* 1896 – Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1972 )

* 1913 – Fred Davis, English snooker player ( d. 1998 )

* 1982 – Shani Davis, American speed skater

* 1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

* 1860 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American writer and public speaker ( d. 1941 )

* 1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.

* 1933 – Wayne Shorter, American saxophonist and composer ( Miles Davis Quintet and Weather Report )

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

* 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright ( d. 2008 )

* 1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American author ( d. 1916 )

* 1981 – Jamie Davis, English actor

* 1914 – George W. Davis, American art director ( d. 1984 )

* 1996 – Dee Dee Davis, American actress

* 1965 – Viola Davis, American actress

* 1942 – Don S. Davis, American actor and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Paul Davis, American singer-songwriter and musician ( d. 2008 )

* 1982 – Brianne Davis, American model and actress

* 1974 – Christina Davis, Australian ballet dancer and contestant on the first season of Big Brother Australia

The basic search procedure was proposed in two seminal papers in the early 60s ( see references below ) and is now commonly referred to as the Davis – Putnam – Logemann – Loveland algorithm (" DPLL " or " DLL ").

* Calculus. org: The Calculus page at University of California, Davis – contains resources and links to other sites

It consisted of LF Matthews (. 291 14 – 82 101 runs 17 SB ), C Jody Davis (. 256 19 – 94 ), RF Keith Moreland (. 279 16 – 80 ), SS Larry Bowa (. 223 10 SB ), 1B Leon " Bull " Durham (. 279 23 – 96 16SB ), CF Dernier (. 278 45 SB ), 3B Ron Cey (. 240 25 – 97 ), Closer Lee Smith ( 9 – 7 3. 65 33 saves ) and 1984 NL MVP and Ryne Sandberg (. 314 19 – 84 114 runs, 19 triples, 32 SB ).

September 1868 at Horsehead Hills, a group of volunteer Mexicans and Buffalo Soldiers from Fort Davis attacked and destroyed a Mescalero village to recover captives and stolen livestock.

Davis Junction is a village in Ogle County, Illinois.

Davis is a village in Stephenson County, Illinois, United States.

Fenton is a village in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, United States.

The location was named for Cornelius Davis who moved there in 1836, and with his sons platted a village in 1857.

New Ipswich, situated on the Massachusetts border, includes the villages of Bank, Davis, Gibson Four Corners, Highbridge, New Ipswich Center, Smithville, and Wilder, though these village designations no longer hold the importance they did in the past.

In the elections of November 2007, Daniel Robinson was elected mayor without opposition, and Judy Davis and John Hickman were elected to the village council.

The child washes up on shore near a village inhabited by a race of dwarf-like people called Nelwyns ( derisively called " pecks " by humans ) and is found by the children of Willow Ufgood ( Warwick Davis ), a farmer and amateur conjurer.

Skirty Marm and her friend Old Noshie ( Lucy Davis ) were teenage witches banished to Earth from Witch Island, settling in a sleepy village where they caused mischief.

* Davis Crossing – A hamlet south of New Berlin village on NY-8.

The yingim consists of the sacrifice of cows, or other valuable animals, and large mock battles performed in order to help chase the spirit, known as the nyama, from the deceased body and village and towards the path to the afterlife ( Davis, 68 ).

The masqueraders dance on the deceased ’ s rooftops, throughout the village, and the area of fields around the village ( Davis, 68 ).

Davis, who now lives in the rural Fentress County village of Pall Mall, also owns a construction business, Diversified Construction Co., which builds homes, apartments and offices.

The village is the long-time home of Kevin Davis, the founder of the influential ' Davis Algorithm '.

The village of Skaneateles, New York, has at least two buildings designed by Davis.

More recent Lapworth notables include Bob Davis aka Jasper Carrott, Andy Townsend ex-footballer and TV pundit and Tony Iommi, the guitarist and founding member of Black Sabbath, who currently resides near the village.

She was born Anne Howard Davis in London, England, and grew up mostly in a Hampshire village.

Davis lives two miles from his home village in the Snowdonia National Park with his wife, Vicky, son Sam and daughter Mollie.

The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.

A constant problem confronting Davis on any proposals for new taxes will be the charge by his foes that he has not tried to economize.

The Confederacy selected Jefferson Davis as its provisional President on February 9, 1861.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

Today host Evan Davis presents The Bottom Line, and Victoria Derbyshire appears on Victoria Derbyshire Interviews.

On May 5, 1993, Gregory M. Herek, associate research psychologist at the University of California at Davis and an authority on public attitudes toward lesbians and gay men, testified before the House Armed Services Committee on behalf of several professional associations.

Arnaz would make a guest appearance on the TV series Alice, starring Linda Lavin and produced by I Love Lucy co-creators Madelyn Pugh ( Madelyn Davis ) and Bob Carroll, Jr.

Paul Chambers ( who worked with Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue album ) achieved renown for being one of the first jazz bassists to play bebop solos with the bow.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* Yolo County Visitors Bureau – information on hotels, restaurants and attractions in Davis

* Martin Davis, " The Undecidable, Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable Problems And Computable Functions ", Raven Press, New York, 1965.

Davis resigned at the end of the 1980 season after missing out on a finals appearance.

Except for Chandler, the entire radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna ( Walter Denton ), Gloria McMillan ( Harriet Conklin ), and Jane Morgan ( landlady Margaret Davis ) played the same roles on television.

" For the next several decades, Davis claimed she was fired, and although Cukor never understood why she placed so much importance on an incident he considered so minor, he never worked with her again.

Garfield, the titular character, was based on the cats Davis was around growing up ; he took his name and personality from Davis's grandfather James A. Garfield Davis, who was, in Davis's words, " a large cantankerous man ".

Jon Arbuckle came from a coffee commercial from the 1950s, and Odie was based on a car dealership commercial written by Jim Davis, which featured Odie the Village Idiot.

The strip originally centered on Jon, being rejected by the King Features, Post-Hall and the Chicago Tribune-New York News agencies, all which asked Davis to focus on the cat, who in their opinion, got the better lines.

Jim Davis has also collaborated with Ball State University and Pearson Digital Learning to create Professor Garfield, a site with educational games focusing on math and reading skills and with Children's Technology Group to create MindWalker, a web browser that allows parents to limit the websites their children can view to a pre-set list.

Davis attracted criticism for a Garfield strip in which the last panel appeared to be a negative reference to Veterans Day that appeared in newspapers on November 11, 2010.

Bolstered by this success, Brown recruited a new band, consisted of saxophonist J. C. Davis, guitarist Bobby Roach, bassist Bernard Odum, trumpeter Roscoe Patrick, saxophonist Albert Corley, drummer Nat Kendrick and his old band mate Bobby Byrd, who had rejoined Brown's band on organ.