* 1939 – Grace Slick, American singer ( Jefferson Airplane )

With Grace Slick

* Grace Slick

** Grace Slick, American singer

* October 16 – Grace Slick performs live for the first time with Jefferson Airplane.

Nicks has said that her vocal style and performance antics evolved from female singers like Grace Slick and Janis Joplin.

At this concert they were supported by a local folk-rock group, The Great Society, which featured Grace Slick as lead singer and it was here that Kantner met Slick for the first time.

The following night, her replacement Grace Slick made her first appearance.

In February 1968, manager Bill Graham was fired after Grace Slick delivered an " either he goes or I go " ultimatum to the group.

A few tracks recorded for the LP were left off the album but later included as bonus tracks, including the Grace Slick / Frank Zappa collaboration " Would You Like A Snack?

The Airplane's appearance on The Smothers Brothers in the fall of that year caused a minor stir when Grace Slick appeared in blackface ( she claimed she simply wanted to wear all the makeup she saw in her dressing room ) and raised her fist in the Black Panther Party's salute after singing " Crown of Creation.

In August 1969, a few days after the band headlined at a free concert in New York's Central Park, they performed in what Grace Slick called an early " morning maniac music " slot at the Woodstock festival, for which the group was joined by noted British session keyboard player Nicky Hopkins.

When interviewed about Woodstock by Jeff Tamarkin in 1992, Paul Kantner still recalled it with fondness, whereas Grace Slick and Spencer Dryden had less than rosy memories.

This " prototype " version of Jefferson Starship included David Crosby and Graham Nash, Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, and Airplane members Grace Slick, Joey Covington, and Jack Casady.

Grace Slick and Paul Kantner had begun a relationship during 1970, and on January 25, 1971, their daughter China Wing Kantner (" Wing " was Slick's maiden name ) was born.

On May 13, 1971, Grace Slick was injured in a near-fatal automobile crash when her car slammed into a wall in a tunnel near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

From left: Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Kantner, Jack Casady, Spencer Dryden.

In 1974, four years after Blows Against The Empire ( the Jefferson Starship-prototype album with Paul Kantner and Grace Slick ), Jefferson Starship was formally launched with the release of the album Dragon Fly and its single “ Ride The Tiger ”.

On March 4, 1988, during a Hot Tuna San Francisco gig at the Fillmore ( with Paul Kantner, as well as Papa John Creach joining in ) Grace Slick made a cameo appearance.

Grace Slick was absent, as she was unable to travel due to medical reasons.

* Grace Slick – vocals

During their California tour the band shared bills with Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Great Society with Grace Slick, and Moby Grape.

This ' prototype ' version of Jefferson Starship included David Crosby and Graham Nash and Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, as well as some of the remaining members of Jefferson Airplane, lead singer Grace Slick, drummer Joey Covington and bassist Jack Casady.

Grace O ' Malley's Castle Kildamhnait Castle is a 15th century tower house associated with the O ' Malley Clan, who were once a ruling family of Achill.

* Grace is resistible: God takes initiative in the salvation process and His grace comes to all people.

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

Containing a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of sins committed and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, " Amazing Grace " is one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world.

Author Gilbert Chase writes that " Amazing Grace " is " without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns ," and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually.

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

" Amazing Grace " is emblematic of several kinds of folk music styles, often used as the standard example to illustrate such musical techniques as lining out and call and response, that have been practiced in both black and white folk music.

It is referenced in the 2006 film Amazing Grace, which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

James Basker also acknowledged this force when he explained why he chose " Amazing Grace " to represent a collection of anti-slavery poetry: " there is a transformative power that is applicable ...: the transformation of sin and sorrow into grace, of suffering into beauty, of alienation into empathy and connection, of the unspeakable into imaginative literature.

The ACM is a co – presenter and founding partner of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing ( GHC ) with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

J. P. Smith, with Tippity Witchet and others of the L. T. Bauer string, is scheduled to start for " the big apple " to-morrow after a most prosperous Spring campaign at Bowie and Havre de Grace.

All of the guests are seated and grace is said, usually using the Selkirk Grace, a well-known thanksgiving said before meals, using the Scots language.

Catherine Grace " Cady " Coleman ( born December 14, 1960 ) is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a current NASA astronaut.

On 9 November 1555 Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este ( famed as the builder of the Villa d ' Este at Tivoli ), wrote to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua ( 1538 – 1587 ), that he has heard that His Grace is interested in his cantoretti, and offering to send him two, so that he could choose one for his own service.

A Discourse of Sallets: " Sellery, apium Italicum, ( and of the Petroseline Family ) was formerly a stranger with us ( nor very long since in Italy ) is an hot and more generous sort of Macedonian Persley or Smallage ... and for its high and grateful Taste is ever plac'd in the middle of the Grand Sallet, at our Great Men's tables, and Praetors feasts, as the Grace of the whole Board ".

Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, and some Protestants teach the Sacrament of Baptism is the means by which each person's damaged human nature is healed and Sanctifying Grace ( capacity to enjoy and participate in the spiritual life of God ) is restored.

She is identified as Eleanor, by the Grace of God, Queen of the English, Duchess of the Normans.

The German Protestant theologian Martin Luther saw a parallel between Paul and Christ in their work of reconciliation, which is also in fact contained within the concept of Christian Grace.

Elizabeth Ward Gracen ( born Elizabeth Grace Ward ) is an American actress who won the title of Miss America in 1982.