Douglas ( and Atchison ) had assumed that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa and Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus preserving the numerical balance between free states and slave states.

Douglas was agreeable to the proposal, but the Atchison group was not.

Douglas was accompanied at the meeting by Atchison, Hunter, Phillips and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky.

* Sheriff: Douglas Atchison

In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.

* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

After the defeat there Douglas escaped, but left a number of his men either slain or captive, including his first cousin latterly the 3rd Earl of Douglas, Archibald the Grim.

On 8 November 1986 the Blue Angels completed their 40th anniversary year during ceremonies unveiling their present aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 Hornet, the first multi-role fighter / attack aircraft.

The first equipment supplied included three Douglas C-47's and seven MH. 1521 Broussard STOL utility aircraft in 1961.

Various executives, first at Tymshare and later at McDonnell Douglas ( which acquired Tymshare in 1984 ), expressed interest in his ideas, but never committed the funds or the people to further develop them.

In 1984, four Berkeley students — Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, and Songnian Zhou — wrote the first Unix implementation, called The Berkeley Internet Name Domain ( BIND ) Server.

DARPA also funded the development of the Douglas Engelbart's NLS computer system and The Mother of All Demos ; and the Aspen Movie Map, which was probably the first hypermedia system and an important precursor of virtual reality.

* 1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

While Fine Gael was responsible for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of President.

He attended the 1st World Science Fiction Convention in 1939, where he wore the first " futuristicostume " ( designed and created by Myrtle R. Douglas ) and sparked fan costuming, the latest incarnation of which is cosplay.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

The talks were named after U. S. Treasury Secretary and former Under Secretary of State, Douglas Dillon, who first proposed the talks.

In July 1815 he married Harriet, daughter of John Douglas, and widow of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton, his first wife's sister-in-law.

Meeting Fleming lead to Hawk's first job in the film industry as a prop boy on the Douglas Fairbanks film In Again, Out Again for Famous Players-Lasky, which Fleming was employed on as the cinematographer.

The cable was completed on 6 June 1929 and the first call between the Isle of Man and the outside world was made on 28 June 1929 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Claude Hill in Douglas to the Postmaster General in Liverpool.

* 1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.

* 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.

* 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.

* 1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

In 1845 Douglas, serving in his first term in the United States House of Representatives, had submitted an unsuccessful plan to formally organize the Nebraska Territory as the first step in building a railroad with its eastern terminus in Chicago.

In the beginning Charles Alston's mural work was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, the latter who he met when they did mural work in New York.

Douglas met privately with Dixon and in the end, despite his misgivings on Northern reaction, agreed to accept Dixon ’ s arguments.

With the encouragement of the " F Street Mess ", Douglas met with them and Phillips to ensure that the momentum for passing the bill remained with the Democratic Party.

Douglas ’ committee met later that night.

Although this response is still controversial and was opposed as excessive by parliamentarians like Tommy Douglas and David Lewis, it was met with only limited objections from the public.

He met privately with Michael Bloomberg for 10 minutes, then met with CEO's, including Douglas N. Daft ( Coca-Cola Company ), Gerald M. Levin ( AOL Time Warner Inc .), Maurice R. Greenberg ( American International Group, commercial insurer ), and Dean O ' Hare ( Chubb Corporation, insurer ).

Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:

There the four-year-old Marshall met Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln and sat on the lap of whichever candidate was not speaking.

On 15 and 29 November 1916, as the Battle of the Somme paused, Sir Douglas Haig met Général d ' Armée Joffre and the other Allies at Chantilly.

Alec Waugh, who met him through Harold Monro, described him as embittered by the war, and offered Douglas Goldring as comparison ; but took it that he worked off his spleen in novels like The Colonel's Daughter ( 1931 ), rather than letting it poison his life.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Home Secretary Douglas Hurd visited Hillsborough the day after the disaster and met survivors.

Douglas and McCann finally met in 1941, and it is to her that Douglas has dedicated the book.

In November 1398, an influential group of magnates and prelates met at Falkland Castle that included Albany, Rothesay, Archibald, earl of Douglas, Albany's son Murdoch, justiciar North of the Forth along with the bishops Walter of St Andrews and Gilbert of Aberdeen — the outcome of this meeting manifested itself at the council meeting held in January 1399 when the king was forced to surrender power to Rothesay for a period of three years.

Zeta-Jones met actor Michael Douglas, with whom she shares a birthday, and who is exactly 25 years her senior, at the Deauville Film Festival in France in August 1998, after being introduced by Danny DeVito.

The origins of the band date back to the summer of 1997 when Jordan Pundik ( vocals ) had met Stephen Klein ( guitars ) at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the pair began writing music together.

Stephanie Douglas, a strong-willed woman, daughter to a rich family, met her husband-to-be Eric Forrester, who aspired to become a fashion designer, while they both studied at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

The doctors believed their best interests were not being met and feared a significant loss of income as well as government interference in medical care decisions even though Douglas agreed that his government would pay the going rate for service that doctors charged.

The first main production of Perkins was Spitting Image where he met Ben Elton, and Harry Enfield whom he got to develop the character of Douglas Hurd by suggesting he adapt it along the lines of Frank Oz's character Fozzie Bear.

At Moffat he met John Home, the author of Douglas, for whom he recited some Gaelic verses from memory.

They were met by Semple and a group of HBC men and settlers south of Fort Douglas along the Red River at a location known to the English as Seven Oaks, or la Grenouillière ( Frog Plain ) by the Métis.

They arrived later in Zermatt in the Monte Rosa Hotel, where they met two other British climbers — the Reverend Charles Hudson and his young and inexperienced companion, Douglas Robert Hadow — who had hired the French guide Michel Croz to try to make the first ascent.

After drifting with college friends through a few jobs for which she did not feel she was well-suited, Marjory Stoneman met Kenneth Douglas in 1914.