The poem was the inspiration for the title of John Rechy's novel " City of Night ", and the first stanza of the poem was quoted in the book.

Geneva, instead of becoming the City of God, as John had dreamed, had in the two years since he had been there, continued to be a godless place where all manner of vice flourished.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

Buffalo City Hall | City Hall in Buffalo, New York | Buffalo, New York ; John Wade with George Dietel, built 1929 – 1931

Bronze statue in Temple Square, Salt Lake City, representing Saint Peter | Peter, James, son of Zebedee | James, and John the Apostle | John in the act of conferring the Melchizedek priesthood to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

" One of the Baptist founders, John Gano, had also been the founding minister of the First Baptist Church in the City of New York.

Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".

The son of John Smith, designer of the earlier castle, William Smith was City Architect of Aberdeen from 1852.

* " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", a 1972 song from the album Some Time in New York City, by John Lennon & Yoko Ono

The Big Apple was first popularized as a reference to New York City by John J. Fitz Gerald in a number of New York Morning Telegraph articles in the 1920s in reference to New York horse-racing.

The John Lennon album Some Time in New York City features a song entitled " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", inspired by the incident, as well as the song " The Luck of the Irish ", which dealt more with the Irish conflict in general.

Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter of French silk manufacturer Jean Adolphe Beaux and teacher Cecilia Kent Leavitt, daughter of prominent businessman John Wheeler Leavitt of New York City and his wife Cecilia Kent of Suffield, Connecticut.

Mayor John Lindsay appointed him to the New York City Art Commission in 1969.

In 2008 however Barack Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Ormsby County / Carson City, defeating John McCain 49 % to 48 %, by 204 votes, a margin of under 1 %.

Barrymore was born in Culver City, California, the daughter of American actor John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore ( Makó ), an aspiring actress.

* 1980 – John Lennon, an English musician ( former member of The Beatles ), and peace activist, is murdered by Mark David Chapman, a mentally unstable fan, in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.

* 1985 – Mafia: In New York City, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of the Gambino family.

Armstrong was born in the Chelsea district of New York City to John and Emily Armstrong.

The guerrillas then concentrated their attacks in Guatemala City, where they assassinated many leading figures, including U. S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein in 1968.

American avant-garde composer John Zorn released an album called Grand Guignol by Naked City in 1992, in a reference to " the darker side of our existence which has always been with us and always will be ".

* Robert was born on 16 October 1803 and married Frances Sanderson, daughter of a City of London professional John Sanderson, on 17 June 1829.

In 1923, an extension to the east side of the building in John Street was opened and in 1984 Exchange House in George Street was completed, increasing the size of the City Chambers complex to some 14, 000 square metres.

Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.

Examples of these films include Being John Malkovich, The Princess Bride, Night at the Museum, Groundhog Day, Click and Shrek.

Thus, in 1964, in A Hard Day's Night, John Lennon mischievously taunts the road manager with the line “ If you're gonna have a barney, can I hold your coat ?".

Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

Somewhat ironically, the star of the film was John Travolta, who only three years before had starred in Saturday Night Fever, a film that celebrated disco culture.

In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).

Other appearances include: John Hewson in The Soufflé Rises ( series 1 ); Pat Cash in The Desert Angel ; Cheryl Kernot in We Ain't Got Dames ( series 1 ); Bert Newton ; Amanda Keller and Anne Fulwood in This Night of Nights ( series 1 ); Glenn Ridge in Add Sex and Stir and Office Mole ( series 2 ); Glenn Robbins and Molly Meldrum in Add Sex and Stir, George Negus in Add Sex and Stir and Dick on the Line ( series 3 ) and Ian Baker-Finch in A Hole in the Heart.

Godzilla vs. Megalon was given a high-profile prime-time NBC network premiere in 1977, with an introduction and bumper segments by John Belushi in a Godzilla suit also used on Saturday Night Live.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of the first additions to the cast, and an unofficial replacement for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, who were both leaving the show.

Many of the original cast of Saturday Night Live came from The Second City and the franchise has produced such comedy stars as Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Bob Odenkirk, Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Eugene Levy, Steve Carell, Chris Farley, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

* John F. Young ( 1820 – 1885 ), American Episcopal bishop of Florida, translator of the hymn Silent Night

Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; and again in the last episode of season 31 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.

The " Pythonesque " film explored the events surrounding the 1979 television debate on talk show Friday Night, Saturday Morning between John Cleese and Michael Palin and Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the then Bishop of Southwark.

Her portrait of messianic ( self -) sacrifices of these figures make for entertaining speculation, but they have not been taken seriously as history even by her staunchest supporters, though they have been used in novels ( e. g. Katherine Kurtz's Lammas Night, Philip Lindsay's The Devil and King John ).

Falk was a close friend of independent film director John Cassavetes and appeared in Cassavetes ' films Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence., and, in a cameo, at the end of Opening Night.

This image of Orbison as immovable was so associated with him it was parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, as Belushi dressed as Orbison falls over while singing " Oh, Pretty Woman ", and continues to play as his bandmates set him upright again.

* John Belushi portrayed Peckinpah as a deranged lunatic who directs his first romantic comedy by beating up his leading lady in the first season, fifth episode of Saturday Night Live.

* 8 p. m. EDT: Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music, a tribute to John Lennon that became a concert of prayer and healing for New York City to benefit the relief efforts, hosted by Kevin Spacey and featuring Dave Matthews, Moby, Stone Temple Pilots, Nelly Furtado, Shelby Lynne, Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, The Isley Brothers, Lou Reed, Marc Anthony, Natalie Merchant, Yolanda Adams, Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, is held at Radio City Music Hall and simultaneously broadcast live on the TNT and WB networks.

Slasher films of the 1970s and 80s such as John Carpenter's Halloween ( 1978 ), Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th ( 1980 ), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) " owe much to the original Night of the Living Dead ", according to author Barry Keith Grant.

In 1999, co-writer John A. Russo released a modified version called Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition.

The same year Day of the Dead premiered, Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo released a film titled Return of the Living Dead that offers an alternate continuity to the original film than Dawn of the Dead, but acted more as a parody or satire and is not considered a sequel to the original 1968 film.

John Denver sang a disparaging song about visiting Toledo titled " Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio " which was composed by Randy Sparks.

In Elizabethan English, the word " gambo " ( for gamba ) appears in many permutations ; e. g., " viola de gambo ", " gambo violl ", " viol de gambo ", or " viole de gambo ", used by such notables as Tobias Hume, John Dowland, and William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.