He first joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1840 then had in the interim joined a Masonic Lodge and become extremely active in the affairs of the organization, being elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction in 1859.

* 1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world ( now the United Grand Lodge of England ), is founded in London, England.

* 1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.

During his term as Governor-General of New Zealand ( 1921-1923 ), he was also Grand Master of New Zealand's Grand Lodge.

In England and some other countries, while the Scottish Rite is not accorded official recognition by the Grand Lodge, there is no prohibition against a Freemason electing to join it.

The seed of the myth of Stuart Jacobite influence on the higher degrees may have been a careless and unsubstantiated remark made by John Noorthouk in the 1784 Book of Constitutions of the Premier Grand Lodge of London.

An active Mason and member of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, by 1898 he was a Master Mason and had risen to the thirty-third degree in the Scottish Rite, the highest level of the order, and had become a member of its Supreme Council.

* November 7 – The Masonic Grand Lodge de France is founded, splitting from the larger and older Grand Orient de France.

* June 24 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the ' Modern ' and first Free-Masonic Grand Lodge ( which later merges with the Ancient Grand Lodge of England in 1813 to form the United Grand Lodge of England ), is founded in London, England.

Tooling through Sydney on his way to race in the New Zealand Grand Prix, Britain's balding Ace Driver Stirling Moss, 31, all but smothered himself in his own exhaust of self-crimination.

A resolution of the Grand Council, on 15 May 1877, granted citizens ' rights to the members of the Jewish communities of those places, giving them charters under the names of New Endingen and New Lengnau.

New York City Opera staged it in 1990, 1991 and 2003, the Houston Grand Opera in 1999, and the Los Angeles Opera in 2004.

During the War of the Grand Alliance, on orders from the province of New York, Massachusetts, Kidd captured an enemy privateer, which duty he was commissioned to perform off of the New England coast.

It also gave impetus to the never-ending treasure hunts conducted on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, in Suffolk County, Long Island in New York where Gardiner's Island is located, Charles Island in Milford, Connecticut ; the Thimble Islands in Connecticut and on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.

Massachusetts was increasingly concerned over reports of the capabilities of this fortress, and of privateers staging out of its harbour to raid New England fishermen on the Grand Banks.

An area within the region where both fiscal and social conservatism do coincide and where the federal Reform Party and Canadian Alliance have met success is in the central-western part of New Brunswick, in the St. John River valley north of Saint John and south of Grand Falls.

* Rhodes, Ron, The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2001

Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions and the New Age Movement, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2004.

* 1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.

In recent years English director writer, Richard Mazda, has re-introduced New York audiences to the Grand Guignol.

But the English government opposed the idea: involved in the War of the Grand Alliance from 1689 to 1697 against France, it did not want to offend Spain, which claimed the territory as part of New Granada.

Donal Henahan, special to the New York Times, called the Houston Grand Opera world premiere of the work " worth a few giggles but hardly a strong candidate for the standard repertory " and " visually striking but coy and insubstantial.

After the 1955 New Zealand Grand Prix, Brabham was persuaded by Dean Delamont, competitions manager of the Royal Automobile Club in the United Kingdom, to try a season of racing in Europe, then the international centre of road racing.

* He was Grand Marshal of the Krewe of Endymion Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans on February 21, 2009 and was accompanied by The Chee-Weez, a local area cover band.

In 2006 he received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from the Emperor of Japan and in 2009 he received the highest honour of Papua New Guinea, the Grand Companion of the Order of Logohu.

Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, the team won its first Grand Prix at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix but their greatest initial success was in Can-Am, where they dominated from 1967 to 1971.

* Simon, Henry W .: A Treasury of Grand Opera, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1946.

* New York Grand Chapter homepage

" Grand Designs: A Musical, Social and Ethographic Study of Rush ," PhD dissertation in ethnomusicology, York University, 2002.

John Frankenheimer made Grand Prix after his visit to the 1964 New York World's Fair.

This massive concert took place at the Grand Prix Raceway outside Watkins Glen, New York on July 28, 1973.

They appeared in the United States for the first time at appearances in New York City's Times Square, Grand Central Terminal, and Apollo Theater.

February 1: New York City | New York's Grand Central Terminal | Grand Central building as rebuilt ( c. 1911 ).

* February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest train station.

In the late 2010s, the LIRR intends to start service to Grand Central Terminal via the East Side Access project ; provision was made for this route on the lower level of the 63rd Street Tunnel under the East River, which carries the New York City Subway's IND 63rd Street Line ( train ) on its upper level.

Very large bore (>= 0. 750 inch ) sousaphones, with oversized bells as large as 32 " in diameter, were made by Conn (" Grand Jumbo " ( 3-valve ) & 48K ( 4-valve )) and King (" Jumbo " ( 3-& 4-valve versions ) & " Giant " ( 3-valve ) & 1271 ( 4-value )) in the mid-1920s and 1930s, and by Martin, York, & Buescher, but they disappeared from the catalogs during the Depression or at the onset of World War II.

* 36 Hours at the Grand Canyon by The New York Times, May 31, 2009

The Yippies, who were seen as an offshoot of the hippie movements parodying as a political party, came to national attention during their celebration of the 1968 spring equinox, when some 3, 000 of them took over Grand Central Terminal in New York — eventually resulting in 61 arrests.

The battle is said by some to be the source for the mnemonic for remembering the traditional colours of the rainbow, Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain, and also the mocking nursery rhyme, The Grand Old Duke of York although this much more likely refers to the eighteenth century duke, son of George III.

In November 1954 the New York City Transit Authority issued an order to Goodyear and Stephens-Adamson to build a complete Carveyor system between Times Square and Grand Central.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011.

Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.