* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

To the right of the infantry Lord John Hay ’ s ‘ Scots Greys ’ also picked their way across the stream and charged the Régment du Roi within Autre-Eglise.

* Thomas Banchoff collection of materials relating to Edwin Abbott Abbott at the Brown University John Hay Library

During the train trip from Washington, D. C., to Gettysburg on November 18, Lincoln remarked to John Hay that he felt weak.

In the railroad car the President rode with his secretary, John G. Nicolay, his assistant secretary, John Hay, the three members of his Cabinet who accompanied him, William Seward, John Usher and Montgomery Blair, several foreign officials and others.

Barlow deposited the bulk of the papers, including the voluminous correspondence, with the John Hay Library, and attempted to organize and maintain Lovecraft's other writing.

* Many locations within his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, including the ( then purportedly haunted ) Halsey House, Prospect Terrace and Brown University's John Hay Library and John Carter Brown Library.

* The Howard P. Lovecraft Collection in Special Collections at John Hay Library

* 1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.

John Milton Hay ( October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905 ) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln.

In 1852 John Hay went to the college at Springfield, and in 1855 was sent to Brown University, where he joined Theta Delta Chi.

Abraham Lincoln's law office was next door to the law office of Milton Hay, John's uncle, and Lincoln thus became acquainted with John Hay.

When Lincoln won election as president, his secretary, John G. Nicolay, recommended John Hay to Lincoln as assistant private secretary.

John Hay as a young man

Hay in portrait by John Singer Sargent

Steven Culp portrayed John (" Johnny ") Hay in the 1988 miniseries Lincoln, based on Vidal's book.

After Roosevelt signed an executive order setting aside land in the Benguet region of the Philippines for a military reservation under the United States Army, Camp John Hay of Baguio City was established on October 25, 1903 and named in his honor.

It was re-designated John Hay Air Base in 1955.

Posthumous bust of John Hay ( 1915-17 ), by J. Massey Rhind, inside the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial.

Brown University's John Hay Library housed the entire library collection from its construction in 1910 until the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library was built in 1964.

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

In the United States, within 100 years, four presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy, died at the hands of assassins.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

One was an independent distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil ( 1948 ), directed by Abraham Polonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom would be blacklisted in the 1950s.

Of these, Booth remained to make his career in the States, fathering the nation's most notorious actor, John Wilkes Booth ( who later assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and its most famous Hamlet, Edwin Booth.

Major was born at the St. Helier Hospital in Sutton, Surrey, the son of Gwen Major and former Music Hall performer Tom Major-Ball ( né Abraham Thomas Ball ), who was 64 years old when John was born.

John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.

Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's two illegitimate actor sons, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, would eventually spur them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

Asked by Terre Haute politician and lawyer John Palmer Usher, future Secretary of the Interior under President Abraham Lincoln, to testify in a slander case, Cannon became fascinated with the law.

In 1851 John went to an academy at Pittsfield in Pike County, where he met an older student, John G. Nicolay, with whom he would later work as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln.

* Abraham Lincoln: A History ( with John G. Nicolay, 1890 )

He is also starring in Deepa Mehta's next film, Kamagata Maru with Amitabh Bachchan and John Abraham.

" This generation included distinguished artists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Isadora Duncan, Abraham Walkowitz, Alan Seeger, and Erich Maria Remarque.

* 1978 – John Abraham, American football player

In recent years, historians such as Harry Jaffa, Herman Belz, John Diggins, Vernon Burton and Eric Foner have stressed Lincoln's redefinition of republican values.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

Lincoln relayed this conversation to Sir John Peyton, Lieutenant of the Tower, who, knowing how physically and financially infirm Oxford was, refused to take Lincoln's report as a serious threat to King James ' accession.

** John Donne is appointed as Reader in Divinity at his old inn of court, Lincoln's Inn.

( The federal government offered $ 25, 000 for the capture of each of John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators in Lincoln's assassination.

John Rich staged the play with his company at Lincoln's Inn Fields ; the performance was not long-remembered, as Rich's company was less famous for its work with Shakespeare than for its pantomimes and spectacles.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

As Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy told Eisenhower: " Lincoln's remark after they got after Grant comes to mind when I think of Patton – ' I can't spare this man, he fights '.

Burton returned to Hollywood to star in Prince of Players, another historical Cinemascope film, this time concerning Edwin Booth, famous American actor and brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth.

In 1714 he moved to work at the new theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, managed by entrepreneur John Rich.

It contains Tudor Hall, birthplace of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Quin had left Drury Lane in 1718 and gone to Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was owned by John Rich.

At one stage " The Man in Lincoln's Nose " was touted as a collaboration with John Michael Hayes.

After President Abraham Lincoln's assassination at John T. Ford's Theatre, the 54th Congress passed legislation compensating those who were injured in the theater.

After 10 days, in the wee hours of April 26, federal troops tracked down John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, and fellow conspirator David E. Herold at Garrett's farm about 3 miles west of Port Royal.

* Harper's Weekly political cartoon, " That's What's the Trouble with John C ."; Fremont's 1864 challenge to Lincoln's re-nomination.

The latter is a satire on contemporary follies, such as the masquerades of the Swiss impresario John James Heidegger, the popular Italian opera singers, John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and the exaggerated popularity of Lord Burlington's protégé, the architect and painter William Kent.

These soldiers were at General Lee's surrender, helped hunt down John Wilkes Booth and were the only African-American soldiers to carry President Lincoln's casket.

" He also claimed that the story was confirmed by Mary Todd Lincoln, and partially confirmed by Private Secretary John Hay ( who thought it dated from Lincoln's nomination, not his election ).

On April 1, the Regulators Jim French, Frank McNab, John Middleton, Fred Waite, Henry Brown and McCarty / Bonney ambushed Sheriff Brady and his deputy, George W. Hindman, killing them both in Lincoln's main street.