Writer George Bernard Shaw claimed to have read the complete 9th edition — except for the science articles — and Richard Evelyn Byrd took the Britannica as reading material for his five-month stay at the South Pole in 1934, while Philip Beaver read it during a sailing expedition.

George Butler was now responsible for the label, but despite some good albums, the commercial viability of jazz was in question, and more borderline and outright commercial records were made ( often by artists who had previously recorded " straight " jazz for the label-Bobby Hutcherson, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd, Grant Green, Horace Silver ).

Once again Byrd named Floyd Bennett as his chief pilot, with support from Bernt Balchen, Bert Acosta, and George Noville.

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.

Wynette was married five times: to Euple Byrd ( married 1959 – divorced 1966 ); Don Chapel, born Lloyd Franklin Amburgey, ( married 1967 – annulled 1968 ); George Jones ( married 1969 – divorced 1975 ); Michael Tomlin ( married 1976 – annulled 1976 ); and singer / songwriter George Richey ( married 1978 – her death 1998 ).

She had three children with Byrd, Gwendolyn Lee (" Gwen ") Byrd ( born 1961 ), Jacquelyn Faye (" Jackie ") Byrd ( born 1962 ) and Tina Denise Byrd ( born 1965, she is featured on one of Jones and Wynette's duet albums, George and Tammy and Tina ), She had a daughter with George Jones, Tamala Georgette Jones ( born 1970 ), who is also a country singer.

* On July 21, 2007, under the same circumstances as the 2002 invocation, President George W. Bush transmitted a letter to President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi declaring himself temporarily unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office prior to undergoing a colonoscopy which required sedation ( text of letters to Congress ).

* April 16-A test flight of Byrd's $ 100, 000 Fokker C-2 monoplane, America results in a nose-over crash, resulting in Byrd suffering a broken wrist, pilot Floyd Bennett breaking his collarbone and leg, and flight engineer George Otto Noville requiring surgery for a blood clot.

This area was also home to many legendary musicians: George Jones, Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, Janis Joplin, Barbara Lynn, Edgar and Johnny Winter, J. P. Richardson aka " The Big Bopper ", country stars Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Byrd, and Clay Walker, and Jimmy and David Lee Kaiser, and rappers Pimp C and Bun B of UGK. Also the Sword

Also, if he completes his term as Senate Majority Leader of the 112th Congress, he will be one of only six senators to serve at least six years as Majority Leader along with Mike Mansfield, Alben Barkley, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Byrd, and George Mitchell.

George Edward " Butch " Byrd ( born September 20, 1941 in Watervliet, New York ) was a professional American football defensive back.

She also headed the Western Pennsylvania presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and George McGovern in 1972 ; headed the unsuccessful campaign to get NAACP President Byrd Brown the Democratic nomination to Congress ; and was co-chairman with Mayor Joseph M. Barr of the unsuccessful U. S. Senate campaign of Jeanette Reibman in 1976.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

* George Steele ( born 1937 ), professional wrestler nicknamed " The Animal "

Albert was born at Ansbach and, having lost his father Casimir in 1527, he came under the guardianship of his uncle George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a strong adherent of Protestantism.

* Queen Caroline, consort of King George II of Great Britain was born in Ansbach in 1683.

Watterson was born in Washington, D. C., where his father, James G. Watterson ( born 1932 ), worked as a patent examiner while going to George Washington University Law School before becoming a patent attorney in 1960.

He was born in the Queens borough of New York, New York, as a son of Jayne ( née Quinlan ), of Irish descent, and John George Costas, an electrical engineer of Greek descent.

Former Alabama governor and American presidential candidate George Wallace became born again in the late 1970s, which led him to apologize for his earlier segregationist views.

Benedict was born Dirk Niewoehner in Helena, Montana, the son of Pricilla Mella ( née Metzger ), an accountant, and George Edward Niewoehner, a lawyer.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Meanwhile, Newson ’ s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Louis of Battenberg and their four children Princess Alice of Battenberg, Louise, George and Louis. Lord Mountbatten was born as His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg, although his German styles and titles were dropped in 1917.

In 1585, Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham — born circa 1562, the only child of Sir George Sydenham, of Combe Sydenham, who was the High Sheriff of Somerset.

George Walton Lucas, Jr. ( born May 14, 1944 ) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur.

George Lucas was born in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore ( née Bomberger ) and George Walton Lucas, Sr. ( 1913 – 1991 ), who owned a stationery store.

George Herbert Walker Bush ( born June 12, 1924 ) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States ( 1989 – 93 ).

George Herbert Walker Bush was born at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924 to Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush.

The first child of Augustine Washington ( 1694 – 1743 ) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington ( 1708 – 1789 ), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

George Sotiros Pappas ( born 1942 ) is a professor of philosophy at Ohio State University.

* George Clinton ( rugby league ) ( born 1924 ), rugby league footballer of the 1940s and ' 50s, and coach of the 1950s and ' 60s

* George Clinton ( musician ) ( born 1941 ), American funk musician

* George S. Clinton ( born 1947 ), American musician

The former county school superintendent, George P. Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school board.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

On March 30, 2006, as a response to the controversy of the use of performance-enhancing drugs and the anticipated career home run record to be set by Barry Bonds, Selig asked former senator George Mitchell to lead an independent investigation into the use of steroids in baseball's recent past.

* " Chairman Ben Bernanke Lecture Series Part 1 " Recorded live on March 20, 2012 10: 35am MST at a class at George Washington University

* George Parker,, EU considers consumer class action, Financial Times, 4 March 2007

* To George Weidler ( a saxophonist ), from March 30, 1946 to May 31, 1949.

While the terms of President James K. Polk and Vice President George Mifflin Dallas had expired, Atchison's tenure as President pro tempore had already expired when the Thirtieth Congress adjourned sine die on March 4.

An early proponent of the electric Spanish guitar was jazz guitarist George Barnes who used the instrument in two songs recorded in Chicago on March 1, 1938, " Sweetheart Land " and " It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame ".

In March 1981, Dan Okrent wrote an essay about the Rotisserie League for Inside Sports called " The Year George Foster Wasn't Worth $ 36.

* The Cinema of George Lucas ( Hardcover ) by Marcus Hearn, Publisher: Harry N. Abrams ( March 1, 2005 )

In March 1961 the Grenada United Labour Party won the general election and George E. D.

The first airplane flight took place in Guyana in March 1913 when George Schmidt, a German, flew a machine over Georgetown, taking off from the Bel Air Park Race Course.

In March 1979 the Virginia General Assembly authorized the establishment of the George Mason University School of Law ( GMUSL ) – contingent on the transfer of the Kann's building to George Mason University.

On 29 March 1820, George ( now considerably wealthier ) was finally allowed to marry Betty Hindmarsh at Newburn.

George Stephenson statue, Chesterfield March 2011

Within a year of completing Adam Bede, she finished The Mill on the Floss, inscribing the manuscript: " To my beloved husband, George Henry Lewes, I give this MS. of my third book, written in the sixth year of our life together, at Holly Lodge, South Field, Wandsworth, and finished 21 March 1860.

George of Brandenburg-Ansbach () ( 4 March 1484 – 27 December 1543 ) was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern.

In a 9 March 2006 press release, HBC announced that Zucker would replace George Heller as the new Governor and CEO, to become the first US citizen to lead the company.

In March 1913, an anarchist, Alexandros Schinas, assassinated King George in Thessaloniki, and his son came to the throne as Constantine I. Constantine was the first Greek king born in Greece and the first to be Greek Orthodox.

King George II was asked to leave the country, and on 25 March 1924, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaimed the Second Hellenic Republic, ratified by plebiscite a month later.

In March 1937, Alexander was appointed as one of the aides-de-camp to the recently acceded King George VI and in May returned to the United Kingdom to take part in this capacity in the state procession through London during the King's coronation.

Further, as a reward for his leadership in North Africa and Italy, Alexander, along with a number of other prominent British Second World War military leaders, was elevated to the peerage on 1 March 1946 by King George VI ; he was created Viscount Alexander of Tunis and Errigal in the County of Donegal.

It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.

President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Robinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 26, 1984, and on March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush gave Robinson's widow the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress ; Robinson was only the second baseball player to receive the award, after Roberto Clemente.