The last Canadian Prime Minister who received a British title was Viscount Bennett.
Sir Anthony Joseph Mamo served as the second and last Governor-General of Malta. When Malta gained its independence he became the first President.
The granting of UK peerages to Canadians effectively ended in 1917 with the Nickle Resolution. However since some of those peerages granted pre-1917 were hereditary that means that there are currently four Canadian citizens that are UK peers.
Dammit! Ninjaed. Ummm … Among the four, Baron Morris of St Johns, Newfoundland is Thomas Anthony Salmon Morris. The baroncy was created before Newfoundland was part of Canada.
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, was the sixth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He was succeeded in the role by Juan Antonio Samaranch.
The current IOC President, Thomas Bach of Germany, is a former fencer who is the first Olympic medalist to hold the office.
Hockey player Doug Morrow won an Olympic gold medal and was a Stanley Cup champion – in the same season.
Former Boston Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek is the only baseball player to have performed for a championship team in the Little League World Series, the College World Series, THE World Series, and the Olympics.
Olympic Games gold medals are actually more than 90% silver.
The last series of medals made entirely from gold were awarded in 1912, Stockholm.
Jim Thorpe, from near Binger, Oklahoma where Johnny Bench was born, won gold medals at that Olympics in the decathlon and the pentathlon.
There were two pentathlons at the Stockholm games, the classic one won by Thorpe, and the modern one in which future General George Patton placed fifth. Patton’s shooting was controversial, since he used a .38 pistol rather than the usual .22, and claimed one of his shots passed through the hole left by another.
The opening scene of Patton (1970) shows the general standing in front of a large American flag and addressing his Third Army on 05 June 1944, the eve of D-Day with a motivational speech just before the Normandy invasion (some text here).
Great stuff, especially just before being sent on such a hazardous mission:
Awesome.
President Richard M. Nixon was a big fan of the movie Patton, starring George C. Scott, and watched it shortly before ordering the invasion of Cambodia in 1970.
Francis Ford Coppola’s first Oscar was not for directing but for Best Original Screenplay for *Patton *in partnership with Edmund North, including the famous speech in the opening scene - not something Patton ever said, but true to his spirit, as Bullitt’s link shows. Coppola’s line “The purpose of war is to make the *other *poor dumb bastard die for *his *country!” is better remembered.
In non-canon Star Trek lore, the USS Patton was the Federation starship on which the transporter was first successfully used.
The Volkswagen Transporter is the catchall name for its long-lived line of minibuses, starting in 1950 with the Beetle-based Type 2 that became world-famous. The current version, the T5, the first light commercial vehicle with a dual-clutch transmission, is sold in Mexico but not the US or Canada.
From 1841 until 1867, the Province of Canada had a system of dual premierships, with one Premier from Canada East (now Quebec), and one from Canada West (now Ontario).
In 1881, the brothers George and William Chaffey purchased land in southern California and named the town there after the Canadian province they were born in, Ontario.
There were three U.S. Presidents in 1881: Rutherford B. Hayes, who concluded his single term in office; James Garfield and, after his assassination, his Vice President, Chester Arthur.
In the Beatles film “A Hard Day’s Night”, George Harrison’s answer, when an interviewer asked him what he called his moptop hairstyle, was “Arthur”.
Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, never became king, dying before his father, Henry VII. His younger brother, Henry Duke of York, instead inherited his father’s throne (and his brother’s widow), reigning as Henry VIII.