In opera, a new Romantic atmosphere combining supernatural terror and melodramatic plot in a folkloric context was first successfully achieved by Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 – 1826 ) and perfected by Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 1883 ) in his Ring Cycle.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Wagner / Morris Island – the first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.

In a first for the genre, in 2009 the British Glyndebourne Festival Opera company offered an online digital video download of its complete 2007 production of Wagner ’ s Tristan und Isolde.

The first is a typical classical orchestra ( i. e. Beethoven / Haydn ), the second is typical of an early / mid-romantic ( i. e. Brahms / Dvořák / Tchaikovsky ), late romantic / early 20th century ( i. e. Wagner / Mahler / Stravinsky ), to the common complement of a present day modern orchestras ( i. e. Adams / Barber / Copland / Glass ).

The franchise joined the National League in its sixth season in 1887 and was competitive from its early years, winning three National League titles from 1901 to 1903, playing in the very first World Series in 1903 and winning their first World Series in 1909 behind Honus Wagner.

Many of the total of 14 banquet and beer halls had a Wagnerian theme-indeed, the very name of the complex was taken from the Wagner opera Das Rheingold, the first of the four parts of the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, although this name did hark back to the building's planned former role as a concert venue.

Vikings running back Brent McClanahan returned the ensuing kickoff 22 yards to the 39-yard line, but on the first play of the drive, Tarkenton's pass was intercepted by Wagner.

Then on the first play of the Cowboys ' next drive, Steelers defensive back Mike Wagner intercepted a pass from Staubach and returned it 19 yards to the Dallas 7-yard line.

But Pittsburgh defensive back Mel Blount intercepted a pass from Staubach and returned it 13 yards to the 29, with a personal foul on Dallas tight end Billy Joe Dupree adding another 15 yards and giving the Steelers the ball at their own 44-yard line ( note: The interception happened on exactly the same play that Drew Pearson scored on in the first quarter of Super Bowl X. Mike Wagner intercepted Staubach on exactly the same playcall in the 4th quarter of the same game .).

According to Benjamin, these drafts were astonishing for “ the precision of their materialist deciphering ,” as well as the way in which “ musical facts … had been made socially transparent in a way that was completely new to me .” In his Wagner study, the thesis later to characterize Dialectic of Enlightenment — man's domination of nature — first emerges.

Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality, edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan and first published in 2001, explores the term and its history from an avant-garde perspective.

* July 18 – American Civil War: The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, unsuccessfully assaults Confederate-held Fort Wagner but their valiant fighting still proves the worth of African American soldiers during the war.

* Richard Wagner completes his first opera, Die Feen ( The Fairies ).

In 1854, Wagner first read Schopenhauer, and was struck by the philosopher's theories on aesthetics.

Following the completion of Tristan und Isolde, Wagner resumed work on Die Meistersinger in 1861 with a completely different philosophical outlook from that he held when he first drafted his comedy.

These years were some of Wagner's most difficult: the 1861 Paris production of Tannhäuser was a fiasco, Wagner gave up hope of completing Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 1864 Vienna production of Tristan und Isolde was abandoned after 77 rehearsals, and finally in 1866 Wagner's first wife, Minna died.

At the end of the first performance, the audience called for Wagner, who appeared at the front of the Royal box, which he had been sharing with King Ludwig.

Wagner wrote the first prose draft of the story in Paris early in May 1840, basing the story on Heinrich Heine's satire " The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski " ( Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski ) published in Der Salon in 1834.

He changed the location and names to the final Norwegian version while the opera was in rehearsals for its first production, which took place in Dresden in January 1843 with Wagner himself conducting.

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850.

The first production of Lohengrin was in Weimar, Germany on 28 August 1850 at the Staatskapelle Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt, a close friend and early supporter of Wagner.

It was notably the first performance of any Wagner opera in Italy.

The performance on 9 November was attended by Giuseppe Verdi, who annotated a copy of the vocal score with his impressions and opinions of Wagner ( this was almost certainly his first exposure to Wagner's music ).

This first British Grand Prix was won by Louis Wagner and Robert Sénéchal, sharing the drive in a Delage 155B.

In 1961, Wagner won re-election by running a reformist campaign that denounced his former patron, DeSapio, as an undemocratic practitioner of Tammany machine politics.

* Billed as the I Grand Prize Race of the Automobile Club of America, the inaugural American Grand Prize takes place at Savannah, Georgia over 402. 080 miles ( 25. 130 miles x 16 laps ) and is won by Louis Wagner driving a FIAT in 6: 10: 31. 4 at an average speed of 65. 111 mph.

Reich worked in internal medicine at the city's University Hospital, and studied neuropsychiatry from 1922-1924 at the hospital's neurological and psychiatric clinic under Professor Julius Wagner von Jauregg ( 1857 – 1940 ), who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927.

Wagner won the race by the unprecedentedly close margin of 56 seconds.

He won seven batting titles in total, a feat tied or exceeded by only five players ( Cobb ( 11 or 12, depending on the source ), Tony Gwynn ( 8 ), Honus Wagner ( 8 ), Rod Carew ( 7 ), and Stan Musial ( 7 )).

Wagner won eight batting titles, tied for the most in NL history with Tony Gwynn.

The Stockholm production was nominated for eight national Swedish Theatre Awards Guldmasken and won six of them, including Best Leading Actress in a Musical ( Helen Sjöholm ), Best Leading Actor in a Musical ( Tommy Körberg ), and Best Stage Design ( Robin Wagner ).

The first ever British Grand Prix was won by the French team of Louis Wagner and Robert Sénéchal driving a Delage 155B.

Gwynn is an eight-time National League batting champion, leading the league in 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997, which ties him with the Pittsburgh Pirates ' Honus Wagner for the league record — the all-time Major League batting titles leader is Ty Cobb, who won 12 American League batting titles.

During the 12-year administration of the Wagner Act, unions won victories in over 80 percent of elections.

In Germany, however, it won many admirers throughout the nineteenth century, including Wagner.

In August 2009, Independence Wind along with joint venture partner Wagner Forest Management won Maine DEP approval for construction of a proposed $ 120-million, 22-turbine, utility-scale wind power project along a prominent mountain ridge in Roxbury, Maine.

* In 1988 won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for " Wagner: Lohengrin ".

* In 1989 won Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for " Wagner: Die Walkuere ".

Although Wagner played Nancy for more than 50 years, she never won a Daytime Emmy Award for her work.

As Hans-Peter Wagner says, " Mostly concerned with what he saw as impossibilities in fiction ( identity of characters ; reliable consciousness ; the reliability of language itself ; and the rubrication of literature in genres ) Beckett's experiments with narrative form and with the disintegration of narration and character in fiction and drama won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

Wagner also won the Missouri junior college championship in 1980, and at one point considered a career in pro golf.

The proposal by a student collective from the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee headed by Jörg Streitparth, Siegfried Wagner and Klaus Weißhaupt won the competition and after modification it formed the basis of the new construction.

In 1961, Wagner won re-election by running a reformist campaign that denounced his former patron, DeSapio, as an undemocratic practitioner of Tammany machine politics.

However when he sought a third term in 1961 Wagner broke with Carmine DeSapio and won the Democratic primary anyway, despite a challenge from Tammany's candidate Arthur Levitt Sr. A Democratic Mayor not aligned with Tammany was a new development and marked a milestone in the decline of traditional clubhouse or machine politics in New York City.

Much of his best short general fantasy work over the years was collected by Karl Edward Wagner in Worse Things Waiting ( 1973 ), which won Wellman a World Fantasy Award and revived interest in his work.

Walt Hameline, in 29 years as the Director of Athletics and Head Football Coach at Wagner, won the school's only National Championship with a 19-3 victory over the University of Dayton in the 1987 NCAA Division III Championship game, also known as the 1987 Stagg Bowl.

A Delage 155 B won the first Grand Prix of Great-Britain in 1926, driven by Louis Wagner and Robert Senechal.