* 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the " whites-only " car of a train ; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.

* June 7 – Homer Plessy ( who is black ) is arrested for sitting on the whites-only car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson court case.

Marker placed at Press and Royal Streets on February 12, 2009 commemorating the arrest of Homer Plessy on June 7, 1892 for violating the Louisiana 1890 Separate Car Act.

They eventually persuaded Homer Plessy to participate in an orchestrated test case.

In his case, Homer Adolph Plessy v. The State of Louisiana, Plessy argued that the state law which required East Louisiana Railroad to segregate trains had denied him his rights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution.

In January 1897, Homer Plessy pleaded guilty to the violation and paid the fine.

In 1892 Pinchback was part of the Comité des Citoyens ( Citizens ' Committee ) which set up the New Orleans civil-rights actions of Homer Plessy as a challenge of segregationist laws in public transportation.

In 1892, Homer Plessy, who was of mixed ancestry and appeared to be white, boarded an all white railroad car between New Orleans and Covington, Louisiana.

Famous New Orleanians buried in St. Louis # 1 include Etienne de Boré, wealthy pioneer of the sugar industry and the first mayor of New Orleans ; Homer Plessy, the plaintiff from the landmark 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision on civil rights ; and Ernest N. " Dutch " Morial, the first African-American mayor of New Orleans.

* Homer Plessy ( 1863 – 1925 ), African-American activist

Homer Plessy ( March 17, 1862 – March 1, 1925 ) was the American Creole plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.

Homer Plessy was born Homère Patrice Plessy March 17, 1862 in New Orleans to Joseph Adolphe Plessy and Rosa Debergue, members of New Orleans ' free people-of-color caste.

Homer Plessy's paternal grandfather was Germain Plessy, a white Frenchman born in Bordeaux c. 1777.

Germain Plessy married Catherine Mathieu, a free woman of color, and they had eight children, including Homer Plessy's father, Joseph Adolphe Plessy.

Adolphe Plessy died when Homer was seven years old, but in 1871, his mother Rosa Debergue Plessy, a seamstress, married Victor M. Dupart, a clerk for the U. S. Post Office who supplemented his income by working as a shoemaker.

* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.

Anaximenes was a pupil of Zoilus and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer.

Furthermore, she expressed the belief that it was Homer before Plato who first wrote of Atlantis.

A relationship between objects of art described by Homer and the Mycenaean treasure was generally allowed, and a correct opinion prevailed that, while certainly posterior, the civilization of the Iliad was reminiscent of the Mycenaean.

The Aegis (), as stated in the Iliad, is the shield or buckler or breastplate, of Athena or Zeus, which, according to Homer was fashioned by Hephaestus.

Catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the Hellenistic Age, and especially by Callimachus and the Alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer.

Parry and Lord also showed that the most likely source for written texts of the epics of Homer was dictation from an oral performance.

Ennius was said to have considered himself a reincarnation of Homer.

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

Hera (; Greek, Hēra, equivalently, Hērē, in Ionic and Homer ) was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion.

Homer was another inspirational source.

Heinrich Schliemann (; ( January 6, 1822 – December 26, 1890 ) was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer.

One story has it that his passion for Homer was born when he heard a drunkard reciting it at the grocer's.

The formative influence played by the Homeric epics in shaping Greek culture was widely recognized, and Homer was described as the teacher of Greece.

When the Emperor Hadrian asked the Oracle at Delphi about Homer, the Pythia proclaimed that he was Ithacan, the son of Epikaste and Telemachus, from the Odyssey.

The idea that Homer was responsible for just the two outstanding epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, did not win consensus until 350 BC.

One view which attempts to bridge the differences holds that the Iliad was composed by " Homer " in his maturity, while the Odyssey was a work of his old age.

Homer is most frequently said to be born in the Ionian region of Asia Minor, at Smyrna, or on the island of Chios, dying on the Cycladic island of Ios.

The episode " That ' 90s Show " ( season 19, 2008 ) contradicted much of the established back-story ; for example, it was revealed that Marge and Homer were childless in the early 1990s although past episodes had suggested Bart and Lisa were born in the 1980s.

" Cryptic was formed as a corporation in California by Jay Clem ( born 1947 ), Homer Flynn ( born April 1945 ), Hardy W. Fox ( born 1945 ), and John Kennedy in 1976, all of whom denied having been band members.

She was born Victoria California Claflin, the seventh of ten children ( six who survived to maturity ), in the rural frontier town of Homer, Licking County, Ohio.

As for indications he was born in America, in " Homer the Heretic " ( 1992 ), Moe's claims " I was born a snake handler and I'll die a snake handler " while in " Day of the Jackanapes " ( 2001 ) he claims to have been born in Indiana.

Barney was born on April 20th ( which Homer remembers as being on the same day as Hitler's in " Viva Ned Flanders " and Barney's entry into the Springfield Film Festival in " A Star Is Burns " where Barney states that he is 40 years old ).

Homer Earl Capehart ( June 6, 1897 – September 3, 1979 ), American business innovator and politician, was born in Algiers, Indiana, in Pike County.

This Apollodorus has been mistakenly identified with Apollodorus of Athens ( born c. 180 BC ), a student of Aristarchus of Samothrace, mainly as it is known — from references in the minor scholia on Homer — that Apollodorus of Athens did leave a similar comprehensive repertory on mythology, in the form of a verse chronicle.

* Andrew R. Johnson ( 1856 – 1933 ), Louisiana state senator from 1916 – 1924 and mayor of Homer in the 1910s, was born in Dadeville.

* Enos C. McClendon, Jr., judge of the 26th Judicial District of Louisiana from 1960 to 1978, was born in Homer in 1917.

* Frank T. Norman, Minden mayor from 1958 to 1966, born in Homer in 1914

Keel was born Harold Clifford Keel in Gillespie, Illinois, to Navyman-turned-coalminer Homer Keel and his wife, Grace Osterkamp Keel.

State Representative Dave Reed was born in Homer City / Indiana and attended Homer-Center High School.

Apion ( 20s BC-c. 45-48 AD ), Graeco-Egyptian grammarian, sophist and commentator on Homer, was born at the Siwa Oasis, and flourished in the first half of the 1st century AD.

His father, Homer George Gere ( born 1922 ), was an insurance agent for the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, and had originally intended to become a minister.

They have a son, Homer James Jigme Gere, who was born in 2000 and is named after Gere's father, as well as the Tibetan name Jigme.

Andrew Dickson White was born on November 7, 1832 in Homer, New York to Clara ( née Dickson ) and Horace White.

Homer Lea was born in Denver, Colorado, to Alfred E. ( 1845 – 1909 ) and Hersa A.

Homer was born seemingly healthy, but after suffering a drop as a baby, he became a hunchback, eventually standing 5-foot, 3-inches in height and weighing approximately 100 pounds.

Their son, Homer, was born on March 2, 2002.