* September 8 – Richard A. Morse, lead male vocalist of RAM, narrowly escapes a kidnapping by armed men during the band's live performance at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti ; the attempted kidnapping was provoked by the performance of " Fèy ", a RAM single banned nationwide by the military authorities.

The lifeboat reaches the coast of Mexico and Richard Parker escapes into the nearby jungle, so that rescuers find only Pi.

That is the last they see of Rob Roy, as Frank, the new Lord of Osbaldistone Manor, returns to London to take up his career at Osbaldistone and Tresham, and marry his beloved Diana, while Sir Richard escapes to safety on the Continent.

In the episode " Sideshow ", he escapes from a train bound for Levitz Prison and flees through the countryside, taking refuge in a town of naively trusting circus carnies including a " seal boy " named Billy, a giant named Goliath, conjoined twins named May and June, and a hunchbacked ringmaster named Richard.

Richard wakes up the next morning and escapes his constraints.

After killing the guide he is briefly jailed but escapes, using the voice in his mind to make the D ' Haran guards do his bidding, and resolves to locate Richard Rahl.

After months of imprisonment, Richard escapes and races to stop a prophecy from coming to pass.

Richard escapes unscathed, though he is seen by a lone native.

Dr. Richard Kimble, a successful vascular surgeon in Chicago, comes home one night to find his wife, Helen, fatally wounded by a one-armed man, and though he attempts to subdue the killer, the man escapes.

When Lamar escapes, Richard goes with him because he knows he would be doomed without his protection.

Pewtie himself is once again badly injured and Lamar escapes after the intervention of Richard and Ruta.

In the series finale, James escapes the island on an airplane piloted by Frank Lapidus, along with Kate Austen, Claire Littleton, Richard Alpert and Miles Straume.

As notable examples of this abuse, he quotes passages from the Examiner, `` that Destroyer of all things '', and The Character of Richard Steele, which he here attributes to Swift.

Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

Eileen Farrell in the title role, Mignon Dunn as La Cieca and Richard Tucker as Enzo were holdovers from earlier performances this season, and all contributed to a vigorous performance.

Like the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were loath to let a good song get away from them.

Last Saturday's interesting melange included Ernst Toch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Yardumian and a brief excerpt from a new `` space '' opera by the Swedish composer, Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

* 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.

* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

Moreover, there is the 1908 theory that America derives from Richard Amerike of Bristol, England, financier of John Cabot's 1497 expedition.

Richard Feynman later gave an independent systematic derivation of these diagrams from a particle formalism, and they are now called Feynman diagrams.

* 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.

After being expelled from Poitou by their overlord, Richard the Lion-hearted, for the murder of Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Amalric arrived in Palestine c. 1174, Guy possibly later.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

An example of active passenger and crew member resistance occurred when passengers and flight attendants of American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001, teamed up to help helped prevent Richard Reid from igniting explosives hidden in his shoes.

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.

* Rosenfeld, Richard N. American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It ( 1997 ), clippings from a Republican newspaper

Richard Nelson explains: The needs of the centralised monarchy favoured a single story of origins combining old traditions of an exodus from Egypt, belief in a national god as " divine warrior ," and explanations for ruined cities, social stratification and ethnic groups, and contemporary tribes.

Earnhardt drove an Ed Negre Dodge Charger (# 8 ) and finished 22nd in the race, one place ahead of his future car owner, Richard Childress.

Richard Childress made a public pledge that the number 3 would never again adorn the side of a black car sponsored by GM Goodwrench.

A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.

* 1977 – Richard Williams, English race car driver

Richard Corliss of TIME likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney / Judy Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes " motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement, and Bible Belt vigilantism.

* 1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.

* 1945 – Richard Childress, American race car driver

* October 25 21-year old Michael D ' Oyly Carte, grandson of theatrical impresario and hotelier Richard D ' Oyly Carte, is killed in a car crash in Switzerland

Designed by Bob Nixon from an idea by Richard A. Teague, the car was based on a shortened and adapted Hornet platform with a Kammback-type tail.

The idea for the Gremlin began in 1966 when design chief at American Motors, Richard A. Teague, and stylist Bob Nixon discussed the possibility of a shortened version of AMC's compact car and design sketches were prepared by Nixon.

Sascha Petrosevitch ( Steven Seagal ) is a car thief who's brought in by criminal Nick Frazier ( Jeffrey " Ja Rule " Atkins ) to work for crime boss Sonny Eckvall ( Richard Bremmer ), who apparently shot and killed Sascha's wife.

The world's first long distance road trip by automobile took place in Germany in August 1888 when Bertha Benz, the wife of Karl Benz, the inventor of the first patented motor car ( the Benz Patent-Motorwagen ), travelled from Mannheim to Pforzheim ( a distance of ) in the third experimental Benz motor car ( which had a maximum speed of ) and back, with her two teenage sons Richard and Eugen but without the consent and knowledge of her husband.

In July 1983, her lover from 1972 to 1981, Richard Chanfray, committed suicide by inhaling the exhaust gas of his Renault R25 car.

* Top Gear's Richard Hammond is protected from 600, 000 V by a car ( a Faraday Cage ).

As Franks was walking home from Harvard High School ( closed 1962 ) in Hyde Park, Chicago, the 14-year-old boy — who was both the neighbor and second cousin of Richard Loeb — was lured into the passenger seat of their rented car.

Richard and Hyacinth Bucket's car is a Rover 200-series ( SD3 ) saloon.

In the episode " Tee Off, Mr. Bean " Howard Goodall's choral theme tune for another Richard Curtis comedy, The Vicar of Dibley, is heard playing on a car stereo.

Richard A. Teague also designed the last Packard show car, the Predictor.

A notable passenger of the Taunus was the iconic Jaws ( Richard Kiel ), who was presumably the only survivor when Bond managed to shake off the pursuing car and cause it to overshoot a cliff and plough into the roof of a barn.

The hospital features a rooftop landing pad for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service which was utilised on September 20, 2006 when the Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was treated at the hospital after suffering critical injuries as a result of a jet power car crash whilst filming at the airfield at ex-RAF Elvington near York.

The original car is in fact Pacific Electric 963 ( former Los Angeles Pacific 713 as built in 1907 ) rebuilt by Richard Fellows and renumbered 1058.

* In the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 19 is the number of a car owned by Richard Petty Motorsports, a Ford Fusion with Best Buy as its primary sponsor, and driven by Elliott Sadler.

MacGyver has become a verb, as in " The car broke down but he MacGyvered a fix to get home ", and was even used in Stargate SG-1, a later show featuring Richard Dean Anderson as a protagonist.

Richard Dean Anderson reprised his role as MacGyver in September 2012 in a new series of short movies, created by Mercedes-Benz for the launch of their new MPV Citan in Europe ( the car is not being released in North America ).