John Howard (prison reformer) - John Howard (prison reformer) John Howard (1726-1790) was an English prison reformer. In 1773 he was appointed as High Sheriff or Bedfordshire. Although the position of High Sheriff was largely ceremonial, Howard took it seriously and embarked on a seventeen year study of prison conditions. Not only did he travel in Great Britain, but also throughout Europe and Russia. Howard wrote one book, The State of Prisons in England and Wales. This book went through three editions during his lifetime, but his recommendations were not widely put into practice until the 19th century. John Howard is the namesake of the John Howard Society, a Canadian non-profit organization that seeks to develop understanding and effective responses to the problem of crime. See also: Elizabeth Fry.
John Howard (disambiguation) - John Howard (disambiguation) John Howard is the current Prime Minister of Australia. John Howard is an Australian actor. John Howard was an American actor. John E. Howard was an American politician (Governor of Maryland and later Senator) in the 18th century. John Howard was an English prison reformer of the 18th century. John Howard, Duke of Norfolk was an English duke in the 15th century. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
July 10 - States. 1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state. 1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2003). 1925 - The official news agency of the Soviet Union called the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. 1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world. 1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British.
Thomas Telford - he found work at Portsmouth dockyard and - although still largely self-taught - was extending his talents to the specification, design and management of building projects. In 1787, through his wealthy patron William Pulteney, he became Surveyor of Public Works for Shropshire, England. At this time, 'civil engineering' was a discipline still in its infancy, so Telford was set on establishing himself as an architect. His projects included renovation of Shrewsbury's Castle, the town's prison (during planning of which he met leading prison reformer John Howard), a church (St Mary Magdalene) in Bridgnorth and another at Madeley. As county surveyor, Telford was also responsible for bridges. In 1790 he designed a bridge carrying the London-Holyhead road over the Severn river at Montford, the first of some 40 bridges he built in.
Carl Schurz - - May 14, 1906) was a German-American statesman and reformer. He was born in Liblar, near Cologne, the son of a school-teacher. He studied at the Jesuit Gymnasium of Cologne in 1840-1846, and then entered the University of Bonn, where he became a revolutionary, partly through his friendship with Gottfried Kinkel, then a professor. He assisted Kinkel in editing the Bonner Zeitung, and was active in the Revolution of 1848, but when Rastatt surrendered he escaped to Zürich. In 1850 he returned secretly to Germany, rescued Kinkel from prison at Spandau and helped him to escape to Scotland. Schurz went to Paris, but the police forced him to leave France on the eve of the coup d'état, and until August 1852 he lived in London, making his living by teaching German..
September 2003 - Treaty. [1] Euro-parliamentarians urge EU governments to form a united front and protest against US President George W. Bush over the lack of rights of detainees in the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [1] The European Commission will not shy away from imposing fines on France if it continues to break Euro-rules, according to Economics Commissioner Pedro Solbes. [1] German weekly Bunte quotes Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as saying We should pray for the pope, raising questions about the pope's health. September 29, 2003 Abdalla Yones, who was convicted of murder for killing his daughter for dating a Christian, is sentenced to life in prison after becoming the first person in Britain to admit an "honour killing". [1] Terrorism: Pakistan dismisses and condemns al-Qaida terrorist network threat against President Pervez Musharraf,.
John Foxe - John Foxe John Foxe (1516 - April 8, 1587) is remembered as the author of the famous Foxe's Book of Martyrs. He was born at Boston, in Lincolnshire, England. At the age of sixteen he is said to have entered Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was the pupil of John Harding or Hawarden, and shared rooms with Alexander Nowell, afterwards dean of St Paul's Cathedral. He is known to have been connected with Magdalen College. He took his B.A. degree in 1537 and his M.A. in 1543. He was lecturer on logic in 1540-1541. He wrote several Latin plays on Scriptural subjects, of which the best, De Christo triumphante, was repeatedly printed, (London, 1551; Basel, 1556, etc.), and was translated into English by Richard Day, son.
E. Howard Hunt - E. Howard Hunt Edward Howard Hunt (born October 9, 1918) worked for the White House under President Richard Nixon, figured in the Watergate Scandal, and was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison. Hunt, along with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House's "plumbers", a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks". Information disclosures had proved an embarrassment to the Nixon administration when defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg had sent a series of documents which came to be known as the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. An employee of the CIA from 1949 to 1970, Hunt organized the bugging of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office building and was also found to be.
Michael Howard - Michael Howard This page is about the UK politician. For others of the same name, see Michael Howard (disambiguation). Michael Howard (born July 7, 1941) is a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and current leader of the Conservative Party. He was Home Secretary from 1993 to 1997. He became leader of the Conservative Party on November 6 2003, having been the only candidate for the job after Iain Duncan Smith lost a vote of confidence on October 29. Howard was born in Llanelli, Wales as the son of a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper. The family name of Hecht was anglicised to become Howard. He attended Peterhouse, Cambridge and was President of the Cambridge Union in 1962. A barrister, he became a QC in 1982 and.
January 7 - Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons. 1782 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America). 1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Americann John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air. 1789 - First nationwide United States election. 1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. 1896 - Fannie Farmer publishes first cookbook. 1901 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism. 1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS." 1911 - Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore. 1924.
January 18 - Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad. 1943 - The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. 1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, make his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. 1964 - The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time 1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison. 1975 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS. 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's.
Jeffrey Archer - Jeffrey Archer Jeffrey Howard Archer, Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare (born April 15, 1940) is the successful author of a number of popular novels, a convicted perjurer and former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and MP. He was born in the City of London maternity hospital and most of his childhood was spent in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare. After leaving school with few qualifications he worked in a number of jobs, including training with the Army and Police force, and working as a teacher. He gained a place at Brasenose College, Oxford to study for a one-year diploma in education, though he eventually stayed there for three years. He is not, however, an Oxford graduate. While at Oxford he was moderately successful in athletics, competing in sprinting and.
Joh Bjelke-Petersen - reporting by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation program Four Corners brought to light evidence of widespread corruption in both the police force and the National Party government. The subsequent two-year-long Commission of Inquiry into "Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct", chaired by barrister Tony Fitzgerald (the Fitzgerald Inquiry), which in 1989 lead to the end of the National Party's thirty-two year hold on government and to several senior state bureaucrats and government ministers being convicted for corruption and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. As these events unfolded, Bjelke-Petersen made an extraordinary political move, launching an unwinnable National Party campaign for the Prime Ministership, working against the Nationals' usual coalition partner, the Liberal Party (under the leadership of John Howard). The Joh for Canberra campaign was of significant benefit to the incumbent.
July 29 - Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock. 1567 - James VI was crowned at Stirling. 1588 - Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines, France. 1693 - The Battle of Landen 1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there. 1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put-down by police. 1851 - A De Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. 1858 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty. 1864 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old.
Victor Cousin - knowledge of Greek. From the lycée he passed to the Normal School of Paris, where Pierre Laromiguière was then lecturing on philosophy. In the second preface to the Fragmens philosophiques, in which he candidly states the varied philosophical influences of his life, Cousin speaks of the grateful emotion excited by the memory of the day in 18.., when he heard Laromiguière for the first time. "That day decided my whole life." Laromiguière taught the philosophy of John Locke and Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, happily modified on some points, with a clearness and grace which in appearance at least removed difficulties, and with a charm of spiritual bonhomie which penetrated and subdued." Cousin wanted to lecture on philosophy, and quickly obtained the position of master of conferences (maître de conférences) in the.
Hollywood Ten - making political statements while refusing to answer questions put to them by the committee concerning their Communist affiliations and activities. Among the questions they refused to answer was, "Are you a member of the Screen Writers Guild?" Their unsuccessful defense was based on First Amendment claims. Following unsuccessful appeals and denial of review by the Supreme Court, they served 6-month (in two cases) or one-year prison terms in 1950. On November 25, 1947 (the day after the full House approved citations of contempt) they were "blacklisted" by the major Hollywood producers, who declared publicly that the ten would be fired or suspended and not rehired until they were acquitted or purged of contempt and had sworn that they were not Communists. Because of their notoriety, they were unable to obtain work.
Unitarianism - a college and a printing-press, from which the Racovian Catechism was issued in 1605. In 1610 a Catholic reaction began, led by Jesuits. The establishment at Raków was suppressed in 1638, two lads having pelted a crucifix outside the town. When twenty years public opinion widely considered them as Swedish collaborators during The Deluge, the Polish Diet gave anti-Trinitarians the option of conformity or exile. The Minor Church included many Polish magnates, but their adoption of the views of Sozzini, which precluded Christians from magisterial office, rendered them politically powerless. The execution of the decree, hastened by a year, took place in 1660. Some conformed; a large number made their way to Holland (where the Remonstrants admitted them to membership on the basis of the Apostles’ Creed); others to the German.
Gun politics - totalitarian regimes that passed gun control legislation as a first step of their reign of terror. The sequence is said to be gun registration, followed some time later by confiscation. Nazi legislation is the most famous example of this sequence, but it also occurred in Marxist regimes. This does not indicate that gun control laws will always lead to totalitarianism. Many places, such as the United Kingdom have had such laws for many years without becoming totalitarian. However, it should be noted that registration of firearms in many democracies has led to confiscations of formerly legal firearms and the outlawing of the ownership of firearms to various degrees. Some persons oppose registration of guns or licensing of gun owners because if captured, the associated records would provide military invaders with a.
February 11 - 1903 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna. 1905 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos. 1908 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England. 1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control. 1919 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany. 1928 - 1928 Winter Olympic Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland 1929 - Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty. 1937 - A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union. 1941 - First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo". 1943 - General Dwight Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe. 1945 - Yalta Conference ends. 1948 - John Costello follows Eamon de Valera as Premier of Ireland..
February 16 - War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 1868 - In New York City the Jolly Gorks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE). 1883 - Ladies Home Journal is published for the first time. 1918 - Lithuania declares its independence from both Russia and Germany. 1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. 1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon. 1943 - World War II: Russia reconquers Kharkov. 1945 - World War II: American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines. 1945 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula. 1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1. 1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes.
