* 1920 – Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician ( d. 1997 )

In 1950 Eric Gairy founded the Grenada United Labour Party, initially as a trades union, which led the 1951 general strike for better working conditions, this sparked great unrest-so many buildings were set ablaze that the disturbances became known as the ' red sky ' days-and the British authorities had to call in military reinforcements to help regain control of the situation.

Clyne became chief minister until Eric Gairy was elected in a by-election and took the role in August 1961.

In April 1962 Grenada's Administrator, the Queens representative on the island, James Lloyd suspended the constitution, dissolved the Legislative Council, and removed Eric Gairy as Chief Minister, following allegations concerning the Gairy's financial impropriety.

Eric Gairy was independent Grenada's first prime minister serving from 1974 until his overthrow in 1979.

Thanks to the lobbying of Eric Gairy, the Prime Minister of Grenada, the United Nations General Assembly addressed the UFO issue in the late 1970s.

The group included Alexander Bustamante and Norman Manley of Jamaica, Robert Bradshaw of St Kitts and Nevis, Grantley Adams of Barbados, Cheddi Jagan of Guyana, Ebenezer Joshua of St Vincent and the Grenadines and Eric Gairy of Grenada.

Sir Eric Matthew Gairy PC ( February 18, 1922 – August 23, 1997 ) was the first Prime Minister of Grenada, serving from Grenada ` s independence in 1974 until his overthrow in a coup by Maurice Bishop in 1979.

Eric Matthew Gairy was the son of Douglas and Theresa Gairy, and born 18 February 1922 in Dunfermline, St. Andrew's Parish on the Eastern side of the island near Grenville, Grenada.

Eric Gairy returned to Grenada from Curacao in December, 1949 to enter trade unionism and politics.

US citizens helped to support the overthrow of Eric Gairy with solidarity movements.

Maurice Rupert Bishop ( 29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983 ) was a Grenadian politician and revolutionary who seized power in a coup in 1979 from Eric Gairy and served as Prime Minister of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown in another coup by Bernard Coard, a member of his own government, and executed.

He was elected to parliament, and for several years he held the position of leader of the opposition in the Grenadian House of Representatives, opposing the government of Prime Minister Eric Gairy and his Grenada United Labour Party ( G. U. L. P.

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In 1979, the NJM launched a revolution against the government of Eric Gairy while he was out of the country.

In 1953 he formed the Grenada National Party, as a rival party to the Grenada United Labour Party of Eric Gairy, who would be Blaize's main political rival for the next 25 years.

In 1979 the New Jewel Movement overthrew Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy.

* The overthrow of Eric Gairy that brought the New Jewel Movement to power in Grenada from 1979 until 1983, when they were deposed by a U. S .- led invasion.

Bird, Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Joseph Nathaniel France, Eric Gairy, Carl La Corbinière and William Henry Bramble in June 1956 as the Federation of Labour Parties of the British Caribbean.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

Eric Eustace Williams ( 25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981 ) served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.

Shortly thereafter, Eric Havelock's Preface to Plato revolutionized how scholars looked at Homeric epic by arguing not only that it was the product of an oral tradition, but also that the oral-formulas contained therein served as a way for ancient Greeks to preserve cultural knowledge across many different generations.

The last convener of Lothian Regional Council was Eric Milligan, who later served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

The title track " Falling into You " and " River Deep, Mountain High " ( a Tina Turner cover ) made prominent use of percussion instruments ; " It's All Coming Back to Me Now " ( a remake of Jim Steinman's song ) and a remake of Eric Carmen's " All by Myself " kept their soft-rock atmosphere, but were combined with the classical sound of the piano ; and the number-one single " Because You Loved Me ", which was written by Diane Warren, was a ballad that served as the theme to the 1996 film Up Close & Personal.

Planning of the operation ( and discovery of the gap ) is credited to Brigadier Eric Dorman-Smith, who served as an adviser to O ' Connor.

Perhaps best known for his work with Eric Dolphy, Davis essentially served as the session leader, and it was through Davis that Merenstein recruited guitarist Jay Berliner, percussionist Warren Smith, Jr., and drummer Connie Kay.

He served in the governments of Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan, as PPS to Eric Varley as Minister of Technology, a Labour whip in opposition, and Minister for Employment, stepping down in 1986.

In 1982, she played a teenager who gets pregnant in the Cameron Crowe-scripted high school comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which served as a launching pad for several of its young stars, including Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Phoebe Cates and Nicolas Cage.

Rear Admiral Eric Broderick served as the Acting Director upon Dr. Cline's departure, until the arrival of the succeeding Administrator, Pamela S. Hyde, J. D.

It has been said that there was originally an arrow here to complement Eric Aumonier's Archer statue at station, and that this was stolen shortly after the station opened ; however, East Finchley was not served by the Underground until 1939 and the statue was not erected until 1940.

He served as PPS to Eric Forth as Minister of State for Education and Employment, but had to resign after voting against the government on an amendment that would have allowed a media publisher with more than 20 per cent of the national press market to buy an ITV company.

Eric spent ten years in the North Carolina State Senate where he chaired the Senate ’ s technology committee, served as chair of Human Services Appropriations and on the Education Oversight Committee.

Prior to the Senate, Eric served on the Raleigh City Council for two terms and has spent most of his professional life focused on public policy issues.

In addition to public policy, Eric served as the General Counsel and Director of Public Affairs for SchoolDude. com, the nations largest provider of online facility management software tools for schools.

Major-league umpire Eric Gregg served as the " Commissioner " of Wing Bowl from its second year until his death from a stroke on June 5, 2006.

For example, Eric Yoffie, recent President of the URJ, was a member of NFTY-Northeast and served as their regional president in 1964.

At that time, Russell's ideas were a crucial step into the modal music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis on his classic recording, Kind of Blue, and served as a beacon for other modernists such as Eric Dolphy and Art Farmer.

He served in the governments of Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan, as PPS to Eric Varley as Minister of Technology, a Labour whip in opposition, and Minister for Employment.

Eric Arthur served as advisor.

Conductor Eric Wild served as the company's music director from 1955 to 1962.

He served as associate producer of Dog Eat Dog ( 2011 ) a comedy short with Zachary Quinto directed by Sian Heder and for Curt Hahn's dramatic feature Deadline with Eric Roberts ( 2012 ).