President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

Other authors who used the name were Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO, the column's founder, and William Hartston, the current author of its revived form.

After the Globes closure, it was reestablished as a society news column in the Daily Express from 1917 onwards, initially written by social correspondent Major John Arbuthnot who invented the name " Beachcomber ".

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In fact, in 1992, John Major, writing to John Hume stated:

Although British Prime Minister John Major rejected John Hume's requests for a public inquiry into the killings, his successor, Tony Blair, decided to start one.

However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

Examples include Geena Davis, Morley Safer, Ashley Judd, Gordon Elliott, former Major League pitcher Bill Lee, and astronaut John Grunsfeld calling from the Space Shuttle.

* History of Greater Britain, Historia majoris Britanniae, tam Angliae quam Scotiae, John Major

* 1993 – History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

On September 8, Schuyler sent Allen and Massachusetts Major John Brown, who had also been involved in the capture of Ticonderoga, into the countryside between St. John and Montreal to spread the word of their arrival to the habitants and the Indians.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.

During the 1980s and 1990s, in which Gen Xers would have been teenagers or young adults, the United Kingdom was politically marked by conservative Thatcher-era government followed by the more centrist tenures of John Major ( 1990 – 1997 ) and Tony Blair ( 1997 – 2007 ).

The English Major General John Shrimpton was left as governor ( appointed by the Archduke Charles on the recommendation of Queen Anne ).

Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia.

* 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.

The first radiograph used to assist in surgery was taken a year after its invention in Birmingham by the British pioneer of medical X-Rays, Major John Hall-Edwards.

The first radiography | radiograph used to assist in surgery was taken by the pioneer of medical X-Ray s, Major John Hall-Edwards. Wolseley later becomes a successful car and engine maker selling upmarket cars, and even opens a lavish showroom, Wolseley House, in Piccadilly London ( next to the Ritz Hotel, now housing a restaurant called The Wolseley ).

1896: The first radiograph used to assist in surgery is taken in Birmingham by the British pioneer of medical X-Rays, Major John Hall-Edwards thus kick-starting a whole new field of medical science.

Owen maintained his long standing position that he would never join the Conservative Party, although the memoirs of at least three of John Major's cabinet ministers refer to Major being quite keen to appoint Owen to his cabinet, but threats of resignation from within the Cabinet prevented him from doing so.

Fortunately for the French, assistance was received from Major Clayton of the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ), who was keen to join with the Free French to test the Italians.

The addition of the rank of Major was the result of " an IBM machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's ".

Major Karl-Erich Kuhlenthal, the German's most senior Abwehr agent in Spain, took a keen interest in finding the papers.

While Wood was at Aldershot his aides-de-camp included Captain Edward Roderic ' Roddy ' Owen ( Lancashire Fusiliers ), a famous amateur jockey ( Wood was a keen rider and huntsman ), and Major Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe, 19th Hussars.

The museum contains a large collection of stuffed exotic animals collected by Major Powell-Cotton on his travels in Africa, and also houses artifacts unearthed in and around Birchington by his daughter, Antoinette Powell-Cotton, a keen archeologist.

Major has been a keen supporter of the British Conservative Party.

Early restoration work was undertaken under the supervision of Major Arthur Garrett, a keen amateur astronomer, during his appointment as Assistant State Engineer for the Jaipur District.

He was the father of George Beresford, a politician, and of Major Henry Marcus Beresford, who was the father of the photographer George Charles Beresford.

Major photography collections include newspaper photographer Russell K. Cooper, commercial photographers Cecil Chinn and Cecil Henry, the Luker family collection, and glass negative collections from Robertson Matthews, the Brampton portrait studio, and the McLeod family.

During his trial he played host to members of the Powell Expedition who were waiting for their photographer, Major James Fennemore, to arrive ( Fennemore took the last photo of Lee sitting on his own coffin ).

He was “ chief photographer of stolen government documents for the Silvermaster espionage ring ” while a Major in the Material and Services Division of the Army Air Corps.

* 1884 – Major Harold Geiger, U. S. Army aviation pioneer ( d. 1927 )

* October 7 – Major Harold Geiger, U. S. Army aviation pioneer ( d. 1927 )

* May 17 – The U. S. Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH. 4 de Havilland plane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania.

Major John Redd, Continental Army, pioneer settler of Henry County

Originally named Valdosta Airfield when it opened on 15 September 1941, the airfield was renamed Moody Army Airfield on 6 December 1941 in honor of Major George Putnam Moody ( 13 March 1908-5 May 1941 ), an early Air Force pioneer.

* Major Harold Geiger ( 1884 – 1927 ), pioneer in Army aviation and ballooning.

In 1884, Major William Bulpett, with the backing of winter sports pioneer and Kulm hotel owner Caspar Badrutt, constructed Cresta Run, the first sledding track of its kind in St. Moritz.

This was the most impressive achievement to date of any of the French pioneer aviators, causing Patrick Alexander to write to Major Baden Baden-Powell, president of the Royal Aeronautical Society, " I got back from Paris last night.

Among the notables buried in the cemetery are explorer-surveyor Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Major Edmund Lockyer and Mary, Lady Jamison ( widow of the colonial pioneer landowner, physician, constitutional reformer and ' knight of the realm ', Sir John Jamison ).

Major Walter Clopton Wingfield is credited as being a pioneer of the game.

Known as Sunset Field before 1941, it was purchased from the county by the War Department and renamed Geiger Field after Major Harold Geiger, an Army aviation pioneer who died in a crash in 1927.

Major C. H. ( Clifford Hugh ) Douglas MIMechE, MIEE ( 20 January 1879 – 29 September 1952 ), was a British engineer and pioneer of the Social Credit economic reform movement.

He was schooled under the tutelage of pioneer broadcaster Major J. Andrew White.

* Jackie Robinson: ( 1919 – 1972 ), American Major League Baseball player, Civil Rights pioneer

Major James Rennell, FRS ( 3 December 1742 – 29 March 1830 ) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.

Amongst those killed was Surgeon Major Peter Shepherd, a first-aid pioneer.

Major Douglas, the British pioneer of Social Credit did not believe that Social Credit should be a political party.

Thus, the decision to allow full-time national servicemen ( NSFs ) to join the unit was made in 1972, and on 15 January 1973, the pioneer batch formed the new Second Company under the command of CPT Gwee Peng Hong and with 2WO Kiong Kian Khoon as the Company Sergeant Major.

* Major Walter Clopton Wingfield ( 1833-1912 ): pioneer of lawn tennis, was born here when his grandfather was Rector.

* Major Edgar Tobin, class of 1914, First World War air ace, pioneer of aerial mapping

Martin's descendants include his eldest son Col. William Martin, Tennessee pioneer, and member of the South Carolina and Georgia legislatures ; son Col. Joseph Martin, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the Virginia State Senate and the Virginia Constitutional Convention 1829 – 1830 ; daughter Martha Martin, who married her cousin William Cleveland, son of Benjamin Cleveland, hero of the Battle of King's Mountain ; son Major Brice Martin, Tennessee pioneer, and surveyor in 1801 of the disputed boundary between Virginia and Tennessee ; Dr. Jesse Martin Shackelford, founder of Martinsville's Shackelford Hospital, later Martinsville Memorial ; Judge Nicholas H. Hairston of Roanoke.