* 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.

Parson Mason Locke Weems mentions the first citation of this legend in his 1850 book, The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen.

* 1725 – George Mason, American statesman ( d. 1792 )

In 1787 he attended the United States Constitutional Convention and was one of the delegates voting against the new constitution ( joining George Mason and Edmund Randolph in not signing it ).

* Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, a collaborative site by the Center for History and New Media ( George Mason University ) and the American Social History Project ( City University of New York )

* George Mason University has an economics essay award named in honor of Hayek.

He held a professorship with the University of Virginia from 1971 until 1994, and with George Mason University until 2000.

When he retired from Virginia in 1994, he became Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University until 2000.

In May 1769, Washington introduced a proposal, drafted by his friend George Mason, calling for Virginia to boycott English goods until the Acts were repealed.

George Mason University ( often referred to as GMU or Mason ) is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax.

Named after American revolutionary, patriot, and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972.

In recent years, George Mason faculty have twice won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

George Mason, ( 1725 – 1792 ) after whom the University is named.

In 1959, the Board of Visitors of UVA selected a permanent name for the college: George Mason College of the University of Virginia.

On April 7, 1972 the Virginia General Assembly enacted legislation which separated George Mason College from its parent institution, the University of Virginia.

Renamed that day by the legislation, George Mason College became George Mason University.

In 1978, the George Mason University Foundation purchased the former Kann's department store in Arlington.

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.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

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

His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

A three-dimensional exhibit depicting `` A Century Of Naval Medicine '' was formally presented to The Director by George S. Squibb, great-grandson of the founder of E. R. Squibb and Sons, for permanent display in the Museum.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.

George Woodcock was manager and troubleshooter ; ;

The next speaker was George T. Day.

A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

These included George Grossmith, the principal comic ; Rutland Barrington, the lyric baritone ; Richard Temple, the bass-baritone ; and Jessie Bond, the mezzo-soprano soubrette.

George Bernard Shaw's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.

* 1990 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to " get dirt " on Dave Winfield.

* January 1 – Foundation of Fort George, Bombay laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort.

Not only was he the principal composer for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, but he also collaborated with Picasso ( Pulcinella, 1920 ), Jean Cocteau (, 1927 ) and George Balanchine (, 1928 ).

It builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's first book Adaptation and Natural Selection.

The principal islands are Saint Paul and Saint George.

Notably, Barry Took was the principal writer in the 1969 season ; executive producer George Schlatter, a Canadian, was influenced by Round the Horne on CBC repeats of BBC original programming, and searched out Took for his programme.

In 1920, King George V laid the foundation stone of the Old Building, the principal building of LSE.

George Clinton ( born July 22, 1941 ) is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk.

After Allen retired to Key West in 1889, George W. Storter, Jr. became the principal landowner in the area.

George Cate, a wealthy shoe manufacturer, visited the school at the request of its principal Alvin E. Thomas and was so impressed with the school that he left at his death $ 200, 000 on the condition that his name be added to that of Mr. Austin.

The two principal roads within these borders were named for King George and Queen Charlotte.

It was settled by Mormon pioneer George Washington Bradley in 1851, and is the principal city in Juab Valley, an agricultural area.

George C. Scott was originally set to play Dr. Mengele, but he dropped out before principal photography began and was replaced by Peck.

* George Smith ( bishop ) ( 1815 – 1871 ), 2nd principal of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, 1849 – 1864

Also in 1941, he had a principal supporting part ( as Snobby Price ) in Gabriel Pascal's filming of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara.

As the principal founding father of Czechoslovakia, Masaryk was regarded similar to the way George Washington is regarded in the United States.

In addition to its roster of principal conductors, other conductors affiliated with the orchestra have included George Hurst, who served as de facto principal conductor from 1969 to 1972, between the tenures of Silvestri and Paavo Berglund, without having been formally appointed to the post.

Subsequent principal conductors, with the title of Music Director, were Artur Rodziński ( 1933 – 1943 ), Erich Leinsdorf ( 1943 – 1944 ), George Szell ( 1946 – 1970 ), Pierre Boulez ( Musical Advisor 1970-1972 ), Lorin Maazel ( 1972 – 1982 ), and Christoph von Dohnányi ( 1984 – 2002 ).

His principal works were De Regno et Regali Potestate ( 1600 ), a strenuous defence of the rights of kings, in which he refutes the doctrines of those he coins monarchomachs: George Buchanan, “ Junius Brutus ” ( Hubert Languet or Philippe de Mornay ) and Jean Boucher ; and De Potestate Papae ( 1609 ), in opposition to the usurpation of temporal powers by the pope, which called forth the celebrated reply of Cardinal Bellarmine ; also commentaries on some of the titles of the Pandects.

Early examples of typographically based concrete poetry include the following poem by George Herbert ( 1593 – 1633 ) ( here in a scan of the 1633 edition of Herbert's The Temple ), in which the poem is merely a comment on the title, which presents the poem's principal meaning typographically:

He held this position for his last 35 years, where his former Minister George Monro Grant was principal from 1877 until Grant's death in 1902.

* Conrad Wexler ( George Anthony Bell )-The principal of Lawrence Jr High.