Adonijah Welch, ISU ’ s first president, envisioned a picturesque campus with a winding road encircling the college ’ s majestic buildings, vast lawns of green grass, many varieties of trees sprinkled throughout to provide shade, and shrubbery and flowers for fragrance.

The Netherlands came back to the fore in 1889 and organized the very first world championships, and, subsequently, the ISU ( International Skating Union ) was born in 1892.

ISU was founded as a training school for teachers in 1857, the same year Illinois ' first Board of Education was convened and two years after the Free School Act was passed by the State Legislature.

The controversial result stood, giving Henie her first world title, however following the controversy the ISU introduced a rule allowing no more than one judge per country on the panel.

His shining moment came at the Metrodome in Minneapolis when, after first hitting a shot to tie the game and send it to overtime, Jeff hit the game winning shot in overtime, a 26-ft jumper at the buzzer, to give ISU its first NCAA tournament victory since 1944, beating Miami University, March 14, 1986, 81 – 79.

While a number of the individuals in this group were Communist Party members, the group as a whole was independent of the party: although it criticized the International Seamen's Union ( ISU ) as weak and the International Longshoremen's Association ( ILA ), which had its base on the East Coast, as corrupt, it did not embrace the MWIU, but called instead for creation of small knots of activists at each port to serve as the first step in a slow, careful movement to unionize the industry.

That, however, left the striking seamen in the lurch: the employers had refused to arbitrate with the ISU unless it first won elections on the fleets on strike.

The ISU held it's first summer session in the Summer of 1988 at the MIT campus in Boston, Masachussets.

Dates and locations of first world championships in various disciplines held under the auspices of the ISU:

Fuentes is the first lady skater to represent Andorra at an ISU Championship, which she accomplished at the 2002 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.

* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

A prototype of the full computer was shown to the public for the first time at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1984.

* Earliest day on which First Day of Summer or Sumardagurinn fyrsti can fall, while April 25 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Thursday after April 18.

The first use of this torch was for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Van McCoy, Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Chic, and The Jacksons — the latter which first dipped its toes into disco as The Jackson 5.

Summer would become the first well-known and most popular disco artist — eventually having the title " The Queen of Disco " bestowed upon her by various critics — and would also play a part in pioneering the electronic sound that later became a prominent element of disco.

The men's competition has been a part of the modern Summer Olympic Games since the first Olympiad in 1896.

Due to the association of the breed with Germany, the dachshund was chosen to be the first official mascot for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, with the name Waldi.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

In the sequel to Summer of Night, A Winter Haunting, Dale Stewart ( one of the first book's protagonists, and now an adult ), revisits his boyhood home to come to grips with mysteries that have disrupted his adult life.

Nadia Comăneci received the first perfect score, at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada.

The first Summer Olympics organized by the International Olympic Committee were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896 ; the first Winter Olympics were in Chamonix, France, in 1924.

The first Summer Youth Olympics were in Singapore in 2010 and the first Winter Youth Olympics were held in Innsbruck in 2012.

* 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, open in London, England, United Kingdom.

* 1976 – Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

He achieved his first country award winning for Best Wide Open Country Video for " All Summer Long " at the 2009 CMT Awards.

"' Forever Changes ' made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love, which doubtless has as much to do with the disc's themes and tone as the music, beautiful as it is ," wrote Mark Deming in an entry for the online Allmusic guide.

* May 1 in the Irish calendar is Beltane ( Bealtaine ), the first day of Summer, and a public holiday is held on the first Monday in May.

The Oakleigh Motel in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia, constructed using Googie architecture during the 1956 Summer Olympics as one of the first motels in the state, was added to the Victorian Heritage Register in 2009.

* 1911 – " Jana Gana Mana ", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

* 1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.

Garth appeared on the band ’ s first Radio 1 Peel Session, in September 1977, but due to his alcoholism he was quickly replaced with Steve Garvey, joining Dirty Looks in New York.

At the first Special Session of the UN General Assembly held in 1947, Osvaldo Aranha, then president of the Special Session, began a tradition that has remained until today whereby the first speaker at this major international forum is always a Brazilian.

; that during the present year the Alabama Indemnity has been paid, and the charge of the Ashantee War will be met out of revenue ; and that in estimating, as we can now venture to do, the income of the coming year ( and, for the moment assuming the general scale of charge to continue as it was fixed during the last Session ), we do not fear to anticipate as the probable balance a surplus exceeding rather than falling short of 5, 000, 000l ... The first item ... which I have to set down in the financial arrangements proper for the first year is relief, but relief coupled with reform, of local taxation ... It has ... been the happy fortune of Mr. Lowe to bring it income tax down, first from 6d.

It was first sung in Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress on 27 December 1911.

On June 15, 1955, at the 50th IOC Session in Paris, France, Rome beat out Lausanne, Detroit, Budapest ( being the first city of the Eastern Bloc to bid for the Olympic Games ), Brussels, Mexico City and Tokyo for the rights to host the Games.

In May 1958 Liu became the first senior CCP politician to openly denounce the Great Leap Forward, at the Second Session of the Eighth CCP National Congress.

" Pop art " as a moniker was then used in discussons by IG members in the Second Session of the IG in 1955, and the specific term " pop art " first appeared in published print in an article by IG members Alison and Peter Smithson in Arc, 1956.

During the supposed hiatus, Hole released two retrospective albums: firstly, their second EP, titled The First Session ( 1997 ), which was composed of a complete version of the band's first recording session at Rudy's Rising Star in Los Angeles in March 1990, some of which had been bootlegged widely years prior.

* The first group of 11 projects funded by the treaty was announced during the Third Session of the Governing Body in Tunis in June 2009.

Soon after his first exhibition, Barnett Newman remarked in one of the Artists ' Session at Studio 35: " We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

After a re-hearing, or if the AIT which hears a case for the first time has a 3 or more members, the decision may only be challenged by an appeal to the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ) in England and Wales, or the Court of Session ( Inner House ) in Scotland.

On 6 July 2005, in a four-round exhaustive ballot of the IOC ( gathered at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore ), Moscow, New York City and Madrid were eliminated in the first three rounds.

He was " Chris " in the Children's Session and the first Muddle-Headed Wombat.

The band recorded its first Peel Session in April 1974 after which Garvey left and former Nashville Teens bassist Micky Groome joined.

In March 2010 it was announced that Lamacq and fellow Radio 1 presenter Jo Whiley would present a one-off Evening Session ( the first in 13 years ) on Good Friday ( 2 April ) for BBC Radio 6 Music.

Steve Lamacq left the company after the release of Elastica's first album to avoid accusations of partiality on the Evening Session, his BBC Radio 1 show.

In 1842 he was moved to the first division of the Court of Session.

Soon after his first exhibition, Newman remarked in one of the Artists ' Session at Studio 35: " We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.