For its inaugural international event, the CPU sponsored a conference to be held on August 1, 1914, on the shores of Lake Constance in southern Germany.

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

The Sudirman Cup, a gender-mixed international team event held once every two years, began in 1989.

The ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2007 was the first international cricket event to have cheerleaders.

Since the NCC2010 the event is now open to international competition, representing a significant step forward for the ICC.

The South African cricket team participated in the event for the first time, following the fall of the apartheid regime and the end of the international sports boycott.

Once again, qualification is based on achieving minimum scores at earlier competitions ( in this case, within the 12 months preceding the national championships, and in an Open age group event ), or high placements in previous national championships or international competitions.

A women's tournament was added in 1996 ; in contrast to the men's event, full international sides without age restrictions play the women's Olympic tournament.

* Generations in Arbitration, an international conference event to promote international arbitration

Since then, and even in recent years, public spokesmen in Haiti as well as international academics and statesmen have denounced this event as the payment of an illegitimate debt, in several cases calling on the French government to repay it ( the French government has never been willing to repay it, though there was a hoax following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake involving a fake website purporting to offer reparation payment on behalf of the French Government ).

* 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

An international ceremony and conference were held in Tehran ; the event was opened by the Iranian president and the chairman of the Iranian parliament.

The event was graced by a number of African leaders and praised by the international community.

The Leipzig Trade Fair, started in the Middle Ages, became an event of international importance and is the oldest remaining trade fair in the world.

In April 1917, Lenin published the April Theses, the strategy of the October Revolution, which proposed that the Russian revolution was not an isolated national event, but a fundamentally international event — the first world socialist revolution.

* Bike Week ( Bicycle Week ) is a yearly international event that advocates the importance of bicycling as a means of transportation.

In any event, many countries are obligated by various international instruments and standards, such as the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the United Nations Convention against Corruption, and the recommendations of the FATF to enact and enforce money laundering laws in an effort to stop narcotics trafficking, international organised crime, and corruption.

Nowadays, the event is international, inviting teams from all countries.

On the first day of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the Altador Cup started as an annual international online gaming event and had 10. 4 million participants the first year.

A Loring Ward report in Advisor Perspectives showed how international diversification worked over the 10-year period from 2000 – 2010, with the Morgan Stanley Capital Index for emerging markets generating ten-year returns of 154 percent balancing the blue-chip S & P 500 index, which lost 9. 1 percent over the same period – a historically rare event.

Orbison's death was an international news event.

Apart from the normaliens, ENS also welcomes selected foreign students (" international selection "), as well as selected students from neighboring universities, to follow the same curriculum but without a stipend.

Apart from the large number of exchanges the university also welcomes international students as part of its Study Abroad Programme and offers programmes jointly with institutions based outside Ireland and is rapidly expanding a wide range of international activities.

The school is international in character and welcomes students of all nationalities.

In addition to the current 193 member states, the United Nations welcomes many international organizations, entities, and non-member states ( currently only one ) as observers.

The college also welcomes international students.

An international version of the countdown was launched on BBC World News on 5 September 2005 featuring more international content and similar music.

In the intervening years, the social world of music had seen dramatic changes: international publication and touring had grown explosively, concert societies were beginning to be formed, notation had been made more specific, more descriptive, and schematics for works had been simplified ( yet became more varied in their exact working out ).

Live music is popularly played on streets and at venues throughout Dublin in general, and the city has produced several musicians and groups of international success, including U2, one member of Westlife, The Dubliners, The Thrills, Horslips, Jedward, The Boomtown Rats, Boyzone, Ronan Keating, Thin Lizzy, Paddy Casey, Sinéad O ' Connor, The Script and My Bloody Valentine.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.

The International Festival centres on a programme of high-profile theatre productions and classical music performances, featuring international directors, conductors, theatre companies and orchestras.

Major national and international music events are usually held at the Derwent Entertainment Centre, or the Casino.

Paraguayan harps and harp music have gained a worldwide reputation, with international influences alongside folk traditions.

Mexican " jarocha " harp music of Veracruz has also gained some international recognition, evident in the popularity of " la bamba ".

There are / were two big international competitions for classical music in Hanover:

Rock music in India has its origins in 1960s when international stars such as The Beatles visited India and brought their music with them.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Pioneer Electronics dominated the international karaoke music video market, producing high quality karaoke music videos ( inspired by the music videos such as those on MTV ).

It was conceived as a political demonstration for peace and international understanding through love and music.

MTV continues to support a broad selection of music videos on its international channels as well.

Postmodernism has influenced many disciplines, including religion, literary criticism, sociology, ethics and morality, linguistics, architecture, history, politics, international relations, anthropology, visual arts, and music.

Pop music has been dominated by the American and ( from the mid-1960s ) British music industries, whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics.

The term " rock and roll " now has at least two different meanings, both in common usage: as synonymous with rock music and as music that originated in the mid-1950s and later developed " into the more encompassing international style known as rock music ".