When Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator James E. Webb requested a 30 percent budget increase for his agency, Kennedy supported an acceleration of NASA's large booster program but deferred a decision on the broader issue.

When James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux entered this sphere of astronomical research in 1725, there consequently prevailed much uncertainty whether stellar parallaxes had been observed or not ; and it was with the intention of definitely answering this question that these astronomers erected a large telescope at the house of the latter at Kew.

* Martin, James P. When Repression Is Democratic and Constitutional: The Federalist Theory of Representation and the Sedition Act of 1798.

When Elizabeth I of England died in March 1603 and James VI of Scotland became King of England as James I, Charles was not considered strong enough to make the journey to London due to his fragile health.

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 James Watson came to Cambridge, Crick was a 35-year-old graduate student ( due to his work during WWII ) and Watson was only 23, but he already had a Ph. D.

When James inherited the English throne in 1685, he had much support in the ' Loyal Parliament ', which was composed mostly of Tories.

When Henry Compton, the Bishop of London, did not ban John Sharp from preaching after he gave an anti-Catholic sermon, James ordered his removal.

When the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and six other bishops ( the Seven Bishops ) wrote to James asking him to reconsider his policies, they were arrested on charges of seditious libel, but at trial they were acquitted to the cheers of the London crowd.

When Scotland finally paid the ransom in 1424, James, aged 32, returned with his English bride determined to assert this authority.

When James V finally managed to escape from the custody of the regents with the aid of his redoubtable mother in 1528, he once again set about subduing the rebellious Highlands, Western and Northern isles, as his father had had to do.

When Charles died in 1685 and his brother, a Roman Catholic, succeeded him as James VII of Scotland ( and II of England ), matters came to a head.

When, in 1688, James produced a male heir, everything changed.

When James Braid first described hypnotism, he did not use the term " suggestion " but referred instead to the act of focusing the conscious mind of the subject upon a single dominant idea.

When James Smithson died and left his estate to the U. S. government to build an institution of learning, congress wanted to appropriate the money for other purposes.

When his presidency ended on March 4, 1825, James Monroe resided at Monroe Hill, what is now included in the grounds of the University of Virginia.

When the parents took James to church to be baptized, the father Samuel refused to declare his belief in Christianity, and the minister refused to baptize the child.

When his longtime companion David Lewis died in 1987, his executor and Whale biographer James Curtis had his ashes interred in a niche across from Whale's.

When James Cook went on his first voyage he carried wort ( 0. 1 mg vitamin C per 100 g ), sauerkraut ( 10 – 15 mg per 100 g ) and a syrup, or " rob ", of oranges and lemons ( the juice contains 40 – 60 mg of vitamin C per 100 g ) as antiscorbutics, but only the results of the trials on wort were published.

When Audubon, at age 18, boarded ship for emigration to the United States in 1803, he changed his name to an anglicized form: John James Audubon.

When comparing authority, the name James Tiptree Jr. has more authority than Alice B. Sheldon due to the fact that male authors were more respected during Sheldon ’ s era.

" When " Air steps " or " aerials " such as the Hip to Hip, Side Flip, and Over the Back ( the names describe the motion of the woman in the air ) began to appear in 1936, the old guard of dancers such as Leon James, Leroy Jones, and Shorty Snowden disapproved of the new moves.

As Bakunin's associate, James Guillaume, put it in his essay, Ideas on Social Organization ( 1876 ), " When ... production comes to outstrip consumption ... veryone will draw what he needs from the abundant social reserve of commodities, without fear of depletion ; and the moral sentiment which will be more highly developed among free and equal workers will prevent, or greatly reduce, abuse and waste.

" When James Bruce visited the area in the later 18th century, he noted that the locals counted 45 inhabited islands, but stated he believed that " the number may be about eleven.

When Sinclair gained the Democratic nomination for Governor of California in 1934, Heinlein worked actively in the campaign.

When Sinclair learnt the NewBrain could not be sold at below £ 100 as he envisaged, he turned to a simpler computer.

When his novel, written according to the tenets of the New Realism literary movement ( established years before by Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis and others ) was published in 1930, many of the residents were convinced that his characters were based on local inhabitants, and considered the work a slander against the town.

When the Sinclair settlers arrived, McLoughlin was slow to settle them on Pugets Sound Agricultural Company farms.

Image: When fascism comes to America. jpg | Bumper sticker with a Sinclair Lewis quote on a bicycle

When the official history of the Battle of Britain was published, Dowding's name was not mentioned, leading Churchill to minute Sinclair: " This is not a good story ...

When a convention was finally held, Sinclair drew little support and withdrew before balloting began.

When Blunt lost his seat at the 1990 election, Sinclair made a determined attempt to regain the NPA leadership, but was defeated by Tim Fischer, and retired to the back-bench.

When the Speaker of the House, Bob Halverson, suddenly resigned in March, Sinclair was elected to replace him.

When Churchill formed an all-party coalition government in 1940, Sinclair became Secretary of State for Air.

When Sinclair was picked to command Babylon 5, he asked Garibaldi to serve as chief of security.

When President Clark began turning the Earth Alliance into a dictatorship, and with the reemergence of the Shadows, Garibaldi became the liaison between Babylon 5 and the Anla ' Shok, or Rangers, upon receiving a message from Sinclair, who had since become the leader of the organization upon being posted to Minbar, a side duty that was known to the Rangers and a select few Sinclair felt he could trust, including Garibaldi.

" When Sinclair asks which race he is referring to, the Narn or the Centauri, Kosh simply answers " Yes.

* When Sinclair rescues Delenn, she is heard saying " We chose well ", referring to the Minbari government's key role in the selection of Sinclair as station commander.

When Sinclair confronts Kosh about why the Vorlon attacked, he simply states to the assembly that " You are not ready for immortality " and somberly walks away.

When the stunned Zento protests that this move is not in the spirit of the Rush Act, Sinclair dismisses it by noting that the phrase " any means necessary " in the law clearly allows him to fully acquiesce to the strikers ' demands to resolve the situation.

When Pierce demands that they hand it over, Sinclair tells him that it is being repaired and cuts the connection.

When Sinclair asks them why they were there, Draal says that Varn's spirit called to him and appeared before him, just like to Sinclair and Mollari.

When Sinclair leaves, Delenn and Draal talk.

When Sinclair tries to take the One's hand, an unseen force hurls him away.

When Sinclair goes to Delenn's quarters, Delenn is already in a cocoon and undergoing a mysterious transformation.