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The 24-year-old died from cardiac arrest in a movie theater in Birmingham, England, while looking for his dropped mobile phone. His head became wedged under the electronic footrest of a seat. [193] [194] Elaine Herzberg: 18 March 2018
The first school fair was held in Rustburg, the county seat, in 1908. This was the first school fair ever held in Virginia and was started by the Virginia Federation of Women's Club, "with the aid of J.S. Thomas, then school examiner in the district, and with the agreement of the Van Dyke League to help in Campbell."
Warwick Arts Centre, musical collection – University of Warwick, Coventry; Leith Hill Place, former home of Ralph Vaughan Williams and National Trust property – Dorking, Surrey; Mechanical Museum and Doll Collection – Chichester [125] Paul Corins Magnificent Music Machines (1967–2013†) – Liskerad, Cornwall [126]
John Mercer Langston – Virginia 1890–1891 (also U.S. Minister to Haiti) [2] Jefferson F. Long – Georgia 1871 [2] John R. Lynch – Mississippi 1873–1877, 1882–1883 (also speaker of the Mississippi House) [2] John Willis Menard – Louisiana, 1868 elected but not seated
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia. 1884 – George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. 1888 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually original works written for television, although dramatic adaptations of fiction (and occasionally stage plays) also featured.
Bristol County was created by the Plymouth Colony on June 2, 1685, [3] and named after its "shire town" (county seat), Bristol. [4] The Plymouth Colony, along with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Maine Colony and several other small settlements were rechartered in 1691, by King William III, to become The Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Anne Burras, early Virginia colonist; Anne Burrell (born 1969), American chef; Anne Bushnell (1939–2011), Irish musical artist; Anne Buttimer (1938–2017), Irish geographer; Anne Buydens (1919–2021), American film producer and philanthropist; Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron (1792–1860), British peer, wife of Lord Byron