The crowd at the twenty-first annual K. of C. Games, final indoor meet of the season, got a thrill a few minutes earlier when a slender, bespectacled woman broke the one-week-old world record in the half-mile run.

In the final month of the 1927 season, he hit seventeen home runs, a closing spurt never matched.

-- For its final change of bill in its London season, the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet chose tonight to give one of those choreographic miscellanies known as a `` gala program '' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

The Falcons defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 – 10 in the final game of the season to improve their record to 9 – 7.

Ajax won the ' 87 Cup Winners Cup and reached the final again the following season.

The season saw an unbeaten run in the national league and the final season for Frank Rijkaard, while striker Patrick Kluivert came off the bench to score a late winner to beat AC Milan in the final of the Champions League.

The following season, Ajax lost to Juventus on penalties in the European Cup final.

* 1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.

The series enjoyed excellent ratings throughout its run, although it had fallen out of the top 20 most watched shows during its final season.

* In both versions of the movie Bad News Bears, coach Buttermaker makes use of several unorthodox tactics during the season final.

He played three seasons with the Blades, and in his final year with the club he led the league in assists and points in both the regular season and playoffs.

The 1982 campaign saw Baltimore eliminated on the final weekend of the season by the Milwaukee Brewers.

They finished the season losing 11 of their final 12 games and 28 of their final 34.

Graham Hill took his final Formula One win in the unique " lobster claw ". Tauranac signed double world champion Graham Hill and young Australian Tim Schenken to drive for the 1971 season.

In 1996, the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears had enjoyed their best season to date, losing a preliminary final to the eventual premiers, North Melbourne.

The White Stockings won the 1900 American League pennant led by player-manager Dick Padden, the final WL / AL championship season as a minor league .< ref >

Entering the final game of the 1958 season, Cleveland needed to either win or tie against the New York Giants to clinch the Eastern Conference title and the right to host the championship game.

Due to the impending merger of the American Football League and the National Football League, which was due to take full effect in the season, Brown agreed to join the AFL as its tenth and final franchise.

Feller, who had pitched a no-hitter to open the season and won 27 games, lost the final game of the season to unknown pitcher Floyd Giebell of the Detroit Tigers.

The 1971 European Cup final saw Ajax beat Panathinaikos 2-0 with goals from Dick van Dijk and Arie Haan.

He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia.

Customers who watched the final round saw Leonard score a knockdown.

They then proceeded to the final with a tied match in the semi-final ( also against South Africa ) where a mix-up between South African batsmen Lance Klusener and Allan Donald saw Donald drop his bat and stranded mid-pitch to be run out.

They failed to make the playoffs after losing at Philadelphia in the final regular season game which saw the Eagles reach the playoffs instead.

' I never saw anything to substantiate that in all the time I was with him .” Kaye ’ s final girlfriend, Marlene Sorosky, reported that he told her, " I've never had a homosexual experience in my life.

The book saw print in 1898 and would prove to be Bellamy's final creation.

1959 saw another grand final loss to Melbourne, this time by 37 points, but the fact that the average age of the Essendon side was only 22 was seen as providing considerable cause for optimism.

The race saw Achille Varzi and Tazio Nuvolari exchange the lead many times before being settled in Varzi's favour on the final lap when Nuvolari's car caught fire.

In his final days he saw everyone he wanted to say good-bye to.

The 2008 season saw the two teams meet twice again ; on November 23 the two teams battled to a 20-20 tie until Vinatieri booted a 51-yard field goal on the final play and a 23-20 Colts win ; the Colts surged to 12-4 but lost the AFC South title to the Titans ; they thus had to travel to meet the 8-8 Chargers on January 3.

During these final years in the House of Delegates, Madison grew increasingly frustrated with what he saw as excessive democracy.

The 1997 – 98 campaign saw Newcastle finish in only 13th place and, despite Dalglish achieving some notable successes during the season ( including a 3 – 2 UEFA Champions League win over Barcelona and an FA Cup final appearance against Arsenal ), he was sacked by Freddie Shepherd after two draws in the opening two games of the subsequent 1998 – 1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit.

He added the final sentence of the novel, " He never saw Molly again ", at the last minute in a deliberate attempt to prevent himself from ever writing a sequel, but ended up doing precisely that with Count Zero ( 1986 ), a character-focused work set in the Sprawl alluded to in its predecessor.

The final quarter of the 20th century saw the development of molecular phylogenetics, which investigates how closely organisms are related by measuring how similar the DNA is in their genomes.

The council saw the final condemnation of Constantine II, who was beaten and had his tongue removed before being returned to his monastic cell.

His final two Tests saw no fairytale finish, yielding only four wickets and 55 runs.

In 1982, Lisa Tuttle withdrew her short story " The Bone Flute " from the final Nebula ballot, to protest what she saw as excessive campaigning for awards and that voters did not receive copies of nominated works.

Customers who watched the final round saw Leonard score a knockdown.

1987 also saw the band embark on another national tour, appearances on national television – including playing the final episode of Countdown and the lead single " At First Sight " making the Young Einstein soundtrack.

McNally saw the band play live in what would ultimately prove to be their final performance at The Casbah on 29 September 1978.

The final stage, between the years 1945 and 1963, saw the transition from two year college to university, under Principals J. M.