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* Humphrey Gainsborough ( 1718 – 1776 ), brother of the artist Thomas Gainsborough, was a pastor and inventor who lived in Henley.
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Humphrey Gainsborough, a non-conformist minister at Henley Congregational Church was concerned in the building of the lock.
Humphrey Gainsborough ( 1718 – 23 August 1776 ) was a non-conformist minister, engineer and inventor.
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It continued in the crown from the time of Richard III's marriage with Anne Neville, until Queen Mary granted it to William Lord Paget, in whose family it continued more than a century ; after which, it passed, by purchase, to Sir Humphrey Winch, in 1670 ; to Lord Falkland in 1686 ; to Sir James Etheridge in 1690 ; to Sir John Guise in 1718 ; and to Sir William Clayton in 1736.
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* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Of these, Humphrey Jennings ' trilogy of war films – Listen to Britain ( 1942 ), Fires Were Started ( 1943 ) and A Diary for Timothy ( 1945 )-are generally regarded as the most artistically significant.
Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957 ) was an American actor and is widely regarded as a cultural icon.
Bogart was born on Christmas Day, 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart ( July 1867, Watkins Glen, New York – September 8, 1934, Tudor City apartments, New York City ) and Maud Humphrey ( 1868 – 1940 ).
* 1053 – Battle of Civitate: 3, 000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
The quirks of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, including the turf floor and the white roof, gave the Twins a significant home-field advantage that played into their winning the World Series in both 1987 and 1991, at least in the opinion of their opponents, as the Twins went 12 – 1 in post season home games during those two seasons.
* 1965 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey took office in January.
* 1968 – U. S. President Richard M. Nixon was elected defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey in November.
* August 24 – 27 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City nominates incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and U. S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate.
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Examples of their work include Drifters ( John Grierson ), Song of Ceylon ( Basil Wright ), Fires Were Started and A Diary for Timothy ( Humphrey Jennings ).
The Vitagraph company's The Man That Might Have Been ( William Humphrey, 1914 ), is even more complex, with a series of reveries and flash-backs that contrast the protagonist's real passage through life with what might have been, if his son had not died.
Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.
The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe.
These films, influenced by one of Anderson ' heroes, the French filmmaker Jean Vigo, and made in the tradition of the British documentaries of Humphrey Jennings, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema that emerged in the next decade, with Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ), Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) and Anderson's own This Sporting Life ( 1963 ), produced by Reisz.
In 1969, Vice President Hubert Humphrey would have announced the election of his opponent, Richard Nixon ; however, on the date of the Congressional joint session ( January 6 ), Humphrey was in Norway attending the funeral of Trygve Lie, the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Former Vice Presidents also ran, in 1984 ( Walter Mondale ), and in 1968 ( Richard Nixon, against the incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey ).
Richard Nixon ( 36th ), Everett Dirksen, Spiro Agnew incoming Vice President ( 39th ), and the outgoing Vice President Hubert Humphrey ( 38th ), January 20, 1969
From left to right: Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Everett Dirksen, Spiro Agnew ( with hand raised ), Hubert Humphrey.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. ( May 27, 1911January 13, 1978 ), served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States.
He was the son of Ragnild Kristine ( Sannes ; 1883 – 1973 ), a Norwegian immigrant, and Hubert Humphrey, Sr. ( 1882 – 1949 ).
After his son graduated from Doland's high school, Hubert Humphrey, Sr. left Doland and opened a new drugstore in the larger town of Huron, South Dakota ( population 11, 000 ), where he hoped to improve his fortunes.
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