The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

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, United maintained their aggregate lead to reach the last four and were in jubilant mood as they left to catch their flight home, thinking of an important League game against Wolves at the weekend.

In Britain the weekend may appear at the end of the week so the first day is Monday and the last day is Sunday.

* Ellensburg hosts the annual Jazz in the Valley music festival on the last weekend in July.

On the last weekend in October, the Fall Classic rivalry game between Northwest Missouri State University and Pittsburg State University takes place here.

While Labour Day parades and picnics are organised by unions, many Canadians regard Labour Day as the Monday of the last long weekend of summer.

The annual Berlin Marathon, which takes place in the last weekend of September, was first held in 1974 but due to the division of the city was confined to West Berlin up till and including 1989.

Numerous tournaments are held throughout Wisconsin during the year, with the largest tournament being the " Nationals ", held annually during the first or second weekend in November, and mini-tournaments held hourly throughout Germanfest in Milwaukee during the last weekend of each July.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

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.

In its last three seasons, UPN was one of only two of the major broadcast networks ( Pax TV ( now Ion Television ) was the other ) not to air a children's programming block on weekend mornings.

Since 2004, every year in the last weekend of August in the Palace of the Kings of Majorca the free 3 day Guitares au Palais takes place.

It was also announced that the race will stay on the last weekend of February for its 55th running, and take place on February 24th, 2013.

The film recounts the life of an alcoholic New York writer, Don Birnam, over the last half of a six year period, and in particular on a weekend alcoholic binge.

Although Reagan would win a landslide victory, the polls showed the two major party candidates even ( the New York Times had it 44-43-8 ) going into the last weekend and it was clear that many would-be Anderson supporters were now supporting their second choice.

This insurgence is celebrated in Cagliari during the " Die de sa Sardigna " ( Sardinian Day ) on the last weekend of April.

It is held every year on the last weekend in May.

* The Artists Market: A small display of arts and craft booths which is set up concurrently with the Farmer's Market each Saturday from the first weekend in June through the last weekend in August.

Also, the Fruitvale district in Oakland serves as the hub of the Dia de Los Muertos annual festival which occurs the last weekend of October.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

Ludie had a cigar box full of marbles and shooters, and a Roman candle from last Fourth of July.

He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

National Schools Tree Day is held on the last Friday of July for schools and National Tree Day the last Sunday in July throughout Australia.

On 19 July 2007, the Newport Pagnell plant rolled out its last car, a Vanquish S. Nearly 13, 000 cars had been made there since 1955.

In July 1520 Dürer made his fourth and last major journey, to renew the Imperial pension Maximilian had given him and to secure the patronage of the new emperor, Charles V, who was to be crowned at Aachen.

HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha ) () ( 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944 ) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ( 8 January 1892 – 19 December 1914 ).

The yearly festival runs from the last week in July for a week, running into early August.

Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.

Research indicates that this legend is mostly untrue, and that the new name was a play on the name of the Boston Braves, then known as the " Miracle Braves " after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the 1914 World Series.

The Indians, falling to last place for a short time in June and July, traded CC Sabathia to the Milwaukee Brewers for prospects Matt LaPorta, Rob Bryson, and Michael Brantley.

He was Louis XVI's last minister of war ( July 1792 ), and organised the defence of the Tuileries Palace during the 10th of August attack.

The last Belgian troops left the country by 23 July, as United Nations forces continued to deploy throughout the Congo.

Général d ' armée Louis Bobozo, and Generaux de Corps d ' Armee Nyamaseko Mata Bokongo, Nzoigba Yeu Ngoli, Muke Massaku, Ingila Grima, Itambo Kambala Wa Mukina, Tshinyama Mpemba, and General de Division Yossa Yi Ayira, the last having been commander of the Kamina base, were all retired on 25 July 1972.

" Husserl remained in his professorship at Freiburg until he requested retirement, teaching his last class on July 25, 1928.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

ELO's last performance of the century occurred on 13 July 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany playing as support band to Rod Stewart.

While the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is the largest competitive film festival in Mexico, specializing in emerging talents, and is held each year during the last week of July in the two colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.

* 1779 July – Start of the Great Siege of Gibraltar ( fourteenth and last military siege ).

On 3 July 1844, the last two confirmed specimens were killed on Eldey, off the coast of Iceland, which also eliminated the last known breeding attempt.

For Griffin, fascism is " a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti-conservative nationalism " built on a complex range of theoretical and cultural influences.

* January 22 – Cyrus Griffin becomes the tenth and last President of the United States in Congress Assembled.

During the last two weekends of June, the Fort Griffin Fandangle, a western musical production, is presented by Shackelford County residents in the Prairie Theater in Albany.

Her last televised performance was on an episode of The Merv Griffin Show ( aired July 6, 1979 ), during which she performed Memory Lane and Lover and Friend.

Holliday was still practicing dentistry on the side from his rooms in Fort Griffin and in Dodge City, as indicated in an 1878 Dodge newspaper advertisement ( he promised money back for less than complete customer satisfaction ), but this is the last known time he attempted to practice.

The last president, Cyrus Griffin, resigned in November 1788.

John Griffin Carlisle ( September 5, 1834 – July 31, 1910 ) was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party during the last quarter of the 19th century.

A police officer pulls Susan from class to question her, because she was the last person to see Mr. Griffin alive to their knowledge.

After the last Griffin duke had died during the Thirty Years ' War in 1637, the duchy was partitioned between Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden.

After dropping Griffin in the first and last rounds, Tarver was crowned champion after winning a unanimous decision.

José Canseco walked and Dave Parker reached on a Griffin error to load the bases, but Mark McGwire popped out, ending the A's last chance to score.

Griffin then said he had run his last electoral race and considered himself retired from political competition.

The role of Glenn Griffin was Bogart's last as a villain.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Griffin rampant coward langued and armed Argent holding in front paws a sword of the last.

The last of them closed in the 1990s ; the Orpheum Theatre recently underwent a complete restoration at a cost of several million dollars, and is now used for major movie premieres ( such as " Collateral " in 2005 ), celebrity events ( Michael Jackson's birthday party ), comedy shows ( Kathy Griffin ), fashion shows, concerts and plays.

Additionally, Griffin planned to accelerate or otherwise change a number of aspects of the original plan that was released last year.

The Sandman then plots to kill a young man named Griffin ( Jay Underwood ), who was the last survivor of the family he attempted to slaughter.