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The Michigan Sports Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame to honor Michigan sports athletes, coaches and contributors. It was organized in 1954 by Michigan Lieutenant Governor Philip Hart, Michigan State University athletic director, Biggie Munn, president of the Greater Michigan Foundation, Donald Weeks, general manager of the Detroit Lions, W. Nicholas Kerbawy and George Alderton of the Lansing ...
President George H. W. Bush lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda on December 3, 2018. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and other civilians who have rendered distinguished ...
[2]: 299 Steenhoven told Song that the United States had just lifted its ban on travel to China. [ 2 ] : 299 He also expressed his regret that the ban meant that the American team did not attend the 1961 World Table Tennis Championships (which were held in China) and stated that he hoped the U.S. team could compete in China in the future.
Elisha Kent Kane's funeral was the largest in the United States until Abraham Lincoln's [8] Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), physician, polar explorer, lover or husband of spiritualist Margaretta "Maggie" Fox; John K. Kane (1795–1858), U.S. District Judge, Attorney General of Pennsylvania
Countries from which at least one representative attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on 19 September 2022. The state funeral of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms, was attended by a significant number of dignitaries from across the world, with priority given to those from the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming one of the largest gathering of ...
Four Weddings and a Funeral: $4,162,489: Four Weddings and a Funeral reached No. 1 in its sixth weekend of limited release. [17] 16: April 24, 1994: Bad Girls: $5,012,200: Andie MacDowell became the first actress in cinema history to star in two back to back number 1 films as she starred in both Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bad Girls. [18 ...
Not since the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII, in 1910, had there been such a large gathering of presidents, prime ministers, and royalty at a state funeral. [99] [143] [141] In all, 220 foreign dignitaries from 92 countries, five international agencies, and the papacy attended the funeral.
Shaka Sankofa (born Gary Lee Graham; September 5, 1963 [1] – June 22, 2000) was a Texas death-row inmate who was sentenced to death at the age of 17 for the murder of 53-year-old Bobby Grant Lambert in Houston, Texas, on May 13, 1981.