When the season ended, Abdul-Jabbar made the stunning announcement that he no longer wished to play for the Bucks, stating that he needed the big city.

When he became eligible for the NBA draft in 1972, the Milwaukee Bucks picked him in the first round ( 12th overall ).

When the Ox and Bucks was marked for conversion to airborne in 1942, Howard volunteered, accepting demotion to lieutenant and command of a platoon.

When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).

When it is shown with a royal crown it represents the County Administrative Board.

When the South Branch and North Branch connect to form just the Kalamazoo River, it then flows through the rest of Calhoun County.

When the Missouri Mormons were later asked to leave Clay County in 1836, they secured land in what would become Caldwell County.

When the Raiders moved back from Los Angeles in 1995, the city of Oakland and the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority agreed to sell Personal Seat Licenses ( PSLs ) to help pay for the renovations to their stadium.

When Stockholm County Museum made an archaeological excavation at Broby bro, in 1995, they found three graves.

When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Washington County was part of Albany County.

When counties were established in the Province of New York in 1683, the present Broome County was part of Albany County.

When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Cattaraugus County was part of Albany County.

When counties were established in the Province of New York in 1683, the present Cayuga County was part of Albany County.

When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Clinton County was part of Albany County.

When counties were established in what is now the American state of New York in 1683, the present Chenango County was part of Albany County.

When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Cortland County was part of Albany County, which encompassed the northern part of New York State and all of the present State of Vermont, as well as indeterminate territory to west.

When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present area of Delaware County was divided between Albany and Ulster Counties.

When counties were established in New York State in 1683 present-day Erie County was Indian territory and was not part of New York.

When Erie County was established in 1821, it consisted of the towns of Amherst, Aurora, Boston, Clarence, Collins, Concord, Eden, Evans, Hamburg, Holland, Sardinia, and Wales.

When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Essex County was part of Albany County.

When the Export-Import Bank is prepared to act favorably upon an application, it will so notify the Department of Economic Affairs and will indicate the interest rate and the repayment period which would be used under the proposed loan.

When the Export-Import Bank approves or declines the proposed loan, it will notify the Department of Economic Affairs.

" When he stepped down as director he received a Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Federal Service.

When Hawaii was admitted to the United States in 1959, Palmyra was explicitly separated from the new state as a federal incorporated territory, administered by the U. S. Department of the Interior.

When a new company incorporates in England and Wales or in Scotland, it must register with Companies House, an Executive Agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

When he and other people marched in front of the White House, the State Department and Independence Hall only five years earlier, their objective was to look as if they could work for the U. S. government.

When there is a vacancy in the office of Secretary of State, the duties are exercised either by another member of the cabinet, or, in more recent times, by a high-ranking official of the State Department until the President appoints, and the United States Senate confirms, a new Secretary.

When the early months of the Korean War showed how poorly prepared the Defense Department was, Truman fired Secretary Louis A. Johnson and named Marshall as Secretary of Defense in September 1950.

When told that his party, including his own campaign manager, Stephen W. Dorsey, was involved, Garfield directed MacVeagh and James to root out the corruption in the Post Office Department " to the bone ", regardless of where it might lead.

When the Department continued to license a gas chamber in Cobb County, a second court action was brought, which resulted in the Department being held in contempt.

When Grampa and Bart retrieved the art from Mr. Burns, the State Department arrived to give the art to their rightful owner.

When the British government eventually chose to centralise and regulate the system in 1872 the Scottish school system was initially placed under a " Scotch Education Department " with offices in London.

When the SALT II negotiations with the Soviet Union verged on success, an NSC working group, including a Department of State representative, formulated the subject areas for an agenda at the Vienna Summit of June 1979, at which Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II Treaty and discussed other bilateral and Third World issues.

When Labour came to power in 1997 he was appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and was promoted to Minister of State in the department as Minister for Housing and Planning from 1999 to 2001, and Minister for Local Government 2001-02, and in the again reorganised Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2005, with special responsibility for local government, English regions, electoral law, fire, health and safety and London.

When it became clear that the gap between two sections of Route 38 would not be filled, the New Jersey Department of Transportation re-designated the eastern portion as Route 138.

When he took command on April 18, he renamed it, on his own initiative, the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia.

When the Labour Party came to power under Harold Wilson in 1964, Thomas was made joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, In April 1966 he was appointed Minister of State for Wales, and was one of the first on the scene of the Aberfan disaster in October 1966.

When the Los Angeles Fire Department was formed in 1886, it had 4 fire stations, two steam fire engines, two hose reels, a hose wagon, a 65 ' aerial ladder truck, 31 paid firefighters, 24 reserve firefighters and 11 horses to protect 30 square miles ( 77 km² ) and a population of 50, 000.

When the book was first published, Whitman was fired from his job at the Department of the Interior after Secretary of the Interior James Harlan read it and said he found it offensive.

When testing ended in 1992, the Energy Department estimated that more than 300 million curies of radiation remained, making the site one of the most radioactively contaminated places in the United States.

* When officers of the Fort Lee Police Department executed a search of his home in 1999, DMX promptly surrendered himself on weapons possession charges.

When the news was received by the then Naval Minister of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, he ordered Kolchak to leave immediately for America ( Admiral James H. Glennon, member of American mission, headed by Senator Elihu Root invited Kolchak to go to America in order to give the American Navy Department information on Bosphorus ).

When the ACLU claimed the government sponsorship of a distinctly Christian symbol violated separation of church and state, the sponsors of the fifty-year-old Christmas celebration, Pageant of Peace, who had an exclusive permit from the Interior Department for all events on the Ellipse, responded that the nativity scene was a reminder of America's spiritual heritage.

When that scheme was subsequently rejected by the State Department, the CIA went on to propose an alternative plan.