Bath later became known as Berkeley Springs, primarily because the town's post office took that name ( combining Governor Norborne Berkeley's last name with the warm springs found there ) to avoid confusion with another post office, located in southeastern Virginia, which was already called Bath.

Most historians believe that the county was named for Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt ( 1718 – 1770 ), Colonial Governor of Virginia from 1768 to 1770.

At that time, Bath was part of Berkeley County named after colonial Governor Norborne Berkeley.

* 1969 – People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.

A major confrontation ensued on May 15, 1969, when Governor Ronald Reagan ordered the park destroyed, which led to a two-week occupation of the city of Berkeley by the California National Guard.

Harrison's son, Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the American Declaration of Independence and a Governor of Virginia, was born at Berkeley Plantation, as was his son William Henry Harrison, a war hero in the Battle of Tippecanoe, governor of Indiana Territory, and ninth President of the United States.

When parliament refused to rescind the taxes, Governor Berkeley requested to be recalled.

Other historians claim that Berkeley County may have been named in honor of Sir William Berkeley ( 1610 – 1677 ), who was born near London, graduated from Oxford University in 1629, and was appointed Governor of Virginia in 1642.

In 1730, John Van Meter, with his brother Isaac ( 1692 – 1757 ), secured a patent for at the South Branch Potomac River, much of it located in present-day Berkeley County, from Virginia's Colonial Lieutenant Governor William Gooch.

In 1670, the Virginia Colony's Royal Governor William Berkeley abolished Accomac County, but the Virginia General Assembly re-created it in 1671.

On March 3, 1898, New Jersey Senate President Foster M. Voorhees, the acting Governor of New Jersey, signed a bill incorporating “ Sea Side Park ” as an independent borough, created from portions of Berkeley Township.

Public school students in grades 9-12 attend Governor Livingston High School in Berkeley Heights, as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the Berkeley Heights Public Schools.

While in Virginia, Latrobe worked on the Green Spring mansion near Williamsburg, which had been built by Governor Sir William Berkeley in the 17th century, but fell into disrepair after the American Revolutionary War.

* Ronald Reagan, while serving as the Governor of California, gave the middle finger to counterculture protestors in Berkeley, California.

About a thousand Virginians ( including former indentured servants, poor whites and poor blacks ) rose up in arms against the rule of Virginia Governor William Berkeley.

Seeking to avoid escalation of war with the tribes, Governor Berkeley advocated a policy of containment of the Native Americans.

Nathaniel Bacon ( at right ) demanding his commission from Governor Berkeley ( from a 1904 book )

Governor Berkeley returned to power.

Berkeley sold his share to a group of Quakers because of the political difficulties between New York Governor Richard Nicolls, Carteret, and himself.

The township of Livingston, New Jersey was given its name in his honor, as was Governor Livingston High School in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.

The bestowal of this gift was apparently made at the occasion of a festive gathering at Dunmore ; The Bishop of St Andrews William de Lamberton, the Abbot of Lundoris, Sir David de Berkeley ( of Cullairnie ), Sir Alexander of Seton, the Governor of Berwick, Alex of Claphain, and others, were present as witnesses ; most of whom had borne their part in the great struggle for Independence .-- The Chartulary of Balmerino, pp. 40, 41.

Born in the western Afghan city of Herat, he rose to become a powerful rebel commander during in the Soviet War in Afghanistan, and then a key member of the Northern Alliance until finally becoming the Governor of Herat Province.

As a British possession until 1967, they were administered by the British Governor of Aden until 1953, then by the British High Commissioner until 1963, and finally by the British Chief Political Resident of the Persian Gulf ( based in Bahrain ).

He was held for twelve months in different concentration camps suffering severe torture: first at the Tacna Regiment, then at the Military Academy ; later he was sent for eight months to a political prison on Dawson Island and from there he was transferred to the basement of the Air Force War Academy, and finally to the concentration camp of Ritoque, until international diplomatic pressure, especially from Diego Arria, then Governor of the city of Caracas in Venezuela, resulted in the sudden release of Letelier on the condition that he immediately leave Chile.

General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, however, ignored his voice and, instead, relied on the Bank of Thailand-led by the then Governor Rerngchai Marakanond-who finally spent as much as USD24, 000 billion ( around two-thirds of the Kingdom's international reserves ) to protect the Baht value.

However, in 1901 the Legislative Council was finally formally dissolved, and the islands were then officially administered through the Governor of the Leeward Islands, who appointed a commissioner and an executive council.

Buenos Aires Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas exerted a growing hegemony over the rest of the country during his 1835-1852 Government and resisted several Unitarian uprisings, but was finally defeated in 1852 by a coalition Army gathered by Entre Ríos Federalist Governor Justo José de Urquiza, who accused Rosas of not complying with Federal Pact provisions for a National Constitution.

The conflict was finally resolved in favor of the oblast government, with the forced resignation of two consecutive mayors and the subsequent de facto appointment of their successor by the Governor of the oblast.

As recognition for his services Valdivia was finally appointed as adelantado and won the royal assent to his coveted title of Governor of Chile, returning to the settlement with his position and prestige considerably strengthened.

Governor White finally reached Roanoke Island on August 18, 1590, his granddaughter's third birthday, but he found his colony had been long deserted.

Gambling was finally closed down permanently in 1967 by two Republican officeholders, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller and Circuit Judge Henry M. Britt.

After years of promises by various Governors and other Kentucky Officials, Governor Ernie Fletcher finally made construction of the Columbia Bypass a reality.

He went on to serve in the Illinois House of Representatives, in the United States House of Representatives, and finally as Governor of Illinois in 1860.

" Following the growth of industrial corporations in the area, the town finally became a city in 1977 following a proclamation by Governor Edwin Edwards.

Only after a request by the Governor of Motavia does he finally decide to help.

In addition, when he finally performs at the concert, he stops playing when he sees the Russian Governor of Poland enter the room.

When the colony was finally severed from the administration of Jamaica in 1884, the colony gained its own Governor.

In later decades, Wasserman would become a guiding force in Reagan's political ambition by helping Reagan to win the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ), then election as Governor of California in 1966, and finally President of the United States in 1980.

In 1554, Leonel de Sousa — a later Governor of Macau — established positive relations through an agreement with Cantonese authorities and in 1557 the Ming court finally gave consent for a permanent and official Portuguese trade base at Macau.

Due to the growing dissatisfaction over King Eric of Pomerania among the Swedish nobility, Charles was in 1436 made Rikshövitsman, an office as Military Governor of the Realm and finally replacing the king as an elected regent from 1438 to 1440, as the result of the rebellion by Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson.

The rebellious slaves were able to restore most of Saint-Domingue to France, with Louverture in control and finally appointed by the French as Governor General of the colony.

However, they resisted efforts to be moved by force and were finally permitted to stay by Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton after Haldimand's return to England.

When it was finally signed on October 31, 2001, by Governor Jane Swift, more than 300 years later, all were finally proclaimed innocent.