On 24 April 1946 Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Chester Nimitz issued a directive ordering the formation of a flight exhibition team to boost Navy morale, demonstrate naval air power, and maintain public interest in naval aviation.

* November 24 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England ( d. 1284 )

Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester were the three Pennsylvania counties initially created by William Penn on August 24, 1682.

The Western Railroad ( later Boston & Albany Railroad ) opened to Chester on May 24, 1841.

In March 1869, a village was incorporated, extending one half mile in each direction from the northwest corner of section 30 of Sparta Township ( thus including a quarter section of section 19 to the north in Sparta Township as well as quarter sections of sections 24 and 25 in Chester Township.

Chester is located at the point where County Route 513 ( also known as old Route 24 ) and U. S. Route 206 intersect.

In 2010, Chester had 24 homicides, and Pennsylvania's highest murder rate of 64. 3 per 100, 000.

Anna Marie Jarvis ( May 1, 1864, Webster, West Virginia – November 24, 1948, West Chester, Pennsylvania ) is the founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the United States.

NYNH & H electrification began July 24 to New Rochelle, August 5 to Port Chester and October 6, 1907 the rest of the way to Stamford.

The Oakland segment was extended south to Fremont Boulevard at Beard Road on November 14, 1957, and the gap was filled on November 24, 1958, soon after the state legislature named the highway after Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

William ' Billy ' Dennis Weaver ( June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006 ) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including his role as Matt Dillon's trusty helper Chester Goode on the long-running western series Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and in the 1971 TV movie Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg.

This came less than 24 hours after the Football Conference released an " interim " press release stating Chester could take their place in the fifth tier of English football.

He was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in a splendid ceremony on 24 August 1483.

* 24 August 1483 onwards: The Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester

Thomas Chester " Chet " Edwards ( born November 24, 1951 ) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas.

On 24 August 1992, he officially opened Chester City's new football stadium, the Deva Stadium .< ref >

But at the opportune moment Poyntz's forces, which had followed the King's movements since he left Doncaster in the middle of August, appeared in rear of Langdale, and defeated him in the battle of Rowton Heath ( September 24 ), while at the same time a sortie of the King's troops from Chester was repulsed by Jones.

Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, best known for their long-running off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks, created a musical version of the book in 1996 ; it ran from August 1 – 24, 1996, at the Norma Terris Theatre at the Goodspeed Opera in Chester, Connecticut.

* May 24 – The Dee bridge disaster: a cast iron girder bridge across the river Dee at Chester, England, designed by Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway, collapses under a Shrewsbury and Chester Railway train with five fatalities.

Samuel Chester Reid ( 24 August 1783 – 28 January 1861 ) was an officer in the United States Navy who commanded a privateer during the War of 1812.

The Western Division, through the Berkshire Hills, opened in sections from both ends-from the state line to Pittsfield May 4, 1841, West Springfield to Chester May 24, 1841, Springfield to West Springfield ( across the Connecticut River ) July 4, 1841, Pittsfield to " Summit " August 9, 1841, and Chester to Summit September 13, 1841.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

He also often employed inanimate objects in his films, often transforming them into other objects in an almost surreal way, such as in The Pawnshop ( 1916 ) and One A. M. ( 1916 ), where Chaplin is the only actor aside Chester Conklin's brief appearance in the very first scene.

Ephrem the Syrian wrote a commentary on it, the Syriac original of which was rediscovered only in 1957, when a manuscript acquired by Sir Chester Beatty in 1957 ( now Chester Beatty Syriac MS 709, Dublin ) turned out to contain the text of Ephrem's commentary.

* A small Roman shrine to Minerva ( the only one still in situ in the UK ) stands in Handbridge, Chester.

To further bolster the independent prestige of the young prince, the king had him created Earl of Chester at only twelve days of age.

As of 2011, only five city centres in England have been designated as AAIs ( Canterbury, Chester, Exeter, Hereford and York ).

Like Chief Cornplanter, the Chester County Council is still in operation today and they represent only a handful of small one-county councils left in America.

Four of the Almanor basin's six gas stations are located in Chester, as well as the Almanor basin's only full-sized grocery store.

It is only minutes away from Interstate 80 in the neighboring community of Mount Olive and U. S. Route 206 in Chester.

Just south of it, on Pottstown Pike, is Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County ( founded 1904 ), Upper Uwchlan's only synagogue.

A redrawing of Chester Township's borders in 1829 placed this site in present Middletown Township, with only the mill race and the owner's mansion in Brookhaven.

Seeing the success of this, Hinckley came up with the idea of putting in a rail line that would pass through Darby and continue all the way to the semi-rural city of Chester in what became known as the Darby Improvement Hinckley's plans met with initial resistance from farmers, and at the end of the first year, he had managed to buy only one farm.

After Spike's ordeal, Sylvester would have the courage and confidence to confront Chester, only to be beaten and tossed away by the little dog.

By the 15th century only Windsor, Leeds, Rockingham and Moor End were kept up as comfortable accommodation ; Nottingham and York formed the backbone for royal authority in the north, and Chester, Gloucester and Bristol forming the equivalents in the west.

Most old Roman settlements, whether actually inhabited or not, were given the title of chester / caster in Old English ( from the Latin castrum, for ' camp '); the specific names for each may only have little relation to the Roman names ( e. g. modern Chester was actually called Deva by the Romans ).

President Chester Arthur, sworn in only thirty days before, following James Garfield's death, made his first public speech as president.

Some strong earldoms along the Welsh border were granted the privileged status of county palatine shortly after the Norman Conquest, but only that based on Chester survived for a long period.

The Shrewsbury to Chester Line from Chester to Wrexham General line has a dual carriageway bridge on the A483 over the railway where space was only left for a single track.

** Billy Tate ( Jimmy Baio )— The youngest child and only son of Jessica and Chester ( according to Benson, " the only one in this family worth a damn .").

Chester Wilmot notes what a costly loss this was, as there were only 36 Tiger tanks in Normandy at that time.

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western No. 565 in the movie, but because the Central Railroad of New Jersey would not transport the locomotive out of Chester, New Jersey, only some of the BR & W coaches appear in the movie.

A total of 31 mints were employed in this recoinage — Bedford, Bristol, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Colchester, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Ilchester, Ipswich, Launceston, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Pembroke, Salisbury, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Thetford, Wallingford, Wilton, Winchester, and York — but once the recoinage was completed only 12 mints were allowed to remain active.