* A Great Auk appears as a prized possession of Baba the Turk in Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress ( libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman ).

* 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U. S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.

Many important actors started their careers with Sennett, including Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Raymond Griffith, Gloria Swanson, Ford Sterling, Andy Clyde, Chester Conklin, Polly Moran, Louise Fazenda, The Keystone Kops, Bing Crosby, and W. C. Fields.

* Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

The moving-coil principle commonly used today in direct radiators was patented in 1924 by Chester W. Rice and Edward W. Kellogg.

* Chester W. Nimitz ( 1885 – 1966 ), American five-star admiral

An opera of the same title was composed by Nicolas Nabokov, with a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

The Bassarids ( composed 1964-65, premiere 1966 ), to a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is the most famous opera composed by Hans Werner Henze.

The libretto was by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

William Chester Minor, also known as W. C. Minor ( June 1834 – March 26, 1920 ) was an American army surgeon who, later, was one of the largest contributors of quotations to the Oxford English Dictionary.

* 1885 Chester W. Nimitz, future Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet, is born in Fredericksburg.

* 1967, February 24-Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Naval Museum opens in the old Nimitz Hotel on Main Street in Fredericksburg.

* Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was born in a house that still stands on Main Street in Fredericksburg.

Clinch County is the birthplace of actor Ossie Davis, Jonathan Smith ( football player ), politician W. Benjamin Gibbs, and politician William Chester Lankford.

* Graham Beckel as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

It was in these meetings at the Wood Plantation that he became an associated with Scipio Africanus Jones, John Bush, Chester W. Keatts, and John Hamilton McConico.

Jesse W. Fell, a native of Chester County in southeastern Pennsylvania, was a widely known land dealer in Central Illinois who played major role in founding many Illinois towns including Clinton, Dwight, Normal, Pontiac, and who was the driving force behind the establishment of the school that would become Illinois State University Holder was linked with Fell in many of his town founding schemes including Normal and Larchwood in Lyon County, Iowa ; the McLean County town of Holder is named in his honor.

The city was named after William Windom, who served as a United States Senator from Minnesota from 1881 – 1883, and was United States Secretary of the Treasury under presidents James Garfield, Chester Arthur and Benjamin Harrison, by Judson W. Bishop.

13 enters Chester from Trainer on W. 4th Street, becomes part of Highland Avenue between W. 4th St. and W. 9th Street, and then continues on 9th Street to Morton Avenue.

* September 11 – The Rake's Progress, an opera by Igor Stravinsky with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, premieres in Venice, conducted by the composer.

He then went on to serve aboard, a cruiser in the Asiatic Fleet, which was commanded by then-Captain Chester W. Nimitz.

Chester W. Nimitz pins the Navy Cross on Dorie, at ceremony on board warship in Maui, May 27, 1942.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

Early Sun, p, 2:02.3, Chester Maid 2:05, Dark Sun, p, 2:06.1, and Sun Tan Maid 2:05.2 have been in 2:21.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

-- Principals of the 13 schools in the Denton Independent School District have been re-elected for the 1961-62 session upon the recommendation of Supt. Chester O. Strickland.

Col. Clifton Lisle, of Chester Springs, who headed the Troop Committee for much of its second and third decades, is now an honorary member.

Assistant Fire Chief Chester Cornell said gas fumes apparently were ignited by a candle which one of the three Kowalski girls present held for her mother, because the flat lacked electricity.

Tom Day of Beaverton exhibited the grand champion 4-H market hog, a Chester White.

Dr. Hester, of Princeton, N.J., is a native of Chester, Pa. He joined NYU in September, 1960.

The American part of the evening consisted of Paul Creston's Dance Overture, William Schuman's `` Chester '' From `` New England Triptych '' and two works of Wallingford Riegger, Dance Rhythms, Op. 58, and a Romanza For Strings, Op. 56A.

The Schuman `` Chester '' takes off from an old William Billings tune with rousing woodwind and brass effect.

Then, after collecting reinforcements, they made a sudden dash across England and occupied the ruined Roman walls of Chester.

* Alphonso, Earl of Chester, first son of Edward I of England, who died at the age of ten.

Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.

* Miller, John Chester.

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.

Admiral Chester Nimitz favored a more direct strategy of bypassing the Philippines, but seizing Okinawa and Taiwan as staging areas to an attack on the Chinese mainland, followed by the future invasion of Japan's southernmost islands.

Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.

The sleeve notes conclude: " For six years Bill Haley was a musical director of Radio Station WPWA in Chester, Pennsylvania, and led his own band all through this period.

On 24 April 1946 Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Chester Nimitz issued a directive ordering the formation of a flight exhibition team to boost Navy morale, demonstrate naval air power, and maintain public interest in naval aviation.

He also often employed inanimate objects in his films, often transforming them into other objects in an almost surreal way, such as in The Pawnshop ( 1916 ) and One A. M. ( 1916 ), where Chaplin is the only actor aside Chester Conklin's brief appearance in the very first scene.

The same message was conveyed to US President Johnson's emissary Chester Bowles in January 1968.

Some circus examples include Pipo Sossman, François Fratellini ( the Fratellini family ), Felix Adler, Paul Jung, Harry Dann, Chuck Burnes, Albert White, Ernie Burch, Bobby Kaye, Jack and Jackie LeClaire, Joe and Chester Sherman, Keith Crary, Charlie Bell, Tim Tegge, Kenny Dodd, Frankie Saluto, Tammy Parish, David Konyot ( Circus Barum and The Toni Alexis trio ), Jay Stewart and Prince Paul Albert.

Cecil DeMille attended Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pennsylvania from the age of 15.