In the 1987 season, Earnhardt earned his nickname " The Intimidator " after spinning out Elliott in the final segment of " The Winston ", a non-points event now known as the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

The event has earned its name as the Mardi Gras of the Mountains.

During every Washington Nationals home game at Nationals Park, the Theodore Roosevelt mascot ( a. k. a. Teddy ) earned a reputation of not being able to win the Presidents Race, a promotional event held in the middle of the fourth inning, due to various incidents.

In this event, Escobar earned his first victory, defeating a pugilist identified as " Gombar " by knockout in the first round.

138, 950 people attended and the event earned a profit.

Mawer and Stenton, who published their book on the Place Names of Buckinghamshire in 1925, thought that belle could have meant a hill as well as a bell and suggested that the conspicuous hill at Kimble would have impressed itself on the minds of the first settlers and might have been called ' royal ' as the largest visible hill in the locality or that it earned the epithet by reason of some royal burial or other unknown event.

He finally earned his PGA Tour card in 1982 and won his first event on the tour at that year's Quad Cities Open.

Reyes dominated the event and beat Niels Feijen in the finals 15-7 and earned the ¥ 20M ($ 170K ) first prize.

Districts that can normally qualify at least one entrant in each event, and have either earned 900 or more new members and degrees over the school year or increase their members and degrees by 20 % or more over the previous school year is eligible to send 2 entries in each event to the national tournament.

After going through 1971 undefeated, including winning the 110m hurdles event at the 1971 Pan-American Games, the Opelousas, Louisiana athlete earned the nickname " Hot Rod ", and was awarded the Track and Field News Athlete of the Year Award.

* At the 2005 National Science Bowl, the Wootton Science Bowl team earned 5th place out of 63 schools nationwide, all of which had won their respective regional event.

In each event, the contenders earned points based on their performance.

He earned just under £ 1 million in prize money, reached a high ranking of eight, and was ranked within the top 16 for many years despite never winning a ranking event.

The event became known as the Lennoxville massacre, and its extreme nature earned the Quebec chapter of the Hells Angels a notorious reputation.

OFS is very good for repairing the filesystem in the event of a problem, although the so called DiskDoctor provided by Commodore quickly earned the name DiskDestroyer, because it could not repair No-DOS type autostart disks provided by third-party software manufacturers as bootable disks for games.

For a Marine Corps Marksmanship Qualification Badge to be earned, a Marine must obtain a passing score at an annual weapons qualification event.

The badge hangs from an elaborate attachment bar which bears the name of the event where the badge was earned.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation was established by ERISA to provide coverage in the event that a terminated defined benefit pension plan does not have sufficient assets to provide the benefits earned by participants.

At the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, he earned the silver medal in the 400 m Men's Hurdles, behind Edwin Moses, who set the World Record and effectively opened a new chapter in the event in that race.

Reportage of the event later earned the Star and its associated publication the Kansas City Times a Pulitzer Prize for local news reporting in 1982.

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of eighth in the K-4 500 m event at Athens in 2004.

Competing in two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of eighth in the K-4 500 m event at Athens in 2004.

Competing in three Summer Olympics, Buday earned his best finish of seventh in the C-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000.

* 966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.

After this event many Jews emigrated, in two waves ; some fled to the Muslim lands of the Ottoman Empire, but many also went to Christian Europe, first to northern Italy, then to the Netherlands, and later to England.

Mainline Christian churches see baptism as a once-in-a-lifetime event that can be neither repeated nor undone.

* Altar call – invitation to become a Christian ; given at a church service or event.

Preterist Christian commentators believe that Jesus quoted this prophecy in Mark 13: 14 as referring to an event in his " 1st century disciples '" immediate future, the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

Christian protesters at a 2006 gay pride event in San Francisco.

According to Christian tradition, Christ descended to hell after his death, in order to free the souls there ; this event is known as the harrowing of hell.

The Doppler effect ( or Doppler shift ), named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who proposed it in 1842 in Prague, is the change in frequency of a wave ( or other periodic event ) for an observer moving relative to its source.

The Second Coming of Christ is the central event in Christian eschatology.

The Göta Canal was officially opened on 26 September 1832 in an event commemorated by the painter Johan Christian Berger in his work The Opening of the Göta Canal on 26 September 1832.

The main event in the First Republic in the sixties was the inclusion of the Socialist party in the government, after the reducing edge of the Christian Democracy ( DC ) had forced them to accept this alliance ; attempts to incorporate the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ) in the Tambroni government led to riots, and were short-lived.

Raphael ’ s " Lo Spasimo di Sicilia ” depicts an event in Christian history when Christ falls while carrying the cross, sees his mother in distress and is helped up by Simon of Cyrene.

In 393 A. D., the pankration, along with gladiatorial combat and all pagan festivals, was abolished by edict of the Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I. Pankration itself was an event in the Olympic Games for some 1, 000 years.

Conservative Christian protesters at a 2006 gay pride event in San Francisco. The relationship between religion and homosexuality can vary greatly across time and place, within and between different religions and sects, and regarding different forms of homosexuality and bisexuality.

While tying it to one fixed date would serve to underline the belief that Easter commemorates an actual historical event, without an accompanying calendar reform it would also break the tradition of Easter always being on a Sunday, established since the 2nd century AD and by now deeply embedded in the liturgical practice and theological understanding of almost all Christian denominations.

It is largely a religious concept, where it is used in two distinct respects — a belief in the resurrection of individual souls that is current and ongoing ( Christian idealism, realized eschatology ), or else a belief in a singular " Resurrection of the Dead " event at the end of the world.

Many Christian interpretations of this event portray Samuel's appearance as being a deception from Satan, or even a demon in disguise.

It was at this event when Agrippa gave his famous response to Paul's testimony, " You almost persuade me to be a Christian.

* January 29 – John Sassamon, an English-educated Native American Christian, dies at Assawampsett Pond, an event which will trigger a year-long war between English American colonists of New England and Algonquian Native American tribes.

In the New Testament, the greatest miracle is the resurrection of Jesus, the event central to Christian faith.

There are also myths about the Asturian monarchy that are rooted in Jewish and Christian traditions rather than pagan ones: the Chronica ad Sebastianum tells of an extraordinary event that happened when king Alfonso I died.

However, the earliest Christian traditions place this event at the nearby Mount Serbal, at the foot of which a monastery was founded in the 4th century ; it was only in the 6th century that the monastery moved to the foot of Mount Catherine, following the guidance of Josephus's earlier claim that Sinai was the highest mountain in the area.

Harte published a detailed account condemning the event, writing, " a more shocking and revolting spectacle never was exhibited to the eyes of a Christian and civilized people.

In April 1915 to 1920 Christian instigated the Easter Crisis, perhaps the most decisive event in the evolution of the Danish monarchy in the 20th century.