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Brendan Hughes (June 1948 [1] – 16 February 2008 [2]) was a leading Irish republican and former Officer Commanding (OC) of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). [3] Also known as 'The Dark', [ 4 ] and 'Darkie', [ 5 ] he was the leader of the 1980 Irish hunger strike .
Edward F. Hughes (March 30, 1938 – June 1, 2004) was a former news anchor best known for his longtime role as a news anchor for Norfolk, Virginia CBS affiliate WTKR from 1967 (when the station was known as WTAR) until shortly before his death in 2004. In addition, he was also the morning news anchor at radio station Z-104 for a time during ...
Gravesite of Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Marine Corps Col. John Hughes in Section 8 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Feb. 13, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released) Camera manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION: Camera model: NIKON D5: Author: Elizabeth Fraser: Exposure time: 1/4,000 sec ...
Ron Crane, 67, American electrical engineer, cancer. [343] Ivan Dias, 81, Indian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Bombay (1996–2006) and Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (2006–2011). [344] Tony DiCicco, 68, American soccer coach (women's national team), Olympic champion and 1999 World Cup winner. [345]
Robert Morton Hughes (September 10, 1855 – January 15, 1940) was a Virginia lawyer who served as a president of The Virginia Bar Association and helped establish what became Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Charles Hughes, 91, English football coach and director . [314] (death announced on this date) 15 August – Jim McLaughlin, 83, Northern Irish football player (Shrewsbury Town, national team) and manager . [315] (death announced on this date) 16 August Charles Blackwell, 84, English arranger, record producer and songwriter.
Hughes lectured on law at the University of Virginia, and served on its Board of Visitors from 1865 to 1872. He was also a trustee of the Hampton Institute, from 1870 to 1899. [24] At the graduation exercises in 1875, [25] Judge Hughes "said it was gratifying to put to rest the old belief that one race was inferior in capacity to the other." [26]
Hughes Electronics Corporation was formed in 1985 when Hughes Aircraft was sold by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to General Motors for $5.2 billion. Surviving parts of Hughes Electronics are today known as DirecTV Group , while the automotive divisions became Aptiv .