When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

The Council on National Defense of the American Medical Association contributed a brief article to each issue entitled, `` This Is Your A.M.A. ''.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

But he takes his bearings from the great guidelines of policy, well-established precedents, the commitments of the United States under international charters and treaties, basic statutes, and well-understood notions of the American people about how we are to conduct ourselves, in policy literature such as country papers and National Security Council papers accumulated in the Department.

He is a member both of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society ; ;

The professional organizations such as American Institute of Interior Designers, National Society of Interior Designers, Home Fashions League and various trade associations, can and do aid greatly in this work.

The group known as the American Association for Health,, Physical Education, and Recreation ( a division of the National Education Association ) initiated a conference which brought together representatives of the National Rifle Association, SAAMI and the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers.

That's why the FDA, the American Medical Association ( AMA ), and the National Better Business Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $610 million or so paid to medical charlatans annually.

This is an issue which boils down to a matter of opinion, depending on whether you're an American or National fan and anti or pro-Yankee.

The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute.

* Grzega, Joachim: “ On the Description of National Varieties: Examples from ( German and Austrian ) German and ( English and American ) English .” In: Linguistik Online 7 ( 2000 ).

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

The American Film Institute operated the National Film Theatre in Washington D. C .' s Kennedy Center until 1998.

* National Arab American Heritage Month ( United States )

American Samoa is home to the National Park of American Samoa.

* Adrian Arrington ( born 1985 ), American National Football League ( NFL ) player

* Adrian Dantley ( born 1956 ), American retired National Basketball Association ( NBA ) player

* African American National Biography Project

" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online

* Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos.

Library of American Biography.

He had previously granted full access to documentary filmmaker and television producer Kevin Burns for the A & E Biography special Hugh Hefner: American Playboy in 1996.

* Bowden, Henry W. Dictionary of American Religious Biography.

The American National Biography lists Hanson's birth date as April 3, 1721, which in the modern calendar system is equivalent to April 14, although the older Dictionary of American Biography gives the date as April 13, 1721.

According to the American National Biography, the biographies of Hanson are not " adequate ," though this is one, written by Hanson's grandson, is " perhaps the most satisfactory " of the lot.

* Rodney P. Carlisle, " Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius ", American National Biography Online February 2000, accessed 24 September 2005.

* Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos.

American Rifle-A Biography.

" Webster, Noah ," Dictionary of American Biography, Volume 10 ( 1936 )

* Adler, B ( ill ), “ Tougher Than Leather: The Authorized Biography of Run-DMC ,” New American Library, 1987.

* The Summer of Love, Performers in Britain and the United States, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the American National Biography

* American National Biography.

" Morgan, John Pierpont, ( April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913 )," in Dictionary of American Biography, Volume 7 ( 1934 )

* Biography of John W. Gates, barbed wire promoter who monopolized the industry with the American Steel and Wire Company, accessed March 29, 2006

" Calhoun, John C ."; American National Biography Online Feb. 2000

American National Biography.

Joe Gans: A Biography of the First African American World Boxing Champion.

* 1999 – Kwesi Boakye, American actor

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( d. 1999 )

* 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter ( d. 1999 )

* 1925 – David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, developed the Huffman coding ( d. 1999 )

The current Vehicle registration plates of American Samoa | territorial license plate design, introduced in 1999.

Per a 1999 estimate, there are no merchant marines in American Samoa.

* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )

* 1930 – Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Jesse Stone, American musician and songwriter ( b. 1901 )

* 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Byron Farwell, American historian ( b. 1921 )

* 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress ( d. 1999 )

* 1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Garrett Ryan, American actor

* 1919 – Huntz Hall, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Tristan Lake Leabu, American actor

* 1928 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player ( d. 1999 )

* 1936 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Maxim Knight, American actor

* 1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Ellen Corby, American actress ( b. 1911 )

* 1914 – José Silva, American parapsychologist ( d. 1999 )

* 1936 – Andre Dubus, American writer ( d. 1999 )