In 1966 The Blind Beggar in Whitechapel became infamous as the scene of a murder committed by gangster Ronnie Kray.

* March 9 – Ronnie Kray murders George Cornell in east London's Blind Beggar pub, a crime for which he is finally convicted in 1969.

A Tudor ballad, the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, tells the story of an ostensibly poor man who gave a surprisingly generous dowry for his daughter's wedding.

The Blind Beggar public house in Whitechapel is reputed to be the site of his begging.

It became associated with the ballad of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( see Thomas Percy ).

Outside The Blind Beggar public house some missioners heard him speaking and were so impressed by his preaching that they invited him to lead a series of meetings they were holding in a large tent.

The Blind Beggar pub in 2005

Ronnie Kray shot and killed George Cornell in the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel on 9 March 1966.

Ronnie was drinking in another pub when he heard that Cornell was in the Blind Beggar.

This was followed by The Triumph of Peace, a Masque occasioned by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 1749 ); a fragment, entitled Agriculture, of a long tedious poem in blank verse on Public Virtue ( 1753 ); The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( acted at Drury Lane 1739, printed 1741 ); and an ode, Melpomene ( 1751 ).

* Robert Dodsley-The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( adapted from the anonymous Elizabethan play )

* John Day & Henry Chettle-The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( published six decades after its premiere )

* Henry Chettle & John Day – The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, Part 1 ( Parts 2 and 3, by Day and William Haughton, lost )

* George Chapman-The Blind Beggar of Alexandria

Day's earliest extant work, written in collaboration with Chettle, is The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( acted 1600, printed 1659 ), a drama dealing with the early years of the reign of Henry VI.

# The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, by Henry Chettle and John Day.

# The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, Part II, with John Day, January – July 1601.

# The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, Part III, with John Day, January – July 1601.

Among his comedies are The Blind Beggar of Alexandria ( 1596 ; printed 1598 ), An Humorous Day's Mirth ( 1597 ; printed 1599 ), All Fools ( printed 1605 ), Monsieur D ' Olive ( 1605 ; printed 1606 ), The Gentleman Usher ( printed 1606 ) May Day ( printed 1611 ), and The Widow's Tears ( printed 1612 ).

Nearby places of interest include the Royal London Hospital, the Blind Beggar public house, and the former Wickhams department store.

In the south its boundary stopped just short of The Blind Beggar pub on Whitechapel Road.

In 1815, Grimaldi played Clown in Harlequin and the Sylph of the Oak ; or, The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green at Covent Garden, followed by the Christmas pantomime Robinson Crusoe ; or, The Bold Buccaneer, in which he played Friday to Charles Farley's title character.

* Blind Beggar.

The Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel Road

The Blind Beggar is a public house on Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The Mexican tetra or Blind Cave Fish ( Astyanax mexicanus ) is a fresh-water fish

" The Country of the Blind ", a short story by H. G. Wells, is one of the most well-known stories featuring blind characters.

In 2007, the cemetery's name was changed to Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery and his gravesite is kept clean by a cemetery committee in Wortham, Texas.

* Blind Lemon Jefferson is the featured musician on a State of Texas license plate.

Wells also wrote dozens of short stories and novellas, the best known of which is " The Country of the Blind " ( 1904 ).

The Blind Man Museum is a rarity in Germany, another one is only in Berlin.

Serendipity is a key concept in Competitive Intelligence because it is one of the tools for avoiding Blind Spots ( see Blindspots analysis )

One of his best known is " The Country of the Blind " ( 1904 ).

The Blind Side is unique in that it had a 17. 6 % increase at the box office its second weekend, and it took the top spot of the box office in its third weekend.

He is the protagonist of the 15th-century epic poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by Blind Harry.

* October 12 – " Three Blind Mice " is published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.

* Blind hunting or stand hunting is waiting for animals from a concealed or elevated position

* October 12 – following Magyars raids in Lombardia, Louis the Blind, king of Provence, is called into the peninsula by the grandees, takes Pavia, forces Berengar of Friuli to flee, and replaces him as crowned king of Italy.

Like most of his episodes, Blind Harry's account of the battle of Stirling Bridge is highly improbable, for example his use of figures of a biblical magnitude for the size of the participating armies.

In his book The Blind Watchmaker, Dawkins introduced the term " hierarchical reductionism " to describe the view that complex systems can be described with a hierarchy of organizations, each of which is only described in terms of objects one level down in the hierarchy.

* February 15 or February 22 – Louis the Blind ( c. 833-928 ) is crowned Emperor of Occident at Rome.

" The Bard's Song-The Hobbit " is a song by the Power metal band Blind Guardian, featured in their 1992 album Somewhere Far Beyond which is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

The short story " Blind Alley " is the only story set in the Foundation universe to feature intelligence not of human origin ; Foundation and Earth features non-human intelligences ( of Solaria and Gaia ), but they are descended from or created by humans.

Blind Willie Johnson is not a true overtone singer, according to the National Geographic, but his ability to shift from guttural grunting noises to a soft lullaby is suggestive of the tonal timbres of overtone singing.

Blind Willie is about a Vietnam veteran's penance after the war.