Fort Sumter Medal bearing the likeness of Robert Anderson ( major ) | Major Robert Anderson, and presented to Abner Doubleday.

* The Major-Little to no biographical information is presented about the Major within the book, but due to Stebbins ' testimony, it is inferred that he is at the very least in his mid-to-late thirties and has been running the Long Walk for at least 13 years, but likely much longer.

He was presented the Cross of the Distinguished Service Order for his heroism and given a commission as Major in the British Army by King Edward VII personally even though he declined to renounce his American citizenship.

However, U. S. National Park Service historian Jerome Green, in his 2005 history of the siege, The Guns of Independence, concurs with the 1881 centennial account by Johnston, noting simply that when Brigadier General O ' Hara presented the sword to Major General Lincoln, " he held it for a moment and immediately returned it to O ' Hara.

Along with Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, the chief of staff to Major General Douglas MacArthur, the Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines, and Mr. Rodriquez of the National Power Corporation, Casey presented the project to President Manuel Quezon, who approved it.

On September 19, 2001, Sergeant Major of the Army Jack L. Tilley presented Mauldin with a personal letter from Army Chief of Staff General Eric K. Shinseki, a hardbound book with notes from other senior Army leaders and several celebrities to include Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and Tom Hanks.

A stark and detailed example of victor's justice is presented by James Madison Page in his 1908 book The True Story of Andersonville Prison, subtitled " A Defense of Major Henry Wirz.

Major papers presented as the final project for a master's degree are normally called thesis ; and major papers presenting the student's research towards a doctoral degree are called theses or dissertations.

Since, the Luis Aparicio Award is presented annually to honor the Venezuelan player who recorded the best individual performance in Major League Baseball, as voted on by sports journalists in Venezuela.

The project presented by Leon Vaudoyer which works with cathedral of the Major is the only one of Byzantine style romano, while the others are of style neogothic.

As the last ruling member of the imperial Timurid Dynasty he was surprisingly composed and calm when Major Hodson presented decapitated heads of his own sons to him as Nowruz gifts.

Prime Minister Gough Whitlam lent his support to the new award when he presented the inaugural honour to Major General Alan Stretton, the commander of the emergency response to Cyclone Tracy.

During October 1919 Finnish Chief of Staff Major General Oscar Enckell sited the line, mostly following the original course that von Brandenstein had presented.

At the council, Major Otis presented Captain Jack with some settlers who complained about the behavior of Jack's men, and Captain Jack countered that it was the Modoc who were being abused and unjustly accused of crimes which other Indians had committed.

Major Henry, though under the nominal direction of Gonse, had become the real head of the Intelligence Office, where he quietly prepared a whole series of forgeries, designed, when the opportunity presented itself, to crush Picquart if he ever attempted to cause trouble.

The " enemies of the army " were threatened, whilst the generals and even the most insignificant officers in uniform, not excepting Major Esterhazy, to whom Prince Henry of Orleans asked to be presented, were applauded.

The Sporting News Reliever of the Year Award is an annual award presented to the best relief pitcher in each league in Major League Baseball ( MLB ).

Soon popularly known as either the Moultrie Flag or Liberty Flag, it became the standard of the South Carolina militia, and was presented in Charleston, by Commanding General Major General Nathanael Greene, when that city was liberated at the end of the war.

He was posthumously promoted to Major on November 8, 1946, and his widow was presented with the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the defense of Wake Island.

HLA-identical siblings or HLA-identical unrelated donors often have genetically different proteins ( called minor histocompatibility antigens ) that can be presented by Major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) molecules to the donor's T-cells, which see these antigens as foreign and so mount an immune response.

That same night, Varitek also received the 2006 Red Sox Heart and Hustle Award from the local chapter of the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association, which is presented to a player exemplifying the values, tradition, and spirit of the game of baseball.

Among the other symphonies presented during the first season were Schubert's Great C Major, Mendelssohn's Italian and Schumann's Fourth.

The award, created by USA Baseball and sponsored by the Major League Baseball Players Association, was first presented in 1978.

Webley 1868 RIC No. 1 Revolver cal 450 CFThere is a well-known story that a pair of Webley RIC Model revolvers were presented to Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer by Lord Berkeley in 1869, and it is believed that General Custer was using them at the time of his death in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

* 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.

The current definition of rookie status for the award is based only on Major League experience, but some feel that past NPB players are not true rookies because of their past professional experience.

Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with Kuomintang ( KMT ) pulling out of the mainland, with the government relocating to Taipei and maintaining control only over a few islands.

When the season ended, he posted a 1. 26 ERA, which gave him not only the lowest in his career, but also gave him a Major League record of being the oldest pitcher with 150 + innings pitched to post a season ERA under 1. 50.

He is one of only three catchers in Major League history to catch at least 100 games in a single season without committing an error.

The only dialogue left over from that script was " That's quite an urban renewal program they've got going on over there ", said by Major McDonahue.

During this interregnum, the heads of the dicasteries of the Roman Curia ( such as the prefects of congregations ) cease immediately to hold office, the only exceptions being the Major Penitentiary, who continues his important role regarding absolutions and dispensations, and the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, who administers the temporalities ( i. e., properties and finances ) of the See of St. Peter during this period.

McLane stated that because the Astros was one of the few franchises in Major League Baseball with only one family as the owners, he was trying to move forward with estate planning.

He was christened as John Roy Major, but only " John " is shown on his birth certificate.

The following year, Major watched his first debate in the House of Commons – Harold Macmillan's only budget – and has attributed his political ambitions to that event, and to a chance meeting with former Prime Minister Clement Attlee on the King's Road.

Early in 1994 Major vetoed the Belgian politician Jean-Luc Dehaene as President of the European Commission ( in succession to Jacques Delors ) for being excessively federalist, only to find that he had to accept a Luxembourg politician of similar views, Jacques Santer, instead.

Major won by 218 votes to Redwood's 89 ( with 12 spoiled ballots, eight ' active ' abstentions and two MPs abstaining ), enough to win in the first round, but only three more than the target he had privately set himself.

An alternative theory, which has gained only limited acceptance among professional scholars, derives the name Arthur from Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, near Ursa Major or the Great Bear.

The style Dame Heather McCartney could be used for the wife of a knight ; however, this style is largely archaic and is only used in the most formal of documents, or where the wife is a Dame in her own right ( such as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir John Major was knighted ).

On that day, Nieves became the first ( and so far, only ) Brewer and first Puerto Rican-born Major Leaguer to pitch a no-hitter, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 7 – 0 at Memorial Stadium.

In 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants relocated from New York to California to become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, leaving the largest city in the United States with no National League franchises and only one Major League team.

They were one of only two current Major League teams to never have a pitcher throw a no-hitter, the other being the San Diego Padres.

* 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.

* 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.

He is also the only former Major League Baseball player whose baseball card is displayed at CIA headquarters.