The gathering marked the first time residents from each of the colonies had convened to discuss common goals.

And then on to Red Square at midnight, where a "tiny gathering" sullenly marked the year's passage with "no excitement at all."

Rockefeller was a member of the U.S. delegation at the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco in 1945; this gathering marked the UN's founding.

The gathering marks a decade since the first Bonn conference on Afghanistan, which followed the US-led toppling of the Taliban regime.

This first-time gathering in New York marks a turning point in the dissemination of modern residential furniture design.

The gathering marked the 50th anniversary of the federation, a nonprofit Canadian-American salmon conservation group that is one of the most influential organizations of its kind in the world.

Like the Tuareg Cure Salee of neighboring Ingall, the gathering marks the end of the rainy season pasturage.

The gathering at Hofstra marked the 30th anniversary of Creation Entertainment, a leading organizer of science-fiction celebrity and souvenir conventions.

At a gathering of foreign guests marking the 19th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 2008, Ahmadinejad said:

Two Treaties Signed The gathering also marked the distance that the environment has traveled as a political issue since Stockholm.