The Bayeux Tapestry, and other Norman sources, then record that Harold swore an oath on sacred relics to William to support his claim to the English throne.

It would have made sense to have him crowned as soon as possible as his predecessor Harold had been, but there is no record to support this.

He died as the longest-lived British former prime minister, having beaten Harold MacMillan's record 39 days earlier.

Dr. Seuss's story had originally appeared on a children's record in 1950, scored by Gail Kubik, issued by Capitol Records, and read by radio personality Harold Peary.

Johnny Mercer first suggested the idea of starting a record company while he was golfing with Harold Arlen and Bobby Sherwood.

Determined to finish the album that he had scheduled to record with Shelley and Two Dollar Guitar, Van Zandt arrived at the Memphis studio being pushed in a wheelchair by road manager Harold Eggers.

* Harold Wheeler, American composer, conductor, record producer, and music director

Standup blues singers to record for the label included Edward " The Great Gates " White ( accompanied on his outing by Tom Archia and Red Saunders ), Cliff Butler, Arbee Stidham, Jack Cooley, and Harold Burrage.

In full Gildersleeve character, at the height of the show's popularity, Harold Peary recorded three albums, reading popular children's stories for Capitol Records, in heavy-bookleted four-disc 78rpm record albums.

It became a record distributor five years later thanks to the effort of then-store manager Harold Bronson.

Jordan also made a record with two members of War, Harold Brown and B. B.

Hernandez set a record for game-winning RBIs in 1985 with 24, a statistic that was only official from – ( the previous record was 22 by the Chicago White Sox's Harold Baines in 1983 ).

* 1931: Tasmanian Harold Gatty and American Wiley Post make record round-the-world flight ( eight days, 15 hours )

* June 23-July 1, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly around the world in a Lockheed Vega, the Winnie Mae, covering 15, 474 miles in 8 days 15 hours 51 minutes-a new record.

Coached by Sam Mussabini ( coach of 100 m Olympic Champions Reggie Walker and Harold Abrahams ), he won the 880 yd and 1 mile at the 1919 AAA championships and then equalled the British record of 4: 16. 8 for 1 mile.

While in-between Afghan Whigs albums and amidst a dispute with their record label, Elektra Records, Dulli recorded demos for the act with friends and collaborators Shawn Smith ( Brad, Satchel, Pigeonhed ) and Harold " Happy " Chichester ( Royal Crescent Mob, Howlin ' Maggie ) in New Orleans.

Director Harold Prince agreed to replace him with Larry Kert if Jones would open the show and record the cast album.

Working as a valet / chauffeur for blues singer Freddie King, he started singing in local clubs where he was discovered by record executive / musician Harold Burrage.

In 1959, Miles Davis ' business manager Harold Lovett negotiated a record contract for Coltrane with Atlantic, the terms including a $ 7000 annual guarantee.

According to Harold Meloy, “ The error in the date of death vs. 1857 detracted nothing from the legend now reinforced by a permanent record in stone .”

LaRouche ran for president on eight consecutive occasions, a record for any candidate, and has tied Harold Stassen's record as a perennial candidate.

The label began in 1953 in Beaumont, Texas when local businessmen Jack Starnes ( Lefty Frizzell's manager ) and Houston record distributor Harold W. Daily ( better known as " Pappy ") decided to form a record label.

It was a brilliant debut, so much so indeed that it aroused a new vitality in the younger poets, as did Byron's Childe Harold.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

Eugene was not entirely silent, or openly rude -- unless asking Harold to move to another chair and placing himself in the fauteuil that creaked so alarmingly was an act of rudeness.

It went right on creaking under his own considerable weight, and all it needed, Harold thought, was for somebody to fling himself back in a fit of laughter and that would be the end of it.

Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.

Eugene offered Harold his car, to use at any time he cared to, and when this offer was not accepted, the armchair creaked.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.

There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.

Africa was also set on its course to decolonization, swept by what Harold Macmillan, the then British Prime Minister, aptly termed the " wind of change ".

Some sources state that following King Edward the Confessor's death in 1066, it was Ealdred who crowned Harold Godwinson as King of England.

Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.

Later in 1051, when he was sent to intercept Harold Godwinson and his brothers as they fled England after their father's outlawing, Ealdred " could not, or would not " capture the brothers.

Stigand's position as archbishop was canonically suspect, and as earl Harold had not allowed Stigand to consecrate one of the earl's churches, it is unlikely that Harold would have allowed Stigand to perform the much more important royal coronation.

It was adapted for film in 1977, with Harold Prince directing and Elizabeth Taylor, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg starring.

It was directed by Harold Prince with choreography by Patricia Birch and design by Boris Aronson.

Holly was having trouble getting his royalties from Petty, so he hired the noted lawyer Harold Orenstein at the recommendation of his friends the Everly Brothers, who had engaged Orenstein following disputes with their own manager, Wesley Rose.

Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe.

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

BSC was formed from the assets of former private companies which had been nationalised, largely under the Labour Party government of Harold Wilson, on 28 July 1967.

The original editor was George Moonie, 1938 – 1959, followed by Harold Cramond, 1959-84.

In addition, Ethiopia had just begun to emerge from a long and brutal famine ; Harold Marcus reminds us that the army was restive over its long service in the field, short of rations, and the short rains which would bring all travel to a crawl would soon start to fall.