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1861 in Australia

8 July - The Geelong College is established by Reverend Alexander James Campbell in Newtown, Victoria.

1933 NSWRFL season

The match, refereed by William Fry, was level 5-all at halftime, before the Newtown Bluebags finished the stronger to take the premiership.

1942 Belize hurricane

About 90% of structures in San Pedro Town were destroyed, while Newtown was completely obliterated, causing its residents to relocate and establish the village of Hopkins.

AWeber

Previous headquarters include Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, Newtown, Pennsylvania, and Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

BBC Cymru Wales

In addition to these properties, BBC Cymru Wales also has properties in Aberystwyth, Bangor, Carmarthen, Newtown, Penrhyndeudraeth and Wrexham and at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, home to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Belinda Neal

On 7 April 2011 Neal was issued with an interim apprehended violence order after she allegedely abused and followed Kate Neill, the former mistress of her husband John Della Bosca, from her Newtown home.

Billhook

Newtown/Montgomeryshire:
Has slightly more curvature than the Knighton.

Brendan McCartney

In his playing days, Brendan McCartney played in the Geelong Football League for the Newtown Football Club.

Connecticut's 135th assembly district

Before 2002, the district contained the towns of Easton, Redding and parts of Newtown and Weston; boundary changes which took effect for the 2002 election removed Newtown and part of Redding from the district and added the remaining portion of Weston.

Gina Sicilia

Gina Sicilia (born March 6, 1985, Newtown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia) is an American blues singer.

Griffith Hughes

For example, there were and are several locations named Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Henry Probasco

Henry Probasco (born in Newtown, Connecticut on 4 July 1820; died 25 October 1902) was an American hardware magnate noted for the Probasco Fountain and the Henry Probasco House.

Holy Family University

In addition to the main Torresdale campus in the northeastern section of the city, there are satellite locations in Newtown, on Bristol Pike in Bensalem, and in Quakertown.

Jack Danzey

Danzey commenced his first grade football career with Newtown in 1960, playing seven games.

Jeff Glor

He joined CBS News in 2007, where he has covered a wide range of stories domestically and internationally, including the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Hurricane Sandy's landfall in Atlantic City, the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, US Airways Flight 1549's landing in the Hudson, the 2011 Norway attacks, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the Iraq War (where he was embedded with U.S. soldiers).

John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket

John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Newtown, County Cork (10 July 1793 - 16 April 1871) was an Irish peer and Queen's Counsel.

Kofi Adu

Adu was originally from the Ashanti Region of Ghana, but lived in a suburb in Accra Newtown called Asantewaa.

Leonard Smith

Len Smith (1918–2000), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s for Australia, New South Wales, Eastern Suburbs RUFC, and Newtown

Lillian May Armfield

Frank FarrellNewtown Rugby League player and police detective - a colleague of Lillian Armfield.

Michael Genelin

Michael Genelin was born in Bronx, New York, and raised in Queens where he attended PS 36 and Newtown High School.

Michael Raffetto

(His grandparents, Domenico Raffetto and Anna Pensa, came first to nearby Newtown, California, from Ognio, a mountain village northeast of Genoa.

Minsterley branch line

The route, which was conceived in the late 1850s, was planned to connect Shrewsbury via Hanwood on the Cambrian Line, with Pontesbury, Minsterley, Montgomery and Newtown.

Mona Brand

During the five and a half years she was in the UK (1948–1953) Brand was active in London's Unity Theatre which shared common views with the New Theatre in Australia.

Moorish Delta 7

Moorish Delta 7 (also known as MD7) are a hip hop/UK garage outfit from the Newtown area of Birmingham, England.

MuseuMAfricA

The museum is housed in the city's former fruit and vegetable market in Newtown, built in 1913, located opposite Mary Fitzgerald Square, on the same block as the Market Theatre.

Narrows High School

On Wednesday, January 2, 2013, officials with the Giles County Public Schools, closed all five district campuses including Narrows High School when a website attempted to connect the community with The Dark Knight Rises and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

New South Wales state election, 1950

Two members of Lang Labor: James Lang (Auburn) and Lillian Fowler (Newtown) were still in the Assembly and they both stood for re-election.

New Town Eagles

Newtown Eagles Football Club is a soccer club which represents New Town in the Tasmanian Southern Premier League.

Newtown Cunningham

Newtown Cunningham is located close to Blanket Nook, a wetland area that is a wintering site for the rare Whooper Swan.

Newtown Historic District

Newtown Borough Historic District, Newtown, Connecticut, listed on the NRHP in Connecticut

Newtown Pery, Limerick

Unfortunately, Newtown Pery, still lagged behind with regards to investment & planning with exception to the riverfront of the Shannon.

Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

However, in September 2009, the Southampton-based Pennsylvania Transit Expansion Coalition (PA-TEC) began discussions with all townships along the rail line, as well as SEPTA officials, about possible resumption of passenger service.

Newtown, New York

An old name for Elmira, New York, location of the Battle of Newtown, the only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition during the American Revolutionary War.

Newtown, Victoria

Famous cricketers who played for Newtown include the young Lindsay Hassett, Aaron Finch and Ian Redpath.

Nicholas Devine

Cavan, Ireland (also spelt Divine) was superintendent of convicts for Newtown, New South Wales.

Ninian Melville

Melville was also active in local politics spending time on Newtown Council, where he was elected mayor in 1882, and Ashfield Council, where he was elected mayor in 1896.

Phibs

He also has been commissioned to decorate a number of buildings across Sydney such as Max Brenner chocolates in Paddington, the Glow Cafe in Newtown and a number of alley ways throughout the city of Sydney.

Philip Jessup

Philip Caryl Jessup (born January 5, 1897, in New York City; died January 31, 1986, in Newtown, Bucks County, Pa.) was a diplomat, scholar, and jurist from New York City.

Roger Brooke

He attended George School in Newton, Pennsylvania, and later entered the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, where he graduated in 1900.

Santon railway station

Santon Station is a request stop near Newtown in the parish of Santon, Isle of Man; it forms part of the sole remaining line of the Isle of Man Railway which once encompassed over 46 miles of network and retains its original station building.

South West Syndicate

South West Syndicate have played at many events including Survival, Sydney Writers' Festival, NAIDOC Week, Arafura Games, Bankstown Festival, Bankstown Carnivale, Newtown Festival, Rock Against Racism, Asia-Pacific Conference, Youth Week, Corroboree 2000, Mascon Festival, Barunga Festival and Pacific Wave Festival

Suliasi Kurulo

He is President of the Christian Mission Fellowship (CMF), an international denomination based in Fiji, and is involved with the World Harvest Centre at Newtown, Trinity Television, Christian Radio Station FM97, and the World Harvest Bible College in Labasa.

The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation

In May 2010, the JBJSF partnered with the Tiger Woods Foundation and was announced as one of the grantees from the proceeds of the 2010 AT&T National which was held at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, PA.

Thomas R. Chandler

He faced incumbent Jacquelyn K. O'Brien in the 37th Ohio House district, which included the eastern Cincinnati neighborhoods of Oakley, the East End, Hyde Park, Mount Lookout, Columbia Tusculum, Linwood, California and Mount Washington; the cities of Norwood and Newtown; and Anderson Township.

William Chauncey Emhardt

He served as rector of the Trinity Church, Arkansas City, Kansas (assisting at St. John's Military School, Salina, Kansas); Church of the Ascension, Gloucester, New Jersey (1902-1907); St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Newtown, Pennsylvania (1907-1920), and on a number of ecclesiastical commissions.

William Ormsby-Gore

Born William Gore, the eldest son of William Gore, MP, of Woodford, Leitrim he was the great-great-grandson of William Gore, third and youngest son of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, of Newtown, second son of Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, of Magharabag, whose eldest son Paul was the grandfather of Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran.


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