At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

Changes to the UK system have been proposed, and alternatives were examined by the Jenkins Commission in the late 1990s.

* 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D. C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.

In the late 1990s, he was an adviser to Tony Blair and chaired the Jenkins Commission on electoral reform.

Jenkins had wanted to become Foreign Secretary, but accepted an appointment as President of the European Commission ( succeeding François-Xavier Ortoli ) after Callaghan appointed Anthony Crosland to the Foreign Office.

The main development overseen by the Jenkins Commission was the development of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union from 1977, which began in 1979 as the European Monetary System, a forerunner of the Single Currency or Euro.

Jenkins ' Grave In December 1997, he was appointed chair of a Government-appointed Independent Commission on the Voting System, which became known as the " Jenkins Commission ", to consider alternative voting systems for the UK.

The Jenkins Commission reported in favour of a new uniquely British mixed-member proportional system called " Alternative vote top-up " or " limited AMS " in October 1998, although no action was taken on this recommendation.

* February 25 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D. C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

* January 5: Roy Jenkins, former president of the European Commission ( 1977 – 1981 )

A regional open-list method was also recommended for the United Kingdom by the Jenkins Commission and for Canada by the Law Commission of Canada.

The first guest speaker was the late Lord Jenkins of Hillhead ( formerly British Home Secretary and President of the European Commission Roy Jenkins ).

In 1980 Thorn was chosen as President of the Commission of the European Communities ( now called the European Union ), in succession to Roy Jenkins.

The Independent Commission on the Voting System, popularly known as the Jenkins Commission after its chairman Roy Jenkins, was a commission into possible reform of the United Kingdom electoral system.

" This report was then forwarded to the Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, who then complained of Jenkins ' treatment to the Governor of Havana.

* October 23 – War of Jenkins ' Ear: Great Britain declares war on Spain.

The War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 48 ) – including King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins ' Ear ( which actually began formally on 23 October 1739 ), and two of the three Silesian wars – involved most of the powers of Europe over the question of Maria Theresa's succession to the realms of the House of Habsburg.

War on Spain was declared by Great Britain on 23 October 1739, which has become known as the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

O ' Neill was married to Kathleen Jenkins from October 2, 1909 to 1912, during which time they had one son, Eugene O ' Neill, Jr. ( 1910 – 1950 ).

However, it did not grow beyond the level of occasional skirmishes until the onset of the War of Jenkins ' Ear in October 1739.

Writing from onboard HMS Lyon at Port Royal, Jamaica on 12 October 1731 to the Admiralty in London, Rear Admiral Charles Stewart confided, " I was a little surprised to hear of the usage Captain Jenkins met with off the Havana.

Shortly after Professor Laughton published his " Jenkins's Ear " research in the English Historical Review, a Royal Navy colleague wrote, on 26 October 1889, to inform the historian: " I have a curious book connected with the subject, published in London in 1739, entitled England's Triumph: or a complete History of the many signals victories gained by the Royal Navy & Merchant Ships of Great Britain, for the term of 40 years past over the insulting & haught Spaniards by Captain Charles Jenkins, who has too severely felt the effects of Spanish tyranny.

Not all of the " Indian " officers of the 11th found themselves the object of Brudenell's disfavour: when in October 1840 Major Jenkins, a long-serving veteran, fell seriously ill Brudenell attended his bedside for two nights and, when he died, made a substantial payment to the family and secured a suitable position for his younger son.

Gotti co-produced Vanessa Carlton's third album, Heroes and Thieves, with Channel 7, Rick Rubin and Stephan Jenkins, which was released October 9, 2007.

Gotti co-produced Vanessa Carlton's third album, Heroes and Thieves, with Channel 7, Rick Rubin and Stephan Jenkins, which was released October 9, 2007.

New York: Jenkins & Thomas, printers, 1883. googlebooks. com Accessed October 20, 2007

A month before the 1964 presidential election, on October 7, 1964, District of Columbia Police arrested Jenkins in a YMCA restroom.

Finally, on October 14, a Washington Star editor called the White House for Jenkins ' comment on a story it was preparing.

One columnist wrote on October 15, " Walter Jenkins has revived and dramatized all the harsh feelings about morals, and political cliques, and the Texas gang in Washington.

" Jenkins ' arrest was quickly overshadowed by international affairs: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev was deposed on October 14, the British electorate voted Labour into power on October 15, and China successfully tested a nuclear weapon on October 16.

On October 29, 44 leading clergymen, including Dean Francis B. Sayre, Jr. of Washington National Cathedral, United Presbyterian Church Leader Eugene Carson Blake, Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, American Hebrew Congregations President Maurice Eisendrauth, and theologians Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, issued a letter commenting on the Jenkins affair: "" We see the Jenkins episode as a case of human weakness.

The pitchers for those games were Ferguson Jenkins ( 1 for 2, a single ) on October 2, 1974 for the Texas Rangers at Minnesota, Ken Holtzman ( 0 for 2 ) for the Oakland A's against the California Angels on September 27, 1975, Ken Brett for the Chicago White Sox on July 6, 1976 at the Boston Red Sox, and again on September 23, 1976 for Chicago against the Twins.

In October 1742 and the " Bloody Election " riots, sailors attacked Quakers and pacifist Germans, whose peace politics were strained by the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

* Roy Jenkins by Lord Adonis, 25 October

Jenkins died October 30, 1981 in Oakland, California.

Ennis briefly returned to the title in 1998 with " Son of Man ", filling the gaps between Paul Jenkins ' and Warren Ellis ' runs on the title.

* Major General David Jenkins ( 1998 – 2000 )

* British Psychiatric Morbidity Survey conducted by Jenkins ( 1998 )

Stapleton voiced John Rolfe's maid, Mrs. Jenkins in Disney's 1998 direct-to-video animated film Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World.

AV + was invented by the 1998 Jenkins Commission which first proposed the idea as a system that could be used for elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

' Despite the research carried out by the Jenkins Commission in 1998 suggesting an AV + system for Westminster elections, the 2001 manifesto did not make such a promise.

" ( 1998 ), Ostrander notes, " Research has consistently shown a link between lack of phonological awareness and reading disorders ( Jenkins & Bowen, 1994 )" and discusses the research basis for teaching Cued Speech as an aid to phonological awareness and literacy.

** # 89 – 128 ( with Paul Jenkins, 1995 – 1998 )

* Ferrell Jenkins ' speech on non-institutional Churches-Delivered at Pepperdine University in 1998

* Charles Jenkins ( bishop ) ( born 1951 ), Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana, 1998 –

* Jenkins, Dafydd ( 1998 ), A nation on trial: Penyberth, 1936.

At the end of the 1998 season, technical director Alan Jenkins left Stewart Grand Prix, and was replaced by Jordan's Gary Anderson.

The Slums of Beverly Hills is a 1998 motion picture, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins.

After the war Jenkins settled in Rhodesia, where he met his wife, author Eve Palmer ( 1916 – 1998 ).

Jenkins married actor Kevin Sorbo on January 5, 1998.

* Interview with Toby Gard of Confounding Factor, David Jenkins, October 23, 1998 at Gamasutra

Jenkins has also played rugby league, making regular appearances for Cardiff Demons in the late 1990s leading them to the 1998 Division Two Academy Grand Final.

* Jenkins, Stewart H. and Breck, Stewart W. ( 1998 ) Differences in food hoarding among six species of heteromyid rodents.

The Ballpark at Harbor Yard opened on May 21, 1998 on the site of the former Jenkins Valve factory, with the success of the Bridgeport Bluefish paving the way for progress in the city of Bridgeport.

He is also a frequent collaborator with the director siblings the Farrelly brothers, who have worked with Jenkins in There's Something About Mary ( 1998 ), Outside Providence ( 1999 ), Me, Myself, & Irene ( 2000 ), Say It Isn't So ( 2001 ), Hall Pass ( 2011 ) and the 2012 Three Stooges remake.

The supposed prediction of an astronomical conjunction of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy with the winter solstice Sun on December 21, 2012, referred to by Jenkins in Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date ( 1998 ) and Galactic Alignment: The Transformation of Consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian, and Vedic Traditions ( 2002 ) as having been predicted by the ancient Maya and others, is a much-anticipated event in Mayanism.

His acting career spanned various plays and guest roles in television: Water Rats ( 1996 ), All Saints ( 1998 ), as Brent Duffy for four episodes of the ABC TV drama Love Is a Four-Letter Word ( 2001 ), also as Bertie Jenkins in the ABC mini series Changi ( 2001 ) and as Chook in the feature film, Angst ( 2000 ).

Released in 1998, Imagined Oceans is an album by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins.