Sentence examples for was first commemorated from inspiring English sources

Since Earth Day, which will be marked on April 22, was first commemorated 45 years ago, we have learned a lot about the planet's ecology.

Even less is known of how the occasion was first commemorated by the general public, although records indicate that in Protestant Dorchester a sermon was read, the church bells rung, and bonfires and fireworks lit.

His sculpture Tumbling Woman (2002) generated some controversy when it was first exhibited: commemorating the bodies that had so recently fallen from the World Trade Center in the terrorist attack of September 11 , 2001 it was felt to touch too raw a wound.

–When was it first commemorated?

When Ms. Lin was first asked to commemorate this odyssey, she was puzzled, she said.

During the same year, the Peace dollar was first issued to commemorate the end of World War I.

The pinnacle was first lighted on April 12 , 1985 to commemorate the 140th anniversary of New York Life.

It was first awarded in 1963 to commemorate the hundredth edition of Wisden Cricketers Almanackk.

The 200th anniversary of the first disaster was commemorated in Felling on 25 May 2012 by a parade from St Mary's Church at Heworth to the place of the entrance to the colliery at Mulberry Street.

John Lennon's seventieth birthday was commemorated with the massive "Signature Box," complete with remastered versions of all his solo albums and home demos (Capitol) and, under separate cover, a new version of the album he made with Yoko Ono just before his death, "Double Fantasy Stripped Down" (Capitol).

Of all the different ways in which the centenary of the start of the first world war was commemorated this year, none struck a chord with the public quite so powerfully as the tide of scarlet poppies spilling into the moat of the Tower of London.