Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong.

Davenport was established on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire, and named after his good friend Colonel George Davenport who was stationed at Fort Armstrong during the war.

The Claim House ( Davenport, Iowa ) | Claim House was constructed by George L. Davenport, son of Colonel George Davenport, in 1832 or 1833 and is believed to be the oldest structure in the city.

The film stars Bette Davis and Charles Boyer with Barbara O ' Neil, Jeffrey Lynn, Virginia Weidler, Helen Westley, Walter Hampden, Henry Daniell, Harry Davenport, George Coulouris, Montagu Love, Janet Beecher and June Lockhart.

In 1833, Colonel George Davenport of Illinois sent three representatives into the territory to establish a trade post.

The European-American city of Muscatine began as a trading post founded by representatives of Colonel George Davenport in 1833.

The incorporators were John B. Smith, Henderson Gaylord, Peter Shupp, Draper Smith, Josiah M. Eno, Daniel Gardiner, A. R. Matthews, William Jenkins, George P. Richards, S. M. Davenport, Edward Griffith, Lewis Boughton, A. F. Shupp, John J. Shonk, James McAlarney, J. P. Davenport, Eli Bittenbender, David McDonald, C. A. Kuschke, Andrew F. Levi, Querin Krothe, David Madden, John Dodson, Darius Gardiner, John Cobley, William L. Lance, Jr., J. E. Smith, R. N. Smith, John Dennis, David Levi, W. W. Lance, William W. Dietrick, James Hutchison, George Brown, Oliver Davenport, Samuel French, A. Gabriel, Theodore Renshaw, Edward G. Jones, J. L. Nesbitt, J. W. Weston, J. H. Waters, John E. Halleck, E. R. Wolfe, F. E. Spry, C. F. Derby, Anthony Duffy, D. Brown, A. G. Rickard, Thomas P. Macfarlane, William L. Lance, Lewis Gorham, John Jessop, A. S. Davenport, A. Hutchison, Brice S. Blair, John S. Geddis and C. H. Wilson, M. D.

He also played a colonel, alongside Robin Askwith, Nigel Davenport and George Layton, in Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers, which was the sequel to the 1969 film The Virgin Soldiers.

The cast included E. L. Davenport, George Holland, William Davidge, J. L. Polk, Agnes Ethel, and George Clarke.

When he returned in November 1740, tensions were beginning to emerge at Yale between the faculty staff and the students as the staff considered the spiritual enthusiasm of the students, which had been prompted by visiting preachers such as George Whitefield, Gilbert Tennent, Ebenezer Pemberton and James Davenport, to be excessive.

* August 1 – Battle of Minden: Anglo – Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French army of the Duc de Broglie, but due to the disobedience of the English cavalry commander Lord George Sackville, the French are able to withdraw unmolested.

George Jones is often credited as the first English maker of the chromatic Anglo concertina.

On 13 January 2009, opposition party TD George Lee highlighted the potential exposure of the Irish taxpayer to the failure of Education Media and Publishing Group, the holding company of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt given loans by Anglo Irish Bank to investors in EMPG.

In contrast to the statement of George Lee that Irish taxpayers were exposed, an Anglo Irish Bank spokesperson was reported by the Irish Times to state that it did not have a " big exposure " to EMPG.

Tooker was raised by his Anglo / French-American father George Clair Tooker and English / Spanish-Cuban mother Angela Montejo Roura in Brooklyn Heights and Bellport, New York, along with his sister, Mary Fancher Tooker.

Skinn cites quotes by Mick Anglo from George Koury's 2001 book Kimota: " ownership I don't know ; that was Miller's sort of thing ... Dez contacted me and he wanted to revive it and I said go ahead and do what you like.

George Mejlænder decided to start his own brokerage firm and Næss paid him out ; the company name was changed to Næss Shipping Co. Inc. As the " battle of convenience flags " heated up Næss decided to secure his position and on the 15 November 1958 he established Anglo American Shipping Co. Ltd on Bermuda ; thus the vessels could fly the British flag.

Obuasi is also noted for the great health care facilities such as AGA Hospital owned by Anglo Gold, and also a private health facility, St. Jude Hospital, owned by Dr. George Owusu-Asiedu.

Anglo and his staff of British artists, including Don Lawrence ( who was given his first break in drawing comics by Anglo ), Bob Monkhouse, Denis Gifford, Ron Embleton and George Stokes, had a hand in the creation of many British independent comic books and magazines between 1954 and 1963.

The following year, he established Amy International Artists, based at Shepperton Studios, with his wife Susan George, and also Anglo Films International.

* 2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9 / 11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.

Historical mixed media figure of Alfred the Great produced by artist / historian George S. Stuart and photographed by Peter d ' Aprix.

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

* 1560-1569 / 71: John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Regent ( Verweser )

With George Hayes Orchestra / Kurtalan Ekspres

A growing trend in anthropological research and analysis is the use of multi-sited ethnography, discussed in George Marcus ' article, " Ethnography In / Of the World System: the Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography ".

George Reeves ' Kent / Superman is also established as a champion of justice for the oppressed in episodes like The Unknown People and The Birthday Letter.

* 1916 George McAneny / Edward J. McGuire

* 1685 – George Frideric Handel, German / British Baroque composer ( d. 1759 )

George Ville calculated an average age at death at 27 for gladiators ( based on headstone evidence ), with mortality " among all who entered the arena " around the 1st century CE at 19 / 100.

The term was brought to prominence as a teaching mantra by George Fuechsel, an IBM 305 RAMAC technician / instructor in New York.

* Beer, Gillian, George Eliot, Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1986, ISBN 0-7108-0511-X.

* 1515: George I / I the Pious ( son of, also Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf )

* 1543: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf and Regent of Prussia )

* 1692: George Frederick II / II ( later Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach )

* 1553: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf and Regent of Prussia )

* 1726: George Frederick II / II ( previously Margrave of Kulmbach )

* 1541 – 1543: George I / I the Pious ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach )

* 1543 – 1603: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Regent of Prussia )

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

George Simon, exec director of Danny Thomas A. L. S. A. C. ( Aiding Leukemia Stricken American Children ) fund raising group, filled me in on the low-down phonies who are using phones to solicit funds for Danny's St. Jude hospital in Memphis.

A theme from George Gershwin's orchestral composition An American in Paris

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist ( d. 1998 )

* 1937 – George " The Animal " Steele, American wrestler

George Kennan, an American working on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition in the late 1860s, found that dog sled travel on the lower Anadyr was limited by lack of firewood.

* 1894 – George Meany, American labor leader ( d. 1980 )

* 1942 – Barbara George, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2006 )

* 1975 – George Stults, American actor

* 1925 – George Wetherill, American physicist ( d. 2006 )

* 1939 – George Hamilton, American actor

* 1910 – George Cisar, American baseball player ( d. 2010 )

* 1919 – George Wallace, American politician, 45th Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.

* 1922 – George Kell, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1878 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1976 )

* 1954 – George Church, American biologist