On July 14, 2012, Stein received the official nomination of the Green Party at its nominating convention in July in Baltimore.

In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore about five years older than him.

They met often at the house of Maggie Branson, a known Confederate sympathizer, at 16 North Eutaw Street in Baltimore.

* 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.

He traveled by special train on the main Pennsylvania line from Wheeling through Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and on to Washington, D. C., and was overwhelmed by enthusiastic crowds that met his train along the way.

Blake and Lee met around 1895 while both attended Primary School No. 2 at 200 East Street in Baltimore.

The College met the conditions and moved to its present site in northeast Baltimore in 1917.

Around 1947, Sonny Til sang regularly in amateur shows at the Avenue Cafe in Baltimore, where he met Nelson, Sharp and Gaither.

Lord Baltimore had retained his lands and powers, and avoided the deaths met by many of his Catholic contemporaries in England during this time.

When she was 16, Frances moved to Baltimore where she worked at a diner in Towson, and it was here that she met Harris, who was a regular customer.

In the mid-1960s, Milstead also met and befriended a young man named John Waters ( 1946 –) through their mutual friend Carol Wernig ; Waters and Milstead were the same age and from the same neighborhood, and both embraced many of the countercultural and underground elements of Baltimore society.

Two uncles on the father's side having settled in North America, he visited Maryland in 1763, apparently to assist in recovering a tract of land about which a dispute had arisen, and thus began practising as a lawyer at Baltimore, where for a time he met with much success.

He went out of his way to avoid criticizing the Roman Catholic Church and even met with Cardinal Gibbons during his 1916 Baltimore campaign.

In the late ' 70s, Angelou met Oprah Winfrey when Winfrey was a TV anchor in Baltimore, Maryland ; Angelou would later become Winfrey's close friend and mentor.

Both born to Jewish families, Leiber came from Baltimore, Stoller from Long Island, but they met in Los Angeles in 1950, where Stoller was a freshman at Los Angeles City College while Leiber was a senior at Fairfax High.

He later married Dianna Rhodes, whom he met in Baltimore while filming Diner.

On June 23, the Baltimore Sun reported that the hotel project was met with skepticism by the Baltimore City Council, with many Council members questioning the need for the hotel project and the necessity for it to be publicly financed.

He remarried on 7 February 1964 to Susan Catling, an American from Baltimore resident in London whom he had met in 1956, and, in contrast to his first marriage, this was very happy and content.

The Richmond Convention ultimately adjourned and met at the same time as the other convention at Baltimore, but there were two separate conventions.

The Zionist leaders met in a hotel in Baltimore and concluded that due to the British behaviour, the British were an enemy to be fought.

While at the Naval Academy, he met Martha Rankin (" Mattie ") Egerton, a Baltimore socialite, whom he married in a ceremony at the Naval Academy Chapel on 10 October 1905.

In 1860 he presided over the Democratic National Convention which met first at Charleston and later at Baltimore, until he joined those who seceded from the regular convention ; he then presided also over the convention of the seceding delegates, who nominated John C. Breckinridge for the Presidency.

The Republican National Convention met in mid-May, after the Democrats had been forced to adjourn the 1860 Democratic National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina without a nominee and had not yet re-convened in Baltimore, Maryland.

Years earlier Sissle had struck up a partnership with Blake after they first met in Baltimore in 1915 and had remained in touch during the war.

In addition Gertrude Stein's two American friends from Baltimore, the Cone sisters Claribel and Etta, became major patrons of Matisse and Picasso, collecting hundreds of their paintings.

The Steins ' elder brother, Michael, and sister-in-law Sarah ( Sally ) acquired a large number of Henri Matisse paintings ; Gertrude's friends from Baltimore, Claribel and Etta Cone, collected similarly, eventually donating their art collection, virtually intact, to the Baltimore Museum of Art

The highlight of the museum is the Cone Collection, works by Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Renoir, brought together by Baltimore sisters Claribel and Etta Cone.

The Cone collection is now exhibited in the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Norvell and his brother in law Spencer Cone were partners in Baltimore and together at the Battle of Bladensburg.

Matisse in the Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001 ISBN 0-912298-73-1

* Baltimore Museum of Art: the Cone Collection

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

The president-elect then evaded possible assassins in Baltimore, who were uncovered by Lincoln's head of security, Allan Pinkerton.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

Former Georgia Tech provost Jean-Lou Chameau became the eighth president of Caltech on September 1, 2006, replacing David Baltimore who had served since 1997.

In 1995, Art Modell, who had purchased the Browns in 1961, announced he was relocating the team to Baltimore, Maryland.

On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, " in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance ", according to the man who found him, Joseph W. Walker.

A 2004 book by Howard W. Rosenberg, Cap Anson 2: The Theatrical and Kingly Mike Kelly: U. S. Team Sport's First Media Sensation and Baseball's Original Casey at the Bat, reprints a 1905 Thayer letter to a Baltimore scribe who was asking about the poem's roots.

Most notable and vocal among them was Johnny Unitas, who recognized himself solely as a player for the Baltimore Colts until the day he died, with his estate defending that stand to this day.

When asked to recommend someone else, Davis suggested Robert E. Lee, then an army major in Baltimore ; López approached Lee, who also declined on the grounds of his duty.

At the Maryland Institute he led a group of painters who came to be known as the Baltimore Realists, including the outstanding painters Earl Hofmann, Thomas Rowe, Joseph Sheppard, Ann Didusch Schuler, Frank Redelius, John Bannon, Evan Keehn, and Melvin Miller.

The region had not possessed a professional football team since the days of the Miami Seahawks, who played in the All-America Football Conference in 1946 before becoming the first incarnation of the Baltimore Colts.

Shula was a former Paul Brown disciple who had been lured from the Baltimore Colts after first losing Super Bowl III two seasons earlier to the AFL's New York Jets and finishing 8 – 5 – 1 the following season.

The team MVP that season was Joe Kapp, who threw for seven touchdowns against the Baltimore Colts – still an all-time NFL record ; however, Kapp refused to accept the award, stating, " There is not one most valuable Viking ... there are 40 most valuable Vikings!

The next season, Milwaukee won 95 games and finished second in the East behind the Baltimore Orioles on the strength of their home run power, led by Oglivie ( who led the league in homers in 1980 along with Reggie Jackson ), Cooper, and Thomas ( who hit a then club-record 45 home runs in 1979, since broken by Prince Fielder, who hit 50 homers in 2007 ).

Quarterback Jim Harbaugh, who was acquired in a trade with the Baltimore Ravens for a conditional draft choice in 2000, became the Chargers starting quarterback.

After winning their division, they were easily defeated in the League Championship Series by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Roberto Clemente, who then went on to beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series.

Colts quarterback Earl Morrall threw three interceptions before being replaced by Johnny Unitas, who then led Baltimore to its only touchdown during the last few minutes of the game.

Pittsburgh, who dominated teams with their " Steel Curtain " defense and running game, finished the regular season with a league best 12 – 2 record and defeated the Baltimore Colts and the Oakland Raiders in the playoffs.

The Cowboys, who traditionally wear their white jerseys in home games and often only wear their blue jerseys against teams that have similar policies for themselves ( most notably against the Washington Redskins and occasionally the Philadelphia Eagles ), were forced to wear their blue jerseys as the " home " team in Super Bowl V, which the team lost to the Baltimore Colts and is widely believed where the " blue jersey jinx " started with America's Team.

In the AFC title game, the Patriots traveled to Heinz Field to face the Pittsburgh Steelers, who were coming off a 27 – 10 win over the previous season's Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens.