The stroke was followed by a heart attack, suffered in Gainesville, Florida, on August 28, 2007.

After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center, also in Gainesville, and featured performances by his son and daughter, Anthony McDaniel and Evelyn Kelly, long-time background vocalist Gloria Jolivet, co-producer Scott " Skyntyte " Free, Diddley's touring band, The Debby Hastings Band, and guest artist Eric Burdon.

To accommodate construction, the 1994 and 1995 games of " The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party " were split between the home fields of Florida and Georgia, and the 1994 Gator Bowl was played at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville.

While Simon was in England that summer of 1965, radio stations around Cocoa Beach and Gainesville, Florida, began to receive requests for a song from the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. called " The Sound of Silence ".

Tom Petty's Homecoming Concert in Gainesville, FL, which contained performances with Stevie Nicks, was filmed for PBS Soundstage as well as DVD release for March 2007.

He was the fifth child and third son of James Longstreet ( 1783-1833 ), of Dutch descent and Mary Ann Dent ( 1793-1855 ) of English descent, originally from New Jersey and Maryland respectively, who owned a cotton plantation close to where the village of Gainesville would be founded in northeastern Georgia.

The 1905-1906 academic year was a year of transition ; the new University of the State of Florida was legally created, but operated on the campus of the old University of Florida in Lake City until the first buildings on the new campus in Gainesville were completed.

Tom Petty was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, and attended Gainesville High School.

One of his first guitar teachers was Don Felder, a fellow Gainesville resident, who would later join the Eagles.

In 1854, the new railroad from Fernandina to Cedar Key bypassed Newnansville, and Gainesville, a new town that was located on the railroad, began to draw business and residents away from Newnansville.

He was first taken to the jail in Gainesville, but when a potential lynch mob began gathering in Gainesville, Knox was moved to a jail in Atlanta.

In 1848 a national highway was put through and the county seat was moved to the community of Gainesville, Arkansas which had a reputation as a relatively lawless town.

Benmont Tench was born in Gainesville, Florida, the second child of Benjamin Montmorency Tench, Jr. and Mary Catherine McInnis Tench.

His father was born and raised in Gainesville, and served as a circuit court judge.

He met Tom Petty for the first time at a Gainesville music store when he was 11.

however, the plan has never been implemented and in 2010 " A Needs Assessment of Unsheltered Homeless Individuals In Gainesville, Florida " was presented to a joint meeting of Gainesville and Alachua County Commissions.

Today, Gainesville is still known for its strong music community and was named " Best Place to Start a Band in the United States " by Blender Magazine in March 2008.

One of the four schools that formed the University of Florida was originally located in Lake City before consolidation to Gainesville in 1905.

The Village of Silver Springs was incorporated in 1895 and had formerly been East Gainesville.

His funeral, a four-hour " homegoing " service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career.

In 1987 he took up a two-year post as chief scientist at the Department of Transportation, and in 1989 joined the Institute of Space Science and Technology in Gainesville, Florida where he contributed to a paper on the results from the Interplanetary Dust Experiment using data from the Long Duration Exposure Facility satellite.

He served as a U. S. Marshal from 1881 to 1884, but the return of a Democratic administration ended his political careers and he went into semiretirement on a farm near Gainesville, where he raised turkeys and planted orchards and vineyards on terraced ground that his neighbors referred to jokingly as " Gettysburg.

** The Wallace Lab and Muir Lab at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida focus on the molecular study of benign Schwann cell tumors and the development of new therapies for NF1.

The University of Florida ( commonly referred to as Florida, UF or U of F ) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.

The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906.

Classes began on the new Gainesville campus on September 26, 1906 with 102 students enrolled.

Several of the captured turned out to be Confederate deserters who were executed in Gainesville on November 7.

The former Gainesville National Bank building ( built 1838 ) on State Street.

Gainesville has many historic sites that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with many that predate the American Civil War.

The paper serves all of the communities within Alachua County, but it focuses on smaller municipalities outside of Gainesville.

Restrictions on feeding the hungry have recently brought infamy to Gainesville when a documentary on the matter, " Civil Indigent " won several awards.

The Gainesville City Commission unanimously voted to repeal the meal limit on August 18, 2011, proposing to replace it with a three hour serving window as a compromise.

The name changed in 1896 because Southern Railway trains would stop on the way from Atlanta to Gainesville to get oak wood for their engines.

Levy, Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland, Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2003

The Village of Silver Springs is within the Town of Gainesville, and is located on Route 19A.

In 1882, the Fort Worth and Denver Railway reached Henrietta on its southern side, and in 1887 it became the western most terminus for the Gainesville, Henrietta, and Western Railway.

Founded in 1850, the city of Gainesville was established on a 40-acre tract of land donated by Mary E. Clark.

A second North American tour was in Summer 2002 – Spring 2005, playing such venues as the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey in November 2003, Raleigh, North Carolina in February 2005, and Gainesville, Florida in November 2003.

The paper was founded in July 1876 as the Gainesville Times, by brothers E. M. and William Wade Hampton, and was renamed as The Gainesville Sun in February 1879.

* Scott Camil and the Gainesville Eight, oral history analysis of October 20, 1992 interview, Rebecca Brown, February 5, 2000

He died in February 2009 in Gainesville, Georgia, aged 81.

She made her in-ring debut at FCW on February 11, 2011 in Gainesville, Florida under the ring name " Raquel Diaz ".

Orien Randolph Greene II ( born February 4, 1982, in Gainesville, Florida ) is an American professional basketball player.

The Battle of Gainesville ( not to be confused with the First Skirmish of Gainesville of February 14, 1864 ) was fought on August 17, 1864, when a Confederate force defeated Union detachments on a raid from the Union garrison in the Jacksonville, Florida, area.

However, the other and first Battle of Gainesville was fought on 14 February 1864, when a small unit associated with the February 1864 Florida Expedition, defeated a Confederate cavalry unit.