`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

* 1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist ( d. 1971 )

* 1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist ( d. 1998 )

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.

* 1969 – Patrick Van Horn, American actor

* 1932 – Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter

* 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1958 – During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

* 1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress

Regional chefs are emerging as localized celebrity chefs with growing broader appeal, such as Peter Merriman ( Hawaii Regional Cuisine ), Jerry Traunfeld, Alan Wong ( Pacific Rim cuisine ), Norman Van Aken ( New World Cuisine-fusion Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American ), and Mark Miller ( American Southwest cuisine ).

* 1969 – Steve Van Wormer, American actor

* 1928 – Bobby Van, American singer ( d. 1980 )

* 2004 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet ( b. 1921 )

* 1928 – Dick Van Patten, American actor

* 1914 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress ( d. 1996 )

Van de Graaff, American physicist and inventor ( d. 1967 )

* 1964 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer ( b. 1880 )

* 1910 – Van Heflin, American actor ( d. 1971 )

* 1925 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

* Enemy ( band ), an American band fronted by guitarist and vocalist Troy Van Leeuwen

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

However, there could still be an even more complex flash-back construction in American films in the case of W. S. Van Dyke ' sThe Lady of the Dugout ( 1918 ).

* 1789 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware ( b. 1738 )

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.

Van de Graaff applied for a patent in in December 1931, which was assigned to MIT in exchange for a share of net income.

In 1730, John Van Meter, with his brother Isaac ( 1692 – 1757 ), secured a patent for at the South Branch Potomac River, much of it located in present-day Berkeley County, from Virginia's Colonial Lieutenant Governor William Gooch.

A part of the Rip Van Dam patent, it was sold to Vincent Matthews in 1721.

Skippack Township was originally named " Van Bebber's Township " after Matthias Van Bebber, to whom the original land patent was issued in 1702 by William Penn.

The town is part of the Van Schaick land patent of 1687.

In December, 1977 a patent was issued for a Chemical Light Device with Richard Taylor Van Zandt as the inventor ( Patent 4, 064, 428 ).

However, it was in 1915 that John Van Wormer of Toledo, Ohio was granted the first patent for the first " paper bottle ," which was the first folded blank box for holding milk.

Theophilus Van Kannel, of Philadelphia, was granted US patent 387, 571 on August 7, 1888 for a " Storm-Door Structure ".

The first patent was issued to James H. Van Houten of Savannah, Georgia on August 1, 1861 for a " breech-loading gun ".

June 21, 1763, Robert Wendell, a descendant and heir of Joannes Wendell, sold to Abraham Jacob Lansingh, for 300 pounds, that portion of his property beginning opposite the middle branch of the Mohawk River and running thence eastward as far as the limits of the Stone Arabia patent, excepting that portion which had been sold to Simon Van Antwerpe but then owned by William Rogers.

A deed given by Stephen Van Rensselaer ( one of the patroons ) to Abraham Jacob Lansingh, dated July 13, 1769, described the north bounds of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck and the south bounds of the Stone Arabia patent.

Van Alstyne was elected as the city's first mayor in 1867.

The old log-cabin courthouse, which had been erected in Van Buren in 1853, continued to be used as the Carter County Courthouse until it was replaced by a wood-frame building in 1867.

James Van Stone, an anthropologist who traveled to Saint Petersburg and read diaries of the Russian explorers from 1867, noted that explorers traveled to Aleknagik lake ( in a spelling that is Russian but sounds out to Aleknagik ).

In 1867 the present site of Van Buren, located about a half-mile east and across the river from the original site, was purchased from Zimri A. Carter.

She married John Van Rossem, who died shortly afterward, and married once again in 1867 to Thomas Eaton in Walla Walla, Washington Territory.

After his professorial appointment at Utrecht in 1863, Van Oosterzee wrote his brief Theologie des Nieuwen Verbonds ( Utrecht, 1867 ; Eng.

It has been estimated that over one-third of all criminals convicted between 1788 and 1867 were transported to Australia and Van Diemen's Land ( now Tasmania ).

Van Valkenburgh ( Presented credentials, May 4, 1867 – Presented recall, November 11, 1869 )