* 1998 – James Byrd, Jr. of Texas is killed when white supremacists drag him behind a pickup truck along an asphalt pavement.

** White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles ( 3 km ).

Byrd named the city " Richmond " after the English town of Richmond near ( and now part of ) London, because the view of the James River was strikingly similar to the view of the River Thames from Richmond Hill in England, where he had spent time during his youth.

Claiming the Norfolk area was unhealthful ( although it became an area of entrepreneurs ), Francis Nicholson, governor of the colony, and William Byrd, a wealthy and influential planter, offered the French settlement at Manakin Town, an abandoned Monacan village about 20 miles above the falls of the James River.

On October 22, 2009, the United States Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.

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In 1762 James Parke Farley, son of Francis Farley, went to Williamsburg to attend the College of William and Mary and soon after married Elizabeth Hill Byrd, daughter of William Byrd III and Elizabeth Hill Carter.

* John William King was convicted of dragging James Byrd, an African-American, to his death in Jasper, Texas in 1998.

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.

§ 534 ( HCSA ), passed in 1990 and modified in 2009 by the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.

James Byrd, Jr. ( May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998 ) was an African-American who was murdered by three white men, of whom at least two were white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998.

It later led to the federal October 22, 2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.

Ross Byrd, the only son of James Byrd, has been involved with Murder Victims ' Families for Reconciliation, an organization that opposes capital punishment.

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In 1998, the attorney Khalid Abdul Muhammad brought the organization into the national spotlight when he led the group to intervene in response to the 1998 murder of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Texas.

HRC lobbies for anti-discrimination, hate crimes laws, and worked on the passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.

Murkowski was one of five Republican senators who voted with Democrats for the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

* 1989 – James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright, author, and actor ( b. 1924 )

* 1956 – James A. Winnefeld, Jr., American admiral

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Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

Real estate developer James Keelty Jr. succeeded him as president with investment banker Joseph Iglehart the new board chairman.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

In 1966, James Bevel, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Albert Raby led the Chicago Open Housing Movement, which culminated in agreements between Mayor Richard J. Daley and the movement leaders.

But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under the famous lawman, Tom Destry and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry, Jr. ( James Stewart ) to help him make Bottleneck a lawful, respectable town.

* James Stewart as Thomas Jefferson " Tom " Destry, Jr., the new deputy

* 1944 – James B. Cobb, Jr., American guitarist ( Classics IV )

* 1920 – Daniel " Chappie " James Jr., American general ( d. 1978 )

* James Tiptree, Jr. Award

* Fiensy, David A., " Population, Architecture, and Economy in Lower Galilean Villages and Towns in the First Century AD: A Brief Survey ," in John D. Wineland, Mark Ziese, James Riley Estep Jr. ( eds ), My Father's World: Celebrating the Life of Reuben G. Bullard ( Eugene ( OR ), Wipf & Stock, 2011 ), 101-119.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

Seeing the Unseen by Ultra High-Speed Photography ( 1939, with James R. Killian Jr .).

* Payton Jr., James R. Irenaeus on the Christian Faith: A Condensation of ' Against Heresies ( Cambridge, James Clarke and Co Ltd, 2012 ).

* Lewis, James E., Jr. John Quincy Adams: Policymaker for the Union.

He therefore became James Joseph Brown, Jr. As a young child, Brown was called Junior.

* 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

* 1768 – James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.

James Madison, Jr. ( March 16, 1751 ( O. S.

James Madison, Jr. was born at Belle Grove Plantation near Port Conway, Virginia on March 16, 1751, ( March 5, 1751, Old Style, Julian calendar ), where his mother had returned to her parents ' home to give birth.