* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan ( modern day Tohoku University ) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.

The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

During competition season it often becomes seven days with practice twice a day sometimes.

Ash becomes briefly possessed by the demon, but when day breaks the spirit is gone, and Ash is back to normal.

If he or she was born in the United States, Taiwan or New Zealand, he or she legally becomes 18 on February 28, 2014, a day earlier.

Then in the modern day the biblical serpent is replaced by Eve's gossiping neighbor and Eve becomes a sexy flapper and fashion model when Adam is at work.

While he maintains his practice of the Jesus Prayer, which becomes automatic and continues twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the Hesychast cultivates watchful attention ( Gr. nepsis ).

* 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.

* 1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.

* 1985 – Vice President George Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.

He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.

They meet again the next day for breakfast and Travis becomes obsessed with helping her return to her parents ' home, sending her money to do so and a letter in which he states he will soon be dead.

A human zygote exists for about four days, and becomes a blastocyst on the fifth day.

It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

* August 6 – Vostok 2: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day.

* January 25 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, Princess Royal to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St. James's Palace, London.

* Zhao Bing Fa becomes King of Mong Mao ( in present day south China / north Myanmar ) after the death of his father, Si Ke Fa.

The day before the tour many Dutch flock to Leeuwarden to enjoy the party atmosphere that surrounds the event ; that evening, called the " Nacht van Leeuwarden " ( Night of Leeuwarden ), becomes a giant city-wide street party ( Frisians, who have a reputation of surliness, are said to thaw when it freezes ).

The cosine of the hour angle ( cos ( h )) becomes an easy computation tool in determining the cosine term for the computation of the angle of the sun's altitude ( or the complementary zenith angle ) at any time during the day.

Shi ' a Muslims believe that when the world becomes oppressed, the Imam Mahdi ( also termed the Qa ' im ) will come out of occultation and restore true religion on Earth before the cataclysmic end of the world and judgement day.

* Sofia, modern day capital of Bulgaria, is conquered by the Romans and becomes known as Ulpia Serdica.

Waking up the following day in a seedy hotel with no identification, Taverner becomes worried, as failure to produce identification at one of the numerous police checkpoints would lead to imprisonment in a forced labor camp.

Some suggest that, as a consequence, January 1 becomes the first day of the Roman year.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

Mission Street at this hour was populated by a whole community that Gun could not have seen on his tour of duty -- the neighborhood that had known Urbano Quintana by day.

There is some documentary proof that the Romans named the hot sulfur springs of Aachen Aquis-Granum, and indeed to this day the city is known in Italian as Aquisgrana, in Spanish as Aquisgrán and in Polish as Akwizgran.

Lincoln commented, in response to Hugh McCullough's criticism of Johnson's behavior, that " I have known Andy Johnson for many years ; he made a bad slip the other day, but you need not be scared ; Andy ain't a drunkard.

It was known as Asuristan during this period, and became a main centre of the Church of the East ( now the Assyrian Church of the East ), with a flourishing Syriac ( Assyrian ) Christian culture which exists there to this day.

A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").

The regions of East Anglia and Northumbria are still known by their original titles to this day.

It was known as " Buzzbox " and survives to this day.

The following day, at 01: 00, Marlborough dispatched Cadogan, his Quartermaster-General, with an advanced guard to reconnoitre the same dry ground that Villeroi ’ s army was now heading, country that was well known to the Duke from previous campaigns.

Bantu languages are spoken largely east and south of the present day country of Cameroon ; i. e., in the regions commonly known as central Africa, east Africa, and southern Africa.

In Irish Gaelic, the month of May is known as Mí Bhealtaine or Bealtaine, and the festival as Lá Bealtaine (' day of Bealtaine ' or, ' May Day ').

In Britain, Canada, New Zealand and some states of Australia, Boxing Day is primarily known as a shopping holiday, much like the day after Thanksgiving in the United States.

On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.

On September 18, 2012, Berkeley became what is thought to be the first city in the U. S. to officially proclaim a day recognizing bisexuals September 23, which is known as Celebrate Bisexuality Day.

The oldest known canals were irrigation canals, built in Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC, in what is now modern day Iraq and Syria.

Even earlier examples of this sentiment may be found in Wild Talents by author Charles Fort where he makes the statement: "... a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.

Entertainment based occupations that are not as well known in the general public or are simply antiquated ( e. g. magicians, photographers, and some visual artists such as painters and potters ) relative to the present day mass media industry are less likely to become celebrities ( though there are exceptions such as illusionists David Copperfield and Criss Angel, or photographer David LaChapelle ).

It is said that at this time he instituted a perpetual service of praise, known as laus perennis, by which choir succeeded choir, both day and night ( Montalembert, Monks of the West II, 405 ).

The Valley's North Stand which is known by locals as " The Covered End " to this day and is where the more vocal fans gather.

To this day, couscous is known as ' the North Africa national dish '.

The Centaurs are best known for their fight with the Lapiths, caused by their attempt to carry off Hippodamia and the rest of the Lapith women, on the day of her marriage to Pirithous, king of the Lapithae, himself the son of Ixion.

As a poet, she was well known and highly regarded in her own day ; she completed 41 works during her 30 year career ( 1399 – 1429 ), and can be regarded as Europe ’ s first professional woman writer.

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

He is best known for the claim that for one day ( March 4, 1849 ) he may have been Acting President of the United States.