Władysław Komar ( 11 April 1940 – 17 August 1998 ) was a Polish shot put champion, who was born in Kaunas.

Komar and Melamid's People's Choice series, 1994 – 1997, consisted of the " most wanted " and " most unwanted " paintings of 11 countries.

On the night of 23 / 24 August the Felix Dzerzhinskiy statue in front of the KGB building at Dzerzhinskiy Square ( Lubianka ) was dismantled, while thousands of Moscow citizens took part in the funeral of Dmitry Komar, Vladimir Usov and Ilya Krichevsky, the three citizens who died in the tunnel incident.

Komar & Melamid used the same process in 1996-1997 in a collaboration with composer Dave Soldier to create The People's Choice Music, consisting of " The Most Wanted Song " ( a love song with low male and female vocals, of moderate duration, pitch, and tempo ) and " The Most Unwanted Song " ( in part: an operatic soprano raps over cowboy music featuring least-wanted instruments bagpipes and tuba while children sing about holidays and advertise for Wal-Mart ).

* 1967 – The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.

* 1970 – Park Myeong-su, South Korean comedian and singer

* 1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.

* 1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.

* 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.

* 1977 – Park Yong-ha, South Korean singer and actor ( d. 2010 )

* 1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.

* 1988 – Angela Park, Brazilian-American golfer

* 1963 – Park Chan-wook, South Korean director, screenwriter, and producer

* 1974 – Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist

* 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

* 1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

* 1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

* 1749 – First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.

* 1947 – Barbara Park, American author

* 1987 – Jay Park, Korean-American singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and actor ( 2PM )

In 1899, the memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.

Fiji beat them 25 – 21 at Buckhurst Park, Suva.

The Lions won the third Test 28 – 9 at Ellis Park, and the series finished 2 – 1 to South Africa.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

* The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line runs under and over Broadway from Times Square to 168th Street ( trains ), and from 218th Street to its terminal in the Bronx at Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( train ).

* Lincoln Park, New York, a hamlet

Once a small village hamlet in the parish of Edmonton, Winchmore Hill now borders with Palmers Green, Southgate, Edmonton, and Grange Park.

Deer Park is home to a small but growing population of Argentine Americans already approaching 4 percent of the population of the small hamlet.

* Quaker Bridge – A hamlet at the junction of NY 280 and modern Allegany State Park Route 3.

* Cottage Park – A hamlet near the shore of Chautauqua Lake in the northwest part of the town.

* Connelly Park – A lake shore hamlet south of Hadley Bay.

* Quigley Park – A hamlet near Cheney's Point.

* Harrigan – A hamlet in the northwest corner of the town inside the Adirondack Park.

* Evans Beach Park – A hamlet on the lake shore west of Angola.

* Ferry Village – A hamlet on the border of Beaver Island State Park.

* Cold Spring Park – A hamlet in the northeast part of the town on County Road 7.

* Sacandaga Park – A hamlet on the west shore of Great Sacandaga Lake and on NY-30 near the junction of County Road 143.

* Middle Sprite – A hamlet by the north town line, inside the Adirondack Park.

* Edgewood Park – A hamlet southwest of Alexandria Bay on Route 12.

* St. Lawrence Park – A hamlet on Wellesley Island.

* Westminster Park – A hamlet on the north end of Wellesley Island.

* Thousand Island Park – A hamlet on the southwest tip of Wellesley Island by South Bay.

* Brantingham – A hamlet near the center of the town, located inside the Adirondack Park

* Sperryville – A hamlet in the south part of the town, inside the Adirondack Park.

Bay Park is a hamlet ( and census-designated place ) in Nassau County, New York, United States.

It is part of the " Five Towns ", together with the village of Lawrence and the hamlets of Woodmere and Inwood, and " The Hewletts ", which consist of the villages of Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Neck and the hamlet of Hewlett, along with Woodsburgh.

Garden City Park is a hamlet and CDP located in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County on Long Island in the U. S. state of New York.

In the context of the Five Towns, " The Hewletts " or " Hewlett " is often used to refer collectively to the hamlet of Hewlett, together with the villages of Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Neck, along with Woodsburgh.

In the context of the Five Towns, " The Hewletts " or " Hewlett " is often used to refer collectively to the hamlet of Hewlett, together with the villages of Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Neck.

In addition to Inwood, the Five Towns is usually said to be composed of the villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst, the hamlet of Woodmere, and " The Hewletts ", which consist of the villages of Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Neck and the hamlet of Hewlett, along with Woodsburgh.