Robert Anderson ( Civil War ) | Major Anderson, Ft. Sumter commander

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

Fort Sumter Medal bearing the likeness of Robert Anderson ( major ) | Major Robert Anderson, and presented to Abner Doubleday.

In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.

He personally favored Robert Anderson, a Democrat, who rejected his offer ; Eisenhower then resolved to leave the matter in the hands of the party.

" When Robert B. Anderson, Eisenhower's first Secretary of the Navy argued that the Navy must recognize the " customs and usages prevailing in certain geographic areas of our country which the Navy had no part in creating ", Eisenhower overruled him: " We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

The modern meaning of the flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the U. S. garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America.

When he began his collaborative film work, he was influenced by Robert Alton and John Murray Anderson, striving to create moods and character insight with his dances.

The close-knit group included Haines and his partner Jimmie Shields, Alan Ladd, writer Somerset Maugham, director James Vincent, screenwriter Rowland Leigh, costume designers Orry-Kelly and Robert Le Maire, and actors John Darrow, Anderson Lawler, Grady Sutton, Robert Seiter and Tom Douglas.

* 1998 ( with John R. Anderson, Lynne M. Reder, K. Anders Ericsson, and Robert Glaser ).

Rock later claimed, however, that the divorce was due to Anderson openly criticizing his mother and sister in front of his son from a previous relationship, Robert Jr., which Rock took offense to.

* 1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground " Rapid Transit Railroad " that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens ' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.

Bust of Robert Menzies by sculptor Wallace Anderson located in the Prime Minister's Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

Robert Ross, David Anderson.

* 1865: In George MacDonald's novel Alec Forbes of Howglen, the character Annie Anderson is raised by her stingy relative Robert Bruce.

Orchestral conductors such as Gillian B. Anderson, Carl Davis, Carl Daehler, and Robert Israel have written and compiled scores for numerous silent films.

In the last two seasons, Gillian Anderson became the star as David Duchovny appeared intermittently, following a lawsuit, and new central characters were introduced: FBI agents John Doggett ( Robert Patrick ) and Monica Reyes ( Annabeth Gish ).

Along with the addition of Robert Patrick to the main cast, the sequence used new images and updated photos for Duchovny and Gillian Anderson ( although Duchovny only appears in the opening credits when he himself appears in an episode ).

* 1943 – Robert Crumb, American illustrator and writer

* 1943 – Robert Malval, Haitian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Haiti

* 1943 – Robert W. Edgar, American politician and theologian

* Robert Morris ( composer ) ( born 1943 ), British-American composer

The U. S. Liberty ship SS Robert Rowan explodes during the Allied invasion of Sicily, July 11, 1943.

* January 16 – Robert Henry English, American admiral ( d. 1943 )

* J. Robert Oppenheimer ( 1943 – 1945 )

* 1943: A Witness Tree by Robert Frost

Richard and Frances Hughes had five children: Robert Elyston-Glodrydd ( born 1932 ), Penelope ( 1934 ), Lleky Susannah ( 1936 ), Catherine Phyllida ( 1940 ) and Owain Gardner Collingwood ( 1943 ).

* Robert Antoine Pinchon ( 1886 – 1943 ), Post-Impressionist painter of the Rouen School, ( l ' École de Rouen )

* Austrian — Musil, Robert: The Man Without Qualities ( 1930, 1933, 1943 ; when main character, Ulrich, meets twin sister, Agatha, for first time after their father's death, they are both dressed as Pierrots ).

The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria ( 30 January 1894 – 28 August 1943 ), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver ( Boris Clement Robert Mary Pius Louis Stanislaus Xavier ), son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I.

Robert Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. ( born December 14, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American conservative magazine editor, New York Times bestselling author, and columnist.

* 1943: Joe Newman, Snooky Young, Eli Robinson, Robert Scott, Jimmy Powell, Rudy Rutherford, Rodney Richardson.

Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet ( orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett ) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II.

* Robert B. Simpson ( born 1943 ), executive director of the New Brunswick Healthcare Association and a former New Brunswick politician

This property was sold in 1929 to Robert Bright who used it as a summerhouse until 1943.

Robert Dennis Crumb ( born August 30, 1943 )— known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb — is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.

Robert Crumb was born on August 30, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Bound for Glory is a 1976 American film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's 1943 autobiography Bound for Glory.

: Auxiliary Field 3 is named Duke Field for 1st Lt Robert L. Duke, killed in the crash of Curtiss A-25A-20-CS Shrike, 42-79823, near Spencer, Tennessee, on 29 December 1943.

* Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film by Tony Pipolo ( Oxford University Press ; 407 pages ; 2010 ) pays particular attention to psychosexual aspects of the French filmmaker's 13 features, from Les Anges du peche ( 1943 ) to L ' Argent ( 1983 ).