* Dutch merchant Willem Kieft is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.

* 1638 Willem Kieft appointed Director General

The Council of Twelve Men was a group of 12 men, chosen on 29 August 1641 by the residents of New Netherland to advise the Director of New Netherland, Willem Kieft, on relations with the Native Americans due to the murder of Claes Swits.

Having been the Director of the Dutch West India Company, and the predecessor of then-Director William Kieft, Minuit knew the status of the lands on either side of the Delaware River at that time.

In 1637, Joris Jansen de Rapalje purchased about around Wallabout Bay and over the following two years, Director Kieft of the Dutch West India Company purchased title to nearly all the land in what is now Kings County and Queens County from the indigenous inhabitants.

On February 23, 1643, Director of New Netherland William Kieft launched an attack on refugee camps of the Weckquaesgeek and Tappan.

Director General Kieft was dismissed, and Peter Stuyvesant took his place and Stuyvesant remained in power until the colony was turned over to the British in 1664.

Director Nicholas Meyer objected to but did not obstruct the changes, and even Nimoy didn't know about the new scene until he viewed the film.

Mark J. Pelavin, Associate Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, objected to court stripping in regards to the Pledge of Allegiance, " Today's House adoption of the so-called " Pledge Protection Act " is a shameful effort to strip our federal courts of their ability to uphold the rights of all Americans.

In 1989, he was offered the title of Principal Guest Conductor by Executive VP Ernest Fleischmann and was to take the orchestra on a tour of Japan ; however, controversy ensued when André Previn, the orchestra's Music Director at the time, was not consulted on either the Principal Guest appointment or the tour, and objected to both.

Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz quoted the first line of the poem in his book Failure Is Not An Option, at the end of Chapter 16, which deals with the Apollo 11 moon landing.

He was Director of the University of California statewide Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics ( IGPP ) for many years including the lunar landing time.

Technical assignments have included: involvement in the upgrade of the Shuttle Mission Simulator ( SMS ), development of the Flight Data File ( FDF ), lead of the astronaut launch support team responsible for crew ingress / strap-in prior to launch and crew egress after landing ; monitored the refurbishment of OV-102 and OV-103 during ground turnaround processing ; lead spacecraft communicator ( CAPCOM ), Astronaut Office Lead of Shuttle Operations, and Deputy Director, Flight Crew Operations Directorate.

Flight Director Rich Jackson directed the five STS-70 astronauts to remain aloft for another day after poor visibility prevented Discovery's homecoming on the two consecutive landing opportunities.

His technical assignments have included: Astronaut Office representative for all Space Shuttle issues related to landing sites, landing and deceleration hardware, including improvements to nosewheel steering, brakes and tires, and drag chute design ; Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory ( SAIL ), which oversees, checks, and verifies all Shuttle flight control software and avionics programs ; Technical Assistant to the Flight Crew Operations Director who is responsible for and manages all flight crew operations and support ; lead of the Astronaut Support Personnel team which oversee Shuttle test, checkout, and preparation at the Kennedy Space Center ; Special Assistant to the Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas ; lead of a Functional Workforce Review at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to determine minimal workforce and management structure requirements which allow maximum budget reductions while safely continuing Shuttle Flight Operations ; Director of Space Station Requirements at NASA Headquarters, responsible for the International Space Station requirements, policies, external communications and liaison with Congress, international partners, and industry.

Admiral Maund, Director of the Inter-Service Training and Development Centre ( which had developed the Landing Craft Assault ), gave the job to naval architect Robert Baker, who within three days completed initial drawings for a landing craft with a beam and a shallow draft.

gross landing weight requires prior permission from the Airport Director to land at Manhattan.

In Mission Control, the Flight Director learned that tracking data indicated they were going to land 3000 feet ( 900 m ) south of the targeted landing site.

Flight Director Eugene F. Kranz is seated at his console in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center on the morning of the launch of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission.

In 1626, Director of the WIC Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape and started the construction of Fort Amsterdam, which grew to become the main port and capital, New Amsterdam The colony expanded to outlying areas at Pavonia, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Long Island.

Legend has it that under a tulip tree in the park Peter Minuit, Director General of New Netherland, ' purchased ' Manhattan from the a band of Native Americans in 1626 for the Dutch West India Company ; the purchase price being a shipment of goods worth 60 guilders.

As a dismissed Director of the Dutch West India Company's New Netherland colony, Minuit was familiar with the terrain and local custom and quickly " purchased " the land ( really, the right to settle ) from the Susquehannock.

It is not clear whether Kim Gye-won misheard or misunderstood Director Kim or he ignored Kim's words.

A second inquiry known as the Davies Inquiry found that the Queensland Health district manager and the hospital's Director of Medical Services had mostly ignored more than 20 complaints regarding Patel.

Phillips ' superior officer Bernard Schriever agreed to loan Phillips to NASA, along with a staff of officers under him, on the condition that Phillips be made Apollo Program Director.

In October 1795, President George Washington appointed him as Director of the United States Mint, a position he held through succeeding administrations until he retired in 1805.

The film was highly praised and won him three Academy Awards — for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture.

Although several reviews were critical of the film – Pauline Kael said it " staggers along " and Stanley Kauffmann thought Cukor's direction was like " a rich gravy poured over everything, not remotely as delicately rich as in the Asquith-Howard 1937 Pygmalion " — the film was a box office hit which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the Directors Guild of America Award after having been nominated for each several times.

J. Edgar Hoover has been portrayed by numerous actors in films and stage productions featuring him as FBI Director.

Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary / concert movies.

He halted or revamped corrupt programs and developed an antidrug offensive, which enabled him to collaborate with Director of the National Drug Control Policy Bill Bennett.

Director John Cassavetes told him after he completed Boxcar Bertha: " You ’ ve just spent a year of your life making a piece of shit.

Director Martin Scorsese said of him, " He is the marker.

Director David Lynch asked to use " In Dreams " and Orbison turned him down.

He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich ( that gave him an Academy Award for Best Director nomination ) and the 2002 film Adaptation, and as the co-writer / director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.

Traffic became his most acclaimed movie since Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and earned him an Academy Award for Best Director.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated the film for eleven Academy Awards ; Spielberg's direction won him a second Academy Award for Best Director.

The Vice Chancellor gave him the use of the Old Pathology Lecture Theatre for his classes in synthetic cosmology and the Director of The National Gallery accepted the offer of his live body as a living work of art ( on extended loan ).

In June 1914 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. hired him as a Director of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City, heading their new Department of Industrial Research.

Wagner actually sold the sketch to the Director of the Opéra, Léon Pillet, for 500 francs, but was unable to convince him that the music was worth anything.

Director Stanley Kubrick called him, " without question, the best director we have in America, capable of performing miracles with the actors he uses.

Vogler, impressed by his pupil's talent, recommended him to the post of Director at the Opera in Breslau in 1806.

Eissler designated Masson to succeed him as Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives after his and Anna Freud's death.

Since Forman left Czechoslovakia, two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, have acquired particular renown, both gaining him an Academy Award for Best Director.

This together with his position as Director of the Physiological Laboratory at the clinic of the famous Russian clinician, S. P. Botkin, enabled him to continue his research work.

Then on 22 January 1814 the same Assembly decided to concentrate the Executive Power in him as a Supreme Director for the United Provinces, and so he took that office for a one-year period.

William Jackson Hooker, who was Garden Director and Professor of Botany, was greatly impressed with him and took him on an expedition to the Highlands before recommending him to the Royal Horticultural Society of London.