When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).

When added in 1854, it was assigned to 6 February.

When the peace treaty was signed in February, 1828, Abbas Mirza sought to restore order in the province of Khorasan, which was nominally under Persian supremacy, and while engaged in the task died at Mashhad in 1833.

When the BDG appeared likely to win the election by default, the Gabonese military toppled M ' Ba in a bloodless coup on 18 February 1964.

When the BDG appeared likely to win the election by default, the Gabonese military toppled M ' Ba in a bloodless coup on February 18, 1964.

When Aristide's term ended in February 1996, this was Haiti's first ever transition between two democratically elected presidents.

When he declared to the House of Commons in November 1993 that " to sit down and talk with Mr. Adams and the Provisional IRA ... would turn my stomach ", Sinn Féin gave the media an outline of the secret talks indeed held regularly since that February.

When Perrin was elected first syndic in February 1552, Calvin's authority appeared to be at its lowest point.

When Servetus mentioned that he would come to Geneva if Calvin agreed, Calvin wrote a letter to Farel on 13 February 1546 noting that if Servetus were to come, he would not assure him safe conduct: " for if he came, as far as my authority goes, I would not let him leave alive.

When Carson learned that Carleton intended him to pursue the Navajo, he sent Carleton a letter of resignation dated February 3, 1863.

When he could no longer delay the negotiations, he withdrew from the talks on 10 February 1918, refusing to sign on Germany's harsh terms.

When slavery was abolished on 1 February 1835, an attempt was made to secure a cheap source of adaptable labour for intensive sugar plantations in Mauritius.

When the first movie was released on February 22, 1981, it was regarded as the beginning of a new age of anime.

When Robinson met McDowell later in a restaurant, she quipped, " with enemies like McDowell | archivedate = 15 February 2008

When the NASDAQ stock exchange began trading on February 8, 1971, it was the world's first electronic stock market.

When Rudolph III, King of Burgundy died on 2 February 1032, Conrad II successfully claimed also this Kingship on the basis of an inheritance Emperor Henry II had extorted from the former in 1006, after having invaded Burgundy to enforce his claim after Rudolph attempted to renounce it in 1016.

When the news reached Stephen, he held a council to decide whether to give battle or to withdraw and gather additional soldiers: Stephen decided to fight, resulting in the battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141.

When the Palestinian National Council convened in Cairo on 3 February 1969, Yahya Hammuda stepped down from his chairmanship of the PLO.

When the owners did not respond, the nascent union struck on February 7.

When Thatcher was challenged by Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Conservative Party during November 1990, Powell said he would rejoin the party, which he had left in February 1974 over the issue of Europe, if Thatcher won, and would urge the public to support both her and, in Powell's view, national independence.

When the Constituent Assembly, on 26 February 1790, decreed the division of France into départments, Anjou and the Saumurois, with the exception of certain territories, formed the départment of Maine-et-Loire, as at present constituted.

When Conrad died in February 1152, only Frederick and the prince-bishop of Bamberg were at his deathbed.

When Roger and Mary Williams arrived at Boston on February 5, 1631, he was welcomed and almost immediately invited to become the Teacher ( assistant minister ) in the Boston church to officiate while Rev.

When the electoral ballots were opened and counted on February 11, 1801, it turned out that the certificate of election from Georgia was defective ; while it was clear that the electors had cast their votes for Jefferson and Burr, the certificate did not take the constitutionally-mandated form of a " List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each ".

When Upshur was killed in an accident on February 28, 1844, the treaty was almost complete.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

When she was sixteen years old, the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 destroyed Mitchell's former Jackson Hill home.

When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").

When, in 1917, he finally broke his ' great silence ' with the publication of La Jeune Parque ; he was forty-six years of age.

When the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in November 1917, they called for Russia's immediate withdrawal as a member of the Allies of World War I.

When the U. S. entered the war in 1917, Roosevelt sought to raise a volunteer infantry division, but Wilson refused.

When the tsar was overthrown in 1917, Jadidists established a short-lived autonomous state at Quqon.

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.

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When the New Orleans Jazz style swept New York by storm in 1917 with the arrival of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Jimmy Durante was part of the audience at Reisenweber's Cafe on Columbus Circle when ODJB played that venue.

When Gathmann died in June 1917, he held more patents than any other person alive at that time, and his death was mentioned in papers all over the globe, from the Chicago Tribune, to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

When the Kilmers ' daughter Rose ( 1912 – 1917 ) was stricken with poliomyelitis ( also known as infantile paralysis ) shortly after birth, they turned to their religious faith for comfort.

When Clemenceau became Prime Minister in 1917 victory seemed to be a long way off.

When the February Revolution occurred in 1917, he was one of the few Bolsheviks of any standing in the capital.

When the cathedral begun in 1137 was ready for consecration the relics of St Magnus were transferred, and in 1917 a hidden cavity was found in a column, containing a box with bones including a damaged skull.

When the Blaw Steel Co. acquired the Knox Welded and Pressed Steel Co. in 1917, the company became known as the Blaw-Knox Steel Construction Co., and the size of Hoboken was expanded to the whole area spanned by the Blaw-Knox mill.

When paraffin supplies ran low she organized a candle collection, and in November 1917 she instituted a scheme to train girls to work on the land.

When the United States entered World War I in 1917, three military installations were established in the Dayton area.

When the US joined the war, in 1917, Addams started to be strongly criticized.

When the First World War broke out, Bliss joined the army, and fought in France as an officer in the Royal Fusiliers until 1917 and then in the Grenadier Guards for the rest of the war.

When Sweden was split in 1809, and the Grand Duchy of Finland was created as an autonomous part of the Russian Empire, this constitutional autocracy was very well fitted for Finland and remained in force until Finland's independence in 1917.

* George Dorsey, " When a U. S. Battleship Fires a Broadside ," The New York Times Magazine, 30 December 1917.

When Bolshevik leaders Lev Kamenev, Joseph Stalin and Matvei Muranov returned to Petrograd from Siberian exile in early March 1917 and assumed the leadership of the Bolshevik party, they began exploring the idea of a complete re-unification of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks at the national level, which Menshevik leaders were willing to consider.

When the District was closed down in 1917 he went on tour with Billy & Mary Mack's Merrymakers Review.

When Wilson declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, he also issued an executive order closing most radio stations not needed by the US government.