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 ( 1880 – 1955 ) introduced snake handling practices into the Church of God ( Cleveland, Tennessee ), circa 1910.

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.

George Herbert was however, not alone in his enthusiasm for preaching which he regarded as one of the prime functions of a parish priest.

In prison George Fox continued writing and preaching, feeling that imprisonment brought him into contact with people who needed his help — the jailers as well as his fellow prisoners.

Two days after preaching, as usual, at the Gracechurch Street Meeting House in London, George Fox died between 9 and 10 p. m. on 13 January 1691.

In 1791 George Rapp said, " I am a prophet, and I am called to be one " in front of the civil affairs official in Maulbronn, Germany, who promptly had him imprisoned for two days and threatened with exile if he did not cease preaching.

George Whitefield, another significant leader in the movement, was known for his unorthodox ministry of itinerant open-air preaching.

Although Wesley and the majority of his followers were decidedly Arminian in their theological outlook, George Whitefield, Howell Harris, and Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon were notable for being Calvinistic Methodists, and the Presbyterian Church of Wales originated from the preaching of Harris and Whitfield.

George Whitefield, another significant leader in the movement, and one of the Wesley brothers ' fellow students at Oxford, became well known for his unorthodox ministry of itinerant open-air preaching.

The English Calvinist Methodist preacher George Whitefield played a major role, traveling across the colonies and preaching in a dramatic and emotional style, accepting everyone as his audience.

Inspired by the evangelical preaching of George Whitefield and others, Gilbert Tennent delivered a sermon in West Nottingham, Maryland in 1740 on " The Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry.

In 1740, a group of Philadelphians joined together to erect a great preaching hall for the traveling evangelist George Whitefield, who toured the American colonies delivering open air sermons.

John Shepard and Deacon George Ramsey started preaching in the area near the Fort Brewerton embankment.

He officiated as chaplain to the garrison, preaching once each Sunday to the soldiers, and once to the townspeople and strangers, including Sir Richard Skeffington, Colonel Godfrey Bosvile, George Abbot the layman scholar, and others.

After his refusal, he was not allowed, even before the passing of the Act of Uniformity, to be a curate in Kidderminster, and Bishop George Morley prohibited him from preaching in the diocese of Worcester.

George Whitefield at that time was acknowledged as the leader of Methodism and he was preaching to thousands.

* Also see Rose, Gregory F. " The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC ," National Review, March 30, 1979, and Reich, September 21, 1977: " Three and four years ago, the tiny U. S. Labor Party, preaching Marxist revolution, was engaged in a bitter fight with the Communist Party over which was a purer representative of left-wing tradition .< p >" But now the Labor Party, under the same leadership, has moved to the right, has joined with persons in the South who are heirs to George C. Wallace's American Independent Party tradition, is soliciting help from orthodox Republicans and even had an information table at a big GOP fund-raising dinner in the Biltmore here last month.

When he returned from a brief military campaign to Lake George ( the Crown Point Expedition ), he did some occasional preaching and returned to his legal studies.

Sunday preaching by George Bellows, Metropolitan Magazine, May 1915

If his grandson Robert Steven can be trusted his preaching won the admiration of King George III who used to hand him a text just before he went to the pulpit.

While he was preaching with George Blaurock in the Grüningen region, they were taken by surprise, arrested and imprisoned in Zürich at the Wellenburg prison.

In the 18th century it was a small coal mining village where George Whitefield's open-air preaching greatly influenced John Wesley in the founding of Methodism.

In 1531, George died, and a Landtag in Stettin formally allowed Protestant preaching, if no tumults would arise from this.

George Whitefield's outdoor preaching made him a household name in England and the American Colonies.

George Baker Jr attended a local store front Baptist Church, often preaching and teaching in the churches ' Sunday school ', until 1907, when a traveling preacher called Samuel Morris spoke to and was expelled from the congregation.

The emotional response of churchgoers in Bristol and London in 1737, and of the Kingswood colliers with white gutters on their cheeks caused by tears in 1739 under the preaching of George Whitefield, marked the start of the English awakening.

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

* 2002 – George Alec Effinger, American author ( b. 1947 )

In January 1947, Truman appointed General George Marshall as Secretary of State, and enacted JCS 1779, which decreed that an orderly and prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany.

As George Gamow put in his science-popularizing book, One, Two, Three ... Infinity ( 1947 ), " The metallic substances differ from all other materials by the fact that the outer shells of their atoms are bound rather loosely, and often let one of their electrons go free.

That title was relinquished by the last Kaisar-i-Hind George VI when India was granted independence on 15 August 1947.

Such a company " George Orwell Productions Ltd " ( GOP Ltd ) was set up on 12 September 1947 although the service agreement was not then put into effect.

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

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

* 1947 – George S. Clinton, American composer, songwriter, and musician

* 1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.

* 1947 – George Kunz, American football player

In January 1947, Truman appointed retired General George Marshall as Secretary of State.

* 2008 – George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician ( b. 1947 )

* 1947 – George VI of the United Kingdom creates Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh in preparation for his wedding to George's elder daughter, Princess Elizabeth, the next day.

By March 1947, the NCS had 112 members, including Bud Fisher ( Mutt and Jeff ), Don Flowers ( Glamor Girls ), Bob Kane ( Batman ), Fred Lasswell ( Barney Google and Snuffy Smith ), George Lichty ( Grin and Bear It ), Zack Mosley ( The Adventures of Smilin ' Jack ), Alex Raymond ( Rip Kirby ), Cliff Sterrett ( Polly and Her Pals ) and Chic Young ( Blondie ), plus editorial cartoonists Reg Manning and Fred O. Seibel and sports cartoonist Willard Mullin.

* 1947 – George Young, Australian musician ( Easybeats )

* 1947 – George McCorkle, American musician

The position of prime minister is not outlined in any Canadian constitutional document and is mentioned only in passing in Schedule B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by King George VI.

* March 12 – George Forbes, New Zealand Prime Minister and first leader of the New Zealand National Party ( d. 1947 )

* November 25 – U. S. President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, in the largest U. S. government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947.

** George Alec Effinger, American author ( b. 1947 )

In 1947, King George VI issued letters patent allowing the viceroy to carry out almost all of the monarch's powers in his or her stead.

The governor general is required by both the Constitution Act ( previously the British North America Act ), 1867, and the letters patent issued in 1947 by King George VI.

Future U. S. President George H. W. Bush was a first baseman for Yale in the 1947 series.

She married Asa Wirt, who worked for Associated Press, and, after Wirt's death in 1947, married George A. Benson, editor of the Toledo Blade newspaper of Toledo, Ohio three years later ; he died in 1959.