Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.

Ever since he had first begun to study music and to teach it, Rousseau had dreamed of piercing through to fame as the result of a successful opera.

That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.

This voyage was the first successful crossing of the Atlantic under steam propulsion.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

The first is a wide-ranging sample of successful tonal analyses.

Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.

It was probably man's first successful flight in a missile.

* In 1865 Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable.

Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.

* 1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful gasoline-fueled automobiles.

* 1956 –, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

The fourth encounter is with Micaiah, the prophet who, when asked for advice on a military campaign, first assures Ahab he will be successful and ultimately gives Ahab a glimpse into God's plan for Ahab to die in battle ( 1 Kings 22 ).

* 1960 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.

* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

After finishing his education, Albuquerque first served in North Africa and in the Mediterranean where he took part in numerous successful campaigns against the Arabs and the Ottomans.

* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

* Eponymous city of Inganock from Seiken no Inganock: What a Beautiful People is stated to be the first and only successful arcology in its setting.

* 1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

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

In addition, as part of the first commercial implementation of DPNSS ( in the Government Telephone Network or GTN in 1983 ), BT insisted that the core of the network be made from PBXs of different manufacture to prove the interoperability in real life.

In 1985 the first Interop conference was held, focusing on network interoperability via further adoption of TCP / IP.

The vehicles are self-contained and provide wired and wireless services including voice and radio interoperability, voice over IP, network based video surveillance and secured high definition video conferencing for leaders and first responders in crisis areas with up to 5 Mbit / s of bandwidth via a 1. 8-meter satellite antenna.

For the first time, Europe will equip its fighter aircraft with a European air-to-air missile, creating interoperability and independence to export ".

PowWow was one of the first instant messaging programs to provide interoperability between multiple instant messaging clients and was compatible with both AOL Instant Messenger ( AIM ) and Microsoft's MSN Messenger.

The first release, WSRP v1, provided a limited interoperability platform.

EMRs, while an important factor in interoperability, are not a critical first step to sharing data between practicing physicians, pharmacies and hospitals.

In June 2006, five companies showed the first multi-vendor interoperability demonstration of Wireless USB.

In 1993, the AICC produced what is widely regarded as the first runtime interoperability specification for Learning Management Systems ( LMS ) a. k. a. CMI ( Computer Managed Instruction ) Systems.

For an example of the first, X Window-type environments can be run using combinations of Windows / Unix interoperability packages, communications suites such as Hummingbird Connectivity, and / or X server progammes for Windows such as WinAxe and others.

Following his promotion to brigadier general in 1984, his flag-level assignments included Commanding General, Seventh Army Training Command, Deputy Commanding General, United States Army Command and General Staff College, and Director of Operational Plans and Interoperability ( J-7 ), where he effectively integrated, for the first time, all joint staff operational planning, interoperability and warfighting functions within a single directorate of the Joint Staff, resulting in significant increases in the joint warfighting capabilities of the United States.

The first choice, abandoning tests entirely, would not only be unpopular domestically, but would surely be exploited by the Russians.

* 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

* 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.

The Lions easily won both tests against Australia and lost the first three tests against the All Blacks, but did find victory ( 9 – 6 ) in the final test.

For the 1966 tour to Australia and New Zealand John Robins became the first Lions Coach, and the trip started off very well for the Lions, who stormed through Australia, winning five non-tests and drawing one ; and most notably defeating Australia in two tests as well.

The Lions did however lose the first three tests to South Africa, winning the last one, though the series had already been won by the Springboks.

In this case a doctor may recommend frequent blood tests during the first few months of use, followed by three to four tests per year for established patients.

The Baudot system was accepted by the French Telegraph Administration during 1875, with the first online tests of his system occurring between Paris and Bordeaux on November 12, 1877.

From May 1934 until October 1935, Armstrong conducted the first large scale field tests of his FM radio technology from a laboratory constructed by RCA on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building.

* 1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.

When IQ tests are revised, they are again standardized using a new sample of test-takers, usually born more recently than the first.

This 18 week period thus includes the time to arrange a first appointment, the time for any investigations or tests to determine the cause of the problem and how it should be treated.

The October 1923 Honduran presidential elections and the subsequent political and military conflicts provided the first real tests of these new treaty arrangements.

The psychologist Charles Spearman in 1904 made the first formal factor analysis of correlations between the tests.

In 1948, between missions of mine clearance, underwater exploration and technological and physiological tests, Cousteau undertook a first campaign in the Mediterranean on board the sloop Élie Monnier, with Philippe Tailliez, Frédéric Dumas, Jean Alinat and the scenario writer Marcel Ichac.

When IQ tests are revised they are again standardized using a new sample of test-takers, usually born more recently than the first.

The island is chiefly notable for its " mysterious " prehistoric ruins, its once-extensive deposits of phosphatic guano ( exploited by Australian interests from c. 1860-1927 ), its former use as the site of the first British H-bomb tests ( Operation Grapple, 1957 ), and its current importance as a protected area for breeding seabirds.

In 1956 the United Kingdom selected Malden as the " instrumentation site " for its first series of thermonuclear ( H-bomb ) weapons tests, based at Kiritimati ( Christmas Island ).

* 1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.

When power is first applied to the motherboard, the BIOS firmware tests and configures memory, circuitry, and peripherals.

The task of constructing five engineering mules ( more developed prototypes ) was again allocated to IAD, which also conducted the first front and rear crash tests on the P729.

* 2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.