When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When Giffen decided to charge him interest on the loan from John Palfrey, Gorham readily assented, vowing that in a matter of dollars and cents, his brothers would never have any cause to complain of him.

When his corps commander, Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds, was killed very early in the fighting, Doubleday found himself in command of the corps.

When originally used in Olney, it is unknown what music, if any, accompanied the verses written by John Newton.

When Angelo Cardinal Roncalli was elected and became Pope John, there was some confusion as to whether he would be John XXIII or John XXIV ; he then declared that he was John XXIII to put this question to rest.

When Frederick IV of Habsburg sided with Antipope John XXIII at the Council of Constance, Emperor Sigismund placed him under the Imperial ban.

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

When John Lawson Johnston died, George Lawson Johnston inherited the Bovril business.

When John the Baptist appeared and began preaching, he attracted disciples who assumed he would be announced as the Messiah, or " the one " they had been awaiting.

When Pope John XXIII abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes Paul VI and John Paul II continued to do.

When announcing Vatican II, Pope John XXIII stated that the precepts of the Council of Trent continue to the modern day, a position that was reaffirmed by Pope Paul VI.

When instead we discuss human purpose and the meaning of life, Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes are on the same side.

When Catherine of Aragon travelled to London she brought a group of her African attendants with her, including one identified as the trumpeter John Blanke.

When John Dickinson freed his slaves in 1777, he was Delaware's largest slave owner with 37 slaves.

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

When King John II of Portugal revived the work of Henry the Navigator, he sent out Cão ( about midsummer (?

When John Stossel accused USAID of not funding DDT because it wasn't " politically correct ," Anne Peterson, the agency's assistant administrator for global health, replied that " I believe that the strategies we are using are as effective as spraying with DDT ...

When Thomas Wyatt the younger instigated what became known as Wyatt's rebellion, John Ponet, the highest-ranking ecclesiastic among the exiles, allegedly participated in the uprising.

When Allen and his men landed above St. John and scouted the situation, they learned that a column of 200 or more regulars was approaching.

When Penn State changed its name from College to University in 1953, its president, Milton S. Eisenhower, sought to persuade the town to change its name as well.

When the North Penn Railroad, connecting Philadelphia to Bethlehem, was completed in 1856, this line provided an impetus to building iron smelters in Bingen, Hellertown, and Iron Hill, due to the township ’ s wealth of iron ore and limestone.

When he arrived at Penn, he had to prove himself worthy of a scholarship before receiving it.

When Penn died in 1788, he was buried on his estate near Island Creek, in Granville County.

When making editorial decisions, The Southern Review continues to rely on Robert Penn Warren's articulation of the mission when he said The Southern Review gives " writers decent company between the covers, and editorial authority sufficiently for the journal to have its own distinctive character and quality.

When William Penn died at age 73 on July 30, 1718, his will gave Hannah Penn full control of the colony and his fortune.

When William Penn was laying out the city of Philadelphia in the early 1680s, he named Callowhill Street in his wife's honor.

When she was 23, McGovern was engaged to actor Sean Penn whom she met on the set of Racing with the Moon.

When William Barton was born, Patrick Rogers was tutor at Penn.

When New Haven successor Penn Central proposed abandonment of the Providence & Worcester main line during the early 1970s, P & W successfully sued for its independence.

When the Duke of York made use of his charter on behalf of courtier William Penn, through conveyances made by the governor of New York, there was a brief conflict of interest between the Catholic, Tory and whose son was likewise a sometime Jacobite sympathizer Lord Baltimore with their friend the aforesaid Duke, but this was a hard fought court battle subsequently relegated to a proprietary dispute between the Calvert and Penn families, since both were held in favor by both the King and Prince James.

When she turned it down, Jodie Foster, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Robin Wright Penn were all under consideration before Kyra Sedgwick won the part.

When subsequently challenged at the James Randi Educational Foundation's The Amazing Meeting 6 about their views on global warming, Penn Jillette published a piece in the Los Angeles Times saying " I don't know about climate change ".

When this occurred, a number of them visited William Penn in London, in 1707, and arranged terms with him to colonize a portion of what is now Lancaster County, near what was then the western frontier of Pennsylvania.

When Arthur Penn, an American film director, needed a Japanese actor for his film Mickey One, Kurosawa suggested Fujiwara.

When the Pennsy's successor, the Penn Central company, collapsed into bankruptcy in 1970, the LMRR was still active.

When the Pennsylvania Railroad was merged with the New York Central Railroad in 1968, its fleet of 119 surviving GG1s was acquired by Penn Central.

When William Penn arrived in Delaware 1682, a very elaborate ceremony was carried out where he was given the key to the defense works.

When William Penn left his Quaker colony in Pennsylvania, the people stopped paying quitrent, and any semblance of formal government evaporated.

When the Sixers faced the Lakers in the 2001 NBA Finals Billy Penn was not decorated.

When Amtrak was founded in 1971, five private companies provided inter-city passenger service in Michigan: the Baltimore & Ohio ( B & O ), the Chesapeake & Ohio ( C & O ), the Grand Trunk Western, the Norfolk & Western, and Penn Central.

When the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (" MTA ") began funding these commuter services in 1970, many were repainted blue with a bright yellow nose, although they remained Penn Central-owned.

When Penn Central ( the PRR's successor ) and the CNJ merged into Conrail in 1976, the railroad was finally under control of one company.