This event is commemorated in a metal inlay map of Naperville on the southeast corner of the Nichols Library's sidewalk area.

The 2004 event in Los Angeles was attended by over 100 prominent space leaders including author Ray Bradbury, space tourist Dennis Tito, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, * NSYNC's Lance Bass and Nichelle Nichols ( Uhura from the original Star Trek series ).

* 1949: The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols

Pinky is a 1949 American drama film adapted from the Cid Ricketts Sumner novel Quality by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols and directed by Elia Kazan.

After attending Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge in 1949, he earned his B. A., with honors, from Brown University in 1953, and his J. D., with honors, from George Washington University Law School in 1959.

* 1949 – 1950 John R. Nichols

Nichols was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1949.

In 1968, he formed a band called The Entire Sioux Nation with Terry Nolder on vocals, Tim Taylor on bass and Paul Nichols on drums ( born in 1949 ).

* Pinky ( 1949, screenplay with Dudley Nichols )

A public memorial was held on 27 September 2004 at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, near San Diego, California ; guest speakers included James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter Jacqueline Nichols.

Among the most notable: the Black Marble H & R Block fountain in front of Union Station with its synchronized water jets shooting high into the air, the Nichols Bronze Horses at the corner of Main and JC Nichols Parkway at the entrance to the Plaza Shopping District and the unique " family friendly " walk through fountain at Hallmark Cards World Headquarters in Crown Center.

The chief conspirators, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, met in 1988 at Fort Benning during basic training for the U. S. Army.

For his home address, McVeigh falsely claimed he resided at Terry Nichols ' brother James ' house in Michigan.

Nichols explained that the communique " is not directly concerned with child abuse at all, but with the misuse of the confessional.

Nichols Panama Canal Collection at the Linda Hall Library Archival collection of maps, blueprints, photographs, letters, and other documents, collected by Aurin B. Nichols, an engineer who worked on the canal project through from 1899 until its completion.

" According to Bill Nichols, it " achieves the force of authentic art, profoundly disturbing, intensely personal, yet at the same time far more than personal ".

Working at a lakeside campground near McVeigh's old Army post, he and Nichols constructed an ANNM explosive device mounted in the back of a rented Ryder truck.

Several residents of central Kansas, including real estate agent Georgia Rucker and a retired Army NCO, testified at Terry Nichols ' federal trial that they had seen two trucks at Geary Lake State Park, where prosecutors alleged the bomb was assembled.

Terry Nichols is currently incarcerated at the Federal Supermax Prison in Florence, Colorado.

The Group Theater's summer rehearsal headquarters was at Pine Brook Country Club, located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut, during the 1930s and early 1940s.

" Nichols never seriously considered her for the part, preferring to cast a younger woman ( Anne Bancroft was 36 while Gardner was 45 ), but he did visit her hotel, where he later recounted that " she sat at a little French desk with a telephone, she went through every movie star cliché.

Mike Nichols directed a production that opened on October 26, 1967 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center, then transferred to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

During the race, at the last intermediate stop before the finish in Cleveland, Earhart and her friend Ruth Nichols were tied for first place.

Nichols was to take off right before Earhart, but her aircraft hit a tractor at the end of the runway and flipped over.

The borough is immediately to the west of the City of Westminster, which is at the heart of modern London, and to the east of Hammersmith & Fulham, and itself contains a substantial number of city centre facilities such as major museums and universities ( in " Albertopolis "), department stores like Harrods, Peter Jones and Harvey Nichols, is home to the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's largest carnival, and several Embassies in its Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Kensington Gardens districts.

Nichols is located at ( 41. 479113 ,-91. 308291 ).

Her big break came in 1953 when she replaced the emigrating Joy Nichols on the hit Muir and Norden radio comedy Take It From Here, co-starring Jimmy Edwards and Dick Bentley.

And in 1956 he was the subject of one of Ralph Edwards ’ This Is Your Life TV shows, which featured his old buddies Miff Mole, Phil Harris and Jimmy Dorsey, who praised Nichols as a bandleader who made sure everybody got paid.

It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols.

The radio producer Charles Maxwell had contracted Edwards, together with Joy Nichols and Dick Bentley, for the final series in 1947 of the radio show Navy Mixture for which Muir had provided some scripts, and after this show ended Maxwell received a commission for a new weekly comedy series to star Edwards, Nichols and Bentley.

* Nichols, Heidi L., ' Those exceptional Edwards women ', Christian History & Biography, 77 ( 2003 )

* October 1 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater – Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.

An additional Yanks Air Museum facility will be built in Greenfield on a plot purchased in 1994 by museum founders Charles and Judith Nichols.

PDAF's materiel was centrally located in the Philippine Air Depot at Nichols Field, easily targeted from the air and highly inflammable.

A shipment of 24 crated P-40Es arrived in Manila by freighter on 25 November, the first of those intended for the 35th Pursuit Group, and were trucked to the Philippine Air Depot at Nichols Field for assembly.

Nichols Field later became the headquarters of the Philippine Air Force.

First named Nichols Air Base, it is now named Villamor Air Base.

Early trainings were held in Camp Tinio, Bangad, Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Nichols Air Base in Pasay City and Fort Bonifacio in Metro Manila.

An alumnus of Nichols School in Buffalo, New York and a 1940 graduate of Brown University, Hunt during World War II served in the U. S. Navy on the destroyer USS Mayo, United States Army Air Forces, and finally, the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) which he worked for in China.

He was General Wainwright ’ s Air Officer, Provost Marshall and photography officer for Clark and Nichols Field in the Philippines.

With its origins going back almost a century to 1912, the command was officially established on 6 May 1941 as the Philippine Department Air Force at Nichols Field, Luzon, Philippines.

In 1940 as part of the overall mobilization of the Army Air Forces and in response to the increase of tensions between the United States and the Japanese Empire, two additional pursuit squadrons were transferred from the United States to the 4th Composite Group at Nichols Field:

The base was originally called Nichols Field during the time of the Philippine Commonwealth period and later as Nichols Air Base after Philippine independence.

Vice Admiral David C. Nichols was the Deputy Coalition Air Forces Component Commander ( Deputy CFACC ) during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.

* Aviators who worked with or for DeLay's Venice Airfield included: Al Wilson, Frank Clarke, Ormer Locklear, Dick Grace, Otto Timm, Art Goebel ( winner of Dole Air Race ), " Fronty " Nichols, Frank Tomick, Ivan Unger, Al Johnson, Wallace Timm, Howard Patterson, Glen Boyd, Mark Campbell, Otto " Swede " Myerhoffer, Bob Lloyd, E. L. Remelin, Waldo Waterman, Fred Hoyt, Gil Budwig, Sam Greenwald, and many more.

After Japanese carrier planes attacked the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December 1941 ( 8 December, Manila time ), Taiwan-based aircraft within 6 – 7 hours pounded the main bases of the American Far East Air Force at Clark Field in Pampanga, Iba Field in Zambales, Nichols Field near Manila, and the headquarters of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines at Cavite.

There were also bases at Nichols Air Station, now Villamor Airbase, Nielson Air Base ( now Makati City — Ayala and Buendia Avenues lay over the original landing strips ), at Fort William McKinley ( now Fort Andres Bonifacio and the American Cemetery ), Camp Murphy ( now Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame ) in Quezon City, Camp O ' Donnell in Tarlac and a series of airbases and army installations in Pampanga including Fort Stotsenburg, Clark Air Base, as well as Camp Wallace in La Union, the Naval Station in Sangley Point, Cavite City, Camp Keithley in Lanao, Camp Eldridge in Los Baños, Laguna and Camp Henry T. Allen in Baguio City.