They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ).

In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

Previously, because of a players ' strike in 1981, a split-season format forced a divisional playoff series, in which the Montreal Expos won the Eastern Division series over the Philadelphia Phillies three games to two while the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros three games to two in the Western Division.

He returned to the Western Front in early 1916 as a general staff officer in the 33rd Division and took part in the Battle of Arras in April / May 1917.

The Padres were the winners of the Western Division with Steve Garvey, Tony Gwynn, Eric Show, Goose Gossage and Alan Wiggins.

They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ), and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, and Chicago Blackhawks.

Manager Whitey Herzog replaced McKeon in 1975, and the Royals quickly became the dominant franchise in the American League's Western Division, winning three straight division championships from 1976 to 1978.

In the 1985 regular season the Royals topped the Western Division for the sixth time in ten years, led by Bret Saberhagen's Cy Young Award-winning performance.

These 1969 Twins won the very first American League Western Division Championship, but they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the first American League Championship Series.

This same situation was also repeated during their 1970 season, with the Twins winning the Western Division behind the star pitching of Jim Perry ( 24-12 ) and the Orioles winning the Eastern Division Championship behind the star pitching of Jim Palmer.

They currently participate in the North Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ); prior to that the Vikings were in the NFC Central Division, and before that they were in the NFL's Western Conference Central Division.

The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League.

Part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, the majority of the metropolitan area of Perth is located on the Swan Coastal Plain, a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp, a low coastal escarpment.

they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference ( AFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ).

Thus, the Fifth Division was at Al-Ubayyid in Kurdufan ( Central Command ), the Second Division was at Khashm El Girba ( Eastern Command ), the Sixth Division was assigned to Al-Fashir in Darfur ( Western Command ), the First Division was at Juba ( Southern Command ), and the Seventh Division was at As Shajarah just south of Khartoum ( Khartoum Command ).

Enfranchised in, the Mariners are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League.

The men's hockey team competes in Division I as a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association ( WCHA ), and has won three national championships.

Despite their regular season success, the Spurs were unable to win any NBA championships, losing in the Western Conference playoffs to the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 1981 and the Los Angeles Lakers in in 4 games 1982 and in 6 games in the 1983 Western Finals despite getting both wins at the Forum in the 1983 series.

The town's high school soccer team is the most dominant in Western Mass and has recently been ranked 16th nationally by the NSCAA and has won many state championships as well, including the most recent one in 2011.

Gonzaga also has an Army ROTC Ranger Challenge team, which has won 15 championships in the last 16 years, and is a multiple winner of the Douglas MacArthur Award, given annually to the best Army ROTC program in the Western United States.

: Western regular season championships: 12 — 1963, 1964, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011.

League annals show 12 Western Division regular season championships, 10 Western Division Championships and 6 Grey Cup championships.

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

* 3 ABA Western Division regular season championships ( 1971 – 72, 1972 – 93, 1973 – 74 )

* 3 ABA Western Division playoff championships ( 1969 – 1970, 1970 – 71, 1973 – 74 )

: Western regular season championships: 7 — 1951, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1976, 2009

: Western Division championships: 19 — 1933, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1984

Some claim this classification is erroneous because Cooper won the 1934 Western Open, which many considered one of golf's major championships at that time.

Evans went to the Western Golf Association ( WGA ), an organization that ran golf championships in the Midwest, to get their support for his scholarship.

Many Western Ontario varsity programs lead Canadian universities in the number of championships won.

Former world champion Ross Kearney won both the 2010 Mirror European championships at Sligo Yacht Club, and the 2011 Mirror World Championship held in Albany, Western Australia, with current crew Max Odell.

The Ice Arena serves as a practice facility for the Buffalo Sabres, has hosted the NJCAA championships, and is also a host site for the Western New York Federation High School Hockey regular season and championship playoffs.

Before joining the NHL in 1988, Linden helped the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League ( WHL ) win consecutive Memorial Cup championships.

The first mission of which, is to organize sporting championships for university students in Western Canada.

The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.

In the Middle Ages the two were treated as Christian saints, being entered in the Greek Orthodox calendar on 26 August, and in the Roman Martyrology in the Western Church as " Barlaam and Josaphat " on the date of 27 November.

In Western, Northern and Central Europe ( France, Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries, and the annexed portions of Czechoslovakia ) Germany established economic policies through which it collected roughly 69. 5 billion reichmarks ( 27. 8 billion US Dollars ) by the end of the war ; this figure does not include the sizable plunder of industrial products, military equipment, raw materials and other goods.

The Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Bir Lehlou ( Western Sahara ), on February 27, 1976.

In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).

* February 27 – The Polisario Front, Western Sahara's national liberation movement, declares independence of the territory under the name " Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic " ( SADR ).

* January 27 – The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Company is incorporated to build a plank road from Fayetteville, North Carolina to Bethania, North Carolina.

* July 27 – Avignon Pope Benedict XIII is deposed, bringing to an end the Great Western Schism.

The 1893 Parliament of the World ’ s Religions, which ran from September 11 to September 27, marked the first formal gathering of representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions from around the world.

On June 27, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois, Debs and other influential union leaders including Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Western Federation of Miners, and Daniel De León, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, held what Haywood called the " Continental Congress of the working class ".

On January 27, 2008, the Thrashers hosted the NHL All-Star Game at Philips Arena, matching the Eastern Conference All-Stars vs. the Western Conference All-Stars.

Both Selanne and Niedermayer would ultimately return and the team finished with a 47 – 27 – 8 record good enough to earn home ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs finishing as the 4th seed in the Western Conference.

Avitus was dead and the Western throne without a pretender ; the Eastern Roman Emperor was to choose the successor, but Marcian could not do anything, as he died on January 27, 457.

The Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ) is an American collegiate athletic conference, which was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA's Division I FBS ( formerly Division I-A ).

On May 27, 1861, tracks owned by the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad intersected with those of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad and was called the " Atlantic and Erie Junction ".

* East Stroudsburg Railroad Station ( Date Listed: June 27, 1980 ) is an unused train station built in 1856 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.

Volga was founded by the Western Town Lot Company on December 27, 1879 by Col. Arthur Jacoby.

In a unanimous verdict by the High Court of Australia on 27 March 2008, the two provisions of the legislation, purporting to ban Western Australians from using a betting exchange and prohibiting an unauthorised business from using Western Australian race lists, were declared invalid as they applied to Betfair.

Tōgō was born on 27 January 1848 ( by the Western calendar ) in the Kajiya-chō ( 加治屋町 ） district of the city of Kagoshima in Satsuma domain ( modern-day Kagoshima prefecture ), in feudal Japan, the third of four sons of Tōgō Sanetomo ( 1805-1867 ), a samurai serving the Shimazu daimyo, and Hori Masuko ( 1812-1901 ).

Angela Isadora Duncan ( May 27, 1877 – September 14, 1927 ), was an American dancer, Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50.

In 1934 – 1956 the Governors of the Western Sahara ( which from 27 November 1912 were also Governors-general of Spanish West Africa ) were subordinated to him.

St. Stephen's Day, or the Feast of St. Stephen, is a Christian saint's day celebrated on 26 December in the Western Church and 27 December in the Eastern Church.

* NSW Premiership – Western Suburbs 27 – 2 St George ( grand final )

On 27 October 1942, the Western Desert Air Force ( WDAF ) was organized as shown below: