The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress ( Glenda Jackson ) and was nominated for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, Best Music, Song ( for George Barrie and Sammy Cahn for " All That Love Went to Waste "), Best Picture and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced.

George Went Hensley preaching in 1947 outside a Hamilton County, Tennessee courthouse in which a snake-handling minister was on trial ( from Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky by David L. Kimbrough )

The practice of snake handling briefly became a controversy in the denomination in the 1920s after it was endorsed by George Went Hensley, a Church of God minister.

* 1973 – " All That Love Went to Waste " ( music by George Barrie ) for the film A Touch of Class.

The practice of snake-handling first appeared in American Christianity around 1910 and was associated with the ministry of George Went Hensley of Grasshopper Valley in southeastern Tennessee.

George Went Hensley died in Florida in 1955 from a venomous snakebite.

The whole episode has been well documented in Chapter 4: How My Swiss Bank Blew $ 40 Million and Went Broke of the book Supermoney by George Goodman written under his pseudonym Adam Smith.

* George Cleveland as Professor Hensley

Haythorne joined the Liberal government of George Coles and became Premier in 1869 after Coles retired and his successor, Joseph Hensley accepted a judicial appointment.

Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

* Full biography: " Evans, Marian &# 91 ; George Eliot &# 93 ; ( 1819 – 1880 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2008

# 1874 – 1880 George Joachim Goschen

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

* 1819 – George Eliot, British novelist ( d. 1880 )

* 1880 – George McBride, American baseball player ( d. 1973 )

* 1880 – George Poage, African American athlete ( d. 1962 )

The resulting Chapel was consecrated on St Matthew's Day, 1665, and the eastern end was extended by George Gilbert Scott in 1880, when it was consecrated on the Feast of the Annunciation.

* 1880 – George Bretz, Canadian lacrosse player

Phelps ' Electro-motor Printing Telegraph from circa 1880, the last and most advanced telegraphy mechanism designed by George May Phelps.

Gould proposed that much of the research was based more upon the racial and social prejudices of the researchers than upon their scientific objectivity ; that on occasion, researchers such as Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ), Louis Agassiz ( 1807 – 1873 ), and Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ), committed the methodological fallacy of including their personal ( a priori ) expectations to the conclusions, as part of their analytical reasoning.

* November 29 – George Brown, Canadian politician ( d. 1880 )

** George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1880 )

* November 22 – George Eliot, British novelist ( d. 1880 )

* Henry George self-publishes his major work Progress and Poverty in September, published in 1880 by Appleton & Co.

George Catlett Marshall, Jr. ( December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959 ), was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense.

* Gomme, George L., Primitive Folkmoots ; or, Open-Air Assemblies in Britain ( London, 1880 ).

In 1880 George Eastman began to manufacture gelatin dry photographic plates in Rochester, New York.

******** HRH Prince George William of Hanover and Cumberland ( 1880 – 1912 )

* John George MacCarthy, Member of Parliament for Mallow, 1874 – 1880

Cricketers born in the town include Cyril Baily in 1880, George Burrough in 1907, and Eustace Bisgood in 1878.

* 1880 George Gaffe

Many engravings were created by the skillful Charles George Lewis ( 1808 – 1880 ), one of the finest engravers of his day.

In 1880, Sitka mining engineer George Pilz offered a reward to any local chief who could lead him to gold-bearing ore. Chief Kowee arrived with some ore and several prospectors were sent to investigate.

Cattleman George Elliott became the first to establish a homestead in Upton County in 1880.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* George Orwell's Animal Farm – MP3 Audio ( web archive )

* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.