And I was there with a bipartisan delegation of members of Congress to commemorate, not really celebrate, but commemorate the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which occurred 53 years ago, and was highlighted because it was a notoriously awful day in what was called Bloody Sunday.
Hispanic Heritage Month coincides with the celebrations of Independence Day in many Latin American countries including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua (September 15), Mexico (September 16), and Chile (September 18)—as well as with Columbus Day (originally October 12 in the United States but now commemorated there on the second Monday in October).
A convention to draw up the Suffolk Resolves (protesting the Intolerable Acts of Britain against the colonists) met in September 1774 in the Woodward (Fisher) Tavern, which is no longer standing but is commemorated by a tablet on the County Registry building.
Sasha and Malia Obama may be political icons and rulers of the fashion universe, but they commemorated their last night in the White House like a couple of regular ol' pizza lovers.
They came not to mourn their passing but to commemorate their life but there will be no evading the melancholy, nor the recriminations, and this was no celebration.
Hiroshima and Holocaust Remembrance Day are still commemorated, but the presentation is now as important as the message.
But Ms. Kandell commemorated her admiration long after Jackson's retirement by including his number, 44, in her e-mail address.
But her recovery – commemorated by the gospel-tinged 1991 single Coming Out of the Dark – led to her doubling down not just on her music, but on her extramusical works.
US central command in Qatar said Iraqis fired from inside the Ali mosque in the city, an important Shia Muslim shrine where Mohammed's son-in-law, Ali, is commemorated, but its troops did not return fire.
He movingly, but without sentimentality, commemorated his pupil, the labour historian Nina Fishman in 2009, and a little later, aged 93, went to the funeral of Marian Slingova (née Fagan), whom he had known in the international communist youth movement in the 1930s.
