It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 ; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

* Elafonisi ( Chania ), which commemorates a shipwreck and an Ottoman massacre.

A photograph of the 1875 Tufts team which hangs in the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana commemorates this match as the generally accepted first intercollegiate football game between two US institutions.

The modern sports nickname of Golden Tornadoes commemorates the " Golden Tornado " of May 11, 1914 when a major tornado struck the college, most notably taking the gold colored roof from the top of Old Main, which was the origin of the associated color.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate two feast days in honor of Gregory: January 25 as his primary feast and January 30, known as the feast of the Three Great Hierarchs, which commemorates him along with John Chrysoston and Basil of Caesarea.

The feast of the Annunciation ( which commemorates the virginal conception and the Incarnation of Jesus ) is celebrated on 25 March, nine months before Christmas Day.

It commemorates the assassination of the righteous governor of Judah of that name, which ended any level of Jewish rule following the destruction of the First Temple.

Sukkot commemorates the years that the Jews spent in the desert on their way to the Promised Land, and celebrates the way in which God protected them under difficult desert conditions.

Reuvein Margolies suggests that as the Mishnah was redacted after the Bar Kochba revolt, Rabbi Judah could not have included discussion of Hanukkah which commemorates the Jewish revolt against the Syrian-Greeks ( the Romans would not have tolerated this overt nationalism ).

It commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt.

On the morning of the Passover seder, firstborn sons are commanded to observe the Fast of the Firstborn which commemorates the salvation of the Hebrew firstborns.

No trace of them remains today, but this likely commemorates the Cornish foundation myth, being the point, Lam Goemagot-the Giant's Leap-from which the Giant was cast into the sea by the hero Corin.

Her memorial, which commemorates her martyrdom, is 21 January in both the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and in the General Roman Calendar of 1962.

The 1962 calendar includes a second feast on 28 January, which commemorates her birthday.

In this painting, which commemorates France's Revolution of 1830, a half-clothed Liberty leads an armed mob over the bodies of the fallen.

This ceremony commemorates the willow ceremony at the Temple in Jerusalem, in which willow branches were piled beside the altar with worshipers parading around the altar reciting prayers.

King Stephen died on the feast day which commemorates the bodily assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Feast of the Assumption on 15 August, in the year 1038, at Esztergom-Szentkirály or Székesfehérvár, where he was buried.

X: The Unheard Music was released on DVD in 2005, as was the concert DVD X-Live in Los Angeles, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the band's landmark debut album, Los Angeles.

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean Lennon to create the song " Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue ", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city.

This day commemorates the Mexican Revolution which started on November 20, 1910 when Francisco I. Madero planned an uprising against dictator Porfirio Díaz's 31-year-long iron rule.

The First Sunday of Great Lent is the Feast of Orthodoxy, which commemorates the restoration of the veneration of icons after the Iconoclast controversy, which is considered to be the triumph of the Church over the last of the great heresies which troubled her ( all later heresies being simply a rehashing of earlier ones ).

Holy Saturday commemorates the day during which Christ lay in the tomb.

The obelisk at Ballard Down commemorates the provision of a new supply of drinking water for Swanage in 1883.

A plaque commemorates the events following when the sea took out their vessel, the Tom Thumb, and filled it with water, on the 21st of March, 1796.

* A plaque commemorates Snow and his 1854 study in the place of the water pump on Broad Street ( now Broadwick Street ).

File: Heroes Square fountain, Bridgetown ( 2000 ). jpg | This fountain commemorates the introduction of piped water in Bridgetown.

In 1770 James Cook ( then a Lieutenant in the British Royal Navy ) in His Majesty ’ s Endeavour Bark sailed past the coast off Mackay, after travelling North for a further two days, in his Journal for Monday 4 June he recorded that he named the body of water through which he sailed Whitsunday ’ s Passage “… as it was discovered on the day the Church commemorates that Festival ” and called the islands in the area “ Cumberland Isles in honour of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland ” ( Henry Frederick, the brother of His Majesty King George III of England ).

He also designed the drinking fountain between the road and the village green, the erection of which commemorates the completion of the village's piped water supply, a scheme begun by Colonel Lloyd-Verney to whom the fountain is also a memorial.

The establishment of the Republic was also used for the final version of the calendar ; therefore, the calendar commemorates the Republic, not the Revolution.

It commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990, when the goal of a unity of Germany that originated in the middle of the 19th century, was fulfilled.

Once the 14-year-old king had regained control of the capital and then the whole country, Grindcobbe was tried in the Moot Hall ( on the site of the present-day W H Smith stationery shop, where a plaque commemorates the event ) and adjudged a ' traitor ' alongside John Ball (' the mad priest of Kent ', one of the rebel leaders who had escaped from Smithfield, London to Coventry ) and more than a dozen others.

* 1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews ( numbering about 16, 000 ) from England ; this was Tisha B ' Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.

The largest commemorates the Royal Naval dead of the two world wars ; its central obelisk is by Robert Lorimer and was unveiled in 1924, while the surrounding sunken garden was added by Edward Maufe in 1954.

Henry of Lancaster was then sent to Wales in order to fetch the King and the younger Despenser ; on 16 November he with Welsh rebels caught Edward, Despenser and their soldiers in the open country near Tonyrefail, where a plaque now commemorates the event.

For this achievement Titus was awarded a triumph ; the Arch of Titus commemorates his victory to this day.

The SAS Brigade Memorial at Sennecey-le-Grand in France commemorates the wartime dead of the Belgian, British, and French SAS and recently a memorial plaque was added to the David Stirling Memorial in Scotland.

“ Réunion ” was the name given to the island in 1793 by a decree of the Convention with the fall of the House of Bourbon in France, and the name commemorates the union of revolutionaries from Marseille with the National Guard in Paris, which took place on 10 August 1792.

The name commemorates the name of Mariano Chaves, a governor of New Mexico when it was part of Mexico.

A plaque on the north wall commemorates playwright Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered in a nearby house, and buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard on 1 June 1593.

This commemorates their descent from the Lathoms, which was the foundation of their fortunes.

Others joined his Christian Mission, and on 7 August 1878 the Salvation Army was formed at a meeting held at 272 Whitechapel Road .< ref >< cite > 1878 Foundation Deed Of The Salvation Army accessed 15 February 2007 </ cite ></ ref > A statue commemorates both his mission and his work in helping the poor.

A memorial on the harbour wall commemorates a member of the Craster family who died serving with the British Army in Tibet in the 19th century, the development of the harbour was as a memorial to their son.

Mark Twain was a sometime summer visitor to Norfolk, and a stained glass window at the Church of the Transfiguration ( Episcopal ) commemorates his wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens.

The former house is gone as it was too dilapidated to preserve, but a plaque at this location still commemorates his birth.