That November, President Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for the Gettysburg National Cemetery to honor the fallen Union soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war in his historic Gettysburg Address.

* 330 – Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.

* 1863 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The building was completed in late-2010, with the opening and dedication ceremony on March 2, 2011, which was both Hackerman's 99th Birthday and the 175th Anniversary of Texas Independence.

In recognition of its fictional namesake, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the principal cast of the original series of Star Trek were on hand at the dedication ceremony.

The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.

In a dedication ceremony, Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior John Berry stated, " Let it forever be remembered that here — on this spot — men and women stood proud, they stood fast, so that we may be who we are, we may work where we will, live where we choose and love whom our hearts desire.

They were designed by Sir Herbert Baker and the opening ceremony was performed by Sir Stanley Jackson, who had suggested the inclusion of the words The Great Cricketer in the dedication.

* November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

* Retired Emperor Shōmu takes part in the dedication ceremony of the great statue of Vairocana Buddha at the Tōdai-ji, and declares himself a Buddhist.

Still, the dedication ceremony was a powerful tribute to her memory, and Booker T. Washington delivered the keynote address.

In 1979, Mayor Ed Koch quipped during the dedication ceremony, " I am told that some of the great cathedrals took over five hundred years to build.

On February 12, 1914, a dedication ceremony was conducted and following month the actual construction began.

A religious cockfight, spiritual cockfight or sacred cockfight, is cockfighting in religious or spiritual exercise, ritual, rite, ceremony or dedication which is considered sacred or worthy of spiritual respect or devotion ; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers in a given set of spiritual ideas.

Its official dedication took place on 1 July 2000, with Queen Margrethe II, and King Carl XVI Gustaf as the host and hostess of the ceremony.

The Academy's dedication ceremony took place on that first day and was broadcast live on national television, with Walter Cronkite covering the event.

During a dedication ceremony in Iowa, State Engineer Thomas H. MacDonald said he felt it was "... the first outlet for the road building energies of this community.

Although formed in upstate New York in 1830, the LDS Church leadership and members began moving to Jackson County as soon as word of the August 1831 dedication ceremony was published.

Construction of the Mecosta County Building was completed in late August 1970 and a dedication ceremony was held on November 7, 1970.

A dedication ceremony took place on George Washington's birthday, February 22, 1882.

Vilsack speaks at the dedication ceremony of the Iowa Events Center's Wells Fargo Arena ( Des Moines ) | Wells Fargo Arena, July 12, 2005.

During the dedication ceremony, with several dignitaries in attendance, public relations chief Dan Bigelow turns on the tower's exterior lights to impress them and the other 294 guests arriving for a party in the Promenade Room on the 135th floor.

This city was founded in 1910 in which the featured speaker at the dedication ceremony was former President Theodore Roosevelt.

) The dedication ceremony was attended by ten Yugoslavian Holocaust survivors, as well as diplomats from Serbia, Bosnia and Israel.

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But the tardiness of the administration in making the dedication has caused legislators to suspect the tax bill was related more directly to an over-all shortage of cash than to segregation.

It was an iconic statement of America's dedication to the principles of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy.

The Gettysburg Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863.

This concept was emphasized by Sufi mystics like Rabia al-Adawiyya who paid attention to the difference between dedication to Allah ( i. e. God ) and dedication to people.

Carnegie without doubt was personal dedication to Herbert Spencer as a friend, but Carnegie was not faithful adherent to Spencer ’ s political or economic ideas.

It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court.

As the final victory of Athens over Aegina was in 458 B. C., the thirty years of the oracle would carry us back to the year 488 BC as the date of the dedication of the precinct and the outbreak of hostilities.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was originally intended to be performed in honor of Anton and his wife for a visit to Prague on 14 October 1787, as they traveled between Dresden and Vienna, and librettos were printed with dedication to them.

Some of Thomas Aquinas ' propositions were condemned by the local Bishop of Paris ( not the Magisterium ) in 1270 and 1277, but his dedication to the use of philosophy to elucidate theology was so thorough that he was proclaimed a saint in 1328 and a Doctor of the Church in 1568.

Claudius was born on 1 August 10 BC in Lugdunum to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia on the day of the dedication of the altar to Augustus at the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls.

He was videotaped when he spoke at the dedication of WRC-TV's new studios in Washington, D. C., on May 21, 1958.

The Italian government wanted to create in Asmara an impressive building, from where the Italian Governors could show the dedication of the Kingdom of Italy to the " colonia primogenita " ( first daughter-colony ) as was called Eritrea.

In the war-time 1941 edition of Heidegger's primary work, Being and Time ( first published in 1927 ), the original dedication to Husserl was removed.

While Oxford was under house arrest in May, Thomas Stocker dedicated to him his Divers Sermons of Master John Calvin, stating in the dedication that he had been " brought up in your Lordship's father's house ".

Composer John Farmer, who was in Oxford's service at the time, dedicated The First Set of Divers & Sundry Ways of Two Parts in One to him in 1591, noting in the dedication his patron's love of music.

It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.

It was published the year after his death, in 1556, though apparently finished in 1550, since the dedication to the elector and his brother is dated 1550.

The singer's dedication to the Rolling Stones was rewarded when the Burrito Brothers were booked as the opening act of the infamous Altamont Music Festival.

And it was both funny and also touching in that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans.

Holt's energy, dedication and ability earned him rapid promotion and in April 1939 he was appointed Minister without Portfolio assisting the Minister for Supply and Development.

The Hagia Sophia architects innovatively combined the longitudinal structure of a Roman basilica and the central plan of a drum-supported dome, in order to withstand the high magnitude earthquakes of the Marmara Region, “ However, in May 558, little more than 20 years after the Church ’ s dedication, following the earthquakes of August 553 and December 557, parts of the central dome and its supporting structure system collapsed .” The Hagia Sophia was repeatedly cracked by earthquakes and was quickly repaired.