On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

He worked with George L. Stout, the founder and first editor of Technical Studies.

Its first editor, William O. Eaton, just 22 years old, said " The Herald will be independent in politics and religion ; liberal, industrious, enterprising, critically concerned with literacy and dramatic matters, and diligent in its mission to report and analyze the news, local and global.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

Alan had been Beano Chief Sub Editor when Euan first became editor, and later edited The Beezer.

The first scholar to give Peirce his considered professional attention was Royce's student Morris Raphael Cohen, the editor of an anthology of Peirce's writings titled Chance, Love, and Logic ( 1923 ) and the author of the first bibliography of Peirce's scattered writings.

Geoffrey Crawley, editor of the British Journal of Photography, undertook a " major scientific investigation of the photographs and the events surrounding them ", published between 1982 and 1983, " the first major postwar analysis of the affair ".

Social work pioneer and journal editor Paul Kellogg offered Eastman her first job, investigating labor conditions for The Pittsburgh Survey sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation.

Brewster's position as editor brought him into frequent contact with the most eminent scientific men, and he was naturally among the first to recognize the benefit that would accrue from regular communication among those in the field of science.

In his first year one of his poems was published in the school's magazine and before he left he became its editor.

In his first New York byline, the American editor dropped the " Alfred " and the name " Damon Runyon " appeared for the first time.

In rapidly changing fields such as science, technology, politics, culture and modern history, the Britannica has struggled to stay up-to-date, a problem first analysed systematically by its former editor Walter Yust.

" He was an original editor of Husserl's new journal, Jahrbuch ; one of his works ( giving a phenomenological analysis of the law of obligations ) appeared in its first issue.

Katharine's son from her first marriage, Roger Angell, has spent decades as a fiction editor for The New Yorker and is well known as the magazine's baseball writer.

Later known as Elias Boudinot, he was editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the nation's first newspaper, which was published in Cherokee and English.

Being one of the first film hyphenates ( film director, editor and engineer ) Porter also invented and utilized some of the very first ( albeit primitive ) special effects such as double exposures, miniatures and split-screens.

The term " Finagle's Law " was first used by John W. Campbell, Jr., the influential editor of Astounding Science Fiction ( later Analog ).

In a 1996 interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace admitted that the structure of the first draft of Infinite Jest he gave to his editor Michael Pietsch was inspired by fractals, specifically the Sierpinski triangle ( aka Sierpinski gasket ) but that the edited novel is " more like a lopsided Sierpinsky Gasket ".

At St. Cyprian's, Blair first met Cyril Connolly, who became a noted writer and, as the editor of Horizon, published many of Orwell's essays.

The term " gonzo " was first used in connection with Hunter S. Thompson by The Boston Globe magazine editor Bill Cardoso in 1970.

The first preview the following month ran 210 minutes and, despite ecstatic feedback from the audience, Cukor and editor Folmar Blangsted trimmed it to 182 minutes for its New York premiere in October.

* 1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.

* 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

She first attracted controversy early in 1967, when, after four months ' residence in the California Governor's Mansion in Sacramento, she moved her family into a wealthy suburb because fire officials had labeled the mansion as a " firetrap ".

In the last years of the nineteenth-and first decades of the twentieth-centuries, at the behest of local political officials and following Congressional orders, the US Army Corps began dredging the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and the deep channels of San Francisco Bay.

* April 3 – The Pony Express begins its first run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.

Route of the first American transcontinental railroad from Sacramento, California, to Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Judah was chief engineer for the newly formed Sacramento Valley Railroad in 1852, the first railroad built west of the Mississippi River.

On August 31, 2010, Dolenz released his first album in over 15 years via Gigatone Entertainment of Sacramento, California.

The world's first successful operation took place in 1998 at the Cleveland Clinic, and the second took place in October 2010 at the University of California Medical Center in Sacramento.

One of the first teams to build a complete system around the 8008 was Bill Pentz ' team at California State University, Sacramento.

On February 18, 2009, the Bulls made their first of several trades, sending Andres Nocioni, Drew Gooden, Cedric Simmons, and Michael Ruffin to the Sacramento Kings for Brad Miller and John Salmons.

They finished the season as the top seed in the Western Conference with a record of 58 – 24, and beat the Denver Nuggets and Sacramento Kings in the first two rounds of the NBA playoffs.

) In the playoffs, the Spurs would get a surprisingly tough test from the Sacramento Kings in the first round as they need an overtime win in Game 2 to win the first two games at home, before losing the next two on the road.

The Spurs won their second back-to-back-to-back set of games against the Golden State Warriors, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Sacramento Kings, the first NBA team to ever do so, and would eventually clinch the division and conference for the second straight season.

They eliminated the Sacramento Kings and Phoenix in the first two rounds of the playoffs.

The following season, Los Angeles won 11 fewer regular season games, but swept the first three rounds of the playoffs, defeating the Portland, Sacramento, and San Antonio.

:" When I first caught sight of it over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley, I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary.

John Augustus Sutter, a German native born to Swiss parents, was one of the first to recognize the Sacramento Valley for its potential as an agricultural empire, and his Hock Farm, established in 1841 on the Feather River just south of present-day Yuba City, was the site of the valley ’ s first large agricultural enterprise.

Sutter obtained the Rancho New Helvetia Mexican land grant, and called his first settlement New Helvetia ( which included the present day city of Sacramento ).

The county seat was first located at Sacramento and was relocated to Wautoma in 1854 after a bitter fight between proponents of the two places.

In the first half of the 20th century ( 1 January 1900 – 31 December 1950 ), the line of the Sacramento Northern Railroad ran through Moraga ; much of the old right-of-way is now part of the popular Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail.

In June 2004, Lincoln gained additional notoriety when it opened the first casino in the greater Sacramento Metropolitan Area, Thunder Valley Casino.

As the miners left Sacramento traveling to the foothills in search of gold, way stations grew up along the first dirt trails, and later more formal roads, that took travelers east.