* 1706 – George Pocock, British admiral ( d. 1792 )

* April 3 – George Pocock, British admiral ( b. 1706 )

* April 29 – Battle of Cuddalore: A British fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d ' Aché indecisively near Madras.

* September 10 – Battle of Pondicherry: An inconclusive naval battle is fought off the coast of India between the French Admiral d ' Aché and the British under George Pocock.

* March 6 – Sir George Pocock, British admiral ( d. 1792 )

George Pocock ( inventor ): Inventor of spanking machine and pioneer of kite locomotion.

In the 1800s, George Pocock used kites of increased size to propel carts on land and ships on the water, using a four-line control system-the same system in common use today.

In 1746 he returned to Britain, and from then to 1780, when he was made rear-admiral, he saw active service in the East Indies with Sir George Pocock and in various quarters of the world.

Admiral Sir George Pocock, KB ( 6 March 1706 – 3 April 1792 ) was a British officer of the Royal Navy.

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When Spain joined France in 1762 he was sent as second in command with Sir George Pocock in the British expedition against Cuba which took Havana.

The Obvious Illusion book cover, photographs by Philip Pocock, introduction by Gregory Battcock, published by George Braziller, New YorkIn photography, in the 1980s, Philip Pocock produced two bodies of photographic works: lyrical documentary explorations in New York and Berlin ; as well as alchemical Cibachrome photographs.

* George Pocock, an 18th-century British Admiral

Bishops Philip Pocock, George Flahiff, Joseph Aurele Plourde and the Carter brothers ( Alexander and Emmett ) became close friends who dubbed themselves and became known as “ The Gang of Five .” The five wielded a significant influence upon their fellow bishops and hence upon the face of Roman Catholicism in Canada.

It was promulgated by George Pocock ( inventor ) in the UK in 1827 and kite buggies were available commercially in US and UK in the late 1970s.

The naval Battle of Cuddalore took place on 29 April 1758 during the Seven Years ' War near Cuddalore off the Carnatic coast of India and was an indecisive battle between a British squadron under Vice-Admiral George Pocock and French squadron under Comte d ' Aché.

The Battle of Pondicherry was a naval battle between a British squadron under Vice-Admiral George Pocock and French squadron under Comte d ' Aché off the Carnatic coast of India near Pondicherry during the Seven Years ' War.

Pocock was commissioned to produce a series of paintings illustrating George Rodney's victory at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782.

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

When Havana surrendered, the admiral of the British fleet, George Keppel, the 3rd Earl of Albemarle, entered the city as a conquering new governor and took control of the whole western part of the island.

George Ville calculated an average age at death at 27 for gladiators ( based on headstone evidence ), with mortality " among all who entered the arena " around the 1st century CE at 19 / 100.

George Hearst ( 1820 – 1891 ), American publisher and U. S. senator, entered the newspaper business in 1880, acquiring the San Francisco Daily Examiner.

Having entered the Inner Temple he took the advice of Samuel Romilly, studied law on his own for a year, and then was taught by George Wood.

At age 16, Jefferson entered the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, and first met the law professor George Wythe, who became his influential mentor.

The most famous of these cases involved John Entick, whose home was forcibly entered by the King's Messenger Nathan Carrington, along with others, pursuant to a warrant issued by George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax authorizing them “ to make strict and diligent search for.

Morris, having passed his finals in the previous term, was entered as a pupil at the office of George Edmund Street, one of the leading English Gothic revival architects who had his headquarters in Oxford as architect to the diocese ; and on New Year's Day the first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine appeared.

He entered filmmaking on a whim, selling a script to RKO for the 1948 picture Bodyguard, which he co-wrote with George W. George.

In 1906 Lloyd George entered the new Liberal Cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as President of the Board of Trade.

Condulmer entered the Order of Saint Augustine at the monastery of St. George in his native city.

George Frederick was a youth with little interest in parenting a girl, and so Caroline soon moved to Lützenburg outside of Berlin, where she entered into the care of her new guardians, Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg, and his wife, Sophia Charlotte, who had been a friend of Eleanore Erdmuthe.

He defeated George Brown, who was hampered by a reputation as an erratic figure and who was mistrusted by the likes of Denis Healey ( Wilson's predecessor as shadow foreign secretary ) and Anthony Crosland, in a straight contest in the second round of balloting, after James Callaghan, who had entered the race as an alternative to Brown, had been eliminated in the first round.

Meredith conceded that he had little chance of winning unless Governor George Wallace of Alabama entered the presidential race and split the white vote.

Since the devastation unleashed by Hurriance George in 1998, Cuba entered a humanitarian agreement with Haiti whereby Haitian doctors would be trained in Cuba, and Cuban doctors would work in rural areas.

Cromwell meanwhile, leaving George Monck with the least efficient regiments to carry on the war in Scotland, had reached the river Tyne in seven days, and thence, marching 20 miles a day in extreme heat with the country people carrying their arms and equipment the regulars entered Ferrybridge on 19 August, at which date Lambert, Harrison and the north-western militia were about Congleton.

( Baz Luhrmann, 2001 ) and Happy Feet ( which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for filmmaker George Miller in 2006 ) also entered the top ten list during the first decade of the new century.

George W. Hewitt entered the original town plot of Forreston on November 5, 1854.

He in turn had inherited it from his grandfather George W. Binkley who had homesteaded the land and entered it with the government in 1837.

With their families they crossed the river and located a few miles from Bridgeport, in Belmont County, where they entered land, George founding the town of Neffs, and Conrad heading farther south down river to settle near Powhatten Point.

Robert Gray, a Boston fur trader, entered the mouth of the Columbia River in May 1792, the famed British explorer George Vancouver traveled to the region to verify Gray's discovery.

A well-known free African-American named George Washington Bush entered the state of Washington through Parker's Landing, and eventually traveled to the center of the state, where he founded the community of Tumwater.

He was educated first in the country, and then at Westminster, where he was chosen as a Queen's Scholar in 1677, and entered into close friendship with George Stepney.

Young George attended the Mount Hope Institution in Baltimore and entered the United States Military Academy ( West Point ) in 1831, chosen primarily for financial reasons.