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* 1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God.
* 1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
Following the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, a state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disfranchise free people of color.
" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.
* 1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
* 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
* 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
* November 11 – Nat Turner, American slave rebel ( b. 1800 )
Despite white attempts to control independent black congregations, especially after the Nat Turner Uprising of 1831, a number of black congregations managed to maintain their separation as independent congregations in Baptist associations.
They were reading the Red Book but didn't know who Harriet Tubman, Marcus Garvey, and Nat Turner were.
* 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Three of the best known in the United States during the 19th century are the revolts by Gabriel Prosser in Virginia in 1800, Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, and Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.
Resulting in the hanging of about eighteen slaves, including Nat Turner himself.
Nathaniel " Nat " Turner ( October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831 ) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in the southern United States.
The capture of Nat Turner
After Turner's execution, a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, took it upon himself to publish " The Confessions of Nat Turner ", derived partly from research done while Turner was in hiding and partly from jailhouse conversations with Turner before trial.
This work is the primary historical document regarding Nat Turner.
Before the Nat Turner Revolt, there was a small but ineffectual antislavery movement in Virginia, largely on account of economic trends that made slavery less profitable in the Old South in the 1820s and fears among whites of the rising number of blacks, especially in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions.
Nevertheless, fears of repetitions of the Nat Turner Revolt polarized moderates and slave owners across the South.
In terms of public response and loss of white lives, slaveholders in the Upper South and coastal states were deeply shocked by the Nat Turner Rebellion.
Looking back, Nat Turner remains an " enigmatic and controversial figure ", according to former University of Massachusetts Amherst history professor Stephen B. Oates, given that Turner fought for the just anti-slavery cause but he proceeded in acts of violence against women and children that would today be considered as war crimes or terrorism.

Nat and only
At birth, Turner's owner recorded only his given name, Nat, although he may have had a last name within the slave community.
Voormann had never heard rock ' n ' roll before, having previously only listened to traditional jazz, with some Nat King Cole and The Platters mixed in.
The four-region system covers provinces only as north as Chai Nat, Sing Buri and Lop Buri, and extends west and east to the borders of Myanmar and Cambodia.
For example, a set may be declared to be of type Nat only when its internal structure conforms with a particular list of requirements.
As Sedaka explained in a 2006 London concert, their father-daughter duo would join only Frank and Nancy Sinatra, and Nat " King " ( posthumously ) and Natalie Cole ( via recording manipulation in " Unforgettable ", 1991, to achieve a " duet ") to ever have father-daughter duets to reach the Top 40 on the Hot 100.
The Bisons featured center Don Otten and coach Nat Hickey, but on December 27, 1946 — only thirteen games into their inaugural season — owner Ben Kerner moved the team to Moline, Illinois.
He established himself with a record-breaking tour by American singer Johnnie Ray and Gordon's now-legendary " Big Show " promotions brought to Australia — in many cases for the first or only time — dozens of the biggest American jazz, rock and popular stars of the era, including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Artie Shaw, Nat King Cole, Johnnie Ray, Frank Sinatra, Bill Haley & The Comets, Little Richard, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and many others.
However, their paths finally cross when they both decide to run for governor of Connecticut and Fletcher agrees to defend Nat on the charge of murdering his Republican primary opponent Ralph Elliot for leaking information about his wife and mother-in-law that lead to the suicide of his only child.
The station played four vocal selections per hour and they were only smooth vocal stylings of artists like Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Neil Diamond, Tony Bennett, Patti Page, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, and others.
After Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1946 with the Montreal Royals of the International League, the Southern Association adhered to the Jim Crow segregation laws of the time and only once permitted an African-American to play in the circuit: Nat Peeples of the 1954 Atlanta Crackers, the only black player in the league's history.
* Nat Peeples, the only African-American player in the Southern Association
There are ten boys at the school already ; Nat, and later his friend Dan, join them, and soon after Nan arrives as companion for the only girl ( Daisy ).
Marina sees them and becomes angry, telling Holly that Nat only had sex with her because he was stoned and probably didn't even recognize her.

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* In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Nat Turner as one of the 100 Greatest African Americans.
During late 1932 and early 1933, Groucho and Chico were also working on Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel, a radio show written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman ; there was even, at one time, talk of casting the two as their radio characters for the new film ( an idea that would eventually be used for the later Marx Brothers film The Big Store ).
" ( which shot to number one on Billboard and remained in the Top 10 for 25 weeks ), " I Wanna Be Loved ", " There Will Never Be Another You ", and the inspirational " The Three Bells " ( the first recorded English version of the French composition ), along with several solo recordings with Patty, including a cover version of Nat King Cole's " Too Young ", " It Never Entered My Mind ", " If You Go ", and " That's How A Love Song Is Born ".
AIA also files amicus briefs in cases at all levels of the judiciary, often signing on as one of many organization signatories to a brief authored by Nat Lewin or COLPA.
Jess Stacy was one, Nat " King " Cole and Teddy Wilson were others ( though Cliff Smalls was his favorite ).
In one case, Topps even got too far in front of events, as in 1974 it showed a number of players as being with the " Washington Nat ' l Lea.
In 1950, Riddle was hired by composer Les Baxter to write arrangements for a recording session with Nat King Cole ; this was one of Riddle's first associations with Capitol Records.
The group auditioned for Brunswick Records in front of Alonzo Tucker, Nat Tarnopol ( Jackie Wilson's manager ) and one of the label's staff songwriters, Berry Gordy, who remained quiet during the audition.
In 1957, critic Nat Hentoff called Manne one of the most " musical " and " illuminatively imaginative " drummers.
Other footballers have also named him as one of the best, including Jack Charlton, Nat Lofthouse and Billy Wright.
The series received nine other nominations during its run, with Silvers winning one individual Emmy for his performance, and Nat Hiken winning one for direction.
Other representative selections on the album, whose organizer matched artists of one period with wittily chosen songs of a different period, included Don Ho's treatment of Peter Gabriel's " Shock the Monkey ," Herman's Hermits ' performance of Billy Idol's " White Wedding ," and a Jackie Chan – Ani Difranco duet of Nat King Cole's " Unforgettable.
He developed quickly and at 13, was taken to Paris to meet one of France's leading piansts, Yves Nat.
Despite the fact Langford never received his rightful chance at the heavyweight title because of Jack Johnson's refusal to risk his crown against Langford, Ring magazine founder Nat Fleischer rated Langford as one of the ten best heavyweights of all time.
The circus strongman ( Nat Pendleton, one of the ringer football players in Horse Feathers ), and the midget ( Jerry Maren ) are accomplices of the bad guy Carter ( James Burke ) who is trying to take over the circus.
The East Campus, approximately one mile from the main campus, houses athletic fields, the Alumni and Development Center, and the Senator Nat G. Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena.
He won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal ( s ) in 1981 for Quincy Jones's album Velas, and again in 1991 for Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole's " Unforgettable ", and one year later once more for Shirley Horn's album Here's to Life.
It has four stands: The Bolton Evening News ( North ) Stand at one end, the South Stand ( the away end ) at the other end, the West Stand at one side of the pitch and the Nat Lofthouse ( east ) Stand at the other side.
She was one of the original members of the Cuarteto d ' Aida, and has performed with Ignacio Piñeiro, Orquesta Anacaona, Orquesta Aragón, Nat King Cole, Adalberto Álvarez, Los Van Van, the Buena Vista ensemble, Pupy Pedroso, Chucho Valdés and Juan Formell.
He says the EMI Board were not enthused, and Nat Cohen had never heard of Beatrix Potter, but he had complete artistic control for any movie made under one million pounds so could get it approved.
collection, one in St. Louis MO-Museum of Trans, one in Henry Ford Museum, one on loan to the Petersen Museum ( owned by L. A. Nat Hist.

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