The most famous duel fought on the site was on March 22, 1820, between Stephen Decatur and James Barron.

Evers was born July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi, third of the five children ( including older brother Charles Evers ) of James and Jesse Evers ; the family also included Jesse's two children from a previous marriage.

He married Ann Pine ; in addition to their famous son, they had two children, James Decatur and Ann Decatur McKnight.

Stephen Decatur, William Bainbridge, Charles Stewart, Isaac Hull, Thomas Macdonough, James Lawrence, and David Porter served under his command at Tripoli.

Stephen Decatur and his younger brother, James Decatur, led the actual operation.

To B. F. and Thurza were born nine children: William Decatur, David Patillo, Robert H., Mary Caroline, Nancy Ogburn, Thurza Melvina, Benjamin Franklin, Jr., James Landrum, and Martha America.

He was the second child of Benjamin Franklin White and Thurza Melvina Golightly, whose other children were William Decatur, Robert H., Mary Caroline, Nancy Ogburn, Thurza Melvina, Benjamin Franklin, Jr., James Landrum, and Martha America.

The school was founded in 1901 by prominent Decatur businessman James Millikin.

During this same year in Decatur, Illinois, Pastor James Southerland was also making decisions.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brownlow, who commanded the First Brigade of Thomas' First Cavalry Division, was ordered across one of these fords.

He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.

James P. Mitchell, when he was the head of the department, promised to eat his hat if unemployment didn't drop below three million a couple of years ago.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

I was interested in James Webb Young's Madison Avenue column in which he raised the question: `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''??

It was Pullen James, the campmate of Simms Purdew.

Pullen James humbly lowered his head, pushed aside the hardtack-box door of the hut, and was gone from sight.

Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.

Referring further to the Foundation's officers, Dr. James F. Mathias, for eleven years our discerning colleague as Associate Secretary, was promoted to be Secretary.

This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

Several defendants in the Summerdale police burglary trial made statements indicating their guilt at the time of their arrest, Judge James B. Parsons was told in Criminal court yesterday.

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

Miss Mary Ross of Baird was maid of honor, and bridesmaids were Miss Pat Dawson of Austin, Mrs. Howard M. Dean of Hinsdale, Ill., and Mrs. James A. Reeder of Shreveport, La..

Cecil Mason of Hartford, Conn., was best man for his brother, and groomsmen were Rhodes S. Baker 3, of Houston, Dr. James Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La..

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

The defendant, William L. Stickney 3, 23, of 3211 Park pl., Evanston, who pleaded guilty to reckless driving, also was ordered by Judge James Corcoran to attend the Evanston traffic school each Tuesday night for one month.

It was during `` Old Music '' at the St. James Theater that Hollywood's Louis B. Mayer spotted her.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

The superb intellectual and spiritual vitality of William James was never more evident than in his letters.

To his Harvard colleague, Josiah Royce, whose philosophic position differed radically from his own, James could write, `` Different as our minds are, yours has nourished mine, as no other social influence ever has, and in converse with you I have always felt that my life was being lived importantly ''.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

* 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

The 4-5 nine is also known as " Jesse James " because the outlaw Jesse James was killed by a. 45 caliber pistol.

* 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

Most of the Scottish nobility were killed along with James himself.

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

And again in his Commentary on Matthew ( Book X, Chapter 17 ) Origen refers to Josephus ' Antiquities of the Jews by name and that Josephus had stated that the death of James had brought a wrath upon those who had killed him.

In item 20 of that chapter Eusebius then mentions Josephus ' reference to the death of James and the sufferings that befell those who killed him.

An issue that is subject to more debate is that in Commentary on Matthew ( Book X, Chapter 17 ), Origen cites Josephus as stating the death of James had brought a wrath upon those who had killed him, and that his death was the cause of the destruction of Jerusalem.

In Book II, Chapter 23. 20 of his Church History, Eusebius mentions Josephus ' reference to the death of James and the sufferings that befell those who killed him.

" This view of Carson's actions may be taken from General James Carleton ’ s orders to Carson on October 12, 1862, concerning the Mescalero Apaches: " All Indian men of that tribe are to be killed whenever and wherever you can find them: the women and children will not be harmed, but you will take them prisoners and feed them at Ft. Stanton until you receive other instructions ".

* 1970 – Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.

* 1940 – First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.

This secret conspiracy, according to her, had killed many early English sovereigns, through to James I in the early seventeenth century.

A brief dramatic episode of Marxist-Leninist revolution took place in North America during the October Crisis in the province of Quebec in Canada, where the Marxist-Leninist and Quebec separatist Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnapped the British Trade Commissioner in Canada, James Cross, and Quebec government minister Pierre Laporte who was later killed, it issued a manifesto condemning what it considered English Canadian imperialism in French Quebec calling for an independent, socialist Quebec.

James, also a newspaperman, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting with the International Brigades.

James T. Kirk is missing, presumed killed, after the ship encounters the Nexus energy ribbon on its maiden voyage.

* The first two pages of Ian Fleming's novel Diamonds Are Forever are told from the point of view of an African scorpion which kills and eats a beetle and is then casually crushed and killed itself, by one of the villains whom James Bond would later confront and eventually crush.

However, during a game-shooting party a few days later, a lurking James is accidentally shot and killed by one of the hunters.

** James Chaney, African-American civil rights activist ( killed in Mississippi ) ( b. 1943 )

In 1970, radical Quebec nationalist and Marxist militants of the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnap the Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James Cross during the October Crisis, resulting in Laporte being killed, and the enactment of martial law in Canada under the War Measures Act, resulting in a campaign by the Canadian government which arrests suspected FLQ supporters.

** In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald's restaurant with gunfire, killing 21 people before being shot and killed.

** Neil James Archibald Primrose, MP ( killed in action ) ( b. 1882 )

** James Alexander George Smith " Jags " McCartney the Turks and Caicos Islands ’ first Chief Minister, is killed in a plane crash over New Jersey.