches of the West.

On July 13, 1985, the band made a stop in Philadelphia ( en route to a show in Milwaukee ) to play at the US Leg of Live Aid, which broke a record for number of viewers.

However, with Phillips ' production, the record broke into the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 59 and selling 200, 000 copies.

In the winter, the Red Sox traded right fielder Ben Chapman to the Cleveland Indians to make room for Williams on the roster, with Williams inheriting Chapman's number 9 on his uniform opposed to Williams ' number 5 in the previous spring training, even though Chapman had hit. 340 in the previous season, which led Boston Globe sports journalist Gerry Moore to quip, " Not since Joe DiMaggio broke in with the Yankees by " five for five " in St. Petersberg in 1936 has any baseball rookie received the nationwide publicity that has been accorded this spring to Theodore Francis Williams ".

This plan broke down for reasons that are disputed, and both candidates received the same number of votes.

Excitement was so high that a bidding war for the first machine broke out between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, the latter eventually winning and receiving serial number 001 in 1976 for a six-month trial.

The record stood at 100 for 24 years before a huge team lead by the ski club broke the record at 114 in 2010 and then increased the number to 145 in 2012.

Chirac broke at that time with a number of friends and allies, including Charles Pasqua, Nicolas Sarkozy, etc., who supported Balladur's candidacy.

The majority of intelligence officers did not believe that Golitsyn was credible in this and various other claims, but a significant number did ( most prominently James Jesus Angleton, Deputy Director of Operations for Counter-Intelligence at the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ) and factional strife broke out between the two groups.

Berlin broke a number of the conventions of American songwriting in this film, especially in the songs " Top Hat, White Tie and Tails " and " Cheek to Cheek ", and, according to Rogers, the film became the talk of Hollywood as a result of its score.

During the 1980s in Argentina, the Trotskyist party founded in 1982 by Nahuel Moreno, MAS, ( Movimiento al Socialismo, Movement Toward Socialism ), claimed to be the " largest Trotskyist party " in the world, before it broke into a number of different fragments in the late 1980s, including the present-day MST, PTS, MAS, IS, PRS, FOS, etc.

However, he eventually sired a number of major stakes winners, including 1986 Horse of the Year Lady's Secret, 1988 Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Risen Star, 1990 Melbourne Cup winner Kingston Rule, which broke the course record in Australia's richest race, and the 1994, 1995 winner of the G1 Pacific Classic, Tinners Way, born in 1990 to Secretariat's last crop.

In 1450, a number of riots broke out at roughly the same time Jack Cade led a famous rebellion through London.

Martin St. Louis was having a breakout season when he broke his leg in game number 47 and was lost for the remainder of the season.

On September 9, 1945, the city was briefly seized by the Cursed soldiers, who broke into a local prison, releasing a number of Home Army soldiers.

The lead-off single to their 1987 album " Tar Top " broke their long streak of 21 number one singles when it peaked at No. 7.

The Detroit River is home to a growing number of bird species, such as eagles ( including reintroduced bald eagles ), ospreys, and peregrine falcons.

Popular river destinations in the city of Detroit include the Detroit International Riverfront and Belle Isle Park — both of which host a number of events throughout the year.

The Detroit Tigers swept the Royals in the 1984 playoff season, and in the early 2000s, Detroit and Kansas City had a number of bench clearing brawls.

Membership included a number of cooperatively owned and collectively run enterprises especially in the printing industry: Black & Red ( Detroit ), Lakeside ( Madison, Wisconsin ), and Harbinger ( Columbia, South Carolina ).

He is still active in his practice, which is currently involved in a number of projects ; including an addition to the Detroit Institute of Arts, and a large Integrated Resort, Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore.

Two teams were added in 1998 ( Detroit and Washington ) and two more in 1999 ( Orlando and Minnesota ), bringing the number of teams in the league up to twelve.

Peter Forsberg's number 21 became the fourth jersey number retired by the Avs on opening night, a contest Colorado would lose to Detroit 3-0.

The Ducks defeated the number one seed and President's Trophy winning Sharks in six games in the first round before being eliminated in the conference semifinals by the eventual Western Conference champion Detroit Red Wings in seven games.

The program featured interviews with a number of LHA officials, and a message from Carl Fisher read by an announcer in Detroit.

He wore uniform number 15 on the 1955 Tigers, and then switched to 14 in 1956 for the rest of his time with Detroit.

On June 26, 2011 the Detroit Tigers honored Sparky Anderson by retiring his number 11 from future use and placing his name and number on the outfield wall with the other past honorees and members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

East Detroit High School produced a number of professional football players, including Gary Ballman, Ron Kramer and Mickey Walker.

It is also home to the Detroit Skating Club where a number of world-class figure skaters have trained, including single skaters Tara Lipinski, Todd Eldredge, Alissa Czisny, Adam Rippon, Jeremy Abbott and ice dancers Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat, Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje, Naomi Lang / Peter Tchernyshev, Elizabeth Punsalan / Jerod Swallow.

While the 19th century saw a primarily agricultural economy, the 20th century saw the completion of a railroad depot and the arrival of the automobile, as a number of visitors from Detroit began to visit the township.

During this era and into the early 20th century, a number of wealthy residents from Detroit and other nearby towns built summer homes along the shoreline ( mainly on the southern end ) of Grosse Ile in order to enjoy views of the Detroit River or Lake Erie.

It was named for Detroit, Michigan in the 1890s because of the large number of people from Michigan in the community.

Around this time they also made a number of recordings that became known as the Detroit Rehearsal Tapes, including a number of new songs that might have been included on a fourth studio album had the band not been dropped by Columbia shortly after the release of Raw Power.

The company moved all of its operations to Los Angeles in June 1972, with a number of artists, among them Martha Reeves, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Motown's Funk Brothers studio band, either staying behind in Detroit or leaving the company for other reasons.

Ralph Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, published in 1965, criticized a number of Detroit automobiles as poorly designed for safety concerns, including the Chevrolet Corvair model.