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A 20-minute tram ride takes you out to the Yashima peninsula, formerly an island famed for the momentous battles in which the Minamoto clan drove out their Taira rivals in 1182, heralding the country’s rule by military dictatorship for the next seven centuries.
On 15 May 1905, the railroad held a land sale — a momentous step in Las Vegas history.
Newspapers on both sides of the Irish Sea agreed that the meeting in Belfast Thursday of the first ever all-inclusive Northern Irish government was a momentous event.
In fact, as late as 1840, crossing the surf can be described as “an expression equivalent to `entering or leaving India,' as a person is never supposed to venture across this tremendous barrier of the Coromandel coast, unless on such momentous occasions.”
Over its long history, the cathedral has witnessed many momentous occasions.