The V-weapon offensive ended in March 1945, with the last V-2 landing in Kent on March 27 and the last V-1 two days later.

On Palm Sunday 1945 the church building was destroyed by the last V-2 rocket to fall on London.

In 1988, Enzo Ferrari oversaw the launch of the Ferrari F40, the last new Ferrari to be launched before his death later that year, and arguably one of the most famous supercars ever made.

* 1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.

It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.

HBO also had a 30 minute program of music videos, called Video Jukebox, that first aired around the time of MTV's launch and would last until late 1986.

At the launch of OS / 2 Warp in 1994, Patrick Stewart was to be the Master of Ceremonies ; however Kate Mulgrew of the then-upcoming series Star Trek: Voyager was substituted at the last minute.

Shuttle Endeavour's last mission, STS-134, was a successful launch at 08: 56 EST.

One of the last games released for the 32X in North America was Spider-Man: Web of Fire ( 1996 ), and one of the last ever was Darxide, released only in Europe, which had been intended by Frontier Developments to be a launch title for the ill-fated Neptune.

Skylab was launched 14 May 1973 by a Saturn V ( the last launch of such a rocket ) with the upper stage removed, but with the avionics remaining in the same position ( different from the Saturn INT-21 rocket, which could launch payloads not based on the S-IVB ) into a 235-nautical-mile ( 435-km ) orbit.

UPN quietly went off the air on September 15, three days prior to the launch of The CW ; WWE SmackDown was the last official program ( although some affiliates aired the optional weekend encore block ), ending its existence after 11 years.

What can I tell you in these last minutes before the launch?

** Apollo Program: Apollo-Saturn mission 502 ( Apollo 6 ) is launched, as the second and last unmanned test-flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle.

The mission, which the men named Apollo 1 in June, was originally planned for late 1966 ( perhaps concurrent with the last Gemini mission ), but delays in the spacecraft development pushed the launch into 1967.

The last transmission from Mariner 2 was received on January 3, 1963 at 07: 00 UTC, making the total time from launch to termination of the Mariner 2 mission 129 days.

As Vincent moves through the Gattaca complex to the launch site, he is stopped for an unexpected last urine test.

In 241, Sun Quan would launch the last major assault against Wei of his reign, in light of Cao Rui's death in 239, but he rejected a strategy offered by Yin Zha ( 殷札 ) to attack Wei in coordinated effort with Shu on four different fronts, and the campaign ended in failure as well.

Burr took on a shorter project next, playing an underworld boss in a six-hour miniseries, 79 Park Avenue One last attempt to launch a series followed on CBS.

Petitions signed by California state voters equal in number to 12 % of the last vote for the office of governor ( with signatures from each of 5 counties equal in number to 1 % of the last vote for governor in the county ) can launch a gubernatorial recall election.

The last Titan-Centaur launch was in 2003.

The last Atlas F test launch was on 18 January 1965, and the 576th Strategic Missile Squadron was inactivated on 2 April 1966.

On 5 March 1965, the last test launch of a Titan I ICBM conducted by the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg was successful.

The final launch of a Titan II was made in 2003 when the last Titan IIG was expended.

Then at last the darkness began to dissolve.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

He looked at each of them in turn, Brannon last of all.

But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.

'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Then the boy straight-armed himself up, twisting at the last moment so he landed sitting.

but when the bird is found at last, it turns out to be a fake.

The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.

We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

Harriet's mouth watered with anticipation when after months of dreaming she sat down at last to her much-craved milk and fresh bread.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.

Mr. Podger always particularly enjoyed the last night of each summer at Loon Lake.

introduction of the `` dialogue '' principle proved strikingly effective at the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Catholic Association for International Peace in Washington the last weekend in October.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

Harry Hawk had not shifted position, but he at last lowered his arm.