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In 1905 England's captain Stanley Jackson not only won the series 2 – 0, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages.
The 1976 season brought Reggie Jackson and Ken Holtzman from a trade with Oakland, but the Orioles only won 88 games.
When Election Day arrived, Andrew Jackson won, although narrowly, pluralities of the popular and electoral votes, but not the necessary majority of electoral votes.
Adams ' victory shocked Jackson, who had won the most electoral and popular votes and fully expected to be elected president.
Jackson won the rest of the states, picking up 178 electoral votes to Adams ' 83 votes, and succeeded him.
Jackson won and from then on Polk was a firm supporter of Jackson.
Though Jackson had won the popular vote, neither he nor any of the other candidates ( John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford ) had won a majority of the electoral vote.
Thanks to the sudden and surprising maturation of most of the aforementioned players ( specifically the pitching ), the Royals won their fifth division championship in 1984, relying on Brett's bat and the young pitching staff of Saberhagen, Gubicza, Charlie Leibrandt, Black and Jackson.
He became one of the recognized managers of the Jackson campaign, and his tour of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia in the spring of 1827 won support for Jackson from Crawford.
He won the lasting regard of Jackson by his courtesies to Peggy Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton, with whom the wives of the cabinet officers led by Vice President Calhoun's wife, Floride Calhoun had refused to associate in the Petticoat Affair.
In the election of 1832, the Jackson-Van Buren ticket won by a landslide ( heavily due to the fact that Andrew Jackson was a popular war hero ).
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 ).
Andrew Jackson expected the House to vote for him, as he had won a plurality of the popular and electoral votes.
Peace was agreed to at the end of 1814, but not before Andrew Jackson, unaware of this, won a great victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 ( news took several weeks to cross the Atlantic before the advent of steam ships ).
Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes in the Election of 1824, but still lost to John Quincy Adams when the election was deferred to the House of Representatives.
Jackson won everything else, resulting in a landslide victory.
Jackson won 219 of the 286 electoral votes cast, defeating Clay, the candidate of the National Republican Party, and Anti-Masonic Party candidate William Wirt.
Morton said he was " quite disgusted " to later learn that Jackson hadn't gone either, and that the competition had been won instead by Alfred Wilson ; Morton considered himself a better pianist than Wilson.
Calhoun served four years under John Quincy Adams, and then, in 1828, won re-election as Vice President running with Andrew Jackson.
Jackson mobilized his political base by vetoing the recharter bill andthe veto sustained – easily won reelection on his anti-Bank platform.

Jackson and five
The Bills ' defense dominated the Raiders ' offense, which was without running back Bo Jackson, who suffered a career-ending injury against the Cincinnati Bengals the week before, limiting them to an early field goal and intercepting five passes from quarterback Jay Schroeder.
In that game, Jackson fractured five cervical vertebrae, which caused him to spend six weeks in the hospital, and another month in a neck cast.
The A's won the Division again in 1972 ; their series with the Tigers went five games, and Jackson scored the tying run in the clincher on a steal of home.
A number of filmmakers have had their movies honored for their achievements in visual effects ; i. e., five films produced by George Pal, five by producer George Lucas, five by director James Cameron ( who began his career in Hollywood as an effects technician ), four by directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, and three by director Robert Zemeckis.
* Janet Jackson has performed 13 concerts at this venue on five concert tours.
In August 1836, the land was divided into five townships of Jackson, Hamblen, Washington, Johnson, and Van Buren.
During the American Civil War Confederate General Richard Taylor sent five companies into Jackson and Winn parishes to arrest conscripts who failed to report for duty and to halt jayhawker groups in the area.
Jackson is governed by an elected City Council of five members, each representing a district of the city.
Mount Auburn is situate at the geographical center of Jackson Township, the southwest corner Township of the county, twelve miles southwest of Shelbyville, and five miles northeast of Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana, on the I., M. and I. R. R.
It took forty-six lives and was the deadliest F5 tornado to hit the United States since the Jackson, Mississippi, Candlestick Park Tornado five years earlier in 1966 and the earliest confirmed F5 tornado during a year.
The so-called Boston Associates, including Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson of the Boston Manufacturing Company, named the new mill town after their visionary leader, Francis Cabot Lowell, who had died five years before its 1823 incorporation.
* Kevin Jackson ( born 1978 ), former U. S. soccer midfielder who spent five seasons in the USL First Division and two in the Premier Development League.
Jacksonville is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, about five miles west of Medford.
Joe Jackson ( born David Ian Jackson, 11 August 1954, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire ) is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001.
Howard came to Jackson County in 1842 from Kentucky, married Maria in 1844, and by 1850 he and Maria had and a homestead five miles ( 8 km ) north of town.
In May 2012, it was announced that original members Wilton, Rockenfield and Jackson, along with Parker Lundgren and Crimson Glory frontman Todd La Torre had formed a band called Rising West, playing songs from the first five Queensrÿche albums only.
* June 4 – 15 – U2, Sting, Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, the Neville Brothers, and Bryan Adams stage the A Conspiracy of Hope Tour in the United States on behalf of Amnesty International, playing five cities on the tour.
* July 2 – Michael Jackson with fifth single from Bad, " Dirty Diana ", he broke the record to have five consecutive charting singles from same album at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, is the first artist and only male in history to get this done.
) and he was forced to reverse his position, which he claimed was " misunderstood ", but this reversal did not end the controversy, and the Mormons were violently expelled from Jackson County, Missouri five months later in December 1833.
Lee Jackson formed Jackson Heights which released five albums between 1970 and 1973.

Jackson and consecutive
Reggie Jackson tied the then American League record of hitting home runs in six consecutive games at Baltimore in 1976.
Since Jackson had hit a home run off Dodger pitcher Don Sutton in his last at bat in Game 5, his three home runs in Game 6 meant that he had hit four home runs on four consecutive swings of the bat against four different Dodger pitchers.
Led by O ' Neal, Bryant, and another Hall of Fame coach, Phil Jackson, Los Angeles won three consecutive titles between 2000 to 2002, securing the franchise its second " three-peat ".
Tompkins ' immediate successor, John C. Calhoun served two consecutive terms but under different presidents ( John Quincy Adams in 1824 and Andrew Jackson in 1828 ), and resigned the office before completing his second term.
He was named to his fourth consecutive Major League All-Star Game, joining closer Mike MacDougal at the Mid-Summer Classic, marking the first time since 2000 ( Sweeney and Jermaine Dye ) that KC had two representatives and just the second time since 1989 ( Bo Jackson and Mark Gubicza ).
Wright left office in 1952, after holding the title of Governor for six consecutive years, and opened a law office in Jackson, Mississippi.
Although he never won a Coach of the Year award, he is one of only three coaches in NBA history with 15-plus consecutive seasons with a winning record ( Pat Riley and Phil Jackson are the others ).
Flight Director Rich Jackson directed the five STS-70 astronauts to remain aloft for another day after poor visibility prevented Discovery's homecoming on the two consecutive landing opportunities.
During one incredible stretch ( 1980 – 1987 ), Jackson dominated the league, making it to eight consecutive post-seasons.
During this time ( 1967 – 75 ) the A's featured Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson and Rollie Fingers, who went on to be mainstays of the Oakland Athletics 3 consecutive World Series titles ( 1972 – 74 ).
Artists playing there have included Michael Jackson, the first musical performer to play shows at the venue in 1988, on June 27 and 28 for his Bad World Tour and subsequently in 1997, on June 27 and 29 for the History World Tour ( more than 240, 000 spectators for four concerts ), the Rolling Stones who played two concerts in 1990, Johnny Hallyday who celebrated his 50th birthday there in 1993 ( performing on three consecutive evenings ) and his 60th birthday in 2003 ( for four nights ), U2 ( 53, 519 spectators on September 6, 1997 ), Robbie Williams, Prince and Iron Maiden.
The long-form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects, and promoted music from two consecutive Jackson albums, HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, which went on to become the biggest selling double-album by a solo artist and remix album of all time, respectively ( 20 million and 11 million ).
On September 26, 2009, for the 300th consecutive sellout of Memorial Stadium, Jackson again provided a video tribute to the fans of Nebraska.
In the bottom of the inning, the Yankees responded with consecutive two-out singles by Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson, and Chris Chambliss, scoring Munson.
Jackson rushed for 1, 145 yards during the 2011 Regular Season, marking the seventh consecutive season he has surpassed 1, 000 yards.
Silva won by TKO after delivering seventeen consecutive knees to Jackson.
The Rams responded with a field goal from Jeff Wilkins to retake their 4-point lead, but Hasselbeck stormed back, completing five consecutive passes for 75 yards on Seattle's ensuing drive and finishing it off with a 23-yard touchdown pass to Darrell Jackson, giving his team their first lead of the game 1: 17 into the fourth quarter.
Produced by the songwriters, " I'll Be There " was The Jackson 5's fourth # 1 hit in a row (" I Want You Back ", " ABC ", and " The Love You Save "), making them the first black male group to achieve four consecutive # 1 pop hits.
While it was to become the only single of the seven released off the Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 album to not hit the top two on the Billboard Hot 100, it became the fourth consecutive single from the album to reach number one on the dance chart, helping Jackson break a record set by Madonna.
Her most productive period was the early 1980s, when she won all of her majors in consecutive years: 1981 Peter Jackson Classic, the 1982 LPGA Championship and the 1983 U. S. Women's Open.

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