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1 Among the finer are those of the Palffy Palace ( 14/158 ) , designed in 1723 when the palace became the property of the von Fürstenburgs .
2 The sinking was forgotten until 1977 when a M. Pearn sent a press-cutting recording the event to the Gosport Museum .
3 Much is sometimes made of the rivalries or jealousies fostered by these networks ; a ‘ revolution ’ occurred in 1974 when the person appointed to head the CNET , Jean-Pierre Souviron , was not , like his predecessors , the product of ENST but of another engineering ‘ grande école ’ — l'Ecole des Mines .
4 A further change occurred in 1804–5 when the firm 's style was altered to Rundell , Bridge & Rundell following the senior partner 's nephew , Edmond Waller Rundell ( 1768 ? –1857 ) , son of Maria Eliza Rundell [ q.v. ] , being admitted into the business .
5 The Collection 's first significant expansion occurred in 1966 when the University purchased the remarkable collection of the theatre historian , Dr Richard Southern .
6 A striking example of this occurred in 1989 when a decision of the Divisional Court interpreting immigration rules was considered by the Treasury Solicitor 's Department to be wrong and too advantageous to the prospective immigrant .
7 The Corps originated in 1859 when the Volunteer Movement was formed as a result of the panic over the threat of a French invasion .
8 He protested and his protest was considered on 2–8–1862 when the minute of removal was cancelled .
9 That was true , Erika admitted : the July Plot in 1944 when a group of officers , aristocrats to a man , had tried to assassinate Hitler and been caught and hanged with piano wire — and filmed being hanged — and the film shown at Hitler 's headquarters as after dinner entertainment … .
10 These dues continued to be collected until 1901 when the Board of Trade abolished them as a hindrance to navigation .
11 ( The basic rate of income tax was cut from 33 per cent to 30 per cent in the 1979 Conservative Budget — the ‘ Incentive Budget ’ — but further cuts were not made until 1986 when the rate was cut to 29 per cent , and thereafter to 27 per cent in 1987 and 25 per cent in 1988 ) .
12 It was saved in 1962 when a group of enthusiasts , led by Dean Hughes , formed a committee to organise the event .
13 It 's good news for the workforce , which has grown from 6 when the factory opened in 1987 , to 24 today .
14 It 's good news for the workforce , which has grown from 6 when the factory opened in 1987 , to 24 today .
15 New splits came in 1939 when the signing of the Soviet-German Pact and the outbreak of war created a major division in the American Socialist Workers ' Party .
16 The introduction he now regards as ‘ inevitable ’ came in 1965 when a friend — who happened to be chairman of the RSPCA 's Leeds branch — asked him if he liked animals .
17 The opportunity for unification came in 1859 when the Kingdom of Sardinia — the island of Sardinia itself , together with Piedmont , Savoy and territory around Nice — sided with France in a war against Austria .
18 The death sentence came in 1967 when a majority of members voted the British Phrenological Society into liquidation and most of its valuable library was given to University College , London , and to the University of Cambridge .
19 It was denied again in Sir John Eliot 's Case ( 1629 ) 3 St Tr 294 , a decision which , however , the Houses never accepted and which , after objections in 1641 and 1667 , they eventually rejected in 1668 when the House of Lords reversed the decision of 1629 and held that there could be no proceedings in respect of words said in Parliament .
20 A major change was made in 1980 when the policy of the Department of Health and Social Security in administering supplementary benefit was reduced to detailed secondary legislation , so that the supplementary benefit scheme is now as rooted in statutory provisions as the national insurance benefits .
21 Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness .
22 The arrangement formalized a change made in 1975 when the ALP government of Gough Whitlam established the Order of Australia as an alternative award to those honours bestowed by the British monarch .
23 Limited gains were made in 1930 when the government agreed to make information available to sick women for whom pregnancy was deemed detrimental to health .
24 Interest was awakened for some when a TV programme about Archbishop Robert Runcie showed him with his cell group .
25 The same thing happened in 1984 when the province was denied a fixture against the Wallabies .
26 It drove a scoop wheel of 28 foot diameter which could raise 25 tons of water a minute , and was used until 1940 when a diesel engine and centrifugal pump replaced it , until the station was closed in 1980 .
27 A similar attitude was shown in 1986 when the Law Lords stated that the Trustee Savings Bank and its assets belonged not to depositors but to the state , shortly before the Bank was floated on the Stock Exchange .
28 After a long campaign to set the record straight , including an investigation by a House of Lords committee , Salter was eventually vindicated in 1990 when the Department of Energy agreed to adjust the figures in its official literature .
29 The contempt proceedings began in 1987 when the Attorney-General , Sir Patrick Mayhew , alleged that the newspapers ' conduct in publishing material from Spycatcher , the memoirs of former MI5 officer Peter Wright , was intended , or was likely to , thwart the publication ban obtained by the Government in July 1986 against the Guardian and the Observer .
30 It began in 1756 when a fellow of the Royal Society called James Dodson had a problem .
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