| Upon receiving his award, he said the day would go down in his diary as a red-letter day. |
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| At the present time, sighting a peregrine in East Anglia provides a red-letter day. |
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| Still, pub owners say, it was a red-letter day for business and they are planning a second block party for the first weekend of November. |
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| A red-letter day is important, like the feast days marked in red in church calendars. |
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| It must have seemed like a red-letter day for council employees as they received their new pay levels. |
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| Saturday, June 28, is set to be a sporting red-letter day for the district. |
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| Today, as I said, is a blue-ribbon day, a red-letter day, or whatever one wants to call it. |
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| Yesterday was a red-letter day for the Credit Union in Portlaoise as they opened the doors of their new offices for business. |
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| Sunday last was a red-letter day for the area around Killeen with the opening of St. Abban's Community Hall. |
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| It was a red-letter day for the Arsenal player, having never previously started for Spain in the first match of a major tournament. |
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| Here in paradise, today hardly looks like a red-letter day in the making. |
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| The end of the financial year used to be a red-letter day for investors. |
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| For athletics and other sports codes it was a red-letter day. |
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| Tanglewood Time For devotees of summertime music, Friday is a red-letter day. |
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| That, however, was 15 years ago: tonight, it's clearly a red-letter day for London's babysitters. |
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| It may also have been a red-letter day for some class action defendants in Canada. |
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| I am particularly pleased to speak to you today because this is a bit of a red-letter day on the Bank of Canada's calendar. |
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| This date is undoubtedly a red-letter day for employees' organisations, employers and the authorities. |
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| For this reason, 31 March 2010 is a red-letter day on which education was given major recognition. |
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| The 13 December is indeed a red-letter day as the 27 states of the European Union gather in the capital of Portugal to sign the Treaty of Lisbon. |
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| November 21, 1783 will be remembered as a red-letter day in the History of human flight. |
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| Because feast days in such almanacs and calendars were frequently written or printed in red, a red-letter day came to be a term for one that was special. |
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| On most days, Davis' game, 13 tackles and an interception, would be a red-letter day. |
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| December 28, 1895 was a red-letter day in the realm of human artistic endeavor. On that date, a captivated audience watched images projected on a screen by the Lumière brothers from a cinematograph. |
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| Running across an exceptionally good one makes it a red-letter day. |
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| Traditions such as this are central to the Glorious Twelfth, the red-letter day in August which opens the four months of the annual grouse-shooting season. |
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| November 2, 2009, will be a red-letter day for the Belgian space industry and space sciences. A rocket containing PROBA2 will be fired off at 02:50 Belgian time from a Russian launch base in Plesetsk. |
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| Turns out, after all, to be a red-letter day or, that is, a brown-liquid evening. |
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