Col. Fitts represents Ball's father, whose repressed homosexual desires led to his own unhappiness.

Ball's son, Charles Ball is reported to have said his father never regretted not registering the copyright.

Ball's father trained as an Austin apprentice at the Longbridge plant and went on to become a successful business man, although he had originally wanted to be an actor.

Blackpool signed him after Ball's father called in a favour with the coach, an old friend with whom he used to play.

The funeral cortege set off from the butcher's shop of Beatrice Ball's father, William Richards, in High Street, Aston ; seven coaches and several cars made their way through the crowds lining the streets to the packed St. John's Church, Perry Barr where the coffin was carried by Ball's former team-mates.

Former city councilman and mayor pro-tem, H. Wesley Ball's service to the African American community is commemorated by a park bearing his name.

During the second season, Lucy and Ricky have a son named Ricky Ricardo Jr. (" Little Ricky "), whose birth was timed to coincide with Ball's real-life delivery of her son Desi Arnaz Jr.

She appeared on The Lucy Show from 1962-65, as Vivian Bagley, a divorced mother of one son, sharing a house with Ball's character.

He was born at his family's seat of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, the second son of Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend, and Audrey ( died 1788 ), daughter and heiress of Edward Harrison of Ball's Park, near Hertford, a lady who rivalled her son in brilliancy of wit and frankness of expression.

" Holmes also had a personal stake in the war: his oldest son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., enlisted in the Army against his father's wishes in April 1861 and was injured three times in battle, including a gunshot wound in his chest at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in October 1861.

Later, the fact was confirmed by Asa Daklugie ( Juh's son ) in Eve Ball's ( 1980 ) book about the Chiricahuas, Indeh.

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

The modified script had a cynical outlook that was influenced by Ball's frustrating tenures writing for several sitcoms.

Producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen took American Beauty to DreamWorks ; the fledgling film studio bought Ball's script for $ 250, 000, outbidding several other production bodies.

After her departure from The Lucy Show, Vance appeared occasionally alongside Ball on reunion shows and made several guest appearances on Ball's third sitcom, Here's Lucy ( 1968 – 1974 ).

The army was spread through northern Virginia to observe the Union Army of the Potomac in Washington, fighting several small skirmishes including the Battle of Ball's Bluff.

( Note: several of Ball's biographies note that Kahn was eager to be released from the role so that she could join the cast of Blazing Saddles, a film about to go into production ; whether Kahn was fired or left Mame under mutual agreement is undetermined ; however, Kahn stated in a 1996 Charlie Rose interview that she had indeed been fired from Mame.

There were several minor skirmishes in Virginia during the remainder of the year, the most significant being the Battle of Ball's Bluff, due to the death of Colonel Edward Baker, a senator from Oregon.

He was, however, forced to leave the show because of a viral infection supposedly caused by the fat suit required for the role ; this reportedly raised Ball's body temperature by several degrees during the show.

Ball's appointment was well received by the Blackpool supporters, and he returned with enthusiasm, a desire to bring back the good times to the club, and still had enough energy to take the field occasionally.

Before the end of October 1861, Stone's official report about Ball's Bluff had been leaked to the New York Tribune newspaper, and in it Stone praised Baker's bravery but made clear his shortcomings as a field commander.

A re-enactment of the Battle of Balls Bluff took place on the afternoon of October 22, 2011 on the very ground where Senator Baker was killed ; and on October 23, 2011 a Ball's Bluff on-site memorial service for Senator Baker and lectures were organized by the Edward D. Baker Camp of the Sons of Union Veterans of Oregon with the endorsement of the Oregon Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.

In October his regiment was part of Nathan G. Evans ' brigade near Leesburg, Virginia, where he led his command against a Union force at Ball's Bluff, driving it into the Potomac River.

His maternal grandmother, having a musical ear, was proud of Ball's early singing achievements ; she died suddenly, however, of a heart attack about one week before his debut in The Pirates of Penzance.

They advertised harness polish, liniments, Ball's Rubber Boots, Green River Whiskey, Hood's Sarsaparilla, patent medicines, shoe blacking, and chewing tobacco.

The couple overcame these objections, however, by touring together, during the summer of 1950, in a live vaudeville act they developed with the help of Spanish clown Pepito Pérez, together with Ball's radio show writers.

Lucille Ball's My Favorite Husband, the radio predecessor to TV's I Love Lucy, was another popular program sponsored by Jell-O for much of its 124-episode run.

Also, during the first few seasons of the first of Lucille Ball's two 1960s television series, The Lucy Show, cast members including Vivian Vance often did commercials for Jell-O.

In 1967, Ball's design was used in an advertising campaign for Seattle-based University Federal Savings & Loan.

* October 21 – American Civil War – Battle of Ball's Bluff: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war.

Ballsbridge or Ball's Bridge () is a bridge in Dublin, Ireland.

The sign on the bridge still proclaims it as " Ball's Bridge " in recognition of the fact that the original bridge in this location was built and owned by a Mr. Ball.

Shafter served as a 1st lieutenant the Union Army's 7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the battles of Ball's Bluff and Fair Oaks.

It is more tempting to summarize it as ' a portrait of the beauty underlying American miseries and misdeeds '; but that plays down the scenes of cruelty and horror, and Ball's disgust with our mores.

Mendes considers the voice to be Ball's, but even while the writer was " strongly influential " on set, he often had to accept deviations from his vision, particularly ones that transformed the cynical tone of his script into something more optimistic.

Hausmann says the film " explicitly affirms the importance of upholding the prohibition against incest "; a recurring theme of Ball's work is his comparison of the taboos against incest and homosexuality.

Ball rewrote Col. Fitts to delay revealing him as homosexual, which Munt reads as a possible " deferment of Ball's own patriarchal-incest fantasies ".

Scenes in Ricky's household reflect Ball's own childhood experiences.

Ball's inspiration for the characters came from a thought he had after seeing a " bland, boring, heterosexual couple " who wore matching clothes: " I can't wait for the time when a gay couple can be just as boring.

Turan felt that Mendes ' accomplishment was to " capture and enhance duality " of Ball's script — the simultaneously " caricatured ... and painfully real " characters.

Turan cited Ball's lack of constraint when writing the film as the reason for its uniqueness, in particular the script's subtle changes in tone.

Notable later 20th century productions include the Hilton Edwards ' 1959 production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, starring Milo O ' Shea and Anna Manahan ; John Barton's 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Peter O ' Toole and Peggy Ashcroft, and which included both the complete Induction and the epilogue from A Shrew ; Maurice Daniels's 1961 RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Derek Godfrey and Vanessa Redgrave ; Trevor Nunn's 1969 RSC production also at the Aldwych, starring Michael Williams and Janet Suzman ; Clifford Williams ' 1973 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Alan Bates and Susan Fleetwood ; William Ball's 1976 commedia dell ' arte-style production at the American Conservatory Theater ; Wilford Leach's 1978 production at the Delacorte Theater, starring Raúl Juliá and Meryl Streep ; Barry Kyle's 1982 RSC production at the Barbican Centre, starring Alun Armstrong and Sinéad Cusack ; Toby Robertson's 1986 production at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, starring Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave ; Jonathan Miller's 1987 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Brian Cox and Fiona Shaw ; A. J.