* 1997 – Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

For much of the night, it looked like Labor might bring down the Menzies government, but a narrow win by Liberal Billy Snedden in Bruce ended any realistic chance of opposition leader Arthur Calwell becoming Prime Minister.

The UAP was so bereft of leadership that it was forced to then turn to former Prime Minister Billy Hughes as its new leader.

* December 27 – Ulster loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, inside Long Kesh prison.

** Billy Rose, American composer and band leader ( b. 1899 )

* February 9 – Billy Hughes resigns as Prime Minister of Australia, after the Country Party refuses to govern in coalition with him as the leader of the Nationalist Party.

The Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ) leader Billy Wright was shot dead in December 1997 by two Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) prisoners.

Three of the most prominent are Jan Ors, a fellow mercenary and love interest ; Lando Calrissian ( voiced by Billy Dee Williams ), the sophisticated baron-administrator of Cloud City seen in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi ; and Luke Skywalker, protagonist of the original film trilogy and leader of the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV.

Later in 1971 he found occasion to sack Gorton for perceived disloyalty ; Billy Snedden was chosen as the new deputy Liberal leader.

It was the second time the Country Party had effectively vetoed its senior partner's choice for the leadership ; in 1923 Earle Page had demanded that the Nationalist Party, one of the forerunners of the Liberals, remove Billy Hughes as leader before he would even consider coalition talks.

Billy Wright was the founder and leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ).

Billy Wright was the leader of the Mid-Ulster Brigade of the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ), having taken over the command from Robin " the Jackal " Jackson in the early 1990s upon the latter's " retirement ".

When they stop at the way station, they are mistaken for the regular stage by three outlaws, Chink, Billy Jack, and their leader, Frank Usher.

In Easter 1918 he was one of the speakers at the Third Inter-State Peace Conference, an event organised by the Australian Union of Democratic Control for the Avoidance of War, a group that was deeply opposed to the plans by Prime Minister Billy Hughes ( then the leader of the centre-right Nationalist Party of Australia ) to introduce conscription for Australian males.

In the episode " Fibber Hires A Surveyor " ( 3 / 26 / 40 ) it is revealed that she is having a romantic relationship with orchestra leader Billy Mills, and in the episode " Gildersleeve's Diary " ( 10 / 22 / 40 ), we learn that she also has a romantic past with Gildersleeve.

Following the killing of Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ) leader Billy Wright inside the Maze prison by the INLA the previous December, the UDA and UFF prisoners had voted two to one to withdraw from the peace process.

Following the killing of LVF leader Billy Wright in 1997 Adair became the new contact man for a group of Bolton-based members of the neo-Nazi organisation Combat 18 ( C18 ) who up to that point had been close to the LVF.

Dr. Watt wrote in 1985 that " Their brigade leader was a young stone cutter named Billy Milne, who returned to his native Scotland for a visit.

It has been a great force for good in the past in this country, and Billy Milne was a born leader.

* Billy Vaughn, musician and band leader

* Bill ( Billy ) Jones, recorded musician popular in the late 1950s and leader of Billy and the Flamingos.

The deputy leader and deputy provost were the Conservative councillors Billy Hendry and Anne Jarvis.

Jim Thorpe, Joe Hipp, Notah Begay III, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Billy Mills are well known professional athletes.

Billy Mills crosses the finish line for the 10, 000 meter race at the 1964 Summer Olympics | 1964 Tokyo Olympics

Billy Mills, a Lakota and USMC officer, won the gold medal in the 10, 000 meter run at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

The residents of Weimar were ordered to walk through Buchenwald, to see what had been happening so close to the city, as documented in Billy Wilder's film Death Mills.

Notable persons include Tataŋka Iyotake ( Sitting Bull ) from the Hunkpapa band ; Touch the Clouds from the Miniconjou band ; and, Tašuŋke Witko ( Crazy Horse ), Maȟpiya Luta ( Red Cloud ), Heȟaka Sapa ( Black Elk ), Siŋte Gleška ( Spotted Tail ), and Billy Mills from the Oglala band.

* Billy Mills, Oglala Olympic Gold Medalist

Billy Mills usually follows with an instrumental ( or accompanied by Martha Tilton in 1941 ).

The final act then ensues, with the last line usually showing the lesson learned that day, a final commercial, and then Billy Mills ' theme song to fade.

For most of the show's run, there would be one vocal number by The King's Men ( a vocal quartet: Ken Darby, Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson, and Bud Linn ), and an instrumental by The Billy Mills Orchestra.

Harlow Wilcox's middle ad was edited out, and the two advertisements at the beginning and end of the show were replaced by musical numbers, so that the show on AFRS would have two numbers by Billy Mills and the Orchestra, and two by The King's Men.

* Billy Mills, the only American ever to win an Olympic gold medal in the 10, 000 m, at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

* Billy Mills, who was born in here, won the 10, 000 meter gold medal at the 1964 Olympics.

Artists signed to American Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Charlie Kunz, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan ( the No. 1 R & B artist of the 1940s ), Bob Crosby, Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers ( and subsequently Jimmy Dorsey after the brothers split ), Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the original ' soul sister ' of recorded music.

Contemporary poets associated with Irish modernism include those associated with New Writers Press and The Beau magazine ; these include Trevor Joyce, Michael Smith, Geoffrey Squires, Randolph Healy, Billy Mills, Catherine Walsh, and Maurice Scully.

* Billy G. Mills ( born 1929 ), American politician and judge

* Billy Mills ( born 1938 ), American Olympic runner

* Billy Mills ( poet ), Irish poet

Among the significant Irish poets to have emerged in recent years are: Pat Boran, Mairéad Byrne, Ciarán Carson, Patrick Chapman, Harry Clifton, Tony Curtis, Padraig J. Daly, Colin Dardis, Gerald Dawe, Greg Delanty, Séan Dunne, Paul Durcan, Eamon Grennan, Vona Groarke, Kerry Hardie, Randolph Healy, Seamus Heaney, John Hughes, Pat Ingoldsby, Trevor Joyce, Brendan Kennelly, Derek Mahon, Thomas McCarthy, Hugh McFadden, Paula Meehan, Billy Mills, Sinéad Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Gerry Murphy, Bernard O ' Donoghue, Conor O ' Callaghan, Caitriona O ' Reilly, Justin Quinn, Maurice Riordan, Maurice Scully, Michael Smith, Geoffrey Squires, William Wall, Catherine Walsh.

Photo: Runner Billy Mills crossing the finish line in the 1964 Olympics.

In 1983, he portrayed distance runner Billy Mills in Running Brave.

In 1990, Sparks co-wrote with Billy Mills Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding.

Schul posted an extremely impressive outdoor season in 1964, not losing a single race and beating among others Bruce Kidd, Gerry Lindgren, Billy Mills, Bill Baillie, and Bill Dellinger.