Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

* 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

For example, the director's cut of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was 122 minutes long.

In 1941 Hawks began work on the Howard Hughes produced ( and later directed ) film The Outlaw, based on the life of Billy the Kid and starring Jane Russell.

Frontiersmen Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid played the instrument, and it became a fixture of the American musical landscape.

* 1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.

* 1881 – Billy the Kid, American outlaw ( b. 1859 )

* 1859 – Billy the Kid, American outlaw ( d. 1881 )

The eight other shows ( The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Archie / Sabrina Hour, Young ( Space ) Sentinels, Fabulous Funnies, Batman & The Super 7, Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam, and Sport Billy ) lasted one season or less.

Many of his films, such as Straw Dogs ( 1971 ), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 ), remain controversial.

Four of his films, Major Dundee ( 1965 ), The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 ), were filmed entirely on location within Mexico, while The Getaway ( 1972 ) concludes with a couple escaping to freedom there.

It was in this state of mind that Peckinpah agreed to make Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Peckinpah rewrote the screenplay, establishing Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as friends, and attempted to weave an epic tragedy from the historical legend.

Enraged, Aubrey severely cut Peckinpah's film from 124 to 106 minutes, resulting in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid being released in a truncated version largely disowned by cast and crew members.

* 1973 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

The few Spaghetti Westerns containing historical characters like Buffalo Bill, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid etc.

* Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: ( 88 Yellow Kid pages )

* November 23 – Billy the Kid, American outlaw ( d. 1881 )

* April 28 – Billy the Kid escapes from his 2 jailers at the Lincoln County Jail in Mesilla, New Mexico, killing James Bell and Robert Ollinger before stealing a horse and riding out of town.

* July 14 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.

* July 14 – Billy the Kid, American gunslinger ( b. 1859 )

In the process he met with the outlawed William Henry McCarty, also known as Billy the Kid.

In the 21st century, supporters of Billy the Kid made a request for a posthumous pardon, based on the claim of a pardon promised and not delivered by Wallace, to then-Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson.

* 1939 – Billy Joe Shaver, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1939 – Billy " Crash " Craddock, American singer

He co-starred with Esther Williams in Billy Rose's Aquacade during the NEW YORK World's Fair, 1939 – 41, pursuing her throughout a span of two years.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

Australia entered the Second World War on 3 September 1939 and a special War Cabinet was created after war was declared – initially composed of Prime Minister Menzies and five senior ministers including Billy Hughes.

* 1939 ( 1 ) Walter Hagen 25th Anniversary ( with Billy Burke )

At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Billy Rose's Aquacade starred Olympian Eleanor Holm in what the fair program called " a brilliant girl show of spectacular size and content ".

Although he continued to occasionally play leads – notably when he was a playboy in Billy Wilder's Midnight with Claudette Colbert and John Barrymore in 1939 – in the late 1930s Lederer began to expand his film acting repertoire with offbeat character parts, even playing villains.

The return of Billy Southworth in 1939 brought another league championship to Rochester.

A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today George Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like it Hot, the original Scarface ( 1932 ), and Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ), and as a dancer in Bolero ( 1934 ) and a truck driver in They Drive by Night ( 1940 ).

Butlin had several children from his three marriages: Shirley ( born 1931 to Dolly ), Robert ( born to Nora in 1934 as Robert F. Reeves ), Cherie ( also known as Cherry ) ( born to Nora in 1939 ), Sandra ( born 1941 ), William Jr ( also known as Billy ) ( born 1960 to Sheila ), and Jacquie ( born to Sheila ).

* Billy Reid ( Irish republican ) ( 1939 – 1971 ), volunteer and Staff Officer in C Company, Third Battalion of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army

* Billy Robinson ( born 1939 ), British professional wrestler and trainer

* Billy Ellis ( 1895 – 1939 ), English footballer

Adnan Bin Abdulkareem Ahmed Alkaissy El Farthie ( born March 1, 1939 ), better known professionally as Adnan Al-Kaissie, is a former Iraqi professional wrestler and manager best known as Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissy, Billy White Wolf, or General Adnan.

Midnight is a 1939 romantic comedy ( with some elements of screwball comedy ) directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz.