Example sentences of "anniversary of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Nicholson , harpsichord , is a familiar face in Tilford Church , last seen recently on television as a continuo player with the Choir of 16 in a broadcast from Dublin to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first performance of Handel 's Messiah . |
| 2 | Interest is paid annually upon each anniversary of the first deposit to your TESSA and calculated on a daily basis on cleared balances ( including any interest credited but not withdrawn ) . |
| 3 | Next month , France commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first convoy of Jews to be sent from Paris ' Gare de l'Est to the Nazi concentration camps . |
| 4 | My annual rendezvous with Ben Holt , a climbing friend based in Geneva , came on the 125th anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn , which we celebrated with an ascent of the Dent Blanche . |
| 5 | The Antonov had left Berlin , Germany , in June on a commemorative flight to Sydney , Australia , to mark the 100th anniversary of the first glider flights by Otto Lilienthal . |
| 6 | June 5 : 50th anniversary of the first combat mission by the Tuskagee Airmen , with the P-40 , P-51 and B-25 Mitchell . |
| 7 | November 6 : Night fighters , with emphasis on the 50th anniversary of the first US Navy night fighter intercept , with the F4U Corsair . |
| 8 | To mark the 60th anniversary of the first flight of the Tiger Moth , this limited fine art poster , approved by the DH Moth Club , has been produced in full colour . |
| 9 | Midland Air Museum at Coventry have produced a limited edition ( 500 ) print to mark the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Gloster E28/39 — a lovely watercolour by Ken Aitken . |
| 10 | Websters Yorkshire Bitter has launched a national Shire Horse coastal tour to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first Lifeboat Saturday in Manchester . |
| 11 | This is the 65th anniversary of the first race in 1928 , and almost 80 cars from that era are expected to take part in a nostalgic three lap run around the course on June 4 , starting at 7pm . |
| 12 | The 40th anniversary of the first successful attempt on Chomolungma — the Sherpa name for Everest — has seen a glut of books on the subject . |
| 13 | Israeli troops killed four more Palestinians in clashes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank on Jan. 1 , Fatah Day , the date Palestinians marked as the anniversary of the first al-Fatah military operation . |
| 14 | Both the Soviet Union and the United States space programmes were subject to reappraisal and tight financial constraints as of early 1991 , the year of the 30th anniversary of the first space flight by Yuri Gagarin on April 12 , 1961 [ see p. 18033 ] . |
| 15 | The United States space programme suffered a serious setback in May 1991 when a congressional committee voted to reduce to $100,000,000 in the current fiscal year the projected $2,000 million budget for the Freedom space station , the construction of which was crucial to further manned missions to the moon and one to Mars , which President George Bush stated should be achieved by 2019 , the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing . |
| 16 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 17 | SHERPA Tashi Tenzing , 27 , grandson of Tenzing Norgay , one of the two men who first climbed Mt Everest , yesterday told a New Zealand newspaper he planned to try to scale mountain on 29 May , the 40th anniversary of the first ascent . |