When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

When Governor Al Smith offered New York National Guard planes to fly the mail in and out of the state, it seemed a likely temporary solution, easing Burlington's bottleneck and that at Montpelier too.

When he was unable to bring about immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League club to move here.

When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention – with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform – many moderates were alienated.

When a new Cincinnati club was formed as a charter member of the National League in 1876, the " Red Stockings " nickname was commonly reserved for them once again, and the Boston team was referred to as the " Red Caps ".

When he died in August 1945 he left the remainder to the National Trust.

When the idea and reality of the National Debt came about during the 18th century this was also managed by the bank.

When the National League split into two, and then three divisions, the Cardinals and Cubs remained together.

When she returned east in 1913, she joined Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and others in founding the militant Congressional Union, which became the National Woman's Party.

When the United States entered World War I, Eastman organized with Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, or in her words: " To maintain something over here that will be worth coming back to when the weary war is over.

When Faubus balked, the president placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in the 101st Airborne Division.

When the Western renamed itself the American League for 1900, it was still a minor league, but next year it broke with the National Agreement and declared itself major, openly competing with the National League for players, and for fans in three contested cities.

When the new National Convention held its first meeting, David was sitting with his friends Jean-Paul Marat and Robespierre.

*“ The War Relocation Centers of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger than Justice ”, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan

When the National Council wanted to reconvene days after the resignation of the three presidents, Dollfuss had police bar entrance to parliament, effectively eliminating democracy in Austria.

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 the National Assembly was later created in June 1789 by the Third Estate, the clergy voted to join them, which perpetuated the destruction of the Estates General as a governing body.

When Langdon eventually left Sennett in order to make longer, feature-length movies with First National Studios, he took Capra with him to be his personal writer and director.

When US troops withdew from Grenada in December 1983 Nicholas Braithwaite of the National Democratic Congress was appointed Prime Minister of an interim administration by the Governor General Sir Paul Scoon until elections could be organised.

When Hughes found out about the rival film, he did everything he could to sabotage The Dawn Patrol by harassing Hawks and other studio personal, hiring a spy that was quickly caught and finally suing First National for copyright infringement.

When the newly elected National Assembly refused to pass this document and drafted one of their own preserving this prohibition, it was forcibly dissolved by Gendarmerie commandant Smedley Butler.

When other Nazi leaders urged Hitler to leave Berlin and establish a new centre of resistance in the National Redoubt in Bavaria, Goebbels opposed this, arguing for a last stand in the ruins of the Reich capital.

When Dole declined an invitation to speak to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he suggested Kemp as a substitute even before Kemp had become the Vice Presidential nominee.

When the National League's chief counsel, future Senator George Wharton Pepper referred to the activities of baseball players on the field as " labor ", Landis interrupted him: " As a result of 30 years of observation, I am shocked because you call playing baseball ' labor.

* The Jane Siberry song " Hockey " contains the line " They rioted in the streets of Montreal / When they benched Rocket Richard ".

When the Leafs traded captain and fan favourite Wendel Clark to the Quebec Nordiques in the off-season of 1994, Gilmour was named team captain in a ceremony at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto where former Leafs captain Red Horner presented him with the Leafs " C ."

When the Hockey Hall of Fame was founded in 1945, Baker was named one of the first nine inductees, the only American among them.

When the CAHA reorganized junior hockey in 1971, it named the WCHL one of three Tier I Major-Junior leagues, along with the Ontario Hockey Association's Tier I division ( now the Ontario Hockey League ) and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

When the National Hockey League Colorado Rockies relocated to New Jersey in 1982, a fan poll voted to rename that team the New Jersey Devils.

When Doan was selected for the 2006 Olympics Canadian national men's hockey team, Canadian Liberal MP Denis Coderre wrote a letter to Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson asking to remove Doan from the team unless Doan apologized for an alleged racial slur he used on December 13, 2005 against a Francophone referee during a game against the Montreal Canadiens.

When Doan was selected as captain on the 2007 Canadian national men's hockey team, a Canadian Official Languages parliamentary committee demanded Hockey Canada appear before the committee to explain their decision to name Doan as captain in light of the alleged comment made on December 13, 2005.

When Hockey Night in Canada's president, Ted Hough, balked at Ballard's demands just before a broadcast, Ballard grabbed a fireman's ax and threatened to cut the TV cable unless Hough agreed to pay.

When the Hockey Hall of Fame opened in 1945, Vézina was one of the original nine inductees.

When the National Hockey League expanded from six to twelve teams for the 1967 – 68 NHL season the Amerks lost several players.

When the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League formed in 1969, Dionne departed to play in the Ontario Hockey Association, then-regarded as a higher-calibre level of competition, spending the next three seasons with the St. Catharines Black Hawks.

When the Russian Superleague became the Kontinental Hockey League, the collective bargaining agreement between the KHL and its players introduced a draft, starting from the very first season of the league.

When the Hockey Hall of Fame opened in 1945, Morenz was one of the original nine inductees.

When the Hockey Hall of Fame was established in 1945, he was among the first group of nine inductees.

When the Summer of 1996 rolled around, he would help lead the United States to its biggest international hockey win since the 1980 Winter Olympics, beating Canada in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey final series and was named to the All-Tournament Team.

When the rights to his players reverted to him in 1918, Livingstone announced plans to launch the Canadian Hockey Association as a rival to the NHL.

When the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) tried to re-introduce itself, the new WHA Detroit team was slated to play its home games at the Silverdome.

When Buffalo was awarded an expansion team in the National Hockey League — the Sabres — in 1970, the Bisons folded.

When not spoofing a particular style of music, the Worms ' material pokes fun at various aspects of daily life in Canada with songs like " Canada's Really Big ", " Me Like Hockey ", " We are the Beaver ", " I Am Not American ", and " Proud to Be Canadian ".

When the North American Hockey League folded in 1977, the Broome Dusters acquired the Reds franchise and moved them to Binghamton, New York, where they were known as the Binghamton Dusters, Binghamton Whalers, and Binghamton Rangers.

When the Western Hockey League ( renamed from the WCHL ) folded in 1926, Shore was sold to the Boston Bruins of the NHL.