* Hayes, William, The Progressive Education Movement: Is it Still a Factor in Today ’ s ’ Schools?

* 1895 – William Grant Still, American composer ( d. 1978 )

William Still, often called " The Father of the Underground Railroad ", helped hundreds of slaves to escape ( as many as 60 a month ), sometimes hiding them in his Philadelphia home.

* William Still

* Hendrick, George, and Willene Hendrick ( 2003 ) Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad As Told by Levi Coffin and William Still.

* Underground Railroad, 1872, by William Still, from Project Gutenberg ( classic book documenting the Underground Railroad operations in Philadelphia )

Still of Allyson Ames and William Shatner, with English subtitles over the French subtitles of the sole film copy found in France.

Still undeterred, Shearer risked some of her savings on a consultation with Dr. William Bates, a pioneer in the treatment of incorrectly aligned eyes and defective vision.

Still from Within Our Gates, portraying the lynching of Jasper Landry ( William Stark ) and his wife ( Mattie Edwards )

The Gilbert Clock Company, located along the Still River north of town, was founded in 1871 by William L. Gilbert ( 1806 ‑ 1890 ) and became one of the largest clock companies in the world at the turn of the century.

* William Grant Still, African American classical composer

A pioneering study of Peto and Harnett is Alfred Frankenstein's After the Hunt, William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900.

Still in desperate need of a male heir, the next year he married the 23-year-old Palatine princess Maria Anna of Neuburg, a daughter of Philip William, Elector of the Palatinate, and sister-in-law of his uncle Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

* May 11 – William Grant Still, composer ( died 1978 )

William Grant Still was named arranger and later musical director.

The first generation of abstract expressionists included Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Phillip Guston, Ad Reinhardt, James Brooks, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Mark Tobey, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Jack Tworkov David Smith, and Hans Hofmann, among others.

Handy, where William Grant Still served in an A & R and Repertoire capacity ) and Columbia.

William Grant Still was orchestrator and Fats Waller the pianist as Johnson was contractually obliged to conduct his and Waller's hit Broadway show Keep Shufflin.

" Still, in 1950, when William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon was sent to Ireland as Canada's ambassador to that country, the Cabinet wished to have George VI referred to in the letters of credence as King of Canada.

William Grant Still ( May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978 ) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions.

William Grant Still was born in Woodville, Mississippi.

He was the son of two teachers, Carrie Lena Fambro Still ( 1872 – 1927 ) and William Grant Still ( 1871 – 1895 ), who was also a partner in a grocery store and performed as a local bandleader.

His father William Grant Still Sr. died when his infant son was 3 months old.

I saw a piece the other day assailing William Buckley, author of Man And God at Yale and publisher of The National Review, as no conservative at all, but an old liberal.

On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

** William B. Bankhead National Forest

William Hulbert, principal owner of the Chicago White Stockings, did not like the loose organization of the National Association and the gambling element that influenced it, so he decided to create a new organization, which he dubbed the National League of Baseball Clubs.

* William McCune Argonne National Laboratory, author of Otter, the first high-performance theorem prover.

William Hulbert's National League, which was formed after the National Association proved ineffective, put its emphasis on " clubs " rather than " players ".

Hill Top Farm was opened to the public by the National Trust in 1946 ; her artwork was displayed there until 1985 when it was moved to William Heelis ’ s former law offices in Hawkshead, also owned by the National Trust as the Beatrix Potter Gallery.

Because of these issues, William Hulbert, the president of the Chicago club, spearheaded the development of the National League, whose inaugural season was 1876.

* National Archives – Images of letters and other documents concerning Captain William Kidd

* 1811 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.

James Northcote, William Godwin, oil on canvas, 1802, the National Portrait Gallery ( London ) | National Portrait Gallery, William Godwin, a radical liberalism | liberal and utilitarian was one of the first to espouse what became known as individualist anarchism.

The first U. S. edition, translated by William Weaver, won the National Book Award in category Translation

* 1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

" Jamison is the recipient of the National Mental Health Association's William Styron Award ( 1995 ), the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Research Award ( 1996 ), the Community Mental Health Leadership Award ( 1999 ), and was a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship recipient.

William E. Odom, former director of the U. S. National Security Agency and author of The Collapse of the Soviet Military, says that Rust ’ s flight irreparably damaged the reputation of the Soviet military.

Investigators discovered incriminating evidence at his home: ammonium nitrate and blasting caps, the electric drill used to drill out the locks at the quarry, books on bomb-making, a copy of Hunter ( a 1989 novel by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of the white nationalist National Alliance ) and a hand-drawn map of downtown Oklahoma City, on which was marked the Murrah Building and the spot where McVeigh's getaway car was hidden.

After lumber baron William B. Cox purchased the team in 1943, the Phillies began a rapid rise to prominence in the National League, as the team rose out of the standings cellar for the first time in five years.

Following several years of work, Louis Essen from the National Physical Laboratory ( Teddington, England ) and William Markowitz from the United States Naval Observatory ( USNO ) determined the relationship between the hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium atom and the ephemeris second.

* 1907 – McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U. S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.