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In January 1962, General Edward Lansdale described plans to overthrow the Cuban Government in a top-secret report ( partially declassified 1989 ), addressed to President Kennedy and officials involved with Operation Mongoose.
* 1932 Edward M. " Ted " Kennedy, American politician ( d. 2009 )
* John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, also Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy, members of the Kennedy Family, originally from Wexford.
* 1967 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Following the August 2009 death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, she said she was " terribly saddened ...
Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.
As a result of that effort, the Puerto Rico Legislature approved a law regulating presidential primaries in 1979, the first of which was held in 1980, with George H. W. Bush winning the Republican primary and President Carter beating Senator Edward " Ted " Kennedy in a hard-fought Democratic primary.
Sen. Edward Kennedy ( D-MA ), who chaired the committee with jurisdiction over the bill, refused to fight over the language that ( if it had been included ) would have reduced the drug company's profits due to these patent extensions.
The Kennedy Thorndike experiment was designed to do that, and was first performed in 1932 by Roy Kennedy and Edward Thorndike.
* Edward M. Kennedy
* June 19 U. S. Senator Edward Kennedy, 32, is seriously injured in a private plane crash at Southampton, Massachusetts ; the pilot is killed.
* July 18 Chappaquiddick incident Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts.
* August 14 U. S. President Jimmy Carter defeats Senator Edward Kennedy to win renomination, at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City.
* September 26 Edward Kennedy Jr, son of U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy
** William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U. S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida sexual assault.
* November 7 U. S. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy announces that he will challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
** Edward Kennedy, American politician ( d. 2009 )
She endorsed Senator Edward Kennedy for President in 1980, but could not stop President Jimmy Carter from winning the Illinois Democratic Primary.

Edward and Duke
Among the notable alumni of AFI are: Darren Aronofsky, Jon Avnet, Keith D. Black, Wally Pfister, Stuart Cornfeld, Bill Duke, Edward James Olmos, Carl Colpaert, Rodrigo García, Steve Golin, Patrick Creadon, Amy Heckerling, Marshall Herskovitz, Janusz Kamiński, Matthew Libatique, Mimi Leder, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, John McTiernan, Paul Schrader, Frank Spotnitz, Mark Waters, Gary Winick, Edward Zwick, and Susannah Grant.
The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.
Excluding those princesses who have married into overseas Roman Catholic royal families, only one member of the Royal Family ( that is, with the style of Royal Highness ) has converted to Roman Catholicism since the passage of the act: the Duchess of Kent, wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.
The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.
In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.
* 1902 George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent ( d. 1942 )
Catherine Parr, Henry's widow, soon married Thomas Seymour of Sudeley, Edward VI's uncle and the brother of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset.
David Kahanamoku, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Prince Edward, and Duke Kahanamoku, c. 1920. After his war service, and having been promoted to sub-lieutenant on 15 January 1919, Mountbatten attended Christ's College, Cambridge for two terms where he studied engineering in a programme that was specially designed for ex-servicemen.
* 1478 George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
His eldest son and heir Edward V, aged 13, would have succeeded him, but the king's brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester declared his marriage to be bigamous and invalid, making all his children illegitimate.
His uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset tampered with Henry VIII's will and obtained letters patent giving him much of the power of a monarch by March 1547.
In 1547, after the death of Henry VIII, forces under the English regent Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset were victorious at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the climax of the Rough Wooing, and followed up by the occupation of Haddington.
The studio tested several Hollywood veterans for the Duke Mantee role, and chose Edward G. Robinson, who had first-rank star appeal and was due to make a film to fulfill his expensive contract.
His tour came 735 years after his ancestor, Edward I of England ( then Prince Edward ), had also been on military duty in the Middle East during the Ninth crusade, and also made Harry the first member of the Royal Family to have served in a war zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, flew helicopters during the Falklands War.
* 1355 Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England ( d. 1397 )
* 1521 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
* 1337 Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
Guided by John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and perhaps others, Edward excluded both of his sisters from the line of succession in his will.
One of Mary's first actions as queen was to order the release of the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk and Stephen Gardiner from imprisonment in the Tower of London, as well as her kinsman Edward Courtenay.
He named it after the Duchess of Norfolk, wife of Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk ( 1685 1777 ).
* 1935 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family
The island was named for Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn ( 1767 1820 ), the fourth son of King George III and the father of Queen Victoria.

Edward and Ellington
In the opinion of Bob Blumenthal of The Boston Globe, " n the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington.
Edward Kennedy Ellington was born on April 29, 1899 to James Edward Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Ellington.
They lived with his maternal grandparents at 2129 Ida Place ( now Ward Place ), NW in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D. C. His father, James Edward Ellington, was born in Lincolnton, North Carolina on April 15, 1879 and moved to Washington, D. C. in 1886 with his parents.
Ellington's eldest grandson Edward Kennedy Ellington II also is a musician and maintains a small salaried band known as the Duke Ellington Legacy, which frequently comprises the core of the big band operated by The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts.
Edward " Duke " Ellington
* 1959 Edward " Duke " Ellington ( composer and pianist )
Throughout the Academy ’ s history, 10, 000 fellows have been elected, including such notables as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John James Audubon, Joseph Henry, Washington Irving, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Edward R. Murrow, Jonas Salk, Eudora Welty, and Duke Ellington.
Bestowed posthumously on Edward Kennedy " Duke " Ellington, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.
Edward Ellington may refer to:
* Duke Ellington, Edward " Duke " Ellington, American jazz composer, pianist and bandleader
* Edward Leonard Ellington, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, British Chief of the Air Staff
On 1 September 1937, Newall was appointed as Chief of the Air Staff, the military head of the RAF, in succession to Sir Edward Ellington.
It was the successor to the Steam Wharf and Warehouse Company, founded in 1871 by Edward B Ellington.
Edward Bayzard Ellington ( 1845 1914 ) was a British hydraulic engineer.
Its author, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, criticised the level of air safety observed in the RAAF, though his interpretation of statistics has been called into question.
Following his return to England, he rode with the famous Duke of Beaufort's Hunt where he met, among others, the future field marshal, Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, and the future air marshal, Sir Edward Leonard Ellington.

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