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2 unusual facts about William R. Day


William A. Lynch

Lynch did not seek reelection in 1872, instead starting a private practice with William R. Day, the future Supreme Court justice.

William Day

William R. Day (1849–1923), American diplomat and Supreme Court Justice


24th Virginia Infantry

The field officers were Colonels Jubal A. Early and William R. Terry; Lieutenant Colonels Peter Hairston, Jr. and Richard L. Maury; and Majors William W. Bentley, Joseph A. Hambrick, and J.P. Hammet.

Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur

and to have been instrumental in the killing of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, the American Chief of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization's (UNTSO) observer group in Lebanon who was taken hostage on 17 February 1988 by Lebanese pro-Iranian Shia radicals.

All Saints' Day

In English-speaking countries, the festival is traditionally celebrated with the hymn "For All the Saints" by Walsham How.

David Day

David F. Day (1847–1914), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

David A. Day (born 1963), American politician in the Missouri House of Representatives

Donald Rooum

He was a founding member of the Malatesta Club, an anarchist social club and venue that opened in London on May Day 1954.

Eagle Squadrons

The squadron's first confirmed victory came on 21 July 1941 when P/O William R. Dunn destroyed a Messerschmitt Bf 109F over Lille.

Fourmies, Nord

It was the first French and international celebration of International Workers' Day on May Day.

GameFront

This led some people to believe that the announcement had been a poorly executed April Fools' joke.

Gogebic Community College

Steven E. Day, Coast Guard Rear Admiral (Lower Half) currently serving as Deputy Commander for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs, Coast Guard Atlantic Area.

Hawn

William R. Hawn (1910–1995), American businessman, philanthropist, race horse owner and breeder

Heroes' Day

National Heroes Day is a national public holiday in the Philippines to honour and remember the country’s heroes, men and women in Philippine history whose acts of courage enabled the Philippines to grow as a nation.

Jacob S. Coxey, Sr.

1936: Ran again in 1936 against Democratic incumbent William R. Thom, the successor to McSweeney and McClintock, this time under the banner of the Union Party, and again losing.

Janet Dempsey Steiger

They had one son, William R. Steiger, who is presently Director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, where he has been the subject of controversy for his role in the politicization of science.

Levens

At the end of the 14th century, the destiny of Levens was linked to the whole County of Nice, which parted with Provence to form an alliance with Savoy on the initiative of the powerful John All Saints' Day, baron of Beuil, whose eldest son later became lord of Levens.

Lochner v. New York

Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices White and Day.

Matthias W. Day

John Denny and Second Lieutenant Robert Temple Emmet, who like Day had graduated from West Point in 1877, also received the Medal of Honor for their actions at Las Animas Canyon.

Assisted by Sergeant John Denny, who helped support one man, Day carried the other on his back through "a hail of bullets so thick it seemed 'no one could pass this open rocky space alive'" to safety.

Mildred Gillars

She was then held by the Counterintelligence Corps at Camp King, Oberursel, along with fellow-collaborators Herbert John Burgman and Donald S. Day until she was conditionally released from custody on December 24, 1946.

National Doctors' Day

A year later Finlay identified a mosquito of the genus Aedes as the organism transmitting yellow fever.

Newell Sanders

Sanders was sworn in during April, 1912 and served until January, 1913 when the Tennessee General Assembly elected educator William R. Webb, a Democrat, to succeed him, the process called for in the United States Constitution until the Seventeeh Amendment was ratified later in the decade.

Payson Utah Temple

Dallin H. Oaks presided at the groundbreaking ceremony on October 8, 2011, with William R. Walker conducting and Janette Hales Beckham, Steven E. Snow and Jay E. Jensen in attendance.

Richard Day

Richard J. F. Day (born c. 1964), professor of sociology and cultural studies at Queen's University, Canada, scholar-activist

Roland B. Day

From 1957 to 1958, he served as legal counsel to Senator William Proxmire in Washington, D.C.

Sampson County, North Carolina

Sampson County is the birthplace of William R. King, a politician and diplomat who was elected both to the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Sarteneja

The majority of the villagers prepare to welcome the "Finados" or "Día de los Muertos" or "All Souls' Day" which begins on November 1.

Stephen A. Day

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress.

Stephen Day

Stephen A. Day (1882–1950), US lawyer and member of the House of Representatives, 1941–1945

The Little Orchestra Society

/The Greatest Sound Around, Eleanor Roosevelt, narrator (on Hello World!), words and music by Susan Otto and William R. Mayer, The Little Orchestra Society, Thomas Scherman, conductor, John Langstaff, tenor (on The Greatest Sound Around).

WCOA-FM

In 1993, WJLQ shifted to Urban Adult Contemporary as "Magic 100.7", which lasted only about a year before the station became "Arrow 100.7" with a classic rock format on April Fools' Day 1994, with the WWRO call letters being assigned on April 22, 1994.

WDZN

On the afternoon of April 2, it was announced that the smooth jazz format and the man named "Stu" were part of an April Fools' Day joke and that the station would in fact, be carrying a country music format.

William R. Bennett Bridge

On April 21, 2005, Premier Gordon Campbell officially renamed the bridge from the Okanagan Lake Bridge to William R. Bennett Bridge in honour of former Premier William Richards Bennett, a native of Kelowna.

Completed on May 25, 2008, the bridge replaced the older Okanagan Lake Bridge built in 1958 to link Downtown Kelowna to West Kelowna across Okanagan Lake as part of Highway 97.

William R. Blair

In 1917, the Army established the Signal Corps Radio Laboratories at Camp Vail, in eastern New Jersey.

William R. Coyle

He was elected to the Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932, 1936, and 1942.

William R. Eaton

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.

William R. Furlong

William Rea Furlong was born on May 26, 1881 in the town of Allenport, Pennsylvania as a son of William Allen Furlong and Ethel Grant Furlong.

William R. Higgins

As a lieutenant, he participated in combat operations during 1968 with C Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines in the Republic of Vietnam as a rifle platoon commander and rifle company executive officer, and was aide-de-camp to the Assistant 3rd Marine Division Commander.

William R. Hopkins

He pushed for the development of parks, improved welfare institutions, wider boulevards, more playgrounds, air pollution control, and the construction of both the Van Sweringen brothers' Terminal Tower and Cleveland Stadium.

William R. Johnson

He worked at Ralston, Frito-Lay and Anderson-Clayton Foods before joining Heinz in 1982 as general manager of new business.

William R. Morrison

William Robert Morrison (1878-1947), Canadian politician and Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario

William R. Newman

The history of medieval alchemy formed the central focus of Newman's early work, which included several studies of Roger Bacon and culminated in an edition, translation, and study of the Latin alchemist who wrote under the assumed name of "Geber" (a transliteration of "Jābir", from "Jābir ibn Hayyān"), probably Paul of Taranto.

William R. Perl

He was assigned to Allied Intelligence in London, where he worked with some of the same British intelligence officers who had pursued him across Europe.

William R. Ratchford

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-Ninth Congress.

William R. Robinson

In 1986, RCA Corp. was acquired by General Electric (GE) in what was at that time the largest non-oil merger in history.

William R. Royal

He moved to Manatee County, Florida during the Great Depression and operated a passenger airplane service in the Bahamas and Cuba in the late 1930s.

William R. Snodgrass

Due to his long and distinguished career in public service, Tennessee's largest state office building was renamed the William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower.

William R. Trotter

He is an acknowledged expert on the works of Jean Sibelius, the subject of his "Winter Fire" novel, and Leopold Stokowski, whose Trotter-penned biography has gone as yet unpublished but has made the rounds of the Leopold Stokowski Society for many years.

William R. Williams

He was elected as a Republican to the 82nd, 83rd, 84th and 85th United States Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1951, to January 3, 1959.


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