* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.

In Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, he wrote that his influences included Charles Schulz for Peanuts ; Walt Kelly for Pogo and George Herriman for Krazy Kat.

However, quite a few cartoonists ( e. g.: George Herriman and Charles Schulz, among others ) have done their strips almost completely by themselves ; often criticizing the use of assistants for the same reasons most have about their editors hiring anyone else to continue their work after their retirement.

Lewis, Madeleine L ' Engle, J. R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard.

After time spent in Palestine in 1882 – 83, General Charles George Gordon found a location outside the old city walls that he suggested to have been the real location of Golgotha.

* George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough ( 1844 – 1892 ), eldest son of the 7th Duke

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

Blair's new company supplied European filmmaking pioneers, including Birt Acres, Robert Paul, George Albert Smith, Charles Urban, and the Lumiere Brothers.

George Rooke, the commander of the Anglo-Dutch fleet that conquered Gibraltar on behalf of the Archduke Charles

A brigade of Dutch Royal Marines and Royal Marines, 1, 800 strong, under the command of Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, chief commander of the Alliance Army in Spain, began to besiege Gibraltar, in the name of the Archduke Charles.

* 1704 4 August – The Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered the town to Prince George of Hesse, who took it in the name of Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

It was named for Charles Rogers Fenwick, one of George Mason's founders.

On 1 June 1832, Charles Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin and the William John released their holdings of Sir John Rogerson's lands at Glasnevin, ( including Glasnevin House ) to George Hayward Lindsay.

After the accession of King Louis II, George was aided in his reforming efforts by Queen Maria, a sister of Charles V and Ferdinand I, who was favorably inclined toward the new doctrine.

A Popular Life of George Fox ( London: Charles Gilpin ).

In 1515 George sold Friesland to the future Emperor Charles V ( then Duke of Burgundy ) for the very moderate price of 100, 000 florins.

According to the act of settlement of 1499, George's Protestant brother Heinrich was now heir prospective ; but George, disregarding his father's will, sought to disinherit his brother and to bequeath the duchy to Ferdinand, brother of Charles V. His sudden death prevented the carrying out of this intention.

From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

* 1777 – American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.

* 1855 – George Charles Haité, English designer, painter, and illustrator ( d. 1924 )

The influence of the Mostyn Estate and its agents over the years was to become paramount in the development of Llandudno and especially after the appointment of George Felton as surveyor and architect in 1857.

George Felton also undertook architectural design work including the design and execution of Holy Trinity Church in Mostyn Street.

It was the Anglican parish church of Llandudno until that status was transferred first to St George ’ s ( now closed ) and later to Holy Trinity Church in Mostyn Street.

The barony remained in abeyance for 175 years, until the abeyance was terminated in 1838 in favour of George Charles Mostyn, who became the sixth Baron.

* Hubert George Charles Mostyn, 7th Baron Vaux of Harrowden ( 1860 – 1935 ) ( abeyant 1935 )

After this victory Brereton and Myddelton left Nantwich on 7 November, were joined at Stretton by Sir George Booth with troops from Lancashire, and crossing the River Dee at Holt, entered north Wales, where Wrexham, Hawarden, Flint, Mostyn Mold, and Holywell were taken.

* Arfken, George B. and Hans J. Weber, Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 6th edition ( Harcourt: San Diego, 2005 ).

* George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough ( 1793 – 1857 ), eldest son of the 5th Duke

* George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1841 – 1870 )

* 1852 – George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Russian nobleman ( d. 1912 )

On January 6th 2009, that entity was upgraded to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument by President George W. Bush.

* 1788 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( Lord Byron ), English poet ( d. 1824 )

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* January 22 – George Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet ( d. 1824 )

* May 16 – Anne Isabella Milbanke, wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( b. 1792 )

* May 17 – Anne Isabella Milbanke, English wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron ( d. 1860 )

* April 19 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet ( b. 1788 )

** George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman ( d. 1590 )

* November 18 – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman ( b. 1528 )

* George Hamilton Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1841 – 1870 )

Their eldest son, John " Mad Jack " Byron, in turn fathered the poet George Gordon Byron, the future 6th Baron Byron

This mansion at 6th & Market Streets served as the presidential mansion of George Washington and John Adams, 1790 – 1800.

On May 18, 2009, when asked by Sean Hannity of Fox News, how George W. Bush could have avoided the attacks of September 11, 2001, Ventura answered, " Well, you pay attention to memos on August 6th that tell you exactly what bin Laden's gonna do.

She was married four times, firstly to Robert Barlow, who died in his teens ; secondly to the courtier Sir William Cavendish ; thirdly to Sir William St Loe ; and lastly to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, sometime keeper to the captive Mary, Queen of Scots.

Her new husband, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, was one of the premier aristocrats of the realm, and the father of seven children by his first marriage.

Sir William died in 1557, but Bess finished the house in the 1560s and lived there with her fourth husband, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.

* Sir George Cayley, 6th Bt ( aviation pioneer )

* Sir George Young MP, 6th Bt ( Leader of the House of Commons )

Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet ( 27 December 1773 – 15 December 1857 ) was a prolific English engineer and one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics.

In 1748, George Washington, then just sixteen years old, surveyed present-day Berkeley County for Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.

Darwin's long-time critic St. George Mivart thought that the intermediate stages could have no selective value, and in the 6th edition of the Origin, Darwin made a concession to the possibility of acquired traits.