* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

* 1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.

* 1962 – James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.

* 1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.

In response to hearing an erroneous report of the murder of James Meredith, Sidney Street burned a 48-star U. S. flag.

* Chemistry – James B. Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley

* August 18 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

* June 6 – Civil rights activist James Meredith is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.

** The first black student, James Meredith, registers at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals.

James Meredith walking to class accompanied by U. S. marshals

Aubrey Beardsley – Max Beerbohm – Vernon Lee – Edward MacCurdy – Fiona MacLeod – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – George Moore – William Morris – Frederick W. H. Myers – Walter Pater – Robert Ross – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – John Ruskin – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Rachel Annand Taylor – James McNeill Whistler

James Howard Meredith ( born June 25, 1933 ) is an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser.

After returning to Mississippi to live, in 1972 Meredith ran for the US Senate against the Democratic senator James Eastland, who had been the incumbent for 29 years.

Statue of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi

James Meredith in 2007

They had one daughter, Jessica Meredith Knight, and three sons: James, John and Joseph Howard Meredith.

In 1989, the junior James Meredith ( then 20 ) was sentenced to one year's house arrest for his role in a 1987 car crash, in which two of his co-workers were killed and he suffered serious injuries.

James Meredith said of the occasion, " I think there's no better proof that white supremacy was wrong than not only to have my son graduate, but to graduate as the most outstanding graduate of the school ... That, I think, vindicates my whole life.

James Meredith currently lives in Jackson, Mississippi with his second wife, Judy Alsobrook Meredith.

* James Meredith Collection ( MUM00293 ) can be found at the University of Mississippi, Archives and Special Collections.

* James Meredith Small Manuscripts ( MUM00594 ) can be found also at the University of Mississippi.

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The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

To illustrate, the first blessing in the King James Bible reads: `` Blessed are the poor in spirit ; ;

Deck Cadet James L. Cahill and Seaman Walter Brooks had been the first to leave.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

The first governor of South Australia, John Hindmarsh, clashed frequently with others, in particular with the Resident Commissioner, James Hurtle Fisher.

James Bradley first tried to measure stellar parallaxes in 1729.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

* 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.

* 1902 – James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Tradition relates that in 814, the body of Saint James the Greater was discovered in Compostela and that Alfonso was the first pilgrim to that famous medieval ( and modern ) shrine.

The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

Phillip assigned a convict, James Ruse, land at Rose Hill ( now Parramatta ) to establish proper farming, and when Ruse succeeded he received the first land grant in the colony.

His uncle, Josiah Turner, together with business partner James Starley used this as a basis for the ' Coventry Model ' in what became Britain's first cycle factory.

In Acts 11: 30 and, we see a collegiate system of government in Jerusalem though headed by James, according to tradition the first bishop of the city.

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

" He quotes Charles Lyell as saying " Continents, therefore, although permanent for whole geological epochs, shift their positions entirely in the course of ages " and claims that the first to throw doubt on this was James D. Dana in 1849.

The name " curl " was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871.

Christian Science metaphysics teach that God is Spirit and cites the first chapter of Genesis as the true story of creation, where in the King James Bible, " man " is both " male and female ", created " in the image and likeness " of God.

# The final piece of the puzzle, thermal transpiration, was theorized by Osborne Reynolds, but first published by James Clerk Maxwell in the last paper before his death in 1879.

Mather's first published sermon, which appeared in 1686, concerned the crime and punishment of James Morgan, a reprobate who in a drunken rage impaled a man with an iron spit.