The 1910 tour to South Africa marked the official beginning of British and Irish rugby tours: the inaugural tour operating under all four unions.

This tour may have marked the occasion when the team first became known as " the Lions ".

The 1959 tour to Australia and New Zealand marked once again a very successful tour for the Lions, who only lost six of their 35 fixtures.

During a tour of Germany in 1958, accompanied by then-wife Eden, daughter Melinda, Robert Dwan and Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of Adolf Hitler's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charleston.

The tour marked a turning point in Nicks ' career: although she had achieved significant critical acclaim, drugs were taking a toll on her performing, affecting her vocals and changing her on-stage persona.

It marked the first time that a player ranked in the top 3 had ever been " shut out " on the WTA tour and was the first time Sharapova had failed to win a game during a match.

This marked the end of the band and there was no supporting tour.

The match also marked the first and only time that the two men ever played each other on the ATP tour.

2008 marked the 30th anniversary of the original album release and a number of events took place, including a " 30th Anniversary " tour which started on 7 June 2009 in Dublin.

Les mariés de la tour Eiffel did not mark " the end of the Groupe des Six ", as Durey was present for every concert and other manifestations that marked the anniversaries of the founding of the group.

1981 marked the release of " Rio do Brasil ", and several dates were played at The Olympia in Paris, emulating her successful 1980 tour.

On 1 August 2010 ; the band played the sold out music festival Sonisphere, which marked their first UK performance since the tour for their Love album.

This milestone marked the division ’ s fourth tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom ( I, III, V, and VII ).

They released a brand new album Hollyweird in 2002 and in 2006 the band celebrated their 20 year Anniversary with The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock tour and album, which was certified Gold and marked Poison's return to the Billboard 200 top 20 charts for the first time since 1993.

This period marked the beginning of divisions within the band, as rather than tour in support of Rabies, Ogre joined Ministry's The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour as an additional vocalist.

A two-song set on the January 27, 1979 broadcast of Saturday Night Live ( with guest host Michael Palin ) marked the final television appearance of this lineup, and a brief tour of Japan marked the last live performances of the band in its middle-period configuration.

They tour the United States and much of the world, performing aerobatic formation and solo flying in specially marked aircraft.

The 2011 – 12 season marked the return of Japan, also a former tour stop, to the circuit.

However, 2007 marked a return to touring for Edmunds, alongside Joe Brown, on a lengthy tour around the UK.

The tour marked a turning point in his fortunes, and when he returned to the United States he was a featured act with many prominent folk artists such as Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, famous for classic purity of technique, begins its first U.S. tour in New York ( through Sept. 30 ).

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903 – 04.

The ruthless and belligerent Armstrong led his team back to England in 1921 where his men lost only two games late in the tour to narrowly miss out of being the first team to complete a tour of England without defeat.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

Ayckbourn joined Wolfit on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as an acting assistant stage manager ( meaning a role that involved both acting and stage management ) for three weeks, with his first role on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are Lonely by Fritz Hochwälder .< ref name = acting >

The first tour took place as a commercial venture, made without official backing, but the six subsequent visits that took place before the 1910 South Africa tour, the first representative of the four Home Unions, enjoyed a growing degree of support from the authorities.

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.

The first match of the Bill MacLagan undefeated tour of South Africa

The first tour, although unsanctioned by rugby bodies, had established the notion of touring Northern Hemisphere sporting sides to Southern Hemisphere locations.

Three years after the first tour, the Western Province union invited rugby bodies in Britain to tour South Africa.

In 1899 the British Isles touring side returned to Australia for the first time since the unofficial tour of 1888.

Visits that took place before the 1910 South Africa tour ( the first selected by a committee from the four Home Unions ) had enjoyed a growing degree of support from the authorities, although only one of these included representatives of all four nations.

The first post-war tour went to New Zealand and Australia in 1950.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

The Great Britain team won the last MacRobertson International Croquet Shield tournament, which is the major international test tour trophy in association croquet.

He established diplomatic relations with most major countries and, following a 1927 tour of Europe and Turkey ( during which he noted the modernization and secularization advanced by Atatürk ), introduced several reforms intended to modernize Afghanistan.

Toshiki Kaifu's much publicized spring 1991 tour of five Southeast Asian nations — Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines — culminated in a 3 May major foreign policy address in Singapore, in which he called for a new partnership with the ASEAN and pledged that Japan would go beyond the purely economic sphere to seek an " appropriate role in the political sphere as a nation of peace.

However, he admitted during his book tour for Dean and Me that a major factor for the film's burial is that he is not proud of the effort.

She was one of the more popular acts at the Monterey Pop Festival and later became one of the major attractions to the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour.

Kid Rock went on his first major tour, Limptropolis, with Limp Bizkit and Staind.

Richard Cole organised their first North American tour at the end of the year, and would become a major figure in the touring life of the group.

In 1977, Led Zeppelin embarked on another major concert tour of North America.

In the fall of 1949, the NCS cooperated with Treasury Department to sell savings bonds, engaging in a nationwide tour to 17 major cities with a team of 10 to 12 cartoonists and a traveling display, 20, 000 Years of Comics, a 95-foot pictorial history of the comic strip.

festival in 1992 provided Phish with their first national tour of major amphitheaters.

As the pub-rock phenomenon expanded, hundreds of pubs in capital cities and major towns began providing regular live music, and a thriving circuit evolved, enabling bands to tour up and down the eastern and southern coast of Australia from North Queensland to South Australia.

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

In 1998, Twain launched her first major concert tour, aided by her manager Jon Landau, a veteran of many large-scale tours with Bruce Springsteen.

In 2013 the ballet will tour with Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea in the U. S., Canada, Japan, G-20 countries and major cities of Russia.

At the peak of their popularity, the band embarked on a major tour, but Partridge suffered a mental breakdown on stage during one of the first concerts of the tour in Paris on 18 March 1982.

** Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.

Her first major royal tour occurred when she joined her parents and sister for a tour of South Africa in 1947.

* The Glory That Was ( 1960 )-a tour de force incorporating most of de Camp's major interests into one work

The same year he embarked on his second major tour (" The Teletour ") with an even more elaborate stage show than The Touring Principle the previous year.

A strong bond of friendship was forged between the King and Queen and the President during the tour, which had major significance in the relations between the United States and the United Kingdom through the ensuing war years.

The first of these, opening at the Boston Museum on 25 November 1878, made such a splash that the piece was quickly produced in major cities and on tour by dozens of companies throughout the country.