* January 5 – Anthony Van Egmond, rebel leader in Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837

On Rolph's suggestion, they now contacted Colonel Anthony Van Egmond to be the military leader of the rebellion.

Col. Van Egmond ( who had just arrived ) told Mackenzie that their position was impossible to defend, but Mackenzie put a pistol to Van Egmond's head.

On December 7, Mackenzie's military leader, Anthony Van Egmond, arrived.

Van Egmond, a veteran on both sides of the Napoleonic Wars, advised immediate retreat, but Mackenzie remained hesitant.

The other major leaders, Van Egmond, Samuel Lount, and Peter Matthews were arrested by the British ; Van Egmond died in prison, and Lount and Matthews were executed at 8 AM on April 12, 1838, in Toronto.

* Colonel Anthony Van Egmond ( 1778 – 1838 ) First farmer in the Huron Tract, participant in Upper Canada Rebellion

Built by the eldest son of Colonel Anthony Van Egmond in 1846, it represents an example of Georgian architecture and Classical Revival styles.

The Province of Ontario supported the restoration of the property and will become its owners should the local Van Egmond Foundation discontinue its work to ensure the property is safe and open to the public, in the summer and for special events.

Anthony Van Egmond, born Antonij Jacobi Willem Gijben ( 10 March 1778 – 5 January 1838 ) before coming to North America, was purportedly a Dutch Napoleonic War veteran.

He became one of the first settlers and business people in the Huron Tract, located in present day southwestern Ontario Canada. Van Egmond became an early contractor employed by the Canada Company to construct the original in length road into the new settlement, allowing the entry of settlers for the purchase of company lands and further economic development. He eventually became a supporter of William Lyon Mackenzie, and led a force of armed rebels in their unsuccessful skirmish at Montgomery's Tavern near Toronto, Ontario on December 7, 1837 during the Upper Canada Rebellion.

Because of the establishment of a personal friendship with local company official John Galt, Van Egmond came to the attention of other Canada Company executives and was subsequently employed by the company as the initial primary contractor for road construction in the Huron Tract.

Van Egmond was also charged with establishing a series of inns, to be positioned at twenty mile ( 32 km ) intervals along the Huron Road, which were to act as nightly stopping and resupplying points for the arriving settlers.

Although Van Egmond continued to complete his contractual obligations to the Canada Company, he continually resented that the Company insisted on paying all fees in the form of one-third cash and two-thirds company ' land credits ', redeemable in exchange for parcels of land already owned by the company.

Van Egmond found himself having to expend his own funds in order to achieve Canada Company development goals.

Because of this arrangement, by the early 1830s, Van Egmond had personally accumulated of land in the Huron Tract, including located in the central area of what is today the city of Stratford, Ontario.

In August 1830, Van Egmond's wife, Marie Susanne Elizabeth Dietz Van Egmond, ceremonially cut and bound the first sheaf of wheat harvested in the Huron Tract, at a gathering on their family farm on the Huron Road, which included local Canada Company officials and other regional businessmen.

Van Egmond began to voice his concerns by corresponding with William Lyon Mackenzie, a radical reformer who published a newspaper, the Colonial Advocate, in Upper Canada's capital York.

In January 1835, Van Egmond organized the Huron Union Society which met in the homes of recent settlers in the region.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

Van Doesburg became a friend of Schwitters, and together they organized the so-called Dutch Dada campaign in 1923, where Van Doesburg promoted a leaflet about Dada ( entitled What is Dada?

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

The center of attention became a highly renowned TBS-clinic, Dr. S. Van Mesdagkliniek in the city of Groningen.

When it became clear after another six ballots that Van Buren would not win the required majority, Polk emerged as a " dark horse " candidate.

Two famous librarians, Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon and Joseph Van Praet, selected and identified over 300, 000 books and manuscripts that became the property of the people in the Bibliothèque Nationale.

With his roles in Leone's films, Van Cleef became a major star of Spaghetti Westerns, playing central roles in films such as Death Rides a Horse, Day of Anger, The Big Gundown and The Sabata Trilogy.

As a result Van Buren became very unpopular.

Moore's energetic comic performances as Van Dyke's character's wife, begun at age 24 ( eleven years Van Dyke's junior ), made both the actress and her signature tight capri pants extremely popular, and she became internationally famous.

: Gundrun became her son's slayer ; the wise god-bride could not love the Van ; Kialar trained horses pretty well ; Hamdir is said not to have held back sword-play.

* 1969 – Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.

Truth had a life-changing religious experience during her stay with the Van Wageners, and became a devout Christian.

In 1803, the island was colonised by the British as a penal colony with the name Van Diemen's Land, and became part of the British colony of New South Wales.

After much debate about what kind of person should be President, the European Council agreed on a low-key personality and chose Herman Van Rompuy while foreign policy-novice Catherine Ashton became High Representative.

This strategy failed: Van Buren won a majority of the electoral vote and became President.

He became embittered against society because of his long prison sentence and befriended other criminals, such as seasoned bank robbers like Harry " Pete " Pierpont, Charles Makley, Russell Clark, and Homer Van Meter, who taught Dillinger how to be a successful criminal.

Norm Hiscock, Gary Campbell, and Frank Van Keeken were co-members and later became writers on the show.

In the early 1980s, Stephen Kay, who had worked for the prosecution in the trial, became alarmed that Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten had gathered 900 signatures on a petition for her parole.

In 1956, J. Robert Van Pelt became the new president of the university.

At the same time, it became clear that Feyenoord were in an appalling financial state despite earlier comments made by chairman Van den Herik who claimed that the club was financially healthy.

Van Basten scored 25 league goals, and became Capocannoniere again.

Van Basten became trainer of Ajax after Euro 2008 but resigned on 6 May 2009 after his team failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League.

After this, Van Basten became a pundit for Sport1, but was still planning to return as a manager.