When it came to time for Ribbentrop to present the German declaration of war on 22 June 1941 to the Soviet Ambassador, General Vladimir Dekanozov, Paul Schmidt described the scene :" It is just before four on the morning of Sunday, 22 June 1941 in the office of the Foreign Minister.

When Estragon declares that he is hungry, Vladimir provides a carrot, most of which, and without much relish, the former eats.

When Beckett started writing he did not have a visual image of Vladimir and Estragon.

When Vladimir asks what Godot does the boy tells him, " He does nothing, sir.

When the wedding arrangements were settled, Vladimir dispatched 6, 000 troops to the Byzantine Empire and they helped to put down the revolt.

When Joseph Stalin returned to the capital, he reversed Molotov's line ; but when the party leader, Vladimir Lenin, arrived, he overruled Stalin.

When Taoiseach Enda Kenny caused confusion following a speech at Béal na Bláth by crediting Michael Collins with bringing Vladimir Lenin to Ireland, Coogan commented: " Those were the days when bishops were bishops and Lenin was a communist.

When Vladimir died in 1015, Sviatopolk's retinue concealed his death from him due to the fact that he, being Vladimir's oldest son, could claim the Kievan throne.

When he moves to the country, he strikes up a friendship with his neighbor, a starry-eyed young poet named Vladimir Lensky.

When he was 17, as he said, he was " converted " to political Zionism as a follower of Vladimir Jabotinsky.

When Pyotr died, he was succeeded by his third son Vladimir Smirnov (?

When Kraven returns after preventing Vladimir from attacking the captives, he is shown to lack a sense of control, attacking Ana until he is stabbed in the heart by Ana in self-defense.

When the metropolitan of all Rus moved his chair from Vladimir to Moscow in 1325, it became clear that Moscow had effectively succeeded Vladimir as the chief centre of power in the north-east and the rest of the Rus.

When Vladimir was 10 months old, Nina had to return to her office in the Transcript bureau of the Ministry of Geodesy and Cartography of the USSR ( engaged in making German maps available for the Soviet military ) so as to help her husband earn their family's living.

When Sviatopolk II died in 1113, the Kievan populace revolted and summoned Vladimir to the capital.

When pianist Ralph Berkowitz was asked if Vladimir Horowitz had the greatest technique of all the pianists he had heard, Berkowitz replied that Horowitz indeed was the supreme master of the technical parts of performance, but one older era pianist was his equal-Hofmann.

When Ivan declared himself the " Hand of God ", 300 of the Oprichniki were selected to be his personal " brotherhood " that lived within Ivan's castle at Aleksandrovskaia Sloboda near Vladimir.

When he heard Vladimir Horowitz blaze through the octave passages of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto at his Vienna debut, he remarked: " He is an Octavian, but not Caesar.

When asked why he was a trusted representative for Vladimir Putin during the last presidential election, Kishenin explained that this was done at the request of Vladislav Surkov, deputy director of the President's Administration.

When the wedding arrangements were settled, Vladimir dispatched 6, 000 troops to the Byzantine Empire and they helped to put down the revolt.

When Vladimir Lenin returned to Russia on April 3, 1917, he promised the people " Peace and Land ," the latter appearing as a promise to the peasants for the redistribution of confiscated land.

When the Bolsheviks came to power, he completed his cycle of illusions by saluting Vladimir Lenin as the leader who had realized his syndicalist myth.

When Dmitrii Donskoi and Vladimir the Bold were young, Alexius was their spiritual tutor and served as regent at the same time.

He promised nearly 200 Democratic county committee members at the meeting in the Puddingstone Inn: `` When I come back here after the November election you'll think, ' You're my man -- you're the kind of governor we're glad we elected ' ''.

When the University of Heidelberg hired Robert Bunsen in 1852, the authorities promised to build him a new laboratory building.

When reelected in 2000, President Aristide promised to remedy this situation but instead introduced a non-sustainable plan of " cooperatives " that guaranteed investors a 10 percent rate of return.

When the question of satisfying the investors came up, Gutenberg is said to have promised to share a " secret ".

When the vote was nearing, and the constitution still looked likely to be defeated, Madison pleaded with a small group of anti-federalists, and promised them he would push for a bill of rights later if they changed their votes.

When she was only two years old she was promised to the Dauphin, the infant son of King Francis I of France, but the contract was repudiated after three years.

When the British governor of Uganda, Sir Harry Johnston, discovered some pygmy inhabitants of the Congo being abducted by a showman for exhibition, he rescued them and promised to return them to their homes.

When its contents were read to the clergy and people in the church of St. Mary Major in 656, they not only rejected the letter with indignation, but would not allow the pope to leave the basilica until he had promised that he would not on any account accept it.

When Taraki was ousted, Amin promised " from now on there will be no one-man government ..." Attempting to pacify the population, he released a list of some 18, 000 people who had been executed and blamed the executions on Taraki.

When he came to power, Karmal promised an end to executions, the establishment of democratic institutions and free elections, the creation of a constitution, the legalisation of parties other than the PDPA, and respect for individual and personal property.

When they arrived in Sydney, Bligh, backed up by statements from two of Short's officers, had Short stripped of the captaincy of the Porpoise – which he gave to his son-in-law – cancelled the land grant Short had been promised as payment for the voyage and shipped him back to England for court martial, at which Short was acquitted.

When he thought he finally won Marge's heart, he promised to be a better lover than Homer.

When the First World War ended, the Treaty of Versailles fell short of what had been promised in the London Pact to Italy.

When Lady Eleanor went to ask him for the return of her property, it was said that Edward tried to persuade her to sleep with him, and when she refused, that he promised to marry her.

When the hero Aeneas sued for Lavinia's hand in marriage, Amata opposed him because she had already promised Lavinia to Aeneas ' nemesis Turnus.

When Aradia descended, she became the first of all witches, and promised her students that " ye shall all be freed from slavery, / And so ye shall be free in everything ".

When the river Amasenus blocked his path, he bound her to a spear and promised Diana that Camilla would be her servant if she would safely transported to the opposite bank.

When he went to a festival organised by the king of Ulster, she warned him that she would only stay with him so long as he did not mention her to anyone, and he promised to say nothing.

When no funds promised by Gaddafi were forthcoming, Bokassa abandoned his new faith.

When organiser Bob Geldof was persuading artists to take part in the concert, he promised them that it would be a one-off event, never to be seen again.

When the subsequent roles promised by the studio failed to materialize, he returned to Europe and settled in Triesen, Liechtenstein in a home he designed and built with a friend.

When more than half of his score was removed from the soundtrack, Herrmann bitterly severed his ties with the film and promised legal action if his name were not removed from the credits.

When he left Finland, he had promised to return " with the help of God and Hindenburg ".

When, therefore, Tone urged the Directory to send effective assistance to the Irish rebels, all that could be promised was a number of small raids to descend simultaneously on different points of the Irish coast.