* 1933 – Jerry Falwell, American pastor and evangelist ( d. 2007 )

American ), has resulted in the political disposition that has been labeled the Christian right, whose most visible spokesmen have been figures like Jerry Falwell and the television evangelist Pat Robertson.

Following Bakker's resignation as PTL head, he was succeeded in late March, 1987, by Jerry Falwell.

Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. ( August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007 ) was an American evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator.

Jerry Falwell married the former Macel Pate on April 12, 1958.

The couple had two sons and a daughter ( Jerry Falwell, Jr., a lawyer ; Jonathan Falwell, a pastor ; Jeannie, a surgeon ).

The Church went on to become a megachurch, and is now run by Jerry Falwell's son Jonathan Falwell, who serves in the same capacity as his father.

In 1971, Jerry Falwell founded Liberty University, a Christian liberal arts university in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Jerry Falwell wrote in America Can Be Saved that " I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools.

I would not want to put any of the Jerry Falwell Ministries in a position where we might be subservient to a future Bill Clinton, God forbid ....

In the 1980s Jerry Falwell was critical of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa.

Funding for the film was provided by " Citizens for Honest Government ," to which Jerry Falwell paid $ 200, 000 in 1994 and 1995.

" Jerry Falwell said about the first book in the series: " In terms of its impact on Christianity, it's probably greater than that of any other book in modern times, outside the Bible.

* 1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal ; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.

The programme was also at the centre of a controversy when American cleric and conservative pundit Jerry Falwell claimed in 1999 that Tinky Winky, one of the Teletubbies, was a homosexual role model for children.

He aroused the interest of Jerry Falwell in 1999 when Falwell alleged that the character was a " gay role model ".

* In The Simpsons episode " Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ," Homer dresses up like a Teletubby to entertain Maggie, remarking "... and I'm all man, in case you heard otherwise " in reference to claims by Jerry Falwell.

Among the American Christian leaders who spoke out in Moon's defense were conservative Jerry Falwell, head of Moral Majority, and liberal Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

* February 24 – Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $ 200, 000 for defamation.

* August 11 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist and conservative political activist ( d. 2007 )

Evangelical scholars and pastoral leaders critical of inclusive language translations include John F. MacArthur, J. I. Packer, Jack T. Chick, Gail Riplinger, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Texe Marrs, Wayne Grudem, Peter Ruckman, D. James Kennedy, Josh McDowell, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., John Piper, Pat Robertson, R. C.

The week of September 11, 2001, Robertson discussed the terror attacks with Jerry Falwell, who said that " the ACLU has to take a lot of blame for this " in addition to " the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays, and the lesbians have helped terror attacks of September 11th happen.

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Bandleaders, like Jerry Perell and others, started DJ companies, such as NY Rhythm DJ Entertainers.

* July 24 – At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together ( their act started on July 25, 1946 ).

However, when cast member Hank Azaria ad-libbed a voice for Frink, he did an impression of Jerry Lewis's character Julius Kelp from the 1963 film The Nutty Professor, and the writing staff started making Frink more of a parody of that character.

Kantner, a native San Franciscan, had started out performing on the Bay Area folk circuit in the early 1960s, alongside fellow folkies Jerry Garcia, David Crosby and Janis Joplin.

In 1974 Norman and Kenn Gulliksen started a Bible Study in the living room of Norman's apartment at Doheny and Sunset in Los Angeles that was only for musicians and actors, including regulars Jerry Houser and Julie Harris, which after six months, was named " The Vineyard ", and later, with another Bible study at the home of Chuck Girard, became part of the founding congregation of the Association of Vineyard Churches.

Johnson started learning the guitar at age 11 and rapidly began progressing through the music that would heavily influence his future style, including ALEXI LAIHO, Mike Bloomfield, Chet Atkins, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Jerry Reed, Bob Dylan and Django Reinhardt, among others.

The songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller had started Spark Records, and in 1955 produced " Smokey Joe's Cafe " for the Robins ( their 5th single with Leiber-Stoller ).

Jerry Bruckheimer started working exclusively with Disney following the release of Bad Boys II six months later.

Absolutely key to bringing Unix to inside the company, DEC's Unix Engineering Group ( UEG ) was started by Bill Munson with Jerry Brenner and Fred Canter, both from DEC's premier Customer Service Engineering group, Bill Shannon ( from Case Western Reserve University ), and Armando Stettner ( from Bell Labs ).

They began dating in 1986 ( as revealed in " The Truth "; per " The Betrayal ", this would have been shortly after Jerry moved into his apartment and shortly after Elaine herself first moved to New York, suggesting Jerry was her first New York boyfriend ), then dated for three years up until 1990, indicating they began dating in mid-1986 and broke up in mid-1990 ( however this theory on their period of time together before the show started is made a little strange when in the episode " The Deal " Elaine states the two only had sex 37 times together, and in the same episode Jerry states he thought it was 25 times.

" Jerry questioned Elaine about Puddy when she first started dating him and was disappointed she'd be dating his mechanic, telling her " You always want to know who your ex-girlfriend is dating ".

The NWA brand name has been seen most prominently in recent years in conjunction with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ), a former NWA member promotion started by Jeff Jarrett and his promoter father Jerry in 2002, which withdrew from the NWA in 2004.

By 2002, three other musicians had joined the band, including former Further Seems Forever band mate Jerry Castellanos, and started the process of recording the band's next album.

He has since started his own ministry, Jerry Vines Ministries.

The earliest Atlanta-based music maven, Bill Lowery, started the careers of Ray Stevens, Joe South, Jerry Reed, and countless others, and created the first Georgia-based springboard for such talent, National Recording Corporation, sporting not only a record label, but a recording studio and pressing plant.

When The Crows started out in 1951, practicing sidewalk harmonies, the original members were Daniel " Sonny " Norton ( lead ), William " Bill " Davis ( baritone ), Harold Major ( tenor ), Jerry Wittick ( tenor ), and Gerald Hamilton ( bass ).

When Jerry and Maria McAuley started the Cremorne Mission in 1882, in the Cremorne Garden, at 104 West 32nd Street, as a " beachhead in a vast jungle of vice and debauchery known as Tenderloin " ( near Sixth Avenue ), Crosby also began supporting this new mission.

" This was given as a printout for each AMD worker who started a job at AMD in Dresden until Jerry Sanders retirement.

In Fall 2008, the Civil Engineering department started a new program, the Reese Construction Management program, with a 1. 25 million dollar donation from Jerry and Sheila Reese.

* Jerry D. Baird, longtime chuckwagon cook for a ranch near Snyder ; started his own line of food seasonings.

Sid then made his way to Memphis Wrestling, with his brother Johnny Rotten, on July 14, 2007 and started a feud with old rival Jerry Lawler, while also serving as " Hollywood " Jimmy Blaylock's enforcer.