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** Jackson Showalter, American chess champion ( d. 1935 )

His record in matches was equally impressive: at Berlin in 1890 he drew a short play-off match against his brother Berthold ; and won all his other matches from 1889 to 1893, mostly against top-class opponents: Curt von Bardeleben ( 1889 ; ranked 9th best player in the world by Chessmetrics at that time ), Jacques Mieses ( 1889 ; ranked 11th ), Henry Edward Bird ( 1890 ; then 60 years old ; ranked 29th ), Berthold Englisch ( 1890 ; ranked 18th ), Joseph Henry Blackburne ( 1892, without losing a game ; Blackburne was aged 51 then, but still 9th in the world ), Jackson Showalter ( 1892 – 1893 ; 22nd ) and Celso Golmayo Zúpide ( 1893 ; 29th ).

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In spite of his ill health, Pillsbury beat American champion Jackson Showalter in 1897 to win the U. S. Chess Championship, a title he held until his death in 1906.

In 1900 he won the Manhattan Chess Club championship ahead of Frank Marshall and Jackson Showalter.

In February 1788, he selected its location to be Port Jackson ( now Sydney Harbour ).

Shortly after establishing the settlement at Port Jackson, on 15 February 1788, Phillip sent Lieutenant Philip Gidley King with 8 free men and a number of convicts to establish the second British colony in the Pacific at Norfolk Island.

Gary Wayne Coleman ( February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010 ) was an American actor, known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes ( 1978 – 1986 ) and for his small stature as an adult.

Clay's personal dislike for Jackson and the similarity of his American System to Adams ' position on tariffs and internal improvements caused him to throw his support to Adams, who was elected by the House on February 9, 1825, on the first ballot.

After Steve Jackson Games licensed the Traveller setting, JTAS was revived once again as a weekly, then bi-weekly subscriber-supported web magazine in February, 2000.

Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone initially produced a newsletter called Owl and Weasel, which ran for twenty-five issues from February 1975 before it evolved into White Dwarf.

* February 15 – Sherry Jackson, American actress

A statue of Queen Elizabeth by sculptor Philip Jackson at the George VI Memorial, off The Mall, London, was unveiled on 24 February 2009.

By February 1831, the break between Calhoun and Jackson was final.

Christensen next starred with Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell and Rachel Bilson in the film Jumper, the story of a young man who discovers he has the ability to teleport ; the film was released on February 14, 2008 .< ref >

Putnam County was first established on 2 February 1842, when the Twenty-fourth Tennessee General Assembly enacted a measure creating Putnam County from portions of Jackson, Overton, Fentress, and White counties.

* H. Dale Jackson ( 7 December 1930-15 February 2003 ), Baptist minister

On his first day in spring training the following February, however, Jackson wore number 20 ( the number of Frank Robinson, who had also just retired ) before switching to 44.

In a 90-minute interview with Oprah Winfrey in February 1993, Jackson claimed that he didn't bleach his skin, stating for the first time that he had vitiligo.

The county was organized February 14, 1845, and named after President Andrew Jackson, nicknamed " Old Hickory.

By the time the county was reestablished on February 26, 1857, John Duncombe of Fort Dodge ( namesake of Duncombe, Iowa ) had tricked Humboldt County into cedeing the southern four townships ( Jackson, Deer Creek, Badger, Newark ) to Webster County " on loan ".

On February 4, 1836, both the House and Senate passed a bill providing for the formation from western Bartholomew, eastern Monroe, and northern Jackson counties of a county to be named for Gen. Jacob Brown, who defeated the British at the Battle of Sackett's Harbor in the War of 1812.

On February 27, 1843, the Illinois General Assembly created a commission to designate a new county seat for Jackson County.

On February 11, 1796, Jackson County was split off from part of Franklin County, Georgia.

During a peaceful march on 18 February 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler.

On February 27, 1967 Wharlest Jackson Sr. was killed when a car bomb went off in his truck as he drove home from work at the Armstrong Rubber Company, where he had recently received a promotion and was working in a position previously " reserved " for whites.

Portions of Freehold Township were taken to form Upper Freehold Township ( c. 1731 ), Millstone Township ( February 28, 1844 ), Jackson Township ( March 6, 1844 ), Atlantic Township ( February 18, 1847 ; now Colts Neck Township ), Marlboro Township ( February 17, 1848 ) and Manalapan Township ( March 9, 1848 ).

Over the years, portions of the township have been taken to form Millstone Township ( February 28, 1844 ), Jackson Township ( March 6, 1844 ) and Allentown ( January 20, 1889 ).

* 1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor ( The Jackson 5 ) ( d. 2009 )

* ABC ( album ), a 1970 album by The Jackson 5

** " ABC " ( song ), a 1970 song by The Jackson 5

The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute ( now Tuskegee University ) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Van McCoy, Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Chic, and The Jacksons — the latter which first dipped its toes into disco as The Jackson 5.

Other notable early disco hits include The Jackson 5 ’ s " Dancing Machine " ( 1974 ), Barry White ’ s " You're the First, the Last, My Everything " ( 1974 ), LaBelle ’ s " Lady Marmalade " ( 1975 ) and Silver Convention ’ s " Fly Robin Fly " ( 1975 ).

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Battle of the Labyrinth, Daedalus is the enigmatic Quintus ( Latin which means 5 or fifth ), and has preserved himself since antiquity by placing his animus, his life force, into an automaton, an idea pioneered by his nephew Perdix.

* 1954 – Jermaine Jackson, American singer ( Jackson 5 )

In 1969, Sullivan presented the Jackson 5 with their first single " I Want You Back ", which ousted the B. J. Thomas song from the top spot of Billboard's pop charts.

Eli Wallach has been married to stage actress Anne Jackson ( born 1926 ) since March 5, 1948, and they have three children:

The city is known for its large steel mills, and for being the birthplace of the The Jackson 5 music group.

Jackson Pollock, No. 5, 1948, oil on fiberboard, 244 x 122 cm.

On March 5, 1829, President Jackson appointed Van Buren Secretary of State, an office which probably had been assured to him before the election, and he resigned the governorship on March 12.

Denver's linebacking core, led by three time Pro Bowler Tom Jackson and Karl Mecklenburg, who recorded 9. 5 sacks, was viewed as comparable to the Giants ' Pro Bowl linebackers.

* December 5 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player ( Say It Ain't So, Joe ) ( b. 1889 )

* March 5 – WBBJ-TV signs on the air in the Jackson, Tennessee, with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expanded American commercial television in mostly-rural areas.

On December 5, 2006, it was announced that Jackson and Livingstone were planning to release a new series of video games based on Fighting Fantasy for Nintendo DS and Sony's PSP.

In the third inning of that seventh game, which ended in a 5 – 2 score, the A's jumped out to a 4 – 0 lead as both Bert Campaneris and Jackson hit two-run home runs off Jon Matlack — the only two home runs Oakland hit the entire Series.

Perhaps the most notable off-field incident involving Jackson occurred on June 5, 1974, when outfielder Billy North and Jackson engaged in a clubhouse fight at Detroit's Tiger Stadium.

") Jackson hit home runs in Game 4 and Game 5 of the Series.