When Al was 11, the Capone family moved to 38 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

He attended as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881.

One was an independent distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil ( 1948 ), directed by Abraham Polonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom would be blacklisted in the 1950s.

* Jim Davis, famed cartoonist of the comic strip Garfield, was raised in Fairmount.

Garfield, the titular character, was based on the cats Davis was around growing up ; he took his name and personality from Davis's grandfather James A. Garfield Davis, who was, in Davis's words, " a large cantankerous man ".

Garfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a " good, marketable character ".

Garfield: The Movie was the strip's first feature film.

In 2007, the CGI movie Garfield Gets Real was released, followed by Garfield's Fun Fest in 2008, and Garfield's Pet Force in 2009.

A television cartoon show, Garfield and Friends aired for seven seasons from 1988 to 1994 ; this adaption also starred Music as the voice of Garfield, one of the very last times Lorenzo Music would voice the character was in Garfield's Phone Messages from the Official Garfield site before his death.

Also, Garfield Lasagna World Tour was also made for PS2.

A full-length stage musical, titled " Garfield Live ", was planned to kick off its US tour in September 2010, but got moved to January 18, 2011, where it premiered in Muncie, IN.

Also, there was a storyline involving Garfield catching Odie eating his food and “ kicking Odie into next week .” Soon, Garfield realizes that “ Lunch isn ’ t the same without Odie.

On June 19, 2007, Garfield was given the greatest birthday present: “ I ’ M OFF MY DIET !” Occasionally the strip celebrates Halloween as well with scary-themed jokes, such as mask gags.

Another story involved Jon going away on a business trip around Christmas time, leaving Garfield a week's worth of food ( it was more like 11 second's worth of food ) which he devoured instantly, so Garfield leaves his house and gets locked out.

Part of this storyline was taken from the 1983 Emmy-winning special Garfield on the Town.

U. S. President James A. Garfield was a student, instructor, and principal of the institution while it was still the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute.

Former U. S. President James A. Garfield resided in Hiram as a student, instructor, and principal at Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, now Hiram College.

Garfield, himself, after completing his degree at Williams, returned to Hiram to join the faculty in 1856, as a classical scholar teaching Greek and Latin, along with such subjects as mathematics and geology.

Another time, when Garfield and Jon were out, Odie was reading a huge book, smoking a pipe, and listening to classical music.

Although Garfield often impugns Odie's intelligence, one strip shows him enjoying classical music on TV with the novel, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, nearby after Jon and Garfield leave the house.

Garfield ’ s Jim Davis, for example, switched with Blondie ’ s Stan Drake, while Scott Adams ( Dilbert ) traded strips with Bil Keane ( The Family Circus ).

Garfield and Mutts were known during the mid-to-late 80s and 1990s respectively for their throwaways on their Sunday strips, however both strips now run " generic " title panels.

Adams later said that fans should stick to posting Garfield strips, as no one gets fired for that.

While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".

Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal is a 1987 video game for the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and the Amiga based on the comic strip.

Sega also made video games based on Garfield for the Genesis ( Garfield Caught in the Act ) and Windows 3. 1 computers, as well as other companies made games, such as A Tale of Two Kitties for the DS, published by Game Factory, Garfield's Nightmare for DS, Garfield's Funfest for DS, and Garfield Labyrinth for Game Boy.

Garfield is an orange, fuzzy, tabby cat born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant ( later revealed in the television special Garfield: His 9 Lives to be Mama Leoni's Italian Restaurant ) and immediately ate all the pasta and lasagna in sight, thus developing his love and obsession for lasagna and pizza.

Garfield then enrolled at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity and graduated in 1856 as an outstanding student.

Future president James A. Garfield considered a job as high school principal in Poestenkill in 1856, though lost it to another applicant.

The badge was designed by a committee, whose first chairman was future United States President James A. Garfield, ( Williams 1856 ), and was adopted by the 1858 Convention.

The fraternity's membership roster includes United States President James A. Garfield ( Williams 1856 ), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes ( Colgate and Brown 1881 ), United States Senator-Vermont Justin S. Morrill ( Middlebury 1860 ), Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winner Lester B. Pearson ( Toronto 1919 ), President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos ( Kansas 1973 ), former Commander in Chief of the US Central Command Tommy Franks ( Texas 1963 ), Actor Alan Thicke ( Western Ontario 1967 ), Author Stephen Crane ( Lafayette and Syracuse 1894 ), Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( Cornell 1944 ), former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co. Michael D. Eisner ( Denison 1964 ), and Nobel Prize winners Charles Dawes ( Marietta 1884 ), Christian B. Anfinsen ( Swarthmore 1937 ), and Edward C. Prescott ( Swarthmore 1962 ).

* 1906 – Sidney R. Garfield, American physician ( d. 1984 )

* 1931 – Garfield Morgan, English actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1963 – Richard Garfield, American game designer, created Magic: The Gathering

* 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.

* 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D. C. for the assassination of U. S. President James Garfield.

* 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U. S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.

* 1949 – Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

* 1936 – Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer

* 1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American politician ( b. 1865 )

* 1939 – Allen Garfield, American actor

* 1831 – James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States ( d. 1881 )

In the December 1997 issue of Dragon Magazine, in an article on Garfield's trading card game patent application, it was reported that Garfield is the great-great-grandson of U. S. President James A. Garfield ( 1831 – 81 ), and that his great-uncle invented the paper clip.

* 1881 – U. S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.

* 1881 – Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.

* 1841 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher, writer, and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield ( d. 1882 )

* March 14 – Lucretia Garfield, Wife of President James Garfield ( b. 1832 )

* March 4 – John Garfield, American actor ( d. 1952 )

* October 17 – James Rudolph Garfield, U. S. politician ( d. 1950 )

* March 4 – Inauguration of James A. Garfield as President of the United States.

* July 2 – James Garfield, President of the United States, is shot by Charles Julius Guiteau.

* September 19 – U. S. President James A. Garfield dies eleven weeks after being shot.

* September 19 – James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States ( assassinated ) ( b. 1831 )

* November 2 – U. S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock.