When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.

When the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, made a coded phone call to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee.

When the US Marines landed on the island, they discovered a large amount of documents, which included agreements between the Soviet Government, and the New Jewel Movement, recorded minutes of the Committee meetings, and reports from the Grenadian embassy in Moscow.

When various Bolshevik and Menshevik factions tried to re-unite at the January 1910 RSDLP Central Committee meeting in Paris over Lenin's objections, Trotsky's Pravda was made a party-financed ' central organ '.

When Lenin died in January 1924, the testament was read out to a meeting of the party's Central Committee.

Reagan describes lunching with former Democratic National Committee chairman Robert Strauss, wherein Strauss said to her, " When you first came to town, Nancy, I didn't like you at all.

When she learned of these chalk talks, she recruited the cartoonists to do shows for the Hospital Committee of the American Theatre Wing.

When the ANC announced the election of its National Executive Committee on 21 December 2007, Mandela placed first with 2845 votes.

When this Act expired in 1856 a Select Committee was appointed by the Lords in 1857 to look into the question.

( When later the SDLP chose a new leader, it selected one of its ministers, Mark Durkan, who then opted to remain in the Committee.

When Mussorgsky's subsequent opera Khovanshchina was rejected for production in 1883, the Imperial Opera Committee reputedly said: " One radical opera by Mussorgsky is enough.

When Massamba-Débat was overthrown in 1968 Lissouba remained in government under Marien Ngouabi and although he was suspended from political activity from 1969 to 1971 he was on the Central Committee of the Congolese Workers Party in 1973.

When Brezhnev arrived in Prague and met with the Central Committee members, he was stunned to learn of the extent of the opposition to Novotný, leading Brezhnev to withhold support and paving the way for the Central Committee to remove Novotný.

When Clara Barton returned to the United States, she inaugurated a movement to gain recognition for the International Committee of the Red Cross by the United States government.

When his death was announced on the afternoon of September 9, in a press release entitled “ A Notice from the Central Committee, the NPC, State Council, and the CMC to the whole Party, the whole Army and to the people of all nationalities throughout the country ”, the nation descended into grief and mourning, with people weeping in the streets and public institutions closing for over a week.

When the House resolves itself into a Committee of the Whole, the Speaker designates a member to preside over the Committee as the Chairman, who is addressed as " Mister Chairman " or " Madam Chairwoman.

When the National People's Congress is in adjournment, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress sanctions the candidacy for the governor of the PBC.

When he was confronted with the potential charge of federal bank fraud, he revealed he had been directed by Committee deputy director Jeb Magruder and finance director Maurice Stans to give the money to G. Gordon Liddy.

When the Republicans took control of the Senate after the 1980 elections, Dole became chairman of the Finance Committee in 1981, serving until 1985.

When they heard Nixon might make Dole chairman of the Republican National Committee, half the Republican Senators protested, especially moderates who feared Dole would direct party assets to conservatives.

When the case was settled, Hussein Ibish, director of communications for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee ( ADC ), stated that the ADL had gathered data " systematically in a program whose clear intent was to undermine civil rights and Arab-American organizations ".

When the BBC noticed the rising popularity of this method they established a Radiophonic Effects Committee, setting up the Workshop in rooms 13 & 14 of the BBC's Maida Vale studios with a budget of £ 2, 000.

When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.

When that regiment was disbanded in 1783 he retired upon half pay.

When this did not happen, most of his followers disbanded and returned to their original churches.

When Canute arrived at Struer and found the fleet disbanded, he was furious.

When the railroad suspended building in the 1880s, the Davis brothers disbanded and sold their property to the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company.

When the prototypes were built, worked and proven the engineering development team was disbanded and the trains handed over to British Rail's in-house engineering department to build.

When Split Enz disbanded in December, Hester and Neil Finn decided to start a new group.

When Junjeong murdered her rival the Wonhwa were disbanded.

When conflict with the Groupers precipitated a national split in the ALP, leading to the formation of the breakaway Democratic Labor Party ( DLP ), the national organisation of the AWU swung its support behind ALP leader Dr H. V. Evatt and disbanded the Groups.

When Strike Wing disbanded with the retirement of the Skyhawks, a new name had to be found for the supervisory wing, as Strike Wing at Ohakea needed to merge with the Operations Wing in Auckland.

When it was disbanded, wheat prices tumbled by two-thirds, prompting many farmers to call for its re-introduction.

When the East German parliament, the Volkskammer, which was freely elected on March 18, 1990 for the first time, is disbanded in the process of the German reunification, another 7 seats are added as 7 members of the 21-member Volkskammer faction of the Green Party, elected by their peers, enter the Bundestag.

When the Gunners ' application was eventually denied, the team returned to an independent status until they disbanded in 1941.

When the Zion Mule Corps was disbanded, Jabotinsky traveled to London, where he continued his efforts to establish Jewish units to fight in Palestine as part of the British Army.

When the Yardbirds disbanded in 1968, Page planned to record the song yet again, this time with Led Zeppelin.

When Reeves was well enough to return, she recruited Sandra Tilley and the lineup of Martha and Lois Reeves and Tilley continued until 1972 when the group disbanded shortly after issuing the Black Magic album.

When the legion rebelled under Augustus, it was disbanded, stripped of its Equestris title, and, being populated with soldiers from other legions, renamed X Gemina.

When RFTT disbanded, the personnel split and formed two different musical groups:

When the military finally arrived to restore order on the 17th and 18th, most of the rioters had disbanded, although there were rumours that mobs were destroying property in Alcester and Bromsgrove.

When DD Smash eventually disbanded, partially to make room for the commercially expanding vision of Dobbyn, they left behind them the hit singles " Outlook for Thursday " ( 1983 ) and the violin-tinged, perennial classic " Whaling " ( 1984 ).

When Happy End disbanded, Hosono and Suzuki formed Tin Pan Alley with Masataka Matsutoya, Hosono then formed the Yellow Magic Orchestra while Suzuki continued work as a guitarist and solo musician.

When The Svelts disbanded, de Buhr formed another all-female group called Wild Honey.

When Stone Temple Pilots disbanded in 2003, the band sent Weiland new music, which he took into his studio and added vocals.

When the CCF was disbanded 1961, he joined its successor party, the NDP.