When the first postage stamps premiered in the 1840s, they followed an almost identical standard in their shape, size and general subject matter.

When the film premiered on German television ( RTL ), it was shown in two versions: the first version ( starting at 8: 15 pm ) had most of its violence and gore cut, going so far as to suggest that some of the terrorists survived.

Rickman was one of the many artists who recited Shakespearian sonnets on the 2002 album When Love Speaks, and is also featured prominently in a music video by the band Texas entitled " In Demand ", which premiered on Europe MTV in August 2000.

When the film was premiered in Russia in October 2002, 52 veterans of the K-19 submarine accepted flights to the Saint Petersburg premiere ; despite what they saw as technical as well as historical compromises, they praised the film and in particular the performance of Harrison Ford.

When Sesame Street premiered, most researchers believed that young children did not have long attention spans, therefore the new show's producers were concerned that an hour-long show would not hold their audience's attention.

When Sesame Street premiered in 1969, it aired on only 67. 6 % of American televisions, but it earned a 3. 3 Nielsen rating, which totaled 1. 9 million households.

When it premiered in San Francisco on March 2, it was 132 minutes long.

When it was first released, the film premiered in Constitution Hall in Washington, D. C., on October 17, 1939, sponsored by the National Press Club, an event to which 4, 000 guests were invited, including 45 senators.

When the ballet premiered on 8 September 1942 it was considered a " remarkable success.

When the opera was premiered in Dresden in 1935, Strauss insisted that Zweig's name appear on the theatrical billing, much to the ire of the Nazi regime.

A new high definition series, When Weather Changed History, premiered on the Weather Channel on January 6, 2008.

When it premiered in June 1921, Shuffle Along became the first hit musical on Broadway written by and about African-Americans.

When Dreamgirls premiered in late 1981, Jennifer Holliday had taken over the lead.

When Soap premiered on September 13, 1977, 18 out of 195 ABC affiliates had refused to air the program with others choosing to broadcast it after 11PM.

When the show premiered, Seaborn was considered the lead, and the pilot centered on the character.

When the series premiered viewers were presented with a level of titillation and taboo subjects that had never been seen on Australian television before, and the event came to be known as " the night Australian television lost its virginity.

When The Big Show premiered November 5, 1950, this ad, showing NBC's full evening schedule, ran in Sunday newspapers across the country.

When Ally McBeal premiered in 1997 on FOX, Kelley was also shepherding his other two shows, Chicago Hope and The Practice, although he was not actively participating in Chicago Hope at the time.

When the show premiered in 1969, 130 episodes a year were produced ; in 2009, because of rising costs, twenty-six episodes were made.

When the run ended, LuPone remained in London to create the role of Fantine in Cameron Mackintosh ’ s original London production of Les Misérables, in 1985, which premiered at the Barbican Theatre, home of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

When All in the Family premiered in 1971, Edith was a housewife.

When The New Newlywed Game premiered in 1985, Bob Hilton was its announcer.

When Private Lives premiered, the various awards now given for achievement in musical theatre, such as the Olivier Awards and Tony Awards, had not yet been created, and therefore the original productions of the play received no such awards.

When Exposé first premiered in 2003, it could be controlled using the F9, F10 and F11 keys.

On 26 May 2012, Church premiered three new songs " The Rise ", " How Not To Be Surprised When You're A Ghost ", and " Say It's True " on BBC Radio with Bethan Elfyn.

When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

When Einstein received his Nobel Prize in 1921, it was not for his more difficult and mathematically laborious special and general relativity, but for the simple, yet totally revolutionary, suggestion of quantized light.

When the Outer Mongolian Revolution of 1921 broke out, Mongolian revolutionaries expelled Russian White Guards ( during the Russian Civil War of 1917-1923 following the Communist October Revolution of 1917 ) from Mongolia, which became independent when the Qing Empire of China collapsed in 1911, with the assistance of the Soviet Red Army.

When it received its first professional revival in December 1920 in Glasgow – and then in London, in October 1921 – the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company made a number of further cuts and changes that were incorporated in scores and used in subsequent D ' Oyly Carte productions and recordings.

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1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

When Shaw heard, in 1921, that Franz Lehár wanted to set his play Pygmalion to music, he sent word to Vienna that Lehár be instructed that he could not touch Pygmalion without infringing Shaw's copyright and that Shaw had " no intention of allowing the history of The Chocolate Soldier to be repeated "( only after Shaw's death was Pygmalion eventually adapted by Lerner and Loewe as My Fair Lady ).

When Upper Silesia was divided between Poland and Germany in 1921, the Hindenburg commune remained in Germany.

When Emil Post in his 1921 Introduction to a general theory of elementary propositions extended his proof of the consistency of the propositional calculus ( i. e. the logic ) beyond that of Principia Mathematica ( PM ) he observed that with respect to a generalized set of postulates ( i. e. axioms ) he would no longer be able to automatically invoke the notion of " contradiction " – such a notion might not be contained in the postulates:

When Chrysler left Willys in 1921 after an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control from John Willys, he acquired a controlling interest in the ailing Maxwell Motor Company.

When the Bureau of the Budget was created, he was appointed in 1921 by President Warren G. Harding as its first Director.

When the strike was settled in 1921, Brookside mine was never re-opened.

) When the new Parliament of Southern Ireland was called into session in June 1921, only the four Unionist members of the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, and a handful of appointed senators, turned up in the Royal College of Science in Dublin, where the meeting was scheduled to take place ; the others convened elsewhere as the Dáil.

When The British Legion was founded in 1921, it became one of the first branches and, by 1925, was known as Royal British Legion Village.

When Reichspräsident Hindenburg died in 1934, his coffin and that of his wife, who had died in 1921, were placed there despite his wishes to be buried at his family plot in Hanover.

When no bread arrived in Moscow in 1921, workers became hungry and disillusioned.

When Benito Mussolini took office in 1921 the government debt was 93 billion lire, un-repayable in the short to medium term.

When opened in 1921, it was the largest building in The British Commonwealth and was considered on the cutting edge of experimental treatments for people with mental disabilities.

" When Princeton opened their hockey arena in 1921, it was named the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink.

When, in 1921, the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, created in the Fourth Home Rule Act ( known as the Government of Ireland Act 1920 ) met ( or supposedly met, only four MPs, all unionists, turned up for the State Opening of Parliament by the Lord Lieutenant ), it assembled in the Royal College of Science instead of the old Parliament House.

" When at last the general election came, in 1921, the UFA declined to run a candidate in Stewart's Sedgewick riding as a sign of respect to the Premier.

When neither team accepted, Striegel scheduled a game with the NFL's Rochester Jeffersons, who had not beaten an NFL opponent since 1921.

When faced with competition from the Giants in 1921, the Ex-Collegians brought in a few outsiders before folding, but generally semi-pro teams spent little effort on recruiting.

When in the US in 1921, Chao recorded the Standard Chinese pronunciation gramophone records distributed nationally, as proposed by Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation.