" He made his debut the following day in a 1 – 0 defeat to Bury at Gigg Lane, and in doing so became the first British Asian to play in all four divisions of professional football in England, something which he described in his online blog as " a momentous occasion " and expressed his hope that it inspires the next generation of Asian footballers.

It was on the eve of a momentous U.N. session to come to grips with cold war issues.

It was to be expected that Stanley would be shy, slow in taking such a momentous step.

Even as the regenerative-circuit lawsuit continued, Armstrong was working on another momentous invention.

Eight years later, after William's death in 1120, a much more momentous union was made between Henry's daughter, ( the former Empress ) Matilda and Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet, which eventually resulted in the union of the two realms under the Plantagenet Kings.

Mike Moore was the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation from 1999 to 2002, his term coincided with momentous changes in the global economy and multilateral trading system.

The people's participation was so broad, momentous and pervasive that the king feared being overthrown.

The Dano-Norwegian government officials in charge of the giving of the coats, had a party to remember the momentous occasion and became too drunk and hungover to remember which was which, and so Molde got the coat with a whale ( which are scarce in between the Romsdal fjords ) and Kristiansund got the waterfall ( since Molde is on the mainland and Kristiansund lies in the open sea, it would be more likely that the waterfall was intended for Molde's mountains and the whales for Kristiansund.

The year 1968 was a momentous year for Daley.

The nation had endured a widespread depression following the Panic of 1819 and momentous disagreement about the extension of slavery into the territories was taking center stage.

His influence on the development of the uncodified constitution of Great Britain was less momentous even though he is regarded as Great Britain's first Prime Minister.

The cultural impacts resulting from climatic changes and other natural events during this broad expanse of time were negligible ; conversely, European contact was a momentous event, which profoundly affected California's native peoples.

The transition from an aquatic lobe-finned fish to an air-breathing amphibian was a momentous occasion in the evolutionary history of the vertebrates.

His last, and perhaps the most momentous act, was his will and testament known as " The Succession Statute " in which he divided the country among his sons, leading to almost 200 years of feudal fragmentation of the Polish Kingdom.

More momentous was an attack by a mob on Pope Symmachus ' party as he set out to arrive at the synod: many of his supporters were injured and several — including the priests Gordianus and Dignissiums — killed.

This was the first experiment of its kind to use this double-blind procedure and, in recognition of this momentous study, Rivers was appointed Croonian Lecturer to the Royal College of Physicians in 1906.

This was a momentous event, and was unforeseen by Marius, as no Roman army had ever marched upon Rome — it was forbidden by law and ancient tradition.

This was partly because of more momentous events.

Nevertheless, Philip was back in Rome by August 247, where he poured more money into the most momentous event of his reign – the Secular Games, which coincided with the one thousandth anniversary of the foundation of Rome.

Through Dewhirst there was to be a momentous link.

Abraham was than rewarded with a momentous sacrifice, which is usually believed to have been a ram, goat or sheep.

In his diary, the then Tsarevich Alexander recorded the momentous event of the birth of his first child,

There are very few historical incidents recorded around Stapleton, all except for one day in August 1485 when King Richard III arrived and camped at the Bradshaws just south of the village with his army in preparation for the momentous Battle of Bosworth Field.

Several times he served as Speaker, including the momentous day of June 15, 1775 when " with Rodney in the chair and Thomas McKean leading the debate on the floor ," the Assembly of Delaware voted to separate all ties with the British Parliament and King.

Described as the " most momentous piece of legislation in the field of railway law to have been enacted since the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 ", it was passed by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government to dissolve the British Transport Commission ( BTC ), which had been established by Clement Attlee's Labour government in 1947 to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport.

The Act was described as the " most momentous piece of legislation in the field of railway law to have been enacted since the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 ", In anticipation of the 1962 Act, the government appointed Dr Richard Beeching to chairman the British Railways Board with a brief to recommend and implement such changes as were necessary to end of the losses that were growing rapidly at the time.

The press in the Confederate States in particular made the Confederate victory appear to be more momentous than it was and greatly exaggerated the number of Union soldiers killed in the battle, a common reaction by both sides to battles in 1861.

RCA's momentous victory in the courts left Armstrong unable to claim royalties on any FM receivers, including televisions, which were sold in the United States.

This would prove to be a momentous event for Baghdad which developed into a centre of trade and culture.

The capital of the Caliphate will later moved from Damascus to Baghdad, within the territory of the former Persian Empire ; this transfer will prove to be a momentous event for Baghdad, which develops into a centre of international trade and culture.

Physicist Lee Smolin has written that if such cosmic rays which violate the GZK limit can be confirmed, and other possible explanations discounted, it " would be the most momentous discovery of the last hundred years — the first breakdown of the basic theories comprising the twentieth century's scientific revolution.

Sir Liam Donaldson described the ban as " a momentous move which would prevent the deaths of both smokers and non-smokers.

Eyewitnesses including Rudolf Bing report that Warren had completed La Forza's Act III aria, which begins Morir, tremenda cosa (" to die, a momentous thing "), and was supposed to open a sealed wallet, examine the contents and cry out " E salvo, o gioia " ( He is safe, oh joy ), before launching into the vigorous cabaletta.

Zhang Qian also describes the origins of the Yuezhi, explaining they came from the eastern part of the Tarim Basin, a momentous explanation which has encouraged historians to connect them to the Caucasoid mummies, as well as to the Indo-European-speaking Tocharians that have been identified from precisely the same area:

Quoting Wendell Phillips, the authors write in the introduction: " We hope the contribution we have made may enable some other hand in the future to write a more complete history of ' the most momentous reform that has yet been launched on the world — the first organized protest against the injustice which has brooded over the character and destiny of one-half the human race.

As a very significant and momentous event, on May 20, 2011, Royal Dutch Shell announced the planned development of a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas ( FLNG ) facility, which will be situated 200 km off the coast of Western Australia and is due for completion in around 2017.

It is noticeable that, while he held his office in the curia through that momentous period of fifty years which witnessed the Councils of Konstanz, in the train of Pope John XXIII, and of Basel, and the final restoration of the papacy under Nicholas V, his sympathies were never attracted to ecclesiastical affairs.

" In the shaping of these momentous developments Shipley which was both distinctive and significant.

The most momentous military achievement of Cadwallon's reign was the final expulsion of Irish settlers on Anglesey, and the re-absorption of that island, which later became the cultural and political base of the kingdom, into Gwynedd.

:" This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades ".

For a time the outlook appeared hopeless, but Rezanov's skill, subtlety and address prevailed, and shortly before the assassination of Paul ( 1801 ) he obtained his signature to the momentous instrument which granted to the Russian-American Company, for a term of twenty years, dominion over the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, from latitude 55 degrees northward ; and over the chain of islands extending from Kamchatka northward to Alaska and southward to Japan.