They and nine others are selected to form the Rockford Peaches, while 48 others are split among the Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets, and South Bend Blue Sox.

* IOI 2003 was held in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, August 16 – 23, 2003 ( results )

* Marty Conrad, offensive lineman in the NFL for the Toledo Maroons ( 1922 – 1923 ), the Kenosha Maroons ( 1924 ), and the Akron Pros ( 1925 ).

The University of Wisconsin – Parkside is located two miles south of Mount Pleasant in Kenosha.

* University of Wisconsin – Parkside is located 2 miles south of the border of Racine within Kenosha.

Since it was located in Kenosha, that city wanted it named the University of Wisconsin – Kenosha ; however, Racine wanted to name it the University of Wisconsin – Racine.

* Kenosha " Main " Plant – Portions of the Kenosha Main Plant, now Chrysler's Kenosha Engine plant, with some new additions, at 52nd Street and 30th Avenue, continued to be run by Chrysler as an engine-production factory.

* Kenosha " Lakefront " ( Kenosha, Wisconsin ) Plant – The AMC plant in downtown Kenosha along Lake Michigan was razed, and after reclamation the land was used for new development.

Built in AMC's Kenosha, Wisconsin factories, the 1984 – 1987 Encore was a two and four-door hatchback based on the European Renault 11.

** The University of Wisconsin – Parkside located in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

He was the younger brother of Charles Sholes ( 1816 – 1867 ) who was a newspaper publisher and politician who served in both houses of the Wisconsin State Legislature and as mayor of Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Paul Russo ( April 10, 1914 in Kenosha, Wisconsin –

* University of Wisconsin – Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin

The Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ) consists of Cook county and five surrounding Illinois counties as well as the Chicago – Gary – Kenosha Consolidated Statistical Area ( CSA ) which is made up of nine counties, two of them in northwestern Indiana and one in southeastern Wisconsin.

He began a teaching career as an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin – Parkside in Kenosha.

* Chicago Cardinals v Chicago Boosters ( pre-1920 ), Chicago Tigers ( 1920 ), Hammond Pros ( 1920 – 26 ), Kenosha Maroons ( 1924 ), Chicago Staleys / Bears ( 1921 – 1959 )

* 1924 – Rudy Pompilli, American musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( d. 1976 )

* 1981 – Bill Haley, American musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( b. 1925 )

* 1925 – Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( d. 1981 )

* 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release " Rock Around the Clock ", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

* 1996 – Billy Williamson, American musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( b. 1925 )

Both movies contained the Bill Haley & His Comets hit " Rock Around the Clock ", which first entered the British charts in early 1955 – four months before it reached the US pop charts – topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.

* March 20 – Evan Hunter's movie adaptation of the novel Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single, Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley and His Comets.

Comets studied forward-scattering in visible-thermal photometry include C / 1927 X1 ( Skjellerup – Maristany ), C / 1975 V1 ( West ), and C / 1980 Y1 ( Bradfield ).

Bill Haley and His Comets have also been inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and, in July 2005, the surviving members of the 1954 – 55 Comets ( see below ) represented Haley when Bill Haley and His Comets were inducted into Hollywood's Rockwalk, a ceremony also attended by Haley's second wife and youngest daughter.

The Comets, featuring musicians who performed with Haley in 1954 – 1955, reunited in 1987 and are still touring the world as of 2007, playing showrooms in the United States and Europe.

Two additional groups claim the name Bill Haley's Comets and have extensively toured in the United States since forming in the 1980s: one originally Haley's 1965 – 68 drummer John " Bam-Bam " Lane, the other run by Al Rappa who played bass for Haley off-and-on between late 1959 and early 1969 ( the 1956 album " Strictly Instrumental " on Decca was Al Rappa's first recording session with Bill Haley & His Comets.

In March and July 2005, the members of the 1954 – 55 group, now billed as simply The Comets after decades of controversy over the use of the name, made several high-profile concert appearances in New York City and Los Angeles organized by Martin Lewis as part of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of rock and roll, the release of Blackboard Jungle, the 50th anniversary of " Rock Around the Clock " hitting Number 1, and the 80th birthday of Bill Haley.

In 2006, The 1954 – 55 Comets spent much of the year in residence at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri.

On June 2, 2006, Johnny Grande, keyboardist with the 1954 – 55 Comets and an original founding member of the band, died after a short illness.

* A large cache of country-western recordings made by Haley in the 1946 – 51 era, before the formation of the Comets ( also released on Rock ' n ' Roll Arrives );

* The 1981 – 82 Comets reunion group recorded on single in 1982, Bring Back the Music / The Hawk Talks ( Music City Records ).

* The 1954 – 55 Comets ( a. k. a. The Original Comets ) have been the most prolific, recording a half-dozen albums since 1993 -

In addition, Bill Haley and the Comets also scored chart hits in Latin America, Mexico, and India during the period 1961 – 1966 with recordings such as " Twist Español ", " Florida Twist ", " Spanish Twist ", " Caravan Twist ", and " Land of a Thousand Dances ".

Unlike the musicians in bands such as The Comets, or Elvis Presley's backing band, who had rockabilly or country music backgrounds, many musicians in Australian rock ' n ' roll bands – such as Johnny O ' Keefe's famous backing group The Dee Jays – had a solid background in jazz.

Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

Comets can produce debris by water vapor drag, as demonstrated by Fred Whipple in 1951, and by breakup.

" Cold, Cold Heart " has since been recorded by many other artists, including Louis Armstrong ( recorded September 17, 1951, released Decca Records catalog number 27816 ), Donald Peers ( recorded October 5, 1951, released EMI via His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10158 ), Petula Clark, Johnny Cash, Nat King Cole, Aretha Franklin ( 1964 ), Bill Haley & His Comets, Rosemary Clooney, Dinah Washington, Norah Jones, Lucinda Williams, Ronnie Hawkins, Raul Malo, George Jones, David Allan Coe, Guy Mitchell, Teresa Brewer, Jerry Lee Lewis, Cowboy Junkies, Frankie Laine, and Jo Stafford.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

* 1943 – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Bobby Vee, American singer

* 1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.

* 1868 – Hong Beom-do, Korean activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – Chuck Girard, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( Love Song and The Castells )

* 1943 – Bob Kerrey, American politician, 35th Governor of Nebraska

* 1943 – Tuesday Weld, American actress

* 1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist ( d. 1998 )

* 1943 – Ken Norton, American boxer

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.

* 1943 – World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks.

* 1943 – Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player

* 1943 – Max Wright, American actor

* 1943 – Béla Bollobás, Hungarian-English mathematician

* 1943 – Lana Cantrell, Australian-American singer and lawyer

* 1943 – Alain Corneau, French director

* 1943 – Denis Payton, English saxophonist ( The Dave Clark Five )

* 1943 – Ruth Madoc, Welsh actress

* 1943 – Dave Peverett, English musician ( Foghat and Savoy Brown ) ( d. 2000 )

* Adrian Păunescu ( 1943 – 2010 ), Romanian poet, journalist, and politician

* 1902 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic ( d. 1943 )

* 1943 – María Rojo, Mexican actress and politician

* 1888 – Armand J. Piron, American violinist, bandleader, and composer ( d. 1943 )