Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

The race was won by " Williams " ( pseudonym of William Grover-Williams ) driving a Bugatti Type 35B painted dark green ( what would erroneously become referred to as British racing green ).

In 1936, Robinson won the junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament and earned a place on the Pomona annual baseball tournament all-star team, which included future Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon.

The campaign and its leader, Jody Williams, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for its efforts.

* Desai Williams is a former sprinter who won a bronze medal in the 1984 Olympics.

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

That minor league franchise won the PCL title in 1937, led by then-18-year-old San Diegan Ted Williams.

The team was managed by Dick Williams, and it had an offense that featured the veterans Steve Garvey, Garry Templeton, Graig Nettles, Alan Wiggins, plus the new, young star Tony Gwynn, who won his first of eight National League batting championships that year ( he won in 1987, 88, and 89 and from 1994 through 97 ).

Elway had won the NFL Most Valuable Player Award and was selected to start for the AFC in the Pro Bowl, while Williams had played just five regular season games in the 1987 season.

The PNM remained in power following the death of Dr. Williams, but its 30 year rule ended in 1986 when the National Alliance for Reconstruction ( NAR ), a multi-ethnic coalition aimed at uniting Trinidadians of Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Trinidadian descent, won a landslide victory by capturing 33 of 36 seats.

Williams was a two-time American League Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) winner, led the league in batting six times, and won the Triple Crown twice.

In the season, Williams won the Triple Crown, with a. 356 batting average, 36 home runs, and 137 RBIs.

Williams also won the Triple Crown in 1947, but lost the MVP award to Joe DiMaggio, with 201 votes compared to DiMaggio's 202 votes.

One writer ( whom Williams thought was Mel Webb, who Williams called a " grouchy old guy ", although the identity of the writer remains unknown ) completely left Williams off his ballot, who would have tied DiMaggio or won if one writer who had voted Williams as second had voted him first.

For the rest of Williams ' career, the Yankees won eight pennants and five World Series titles, while the Red Sox never finished better than third place.

Williams returned to the Red Sox lineup on May 7, and he hit. 345 with 386 at bats in 117 games, although Bobby Avila, who had hit. 341, won the batting championship.

It has been claimed that Williams has sold more albums in the UK than any other British solo artist in history and has won more BRIT Awards than any other artist to date.

Williams won a libel case against MGN and Northern & Shell in December 2005 relating to articles which had reported he was a closet homosexual.

Williams has won various awards with some of his more recognised accolades being the BRIT awards.

At age 16, Williams won third prize ( five dollars ) for an essay published in Smart Set entitled, " Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?

* Tennessee Williams won the award in 1948 and 1955.

Using cathode ray tubes, Fred Williams would invent the Williams tube, which would be the first random access computer memory.

On his first day he axed the characters of Derek Wilton, Don Brennan, Percy Sugden, Bill Webster, Billy Williams and Maureen Holdsworth.

In 1813, John Williams, a missionary on the Endeavour ( not the same ship as Cook's ), made the first official sighting of the island Rarotonga.

1813 — English missionary John Williams made the first official sighting of Rarotonga.

In week five, with starting wide receiver Roy Williams sidelined by injury, receiver Miles Austin got his first start of the season and had a record setting day ( 250 yards receiving and 2 TDs ) to help lead Dallas to an overtime win over Kansas City.

His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.

It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.

American Larry Adler was one of the first harmonica players to perform major works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin.

The first dedicated school for journalism, Missouri School of Journalism, was founded in 1908 in the United States of America by Walter Williams.

The Jaguars lost starting guards Vince Manuwai and Maurice Williams for the season within the first quarter of the opening game.

* 1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.

Newman lost no time in establishing the renowned Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University and recruited the engineers Frederic Calland Williams and Thomas Kilburn where they built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer based on Turing's ideas.

Since 2006, the Vikings have been known especially for their strong run defense (# 1 in the NFL in 2006, 2007, and 2008 ; they are the first NFL team to accomplish this since the AFL – NFL merger in 1970 ), anchored by the Williams Wall consisting of defensive tackle Kevin Williams and nose tackle Pat Williams ( no relation ).

* 1981 – Eric Williams, Caribbean historian, first Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago ( b. 1911 )

During the 1999 NFL Draft, Ditka traded all of his picks for that season, as well as the first-round and third-round picks for the following season, to the Washington Redskins in order to draft University of Texas Heisman Trophy running back Ricky Williams in the first round.

On March 21, 2012, Commissioner Goodell announced that, as a result of the bounty scandal and the NFL's investigation, Sean Payton has been suspended for one year, Gregg Williams indefinitely, and Mickey Loomis for the first eight regular season games.

It first appeared in print, with some enhancement, in 1947, in a festschrift volume, Essays Presented to Charles Williams, compiled by C. S. Lewis.

The first two-way amateur radioteletype QSO of record took place in May 1946 between Dave Winters, W2AUF, Brooklyn, NY and W2BFD, John Evans Williams, Woodside Long Island, NY.

* 1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.

In his first official trade as GM, he shocked Giants fans by trading Matt Williams to Cleveland for what newspapers referred to as a ' bunch of spare parts ', with the negative reaction being great enough for him to have to publicly explain: " I didn't get to this point by being an idiot ...