* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.

The Second French Empire, his Western European model, had been defeated in the Franco-Prussian War by the North German Confederation under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia.

In 1941, Ultra exerted a powerful effect on the North African desert campaign, against the German army, under General Erwin Rommel.

The Second Battle of El Alamein reversed German ambitions in North Africa, and is often cited as one of the turning points of the Second World War.

* SS Columbus ( 1924 ), a transatlantic ocean liner for the North German Lloyd steamship line

* 1943 – World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.

These were the sole immigration records for entering the country and were prepared not by the U. S. Bureau of Immigration but by steamship companies such as the Cunard Line, the White Star Line, the North German Lloyd Line, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, the Italian Steam Navigation Company, the Red Star Line, the Holland America Line, and the Austro-American Line.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

During these operations the Crown Prince won the reputation of a thorough soldier ; after peace was made and Saxony had entered the North German Confederation, he gained the command of the Saxon army, which had now become the XII army corps of the North German army, and in this position carried out the necessary re-organisation.

At the time, the Saxons used the North German foot, which was 10 % longer than the foot of today.

Originating about 1800 BC from the Corded Ware Culture on the North German plain, the Germanic peoples expanded into southern Scandinavia and toward the Vistula river during the Nordic Bronze Age, reaching the lower Danube by 200 BC.

His involvement in the Thirty Years ' War gave rise to the saying that he was the incarnation of " the Lion of the North ", or as it is called in German " Der Löwe von Mitternacht " ( Literally: " The Lion of Midnight ").

The war resulted in the Confederation being partially replaced by a North German Confederation in 1867 which included Prussia but excluded Austria and the South German states.

During November 1870 the four southern states joined the North German Confederation by treaty.

On 10 December 1870 the North German Confederation Reichstag renamed the Confederation as the German Empire and gave the title of German Emperor to the King of Prussia as President of the Confederation.

* 1963 – Sarawak, North Borneo ( now Sabah ) and Singapore achieve technical independence pending accession to the Federation of Malaysia

The North Borneo Federation, also known as Kalimantan Utara or North Kalimantan was a proposed political entity which would have comprised the British Colonies of Sarawak, British North Borneo ( Sabah ) and the protectorate of Brunei.

Before the formation of Malaysian Federation, the Philippines claimed that the Malaysian state of Sabah in north Borneo is within their territorial rights based on historical facts of the Sultanate of Sulu's leasing agreement with the North Borneo Company, is presently an unresolved claim against Malaysia.

In its place the North German Federation ( German Norddeutscher Bund ) was established, under the leadership of Prussia.

The navy remained the same as that operated by the empire's predecessor organisation in the unification of Germany, the North German Federation, which itself in 1867 had inherited the navy of the Kingdom of Prussia.

* North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists ( NEFAC, or Fédération des Communistes Libertaires du Nord-Est ) in the northeastern USA,

The river roughly marked the southern border of the North German Federation, established in 1867 under Prussian leadership as the predecessor of the German Empire.

A small section of the Tumen River is also located along the border between North Korea and the Russian Federation, technically following the river's thalweg.

Ever since North Korea signed the Armistice Agreement with the United Nations Command, it has maintained relations with China, Moscow ( Soviet Union to 1991, Russian Federation onward ), Pakistan and often limited relations with other nations.

Upon independence, it was widely expected that Ahmadu Bello the Sardauna of Sokoto, the undisputed strong man in Nigeria who controlled the North, would become Prime Minister of the new Federation Government.

* 1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo ( Sabah ) and Sarawak.

** Malaysia is formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo ( renamed Sabah ) and Sarawak.

* May 27 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaya, holds a press conference in Singapore, announcing his idea to form the Federation of Malaysia, comprising Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo ( Sabah ).

* January 18 – The member-states of the North German Federation and the south German states unite into a single nation-state known as the German Empire.

Both Sabah ( formerly British North Borneo ) and Sarawak were separate British colonies from Malaya, and did not become part of the Federation of Malaya in 1957.

Previously, there were efforts to unite Brunei, Sabah and Sarawak under the North Borneo Federation but that failed after the Brunei Revolt occurred.

However, even North Korea has extensive trade with the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, Syria, Iran, Vietnam, and many countries in Europe and Africa.

His father tells him such a " need " would never arise, since the Patrol's cosmopolitan allegiance is little more than a sham and in fact it is controlled by the " North American Federation " and serves its interests.

Frege matriculated at the University of Jena in the spring of 1869 as a citizen of the North German Federation.

Since the combination of Equine Canada ( EC ) and United States Dressage Federation ( USDF ) tests in 2003, the small size arena is no longer utilized in rated shows in North America.

* North American Irish Dance Federation ( NAIDF )

The Silk Road gave rise to the clusters of military states of nomadic origins in North China, invited the Nestorian, Manichaean, Buddhist, and later Islamic religions into Central Asia and China, created the influential Khazar Federation and at the end of its glory, brought about the largest continental empire ever: the Mongol Empire, with its political centers strung along the Silk Road ( Beijing in North China, Karakorum in central Mongolia, Sarmakhand in Transoxiana, Tabriz in Northern Iran, Sarai and Astrakhan in lower Volga, Solkhat in Crimea, Kazan in Central Russia, Erzurum in eastern Anatolia ), realizing the political unification of zones previously loosely and intermittently connected by material and cultural goods.

For over a hundred years Southerners have felt that the North was picking on them.

In the pre-Civil War years, the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory worker of the North.

Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.

it was visiting University of North Carolina alumni in New York to ask them for contributions to the Graham Memorial Building fund.

Pope was convicted last year of having aided North Celebes rebels by flying bombing missions.

It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.

more doubtful, but possible, ( with an assist from the North ) was the neutralization of the Latin American countries ; ;

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

The ship's compass was useless because of the nearness of the magnetic North Pole.

For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

In his teens O'Banion was enrolled in the vicious Market Street gang and he became a singing waiter in McGovern's Cafe, a notoriously low and rowdy dive in North Clark Street, where befuddled customers were methodically looted of their money by the singing waiters before being thrown out.

Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska, Arizona and California, the quake's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.

There was Sounder, too, also a veteran of the North Rim, and Rastus and the Rake from a pack of English fox-hounds, and a collie from a London pound, and Simba, a terrier.

He was born in the North and did his military training in the South.

He was also, if Pam North was right, a closer acquaintance of Lauren Payne's than she, now, was inclined to admit.

Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.

The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.

A 62-year-old Smithfield man, Lester E. Stone of 19 Beverly Circle, was in satisfactory condition last night at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, North Providence, with injuries suffered when a car he was driving struck a utility pole on Woonasquatucket Avenue in North Providence near Stevens Street.