According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

* 1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106, 010 meters ( 347, 800 feet ) on X-15 Flight 90.

Aided by a 27-yard completion from quarterback Joe Theismann to tight end Rick Walker, four runs and a 15-yard reception by running back John Riggins, and a 12-yard run from Theismann himself, the Redskins marched 80 yards in 11 plays to score on wide receiver Alvin Garrett's 4-yard touchdown reception.

** Joe Louis Walker, American musician

* July 19 – American test pilot Joe Walker, flying the X-15, reaches an altutude of 65. 8 miles ( 105. 9 kilometers ), making it a sub-orbital spaceflight by recognized international standards.

* August 22 – American test pilot Joe Walker again achieves a sub-orbital spaceflight according to international standards, this time by piloting the X-15 to an altutude of 67. 0 miles ( 107. 8 kilometers ).

In A Very Potter Musical, Voldemort is played by actor Joe Walker.

Joe Walker is the only white man in this country that has ever visited this strange people.

His final large-scale performance was at the Apollo, New York in November 1967, where he performed with Big Joe Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Jimmy Witherspoon and T-Bone Walker.

Quartz Hill schools include Quartz Hill Elementary School, Sundown Elementary, Joe Walker Middle School Parts of the unincorparted city of Quartz Hill go to Del Sur a school in Antelope Acers, and Quartz Hill High School.

* Harry Choates, Joe Falcon, Jo-El Sonnier, Amedée Breaux, Johnnie Allan, Lawrence Walker and Tony Thibodeaux, Cajun musicians

* Val Joe Walker ( born 1930 ) was a former National Football League player with the Green Bay Packers and the San Francisco 49ers.

For his role as a former Texas Ranger peace officer, Duvall was trained in the use of Walker revolvers by the Texas marksman Joe Bowman.

* August 6 – James Beck, who stars as Private Joe Walker in the popular UK sitcom Dad's Army, dies of a burst pancreas at the age of just 44.

Jump was especially popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s, through artists such as Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Charles Brown, T-Bone Walker, Roy Milton, Billy Wright and Wynonie Harris.

At the time of his flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age: he was the earliest-born human to go to orbit, being born three months and three days earlier than the second earliest-born man in orbit – John Glenn, but later than X-15 pilot Joe Walker who made 2 ( or 3, according to USAF definition ) suborbital space flights.

In addition to Orbison, Monument became home to a number of others including: Robert Knight, Kris Kristofferson, Jeannie Seely, Boots Randolph, Dolly Parton, Ray Stevens, Cindy Walker, Tony Joe White, Charlie McCoy, Willie Nelson, Tommy Roe, The Velvets, Connie Smith, Larry Jon Wilson, Larry Gatlin and Robert Mitchum.

After contributing to Joe Louis Walker ' Great Guitars, he toured with the blues musician and was paid $ 5, 000 a night for six songs.

* " THE CRASH OF XB-70 002: In memory of NASA Test Pilot Joe Walker and Air Force Maj. Carl Cross ", T. D.

* T-Bone Walker & Joe Turner-Super Black Blues, Vol.

The character of Joe Walker in the sitcom Dad's Army is an example of the second stereotype of a war profiteer while the character Rick Pym in the novel A Perfect Spy is a more psychologically complex example.

Outlaw country was another offshoot that had roots in Texas, with Texans like Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff Walker and Willie Nelson leading the movement, ably supported by writers like Billy Joe Shaver.

The team featured young players that would become Rush fixtures and fan favorites in the years to come, such as quarterback Billy Dicken, Joe Douglass, Damien Porter and Jamie McGourty, and Riley Kleinhesselink, Cedric Walker, and Anthony Ladd.

Amy Songer, Amy Cook, Cassandra Kellogg, Jessica Moeller, Casey Patterson, Joe Kochak, Lea Henley, April Brown, Nicole Dennis, Courtney Mathias, Katie Owens, Amanda Peterson, Michael Shows, Scott Smith, Daniel Stewart, John Thompson, Brittany Winslett, Cameron Acheson, William Batey, Nick Biship, Chris Currie, Christine Dingivan, Golpar Garmestani, Erin Graves, Sarah Hollerman, Eric Hutchinson, Adam Leonard, Frances Leon, John Mansour, Candace Rimes, Jamie Sartory, Fuller Sherrod, Walker Stone, Nick Wickersham

In 1989, a made-for-television movie based on the novel, was directed by Giles Walker with teleplay by Joe Wisenfeld and Richard John Davis.

* 1946 – Joe Klein, American journalist and novelist

* W. P. Kinsella, novelist well known for his 1982 novel Shoeless Joe which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams

Stevie Smith, the poet and novelist, lived in Palmers Green from 1905 until her death in 1971, also that year, Joe Strummer shared a flat at 18 Ash Grove with Tymon Dogg and several others.

** Joe Meno, novelist and journalist

William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC ( born May 25, 1935 ) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who is well known for his novel Shoeless Joe ( 1982 ), which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989.

* Joe Ollmann, cartoonist / graphic novelist

* Joe David Brown ( 1915 – 1976 ), American novelist

The novelist Joe Stretch grew up in the village during the 1990s.

There is an introduction by crime novelist and former San Francisco private detective Joe Gores, and a foreword by Preiss.

Among the key writers of the Alligator at the time were James Cook, later an attorney, who wrote the " Uncle Javerneck " column, and Joe Torchia, later a novelist, who intercepted humorous letters from " God " to various people, sparking an uproar among some religious readers.

Some of those associated as writers and directors with The Riordans went on to have successful film and stage careers, including novelist, playwright and screenwriter, Eugene McCabe and playwright Joe O ' Donnell and filmmaker Pat O ' Connor.

Joe toy line saw the release of Cobra hypnotist Crystal Ball, whose file card was supposedly written by bestselling horror novelist Stephen King.

* 1874 – Joe Gans, American boxer ( d. 1910 )

The city was founded in 1910 as a company town by St. Joe Lead which originally called it Owl Creek.

By this time using the name Joe or Joseph Hillstrom ( possibly because of anti-union blacklisting ), he joined the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) or Wobblies around 1910, when working on the docks in San Pedro, California.

At the end of 1910 – 11, the club found themselves in seventh place, thanks largely to Joe Clennell's haul of eighteen goals.

The Millers won four Association pennants during the 1910 – 23 tenure of " Pongo Joe " Cantillon, then were managed from 1924 – 31 by another legend, Michael Joseph Kelley, one of the great figures of American Association history.

The so-called ' Golden Age ' of Australian test cricket occurred around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, with the team under the captaincy of Joe Darling, Monty Noble and Clem Hill winning eight of ten tours it participated in between the 1897 – 98 English tour of Australia and the 1910 – 11 South African tour of Australia.

Joe Lane ( footballer ) | Joe Lane played for Ferencváros from 1908 to 1910

The extension to Port St. Joe was completed on May 10, 1910.

Joe Gans ( November 25, 1874-August 10, 1910 ) was born Joseph Gant in Baltimore, Maryland.

Wells had his first professional fight on 8 June 1910, against Gunner Joe Mills, winning on points over six rounds.

Portrait of Joe Fortes, 1910