* 1974 – Mark Tremonti, American musician ( Creed and Alter Bridge )

For example, the rules of tournament bridge are governed by the World Bridge Federation, and by local bodies in various countries such as the American Contract Bridge League in the U. S., and the English Bridge Union in England.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.

" Bridge: An Asian American Perspective ( 1979 ): 43-47.

* 1973 – Scott Phillips, American drummer ( Creed and Alter Bridge )

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.

On February 10, 1962, Powers was exchanged, along with American student Frederic Pryor, in a well-publicized spy swap at the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin, Germany.

Goren's books have sold millions of copies ( especially Winning Bridge Made Easy and Contract Bridge Complete ); by 1958 his daily bridge column was appearing in 194 American newspapers.

* North American Bridge Championships ( 32 )

* North American Bridge Championships ( 21 )

* 1939 – Johnny Maestro, American singer ( Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge ) ( d. 2010 )

* 1820 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor, designed and built the Eads Bridge ( d. 1887 )

* 2010 – Johnny Maestro, American singer ( Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge ) ( b. 1939 )

The Air Bridge Denial program was suspended in April 2001 after the Peruvian Air Force and strength of the U. S. DEA misidentified a civilian aircraft as a drug trafficker and shot it down, killing two American citizens on board.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: during the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.

American travel-writer Bill Bryson's impressions of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in his book " Down Under ", ( 2000 ).

** Scott Phillips, American rock drummer ( Creed, Alter Bridge )

* September 3 – American Revolution – Cooch's Bridge: In a minor skirmish in New Castle County, Delaware, the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.

" In 2008 " Chatter of Pins " was included on the compilation album Crosstalk: American Speech Music ( Bridge Records ) produced by Mendi + Keith Obadike.

2, p. 114 ; in a lecture by Professor Gwen Griffith-Dickson ; and in John Y. Fenton, " Mystical Experience as a Bridge for Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion: A Critique ," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 1981, p. 55.

* Norman Rockwell: Once upon a time there Was the American Dream by Tiziano Thomas Dossena, Bridge Puglia USA, April 2011

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

Goodwin was telegrapher for the `` American Telegraph Company '' and the `` Troy and Canada Junction Telegraph Company ''.

For its part the Hudson's Bay Company was troubled by the approach of American settlement.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

* Austin Automobile Company, short-lived American automobile company ( not related to the Austin Motor Company or American Austin )

* American Austin Car Company, short lived American automobile maker

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1811 – Elisha Otis, American inventor and businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company ( d. 1861 )

* 1978 – Jess Margera, American drummer ( CKY, Foreign Objects, Viking Skull, and The Company Band )

His American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site in 1811.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

* American Broadcasting Company, a private US broadcaster

* ABC Radio, the former name of Cumulus Media Networks, an American radio network ( formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company )

* ABC News, is the news broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

He had taken out first papers for American citizenship ; ;

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

This was historic in its way, for it marked the first time an American Presidential aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own string of newspapers spanning the land.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

There, to the Evening Post, she emphatically denied the divorce rumors and explained that she had stayed behind because of the schooling of their son, which henceforth would be strictly American.

One had it that a friend, protesting her snobbery, said, `` But, Gracie, you are an American, aren't you ''??

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

My `` touchstones, had, been strictly '' literature and, humanly enough, American literature ( because that was what I wanted to write ).

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

Gossip had it ( for gossip is the soul of Rome ) that a famous American dancer of the time had paid for both the planes.

Last year, after Trujillo had been cited for numerous aggressions in the Caribbean, the United States and many other members of the Organization of American States broke diplomatic relations with him.

Now, everyone knows -- or knew in the week of December 10 -- that something had gone shockingly wrong with American foreign policy.