The Navy Yard was spared permanent closure in 1912 by an impassioned plea from local Congressman Edwin W. Higgins of Norwich, who was worried about the loss of Federal spending in the region.

The City of Stonnington is within the Federal Electorate of Higgins.

* Peter Costello-Former Federal Treasurer and former MP for Higgins.

" Despite proposing the filter, he has been chosen by The Greens to stand in the Federal seat of Higgins.

Costello is the brother of former treasurer of Australia and Federal Member for Higgins, Peter Costello.

In June 1928, Margaret Higgins Sanger resigned as president of the American Birth Control League, founding the National Committee for Federal Legislation on Birth Control and splitting the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau from the League.

* On May 10, Col. Jacob Higgins, commanding about 500 Federal cavalry, was surprised by detachments of Imboden's cavalry ; he tried to rally his men " on the plains of Romney " but was pushed out of town.

In 1907, he was also appointed President of the newly created Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, created to arbitrate disputes between trades unions and employers, something Higgins had long advocated.

Later in 1913 he was made Deputy President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration under Justice Higgins, leaving the court on 30 April 1920.

* 40th Circuit Court: Honorable Nick O. Holowka ; Honorable Michael P. Higgins

Barton was one of only eight justices of the High Court to have served in the Parliament of Australia prior to his appointment to the Court ; the others were Richard O ' Connor, Isaac Isaacs, H. B. Higgins, Edward McTiernan, John Latham, Garfield Barwick, and Lionel Murphy.

Thomas Francis O ' Higgins ( 23 July 1916 – 25 February 2003 ) was an Irish Fine Gael politician, barrister and judge, who was Chief Justice of Ireland and a member of the European Court of Justice.

Shortly afterwards O ' Higgins was appointed a High Court judge ; and in 1974, after the sudden death of William FitzGerald, O ' Higgins, although the most junior High Court judge, was chosen to replace him as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

On the High Court he joined H. B. Higgins as a radical minority on the Court in opposition to the Chief Justice, Sir Samuel Griffith.

Isaacs was one of only eight justices of the High Court to have served in the Parliament of Australia prior to his appointment to the Court ; the others were Edmund Barton, Richard O ' Connor, H. B. Higgins, Edward McTiernan, John Latham, Garfield Barwick, and Lionel Murphy.

In the later 1920s the party was rebuilt by Jack Kavanagh, an experienced Canadian Communist activist, and Esmonde Higgins, a talented Melbourne journalist who was the nephew of a High Court judge, H. B.

Higgins, a leading Victorian radical political figure and later a federal minister and justice of the High Court of Australia.

A hearing of the International Court of Justice in 2006 presided over by its President, Her Excellency Dame Rosalyn Higgins.

On 19 September 2003, Joe Higgins and Clare Daly were sent to Mountjoy Prison for a month for refusing to abide by a High Court injunction relating to the blockading of bin lorries.

* Robert J. Higgins, New Brunswick politician, Supreme Court justice

* Rosalyn Higgins, Baroness Higgins ( born 1937 ), President of the International Court of Justice

In the Spring Spencer won the Ashton Court Country Club event ( and took the highest break prize ) by defeating Alex Higgins 5 – 1 in front of a sell out crowd in the final.

Barwick was one of only eight justices of the High Court to have served in the Parliament of Australia prior to his appointment to the Court ; the others were Edmund Barton, Richard O ' Connor, Isaac Isaacs, H. B. Higgins, Edward McTiernan, John Latham, and Lionel Murphy.

ACT Supreme Court Justice Higgins awarded the two politicians and their wives a total of $ 277, 000 damages.

From 1817 to 1823, Bernardo O ' Higgins ruled Chile as supreme director.

Higgins ruled that McKay was obliged to pay his employees a wage that guaranteed them a standard of living that was reasonable for " a human being in a civilised community ," regardless of his capacity to pay.

Higgins writes in the first person of finding the graves of 13 German paratroopers in an English churchyard, an event known not to have actually occurred, and claims that the book stems from his research into actual events.

Dick Higgins died of a heart attack while attending an event in Quebec, Canada.

Even H. B. Higgins, who was himself later appointed to the court, objected to setting it up, on the grounds that it would be impotent while Privy Council appeals remained, and that in any event there was not enough work for a federal court to make it viable.

On 26 March 2006, Williams won his 16th ( and first ranking event in two and a half years ), the China Open in Beijing, beating Higgins 9 – 8 in the final.

He advanced to the second round with a 10 – 4 win over Bingham and then crushed an out of sorts John Higgins 13 – 4, his first victory over his compatriot in a ranking event since 2003, to set up a last 8 meeting with Stephen Maguire.

Higgins returned to professional competition on 12 November 2010 in the Ruhr Championship – European Players Tour Championship ( EPTC ) event five in Hamm, Germany, and went on to win the tournament beating Shaun Murphy 4 – 2 in the final.

However, in the same tournament a year later, Gray again eliminated Higgins and Hendry en route to the final, and this time won the event, defeating newcomer Mark Selby 9 – 7.

The invitational event featured eight players, namely Ronnie O ' Sullivan, Stephen Hendry, Stephen Maguire, Matthew Stevens, Paul Hunter, John Higgins, Jimmy White and Shaun Murphy, with Stevens beating Murphy in the final.

Towards the end of 1978 Reardon beat Patsy Fagan 6 – 1 and Alex Higgins 11 – 9 in a high quality final to win the one-off ' Champion of Champions ' event sponsored by the Daily Mirror and held at the Wembley Conference Centre.

In January 1980, Mans defeated Bill Werbeniuk 3 – 0 and John Spencer 3 – 2 before losing 4 – 2 to Alex Higgins in the final of the Padmore / Super Crystalite event held at the Gala Baths, West Bromwich.

As defending champion in the 1972 event, Spencer beat Fred Davis 31 – 21 and Eddie Charlton 37 – 32, before facing championship debutant Alex Higgins in the final.

Spencer had also expended effort in beating Higgins 4 – 3 in the final of the Park Drive 2000 event the night before their final commenced Despite this, Spencer in his 2005 memoir made clear that Higgins played the better snooker and won the match ' fair and square '.

Spencer won the event both times it was held beating Alex Higgins 8 – 2 ( in the semi-final ) and John Pulman 8 – 7 ( in the final ) to win the 1973 event and beating Cliff Thorburn 9 – 7 ( in the semi-finals ) and Ray Reardon 10 – 9 ( in the final ) to win the 1974 event.

In 1975 he beat Alex Higgins in a one off match and then beat Higgins again in the final of a four man event held in 1976.

Few of those have become consistent stars, although Stephen Hendry and John Higgins took their first ranking titles in the event.

The last was made by John Higgins in the last 32 of the 2003 event against Michael Judge.

John Higgins made it in the quarter-finals of the 2000 event against Jimmy White.

Although Maguire lost the final 6 – 9 to his compatriot John Higgins, he more than made up for it at the next event, the UK Championship, snooker's second biggest tournament.

As well as Maciunas ' concerts at the AG Gallery, March 1961 featuring music and events by Maciunas himself, Ichiyanagi, Mac Low and Higgins, the two other most important precursors to fluxus were La Monte Young's influential series of performances in the Chambers Street loft of Yoko Ono and Ichiyanagi Toshi, in 1961 involving Henry Flynt, La Monte Young, Joseph Byrd & Robert Morris amongst others ; and Robert Watts and George Brecht's Yam Festival, spring 1963 at Rutgers University and New York, which included a series of mail art event scores and performances by John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ay O and Dick Higgins.