Several groups claim that the military base on Diego Garcia has been used by the US government for transport of prisoners involved in the controversial extraordinary rendition program, an allegation formally reported to the Council of Europe in June 2007.

With relations first established with the PRC in 1980, Kiribati had been the home to a satellite tracking base for China's space program from 1997 until 2003, a week before ties were formally severed.

* May 18 – The U. S. Congress formally votes to end funding for the American Supersonic Transport program.

* November 6 – Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States ( by 1971 250, 000 Cubans take advantage of this program ).

The Buran (,, Snowstorm or Blizzard ) program was a Soviet and later Russian reusable spacecraft project that began in 1974 at TsAGI and was formally suspended in 1993.

The Space Shuttle program formally ended on August 31, 2011.

The shuttle program was formally launched on January 5, 1972, when President Nixon announced that NASA would proceed with the development of a reusable space shuttle system.

An email client, email reader, or more formally mail user agent ( MUA ), is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.

Gruber introduced the term to mean a specification of a conceptualization: " An ontology is a description ( like a formal specification of a program ) of the concepts and relationships that can formally exist for an agent or a community of agents.

In Canada, it was formally recognized in 2003, and a formal training program ( a fellowship ) is currently being established under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina Trask conceived the idea of Yaddo in 1900, but the first residency program for artists did not formally initiate until 1926.

Under the “ Communist re-education program ” for political prisoners, Puyi is coerced by his interrogators to formally renounce his forced collaboration with the Imperial Japanese invaders for war crimes during their occupation of China during the war.

The development on the RS-2200 was formally halted in early 2001 when the X-33 program did not receive Space Launch Initiative funding.

However, Martin contradicted this two days later when he announced that Canada would not formally participate in the NMD program but focus on other items of shared defence / security interest.

Surrendering to continued NLF advances and pressures from the Joint Chiefs, Johnson formally authorized a sustained bombing program, codenamed Rolling Thunder, which would not be tied to penguin North Vietnamese actions.

Though Michigan State has offered courses in veterinary science since its founding, the College of Veterinary Medicine was not formally established as a four-year, degree-granting program until 1910.

After three years of planning, The College of Engineering successfully launched the first stages of its Residential Experience for Spartan Engineering, formally known as the Residential Option for Scientists and Engineers ( ROSES ), the new program is located in Wilson Hall after being housed in Bailey Hall for a number of years.

In 1937, the door-to-door preaching program was extended to formally include " back calls " on interested people and Witnesses were urged to start one-hour Bible studies in the homes of householders.

At the conclusion of the consortium and following an independent third-party environmental audit of the area, Texaco formally agreed with the Republic of Ecuador and Petroecuador to conduct a three year remediation program at a cost of $ 40 million.

" The educational program, formally accepted in October 1965, drew its first graduate students from several existing academic disciplines: mathematics, electrical engineering, psychology, and the interdisciplinary Systems and Communications Sciences program in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration.

The program code named " Number 8 Project " ( 八号工程 ) and formally started on September 15, 1983.

On March 23, 1983 President Ronald Reagan announced a new national missile defense program formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative but soon nicknamed " Star Wars " by detractors.

The following day the U. S. formally requested from the UK and Denmark use of facilities in Fylingdales, England, and Thule, Greenland, respectively, as a part of the NMD program.

In 1955, the World Health Organization commenced a program to eradicate malaria worldwide, relying largely on DDT.

The international program on Sundays commenced in 1928, with host Eddie Startz hosting the Happy Station show, which became the world's longest-running shortwave program.

After the Serbian government launched a major offensive against the ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo in 1998, the UAE called for international intervention and commenced a major program of humanitarian relief through its Red Crescent Society.

Altan Khan had Thegchen Chonkhor, Mongolia's first monastery, built, and a massive program of translating Tibetan texts into Mongolian was commenced.

Mandated digital conversion commenced early in 2009 with a graduated program.

Originally established as the Drew Theological Seminary in 1867, the university later expanded to include an undergraduate liberal arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955.

In 2002, a large-scale reconstruction project commenced, which added luxury boxes, a five-story office building, and separate football program offices.

Wget is the descendant of an earlier program named Geturl by the same author, the development of which commenced in late 1995.

The Brazilian program commenced in Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo in January 2004.

Happy Station Show, the international program on Sundays commenced in 1928 with host Eddie Startz.

In 2007, the Toowoomba City Council commenced a bore drilling program to augment the dwindling dam supplies and constructed several subartesian bores across the city and one artesian bore at Wetalla in the city's north.

After a successful guest appearance on Sunday Arts ( ABC-TV ) in 2009 in which he interviewed US writer & lecturer Robert McKee, Martin commenced working on a new program called A Quiet Word With ... which began airing on ABC1 on 28 September 2010.

The program commenced operations on 30 June 2010.

The growth was spurred by the rationalisation program that British Airways commenced in 1975 with the transfer of " thin " routes to Loganair.

UC Hastings College of the Law and UCSF Medical School have commenced a joint degree program, and in 2011 will begin enrolling their first class of graduate students in the Master of Studies in Law ( MSL ) and LL. M.

The new program schedule is a mixture of Seven and WIN programming and commenced broadcasting on 1 October 2007.

Following his return to Jableh, al-Qassam commenced a program of Islamic revival based on moral reforms which included the encouragement of maintaining regular salaah (" prayer ") and the sawm (" fast ") during Ramadan as well as advocating an end to gambling and alcohol consumption.

A massive program of translating Tibetan ( and Sanskrit ) texts into Mongolian was commenced, with letters written in silver and gold and paid for by the Dalai Lama's Mongolian devotees.

Blaha began Russian language training in August 1994 at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and commenced an intensive training program at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia in January 1995.

In 2011 Trinity commenced operating Edith Head Hall, formerly a hostel run by The Girls Friendly Society, as a collegiate hostel for students of its Foundation Studies program.

As of November 2009, this investigation was ongoing however, as of 30 November 2009 the three forementioned stations commenced broadcasting a three hour locally produced program from 12pm weekdays.

Zoo construction commenced in 1933 as part of the Federal Government ’ s works program on an estate willed to New York City.

The construction program commenced in late 2011 and is due to be completed in late 2012.