The EPP Group is one of the three oldest groups, dating its origin back to September 1952 and the first meeting of the Parliament's predecessor, the Common Assembly.

* July – History of the Ursulines in New Orleans: Seventeen Ursuline Sisters from France land in New Orleans, Louisiana, where they found the orphanage which is the predecessor of the Catholic Charities and the Ursuline Academy, making the latter the oldest continuously-operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States.

He was the oldest pope ( reigning until the age of 93 ), and had the third longest pontificate, behind his immediate predecessor Pius IX and John Paul II.

The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, when the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of the University of Florida's four predecessor institutions, was founded in Ocala, Florida.

The predecessor was the Stecknitz Canal, built under Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, between 1390 and 1398, making it one of the oldest artificial waterways of Europe.

The Grant County Republican constitutes the predecessor of the current day The Ulysses News, which claims to be Grant County, Kansas's oldest surviving business, although it has operated under numerous names, editor / publishers, and management.

He was the oldest son of Hellier, his predecessor in the office.

Its predecessor organizations date back to 1855 making it one of the oldest trade associations in the United States.

The discovery led to the formation, in 1879, of the Pacific Coast Oil Company ( also known as " Coast Oil "), the oldest predecessor of Chevron Corporation.

URS Corporation ’ s oldest predecessor company was founded in 1904.

The oldest documented predecessor of Zenit was team " Murzinka ", founded in 1914, which played in the same Obukhovsky stadium from 1914 until 1924, when the team became to be called " Bolshevik " ( the new name for Obukhovsky industry and its stadium ).

The colours vary by regiment and derive either from historic associations with predecessor regiments or from the colours of the regiment's oldest known uniform.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, based in England, is the oldest professional HR association, with its predecessor institution being founded in 1919.

The oldest predecessor of the line was the Chicago and Indiana Air Line Railway, chartered on December 2, 1901.

The oldest engine technological predecessor for the variable-displacement engine is the hit and miss engine, developed in the late 19th century.

The oldest predecessor was the City Point Railroad a long line to Petersburg completed in 1838.

Unum ’ s predecessor, Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, was founded in 1848, making it one of the oldest continuously operating insurance companies in the United States.

Its predecessor body, the Ministerium of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States, the oldest Lutheran synod in America, was organized in 1748 at Philadelphia by the Lutheran patriarch, Pastor Henry Melchior Muhlenberg of Trappe, Pennsylvania.

Landmark's predecessor, Norfolk Newspapers, first entered broadcasting in 1930, when it bought Virginia's oldest radio station, WTAR.

However, since the oldest part of the structure dates from the 14th century, and has no predecessor, Shakespeare's version ( and the tradition which came before it ) is of extremely dubious historical authenticity.

The oldest predecessor of the Revolutionary Socialist Party is the Revolutionary Socialist Union ( Dutch: Revolutionair Socialistisch Verbond ; RSV ), a group of dissidents from the Communist Party Holland ( CPH ) led by Henk Sneevliet.

Tricyclic antidepressants are the second oldest class of antidepressant drugs.

Gardner's family were wealthy and upper middle class, running a family firm, Joseph Gardner and Sons, which described itself as " the oldest private company in the timber trade within the British Empire.

Monoamine oxidase inhibitors ( MAOIs ) are the oldest class of antidepressants.

At the age of 70 years and 8 days, he became the oldest driver to be part of a winning team in a major sanctioned race, winning in his class at the 1995 24 Hours of Daytona.

* SS Robin, world's oldest complete steam coaster ( a class of steamship )

The oldest, Crystal Lake Central High School ( Central for short ), graduated its first class in 1924 and was known as Crystal Lake Community High School when it opened.

One class of the Latin manuscripts contain as an appendix or continuation, the Cura Sanitatis Tiberii, the oldest form of the Veronica legend.

Individuals in the same 10 cm diameter class may vary in age by 300 years, and the largest individual on any particular site is often not the oldest.

It is the oldest senior class landed society at Yale.

It became increasingly popular amongst the Scottish upper class to send their children to their oldest higher learning institution, and the university soon enough saw a renaissance that has been maintained to date.

The Gilman family also donated to the Academy much of the land on which it stands, including the initial 1793 grant by New Hampshire Governor John Taylor Gilman of the Yard, the oldest part of campus ; the academy's first class in 1783 boasted seven Gilmans.

Historically, the description of a bacterium lacking a cell wall was sufficient to classify it to the genus Mycoplasma and as such it is the oldest and largest genus of the class with about half of the class ' species ( 107 validly described ), each usually limited to a specific host and with many hosts harboring more than one species, some pathogenic and some commensal.

Most of the oldest recognized movements, dating to late 18th and 19th centuries, fought for specific social groups, such as the working class, peasants, whites, aristocrats, Protestants, men.

But Gustav III also introduced in this class the 300 oldest families in the Class of Esquire and also the " commander families ", who are of the descendants of commanders of the Order of the Northern Star and the Order of the Sword.

Nelson returned to Albion and completed his studies as one of the oldest students, where he graduated at the top of his class.

The City of San Pablo ( Filipino: Lungsod ng San Pablo ), a first class city in the southern portion of Laguna province, Philippines, is one of the country's oldest cities.

While education at that time was almost exclusively offered to boys and men, one reason that Marbury may have focused on teaching his daughters is that his five oldest surviving children were all girls ; another reason may have been that the ruling class in Elizabethan England began realizing that girls could be schooled, looking to the example of the queen, who spoke six foreign languages.

The effort was originally spearheaded by the 2002 – 2003 Tappee class of the Texas Orange Jackets, the " oldest women's organization at the University " ( of Texas at Austin ).

By the late 1960s, bulldozers were encroaching on The Rocks-European settlement's oldest Sydney precinct-saved only by public protests aimed at preserving ' working class housing ' close to the Central Business District ( which resulted also in considerable colonial era architecture being preserved in one precinct next to Circular Quay ).

Often the political structure is such that political power within the ruling class accumulates with age, so that the oldest hold the most power.

This crest is believed to be the oldest yeoman ( i. e. non noble family crest ), denoting loyal followers from an early merchant class.

In April 1962, Mr. Seaga was elected Member of Parliament for West Kingston the waterfront area in the capital city which is historically the oldest settlement in Kingston for poor, working class residents a great many of whom are unemployed.