* In The Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", Homer Simpson is hit in the head by a pitch while playing for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, rendering him unconscious, but forcing in the winning run.

It is the fifth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Lowell.

Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.

* 1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.

She is regarded as one of the most influential jazz vocalists of all time, being cited as a mentor to diverse artists such as Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Bette Midler, Madonna, and Dusty Springfield.

A good example is the " trapdoor " or Allin action used in early cartridge conversions of 1863 Springfield muzzleloading rifles.

Staind ( ) is an American rock band that was formed in 1995 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition.

In " The Way We Was " ( season two, 1991 ), it is revealed via flashback that Marge attended Springfield High School, and in her final year met Homer Simpson.

He was born to Ross R. Brattain and Ottilie Houser in Amoy, China on February 10, 1902 and spent the early part of his life in Springfield, Oregon where an elementary school is named in his honor, and Tonasket, Washington in the United States.

* July 21 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.

* January 20 – At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.

* October 24 – The earliest United States patent for a phosphorus friction match is granted to Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts.

* In The Simpsons episode, " Holidays of Future Passed ", the episode set in December 2041, Bart is a deadbeat dad living in Springfield Elementary ( which is now an apartment complex instead of a school ) with Principal Skinner as his landlord.

On the television show The Simpsons, Mr. Burns, owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and the richest citizen of Springfield, is perhaps the epitome of the Pantalone character.

Ponzi was released on bail as he appealed the state conviction, and fled to the Springfield neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida and launched the Charpon Land Syndicate (" Charpon " is an amalgam of his name ), offering investors in September 1925 tiny tracts of land, some under water, and promising 200 % returns in 60 days.

The coalition of Crosby, Stills & Nash ( later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ) is another early example, given the success of their prior bands ( The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and The Hollies respectively ).

The most famous past resident is Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield itself from 1837 until he went to the White House in 1861.

In addition, the government of the state of Illinois is also based in Springfield.

The economy of Springfield is marked by government jobs, which account for a large percentage of the work force in the city.

* In The Simpsons episode, " Holidays of Future Passed ", the episode set in December 2041, Bart is a deadbeat dad living in Springfield Elementary ( which is now an apartment complex instead of a school ) with Principal Skinner as his landlord.

Rice was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the third of ten children of David and Patty ( née Hall ) Rice.

In most episodes, he works as the Nuclear Safety Inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position he has held since " Homer's Odyssey ", the third episode of the series.

On May 9, 1991, Hearn became the third broadcaster to be inducted into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.

A third line ran from Mackinaw Junction ( 1 / 2 miles west of the Mackinaw Depot, 100 yards east of the Mackinaw River ) through Springfield to St. Louis.

The city is located about twenty miles northwest of Springfield, the state's third largest city.

Springfield is the third largest city in the U. S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County.

A third printing of the ADEL second edition was in 1845 by George & Charles Merriam, Springfield, Massachusetts, and this was the first " Webster's Dictionary " with a Merriam imprint.

The station was built at the end of the second viaduct with the third viaduct at the River Chelmer at Springfield.

Originally, it would be home to a number of early leaders of the colony, including original Massachusetts Bay Colony treasurer William Pynchon, who left Roxbury in 1636 with nearly one third its men to found Springfield, Massachusetts on far less rocky and more arable soil.

The Cleveland Barons come in second with nine ; the Springfield Indians / Kings are third with seven.

Shays led one group east of Springfield near Palmer, Luke Day had a second force across the Connecticut River in West Springfield, and the third force, under Eli Parsons, was to the north at Chicopee.

During recording of the third Buffalo Springfield album ( Last Time Around ), each of the three lead singers ( Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay ) recorded songs without the other members present.

Last Time Around is the third and final album by folk rock band Buffalo Springfield.

In 1967, the Illinois General Assembly created a Board of Regents to operate Illinois State University and Northern Illinois University, as well as a third unnamed institution in Springfield.

In 2008, Springfield was third in attendance, trailing Frisco and the Corpus Christi Hooks.

A third son, Benjamin S. Edwards ( 1818 – 1886 ), established a successful law practice in Springfield, Illinois and served as a judge in Illinois ' Thirteenth Circuit.

On March 1, 1994 a second Lambert's Cafe was opened near Springfield, Missouri on U. S. Highway 65, Junction CC & J, Ozark, Missouri and on June 24, 1996 the third restaurant was opened in Foley, Alabama.

Anstett contested Springfield in this election, and finished third.

On Tuesday, December 30, 1924, a third member of the gang, Marion " Red " Smith, 22, of Springfield, Illinois was arrested in Indianapolis.

In the third annual Treehouse of Horror episode, Homer buys Bart an evil talking Krusty doll, King Homer is captured by Mr. Burns, and Bart and Lisa inadvertently cause zombies to attack Springfield.

In 2010 a third platform was added as a precursor to the commissioning of the Springfield rail line.

* Bishop James Ryan, former Bishop of the Diocese of Alton ( now Springfield in Illinois ): named as third bishop of the diocese by Pope Leo XIII in 1888 ; installed 1888-05-01.

Another parodied film is the 1964 thriller Fail-Safe by Sidney Lumet: At the beginning of the third act of the episode, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield, and one by one, with a " zooming " sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the ( supposedly ) imminent nuclear blast ; such was the ending of Fail-Safe.