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* January 21 – Sam Langford, Canadian boxer ( b. 1883 )
* March 4 – Sam Langford, Canadian boxer ( d. 1956 )
While colored champ, he defeated ex-colored champs Denver Ed Martin and Frank Childs again and beat future colored heavyweight champs Sam McVey three times and Sam Langford once.
He denied matches to black heavyweights Joe Jeanette ( one of his successors as colored heavyweight champ ), Sam Langford ( who beat Jeanette for the coloured title ), and the young Harry Wills ( who was coloured heavyweight champ during the last year of Johnson's reign as world's heavyweight champ ).
When Johnson finally did agree to take on a black opponent in late 1913, it was not Sam Langford, the current coloured heavyweight champ, that he gave the title shot to.
Instead, Johnson chose Battling Jim Johnson, a mediocrity who, in 1910, had lost to Langford and had a draw and loss via KO to Sam McVey, the former coloured champ.
On 27 March 1914 in New York City, Sam Langford won a newspaper decision in a ten-rounder with Johnson.
* Sam Langford ( 1990 )
Among his opponents were Fireman Jim Flynn, the only boxer ever to beat Dempsey by a knockout when Dempsey lost to him in the first round ( although many boxing historians, including Monte Cox, believe the fight was a " fix "), and Gunboat Smith, formerly a highly ranked contender who had beaten both World Champion Jess Willard and Hall of Famer Sam Langford.
Ketchel fought Sam Langford on April 27, 1910.
* January 12 – Sam Langford, boxer ( b. 1886 )
Sam Langford ( March 4, 1883-January 12, 1956 ) was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century.
Langford fought heavyweight Sam McVea fifteen times, drawing in the first via points, losing the second by decision, winning the third and fourth by decision, winning the fifth by technical knockout ( McVey claimed a foul.
His opponent was Sam Langford, who clearly outpointed the champion, and the latter's aggressiveness in carrying the fight to Langford was all that saved him from taking a decision that would have given him the short end of the purse.
Sam Langford won the World Colored Heavyweight Championship a record five times between 1910 and 1918.
Battling Jim Johnson, the man Sam fought twelve times, beating Johnson nine times and never losing once, would be the one who got the title shot against Johnson that Langford had rightly believed his.
When Johnson finally did agree to take on a black opponent in late 1913, it was not Sam Langford, the current Colored Heavyweight Champion, that he gave the title shot to.
Instead, Johnson chose Battling Jim Johnson, a mediocrity who, in 1910, had lost to Langford and had a draw and loss via knock out to Sam McVey, another former Colored Champion.
On 27 March 1914 in New York City, Sam Langford won a newspaper decision in a ten-rounder with Johnson.
When it was in his power to give an African American a title shot, Jack Johnson refused to grant that privilege to Sam Langford, the fighter who after former champ Jim Jeffries ( a man Langford said he would not face when Jeff was in the prime of his career ), had to be considered the # 1 contender in the heavyweight division.
In 1923, Sam Langford fought and won Boxing's last " fight to the finish " for the Mexican Heavyweight title.

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He subsequently broke with Laemmle and sent Jack to establish a film exchange in San Francisco, while Sam did the same in Los Angeles.
* Sam Nixon, the grandfather of President Richard Nixon was born, raised and lived most of his life in the township before his son ( the president's father ) Francis A. Nixon moved to nearby Ohio and subsequently California.
In 2011, well-known film actor Kevin Spacey starred in an Old Vic production which subsequently toured the United States, directed by well-known stage and film director Sam Mendes.
Sam Walters set up an impromptu performance space in the upstairs of the Orange Tree pub in Richmond, Surrey in the early 1970s and subsequently moved across the road to a permanent Orange Tree Theatre.
In 1955 he was instrumental in setting up the LPRP at Sam Neua in northern Laos, and subsequently served as the Pathet Lao leader, although Souphanouvong served as the figurehead.
The following month, Phoumi cooperated with Free French forces when they briefly seized the town of Sam Neua, but subsequently he joined the anti-colonialist Lao Issara movement and worked closely with the Viet Minh to oppose the return of French authority in Indochina.
* Blackhawk # 9-107 ( 1944-1956 ; formerly Uncle Sam Quarterly # 1-8 ; Blackhawk # 108-273 subsequently published by DC Comics, 1957-1983 )
The company subsequently released Sam & Max Save the World in episodic fashion from late 2006 to early 2007.
McDowell subsequently leaked the alleged faked passport application to a friend, the journalist Sam Smyth of the Irish Independent.
In Washington, she met Sam H. Sayyad, whom she subsequently married.
Play It Again Sam U. S. A. was subsequently absorbed by Caroline Records.
He was apparently inspired to join the Watch after meeting with Sergeant-At-Arms John Keel ( and alternatively, due to time travel, Sam Vimes ), who once gave him a spoon ( which his father subsequently stole upon being released from prison ).
However, a different story in " The Colter Craven Story " ( season 4 ), we are told that in 1860 Adams and Hawks were partners in a lumber enterprise in Galena, Illinois, and on the eve of the Civil War, Adams headed up the 2nd Illinois Volunteers-although without a bit of military knowledge-and was given guidance by old friend " Sam ", then a resigned former captain and a civilian but subsequently General of the Army U. S. Grant, who-encountering Adams again after the battle of Shiloh-gave him a battlefield promotion from Lieutenant to Major.
The curse was subsequently " lifted " in public on several occasions, first by Sianis himself in 1969, and several times thereafter by his nephew Sam Sianis, the current owner of the Billy Goat Tavern.
The only person that can stop him is Sam Devereaux, an army lawyer who rescues the Hawk from China but subsequently himself gets trapped in the Hawk ’ s plan.
Muchnick promoted his last card on January 1, 1982, which was subsequently named “ Sam Muchnick Day ” in St. Louis by Mayor Vincent Schoemehl.
He joined Sam Peckinpah's famous stock company in 1965's Major Dundee as a professional horse thief, and appeared subsequently in that director's The Wild Bunch, as a prohibitionist minister who gets his flock shot up by the title outlaws in the film's infamous opening scene, Junior Bonner, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Getaway, and Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, as an aging, eccentric outlaw friend of Billy's.
After the New Mutants followed her to her Dyson sphere and saved her life from the Vrakanin, who intended to betray her, Lila retracted her selfish intentions, and also developed a relationship with the new Mutant Sam Guthrie, also known as Cannonball, to whom she subsequently dedicated a love song.
In November 2002, the Zeta Psi and Kappa Alpha Order chapters at the University of Virginia were suspended and subsequently cleared after the fraternities held a Halloween party where a few guests were photographed wearing blackface and dressed up as Uncle Sam and Venus and Serena Williams.
On 13 August 1911 he was assigned as Commander, Department of the East, Fort Totten, New York and subsequently assigned to Commander, Department of the South, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas on 26 February 1913.
The departure of Sam Allardyce to Newcastle United and his eventual replacement with Gary Megson saw Hunt fall out of favour at the Reebok Stadium and he was subsequently loaned out to Championship side Birmingham City on an emergency one-month loan deal as cover for the injured Stuart Parnaby and Stephen Kelly on 3 November 2008.
Sam and Kitty's two children, Sam Jr. ( born 1829 ) and Susan ( born 1832 ), were subsequently sold by Richardson to Dr. James Muse in 1847, taking them out of Sam and Kitty's household.

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