Parson Weems's George Washington became the symbol of honesty and the father image of the uniting States.

* In 1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo from Norway became the first people to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean.

The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen, in his memoirs ( With Bat and Ball, 1899 ), used the term as if it were well known.

* 1893 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

* 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

In 1984, Titan the main shipping company of the Papanicolaou ’ s was in trouble, so Livanos's father George bought out the Papanicolaou's shares in ALL, while Gauntlett again became a shareholder with a 25 % holding in AML.

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

This coalition fell apart at the end of 1916, when the Conservatives withdrew their support from Asquith and gave it to Lloyd George instead, who became Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government largely made up of Conservatives.

Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.

They became an increasing area of interest for scholars in the 19th century and most were recorded or catalogued by George Malcolm Laws, although some have since been found to have British origins and additional songs have since been collected.

From 1942 to 1944 George Orwell was a proponent of Basic English, but in 1945 he became critical of universal languages.

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.

The Chaplins became estranged in around 1891 ; a year later, Hannah gave birth to a third son — George Wheeler Dryden — fathered by music hall entertainer Leo Dryden.

George McCrae's Rock Your Baby became the United Kingdom's first number one disco single.

However, George Spencer, the 5th Duke of Marlborough, obtained a Royal Licence to assume and bear the additional surname and arms of his famous ancestor, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, and thus became George Spencer-Churchill.

In 1970, longtime professor of mathematics and computer science John George Kemeny became president of Dartmouth.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

* Self Immolation, a record label and publishing company run by James George Thirlwell ( J. G. Thirlwell ) that later became Ectopic Entertainment

Susan married William Bradford, who became Chief Justice of Pennsylvania and Attorney General under George Washington.

The film introduced George Lucas to him, who became his lifelong friend as well as production assistant in his next film The Rain People in 1969.

The Orioles traded away star players Miguel Tejada to the Astros and ace Erik Bedard to the Seattle Mariners for prized prospect Adam Jones, lefty reliever George Sherrill, and minor league pitchers Kam Mickolio, Chris Tillman, and Tony Butler.

* 1894 – William George Barker, Canadian First World War fighter ace ( d. 1930 )

** George Unwin, British fighter ace of WWII ( d. 2006 )

* George E. H. McElroy ( WWI fighter ace RFC / RAF )

* George Preddy, World War II ace

* Sir George Reid ( RAF officer ) ( 1893 – 1991 ), World War I flying ace in No. 20 Squadron RAF

Group Captain Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith, DSO and Bar, DFC and 2 Bars ( 28 May 1914 – 11 December 1996 ) was a British Royal Air Force Second World War Flying ace.

* Major George E. Preddy, commander of the 328th Fighter Squadron, was the highest-scoring US ace still in combat in the European Theater at the time when he died on Christmas Day in Belgium.

" As Bond star George Lazenby and tennis ace Pam Shriver head for the divorce courts, the truth about ... the spy who shoved me " Mail Online, 23 August 2008

The Snipe saw little wartime service, being issued only in small numbers to the Front, but William George Barker, the Canadian ace, won a Victoria Cross flying one in an epic single-handed dogfight against enormous odds.

Captain George McElroy, a leading ace fighter pilot of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force ( KIA in 1918 ) is buried in Laventie CWGC cemetery.

Charles George Gass, who tallied 39 victories, was the highest scoring observer ace in World War I.

* George Goodman Simpson ( 1896 – 1990 ), Australian flying ace

* September 27 – During a dogfight with SE. 5as of No. 32 Squadron, Royal Air Force, the Fokker D. VII fighter of the German ace Leutnant Fritz Rumey either collides with the SE. 5a of Captain George Lawson or is shot down by Lieutenant Frank Hale.

* October 12 – North American Aviation chief test pilot and World War II ace George Welch is killed in the crash of a North American F-100A Super Sabre during a test flight, resulting in the grounding of all F-100A aircraft.

* George Buchanan Foster ( 1897 – 1974 ), Canadian flying ace, attorney, and legislator

George Davys educated the young Queen Victoria and the flying ace Air Vice Marshall Johnnie Johnson destroyed more Luftwaffe aircraft than any other Allied pilot.

* George William Francis Darvill-flying ace and military hero

It was founded by Jones, a well known racing pilot of the 1920s, George Augustus Vaughn, Jr., second ranking ace of WWI, and Lee D. Warrender, an aeronautical engineer.

Gabreski's 6½ MiG-15 kill credits make him one of seven U. S. pilots to become an ace in more than one war ( the others being Whisner, Colonel Harrison Thyng, Colonel James P. Hagerstrom, Colonel Vermont Garrison, Major George A. Davis, Jr., and U. S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel John F. Bolt ).

Canadian fighter ace George Beurling known as the " Knight of Malta " shot down 27 Axis aircraft in just 14 days over the skies of Malta.

* Group Captain George Gardiner, DSO, DFC, Légion d ' honneur, Croix de guerre, Croix de Chevalier, Royal Irish Regiment, Queen's Lancers, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, fighter ace in World War I.

* William George Barker ( 1894 – 1930 ), Canadian Victoria Cross winner and World War I flying ace

George Welch ( May 10, 1918 – October 12, 1954 ) was a World War II flying ace, a Medal of Honor nominee, and an experimental aircraft pilot after the war.