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In 1795 Langworthy was made the clerk of customs for Baltimore, a post he held until his death.
The pilot of the aircraft Squadron Leader Richard " Dick " Langworthy AFC RAF was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross ( DFC ) for his part in the air operations.
Two years was required for the new wing, which was designed in the same fashion as the Langworthy Wing to be completed and opened in 1938.
Despite carrying the name of a suburb of Salford, Langworthy ARLFC has been based in Pendlebury ( at Rabbit Hills playing fields, Bolton Road ) for over 20 years, whilst local rivals Folly Lane ARLFC operate on the Blue Ribbon field off Pendlebury Road.
A very safe Labour seat which had some of the UK's most deprived areas, typified by council estates like Ordsall, Pendleton and Langworthy, which are now due for apparent redevelopment.

Harry and Africa
For its first four decades in the National Museum of Natural History, the Hope Diamond lay in its necklace inside a glass-fronted safe as part of the gems and jewelry gallery, except for a few brief excursions: a 1962 exhibition to the Louvre ; the 1965 Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg, South Africa ; and two visits back to Harry Winston's premises in New York City, once in 1984, and once for a 50th anniversary celebration in 1996.
In 2009, Carey's son, Harry Carey, Jr., went to Africa to film a documentary called Trader Horn: The Journey Back.
Australian soldiers Harry " Breaker " Morant and Peter Handcock were shot by a British firing squad in South Africa on February 27, 1902, for alleged war crimes during the Boer War ; questions have since been raised as to whether they received a fair trial.
* January 28 – Various artists, under the group name USA For Africa, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Perry, Kenny Loggins, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Tina Turner, Sheila E., Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Carnes, Dionne Warwick, Waylon Jennings, Bob Geldof and Stevie Wonder, record the song " We Are the World ".
Aged five, his family emigrated to South Africa, where he was known as Harry Skikne.
In Morocco during one of their trips to North Africa, Harry and Caresse took a 13-year-old dancing girl named Zora to bed with them.
# Cecil Rhodes, then Prime Minister of the British Cape Colony ( part of modern South Africa ) was expanding his British South Africa Company's charter lands from the south and threatening to occupy Katanga ( southern Congo ) by exploiting the ' Principle of Effectivity ' loophole in the Berlin Treaty, supported by Harry Johnston, British Commissioner for Central Africa who was London's representative in the region.
The son of May Pollack and Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, Harry was born to an assimilated Jewish family of German origins in Kimberley, the original centre for diamond mining in South Africa, and lived most of his life in Johannesburg.
Sir Henry " Harry " Hamilton Johnston, GCMG, KCB ( 12 June 1858-31 July 1927 ), was a British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator, one of the key players in the " Scramble for Africa " that occurred at the end of the 19th century.
British missionaries had already established themselves in Nyasaland, and the British government's Colonial Office sent Harry Johnston to administer that territory as the British Central Africa Protectorate.
By the late 1980s, he was largely appearing in exploitation films produced by the impresario Harry Alan Towers, most of which were filmed in South Africa at the time of apartheid and released straight to video in the US and UK.
A young British employee of the Foreign Office by the name of Harry H. Johnston who travelled earlier in North Africa and saw the potential for expanding the British empire in Africa, wrote a moving article in the London newspaper introducing the infamous ‘ Cape to Cairo ’ concept that so many wrongly claim was Cecil Rhodes invention.
In Morocco during one of their trips to North Africa, Harry and Polly took a 13-year-old dancing girl named Zora to bed with them.
In 1931, two years after Harry Crosby's suicide, the end of his affair with Caresse Crosby left Cartier-Bresson broken-hearted and he escaped to Côte d ' Ivoire within French colonial Africa.
Sir Harry Smith was the British general governor of Cape Colony and high commissioner in South Africa from 1847 to 1852.
When he was sent in 1868 by diamond merchant Harry Emmanuel of London's Hatton Garden to Hopetown, South Africa to determine if claims of diamonds being found there were true, he investigated and reported back, that " The whole story of the Cape diamond discoveries is false, and is simply one of the many schemes for trying to promote the employment and expenditure of capital in searching for this pereachous ( sic ) substance in the colony ".
On 4 January 1974, Harry Schwarz the Transvaal leader of the United Party met with Mangosuthu Buthelezi and signed a five-point plan for racial peace in South Africa, which came to be known as the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith.
Harry Schwarz predicted that the merge would lead to a " new political dimension in South Africa ".
In one analysis of the film, D. L. Kershen comments: " Breaker Morant tells the story of the Court-Martial of Harry Morant, Peter Handcock, and George Witton in South Africa in 1902.
The story centers on the memories of a writer named Harry who is on safari in Africa.
In one of the book's subplots, Harry travels to South Africa to meet a dealer in clandestine arms, a white South African who is imprisoned and faces the death punishment for having killed two young black girls at a black township.
These novels are prequels to the foundation pair, King Solomon's Mines ( 1885 ) and Allan Quatermain ( 1887 ), which describe Quatermain's discovery of vast wealth, his discontent with a life of ease, and his fatal return to Africa following the death of his son Harry.

Harry and for
Outside, his brother Harry was waiting for him -- he had come to say good-bye.
The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.
Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.
The stage had been empty, except for Harry Hawk, doing his star monologue.
After being located for some years in the Village at the Equinox Pharmacy under the supervision of Mrs. Harry Mercier, it is presently located in the Hill and Dale Shop, Manchester Center.
The board's last money raising event was a performance by Harry Belafonte -- `` quite off-beat for this group '', decided some of the members.
Mrs. Harry M. Rose, Jr., for secretarial duties ; ;
In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.
He was so anxious to capture the tune in his head, he asked fellow passenger friend Harry Martin for his shirt cuff to write the tune on.
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.
Cuarón faced criticism from some of the more purist Harry Potter fans for his approach to the film.
* 2005: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )
* 2011: BAFTA Children's Award-First Light Awards-Kids ' Vote for Film of the Decade ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won )
* 2011: Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema ( Harry Potter series, joined by J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates and Mike Newell, shared with Harry Potter cast and crew )
He made a series of woodcut illustrations for an edition of Vergil's Eclogues published by Harry Graf Kessler in 1926 – 27.
* 1952 – U. S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
* 1948 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $ 5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
Capp had earlier provided the Shmoo for a special Children's Savings Bond in 1949, accompanying President Harry S. Truman at the bond's unveiling ceremony.
* A name used for a tank ( an armoured fighting vehicle ) in some works of speculative fiction, such as Harry Turtledove's books, and Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun.
In 1957 Harry Trask was a young staff photographer at the Traveler when he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his photo sequence of the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria in July 1956.
Born in Ashington, Northumberland, Charlton made his debut for the Manchester United first-team in 1956, and over the next two seasons gained a regular place in the team, during which time he survived the Munich air disaster of 1958 after being rescued by Harry Gregg.
Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.
* Harry Boomer, newscaster for WOIO news in Cleveland, Ohio

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