**** Dwight Filley Davis

Dwight Filley Davis ( July 5, 1879 – November 28, 1945 ) was an American tennis player and politician.

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Dwight developed a keen and enduring interest in exploring outdoors, hunting / fishing, cooking and card playing from an illiterate named Bob Davis who lived by the river.

* 1879 – Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician ( d. 1945 )

* November 28 – Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player ( b. 1879 )

* February 9 – Dwight F. Davis creates the Davis Cup tennis tournament.

Oath of office | Swearing in of Dwight F. Davis as Secretary of War in 1925.

* Assessor: Dwight Davis

The head of the Parks Department, Dwight Davis, voiced his opinion against Forest Park — that is, until the city set aside in the park in which to establish a zoological park.

From 1919 to 1928, he was confidential secretary for the Secretary of War in three administrations, to Newton D. Baker, John W. Weeks, and Dwight F. Davis.

In February, Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis ordered Patrick to find and discipline the culprits.

* American Men's Singles Championship – Malcolm Whitman defeats Dwight F. Davis 3 – 6 6 – 2 6 – 2 6 – 1

Once their respective lawn tennis associations agreed, one of the four Harvard players, Dwight F. Davis, designed a tournament format and ordered an appropriate sterling silver trophy from Shreve, Crump & Low, purchasing it from his own funds for about $ 1000.

The American team, of which Dwight Davis was a part, surprised the British by winning the first three matches.

The tournament was initially titled the International Lawn Tennis Challenge although it soon became known as the Davis Cup, after Dwight Davis ' trophy.

Representing the team owners at the announcement were Bob Howsam ( Denver ), Craig F. Cullinan, Jr. ( Houston ), Wheelock Whitney Jr. ( Minneapolis-St. Paul ), Dwight F. Davis, Jr. ( New York ), and Jack Kent Cooke ( Toronto ).

* Davis, Dwight ( 1961 ).

During the American period, Governors-General Francis Burton Harrison and Dwight F. Davis built an executive building, the Kalayaan Hall, which was later transformed into a museum.

The palace was expanded, and an Executive Building was added by Governors-General Francis Burton Harrison and Dwight F. Davis.

Major Dwight F. Davis, decorated as Assistant Chief of Staff of the 69th Infantry Brigade, 35th Division, founded the Davis Cup international tennis competition and served as United States Secretary of War in the Coolidge Administration.

The upper Green on Elm is bordered by " Quality Row ", containing some of the oldest structures in New Haven: the federal style white clapboard Nicholas Callahan house, once a tavern ( now the Yale Elihu Senior Society ), the federal Eli W. Blake House ( now the Graduate Club ), the federal John Pierpont house ( now the Yale University Visitor Center ) built in 1767 and the brick Greek Revival Governor Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll House, designed in 1829 by Town and Davis ( future home of Dwight Hall, the student community service organization at Yale ).

In 1879 Dwight physician, Dr. Leslie Keeley, working with Richard Oughton, announced that he had found a cure for alcoholism based on gold chloride.

Much of Northfield's development in the late nineteenth century was spurred by the work of evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, a native of Northfield who established the Northfield Seminary for Girls in 1879 on a sweeping hillside in East Northfield.

The school was originally founded by famed Protestant evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody as two separate institutions: Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in 1879, and Mount Hermon School for Boys in 1881.

Certainly by the late fall of 1879, Scofield was assisting in the St. Louis campaign conducted by Dwight L. Moody, and he served as the secretary of the St. Louis YMCA.

* 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.

* 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

* 1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his " domino theory " speech during a news conference.

Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower ( pronounced, ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969 ) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.

* 1953 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his " Atoms for Peace " speech, and the U. S. launches its " Atoms for Peace " program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.

* 1985 – Dwight Howard, American basketball player

* 1943 – World War II: U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.

* 1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

* 1980 – Dwight Freeney, American football player

* 1899 – Dwight Frye, American actor ( d. 1943 )

* 1837 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist ( d. 1899 )

* 1901 – Dwight Wilson, Canadian Soldier ( d. 2007 )

* 1943 – World War II: General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.

* 1953 – President Dwight Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

* 1935 – Dwight York, American singer, writer, and criminal ( Passion )

* 1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian ( d. 1939 )

* 1929 – An agreement brokered by U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.

* 1958 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.

* 1956 – A joint resolution of the U. S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God we trust as the U. S. national motto.

* 1961 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the " military-industrial complex ".

* 1958 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ).

* 1974 – Beanie Sigel ( Dwight Grant ), American rapper

* 1962 –, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.

* 1960 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.