In the 1970s and 1980s, Brabham introduced innovations such as the Gordon Murray designed " fan car "— which won its only race before being withdrawn — in-race refuelling, carbon brakes, and hydropneumatic suspension.

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

* 1978 – The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu, won by Gordon Haller.

Though by the close of the 1989 season the team boasted a powerhouse bullpen in the AL Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen ( set franchise record with 23 wins in ), two time All-Star Mark Gubicza ( 15 game winner in 1989 ) and 1989 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Tom Gordon ( won 17 games in 1989 ), the organization felt they were still missing a few pieces that would give the divisional rivals Oakland Athletics a run for their money.

In 1966, Gordon was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award as Best Supporting Actress for Inside Daisy Clover opposite Natalie Wood.

Gordon won another Golden Globe for Rosemary's Baby, and was nominated again, in 1971, for her role as Maude in the cult classic Harold and Maude ( with Bud Cort as her love interest ).

Gordon won an Emmy Award for a guest appearance on the sitcom Taxi, for a 1978 episode called " Sugar Mama ," in which her character tries to solicit the services of a taxi driver, played by series star Judd Hirsch, as a male escort.

Gordon Perry of the United Kingdom won the Men's Wheelchair Race, coming in at 3: 20: 07, and Denise Smith, also of the UK, won the Women's Wheelchair Race in 4: 29: 03.

For the Senatorial race that year, it was much closer with Democrat Jeff Merkley winning 48. 8 % of the vote ( 111, 367 ); Republican Gordon H. Smith won 46. 5 % of the vote ( 106, 114 ).

In 1988 Gordon Bunshaft nominated himself for the award and eventually won it.

In 1903 he also won the Gordon Bennett Gold Medal for the longest single flight time.

* 1985 – On November 19, Pennzoil ( represented by famous Houston litigator Joe Jamail ) won a US $ 10. 53 billion verdict against Texaco in the largest civil verdict in US history ( Texaco established a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Gordon Getty ).

The film won the Academy Award for Best Sound ( Gordon Sawyer ), and was nominated for Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture.

Another member of the Surrattsville High School Class of 1976 was baritone Gordon Hawkins, who has won critical acclaim for his performances with opera companies and symphonies around the world.

The Lodge Grass High School boy's basketball program is noted for having won five Class B state championships from 1980 to 1990, under Coach Gordon Real Bird.

In the November 2011 general election incumbent Vincent Barrella won re-election running as an independent after losing the endorsement of the Point Pleasant Beach Republican Party which went to Stephen Reid, while Republiocan William R. Mayer and Independent Bret Gordon won three-year terms on the Borough Council.

This achievement won the 2005 Gordon Bell Prize.

The other open city council seat was a very close election ; Brandon Gordon was found to have won the seat.

Researchers Robert Benner, John Gustafson and Gary Montry of the Parallel Processing Division of Sandia National Laboratory first won the Karp Prize ($ 100 ) and then won the first Gordon Bell Prize in 1987 using the nCUBE 10.

De León lost his title in a shocking upset to former Gerry Cooney victim S. T. Gordon by a knockout in round 2 at Cleveland in 1982, and won a comeback fight versus former world Heavyweight champion Leon Spinks by a knockout in round six in 1983.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

James Gordon Bennett, Jr. on May, 6th 1876 organized what was billed as the first polo match in the United States at Dickel's Riding Academy at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Gordon and Kanin received Academy Awards nominations for both of those screenplays, as well as for that of a prior film, A Double Life ( 1947 ), which was also directed by Cukor.

In accepting the award, Gordon thanked the Academy by saying, " I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is ... And thank all of you who voted for me, and to everyone who didn't: please, excuse me ", which drew laughs because at the time she had been in theater for fifty years and was seventy-two years old.

This was nominated: Best Music, Original Song in Academy Awards ) Harry Warren ( music ), Mack Gordon ( lyrics ).

Other academic institutions in Haifa are the Gordon College of Education and Sha ' anan Religious Teachers ' College, the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, and Tiltan College of Design.

Gary Gordon was born August 30, 1960 in Lincoln, Maine and graduated from Mattanawcook Academy in 1978.

Ruth Gordon ( later of Rosemary's Baby and Harold and Maude fame ) and Garson Kanin were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1950.

The movie was artfully directed by famed still photographer Gjon Mili, edited by former MGM film editor Norman Granz, with lighting and photography directed by Robert Burks ( his first credit in this field ), and released by Warner Bros. Producer Gordon Hollingshead was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Short Subject, One-reel.

Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for Gordon McDonell.

Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death ), Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum, Father Merrin in The Exorcist, Karl Oskar in The Emigrants, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, the villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, and Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.

That same year he played tycoon Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street for which he received an Academy Award as Best Actor.

* General Charles George Gordon of Khartoum was born at 29 Woolwich Common and educated at the Royal Military Academy.

* Elisabeth Gordon Chandler ( 1913 – 2006 ), sculptor, resident, and founder of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts

After sites in Gordon Square and Primrose Hill were considered, on 12 December 1855 Angus decided to relocate the College to Holford House in the rural environs of Regent ’ s Park and to rename the Academy ‘ Regent ’ s Park College ’.

Non-public Elementary and Junior-High Schools are St. Mary Academy ( Bayview ), Sacred Heart School, St. Margaret School, The Gordon School & Providence Country Day ( P. C. D.

Richard Todd ( who won the role over Gordon Jackson ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Dexter Gordon ( February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990 ) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor ( Round Midnight, Warner Bros, 1986 ).

In 1985, Dexter Gordon was named a member and Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France, and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1986.

Gordon received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal.

Gordon continued her on-stage acting career in the 1950s, and was nominated for a 1956 Tony, for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, a role she also played in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.

In 1983, Gordon was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.

This time the play enjoyed a healthy Broadway run of 486 performances with Ruth Gordon in the title role, winning a Tony Award for Guthrie, its director.

After the season, Ben Gordon became the first rookie to win the NBA Sixth Man Award and the first Bull to win the award since 1996 with Toni Kukoč.