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Eddie Butler (other)
Eddie Butler may refer to: * Eddie Butler (baseball) (born 1991), baseball pitcher * Eddie Butler (rugby union) (1957–2022), Welsh rugby union player, journalist, sports commentator * Eddie Butler (singer) (born 1971), Israeli singer * Eddie Butler, participant in the Balcombe Street Siege * Eddy Butler (born 1962), former elections officer of the British National Party See also * Edward Butler (other) * Ed Butler {{hndis, Butler, Eddie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Butler (baseball)
Timothy Edward Butler (born March 13, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs, and Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers. He also played in the KBO League for the NC Dinos. Amateur career Butler attended Greenbrier Christian Academy in Chesapeake, Virginia. After playing for the school's baseball team, ''The Virginian-Pilot'' named him to their All-Tidewater region, Tidewater team in 2009, his senior year. The Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers selected him in the 35th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft. He did not sign and attended Radford University, where he played college baseball for the Radford Highlanders. In his junior year, Butler pitched to a 7–4 win–loss record (pitching), win–loss record and a 2.20 earned run average (ERA). He won the Big South Conference Pitc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Butler (rugby Union)
Edward Thomas Butler (8 May 1957 – 15 September 2022) was a Welsh rugby union player, journalist and sports commentator. He won 16 caps for the Wales national team between 1980 and 1984 and scored two tries. Early life and rugby career Butler was born on 8 May 1957. He was educated at Monmouth School and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he studied French and Spanish between 1976 and 1978. Butler played as a number eight and gained Cambridge Blues in 1976, 1977 and 1978, Butler played in 16 matches for the Welsh national side between 1980 and 1984 and captained the side in six of those matches. He captained Pontypool RFC side between 1982 and 1985, in succession to Jeff Squire. He was chosen for the Barbarians and the British Lions, touring with the latter in 1983. Butler retired from international rugby in 1985. Journalist and broadcaster Whilst continuing to play for Pontypool Butler became a teacher at Cheltenham College. He joined BBC Radio Wales as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Butler (singer)
Eddie Butler (born October 2, 1971) ( he, אדי בטלר) is an Israeli singer. He was born in Dimona to a family of Black Hebrew Israelites from Chicago. Butler started performing at the age of eight. In the 1990s he sang with wedding bands, and in 1992 worked as a backing singer for Zehava Ben. In 1999 Butler represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem as part of the Eden group which consisted of Eddie, Eddie's older brother Gabriel Butler, Rafael Dahan and Doron Oren. Their song "Happy Birthday" finished 5th with 93 points. Eden broke up in 2001, and after the group's breakup, Butler launched a solo career. He has performed throughout Europe, Russia and the United States. In 2002 he got the Special Audience Prize of the international music competition New Wave in Jūrmala, Latvia. He represented his home country as a soloist at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens with the song "Together We Are One" but finished in second-last place. Eddie propo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balcombe Street Siege
The Balcombe Street siege was an incident involving members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and London's Metropolitan Police lasting from 6 to 12 December 1975. The siege ended with the surrender of the four IRA members and the release of their two hostages. The events were televised and watched by millions. Background In 1974 and 1975, London was subjected to an intense 14-month campaign of gun and bomb attacks by the Provisional IRA. In one incident the ''Guinness Book of Records'' co-founder and conservative political activist Ross McWhirter was assassinated; he had offered a £50,000 reward to anyone willing to inform the security forces of IRA activity.1975: Balcombe Street siege ends BBC News "On this day": 12 December 1975 The four members of what be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Butler
Edward Mark Butler (born in Bloomsbury 13 November 1962) is a former National Elections Officer of the British National Party (BNP) and was dubbed the party's "elections guru" by its newspaper, ''Voice of Freedom'', until being suspended and expelled from the BNP in 2010 by Nick Griffin. He then became a member of the English Democrats before becoming associated with the For Britain Movement. First BNP tenure Butler was originally the Tower Hamlets organiser for the National Front but, after having been expelled from that party by Griffin, in 1986, joined the British National Party in the same year. Butler first came to prominence in the early 1990s when he was party organiser in Tower Hamlets. Whilst in charge here Butler masterminded the 'Rights for Whites' campaign, a locally based initiative that sought to highlight supposed council "bias" against the White British. The campaign, which initially presented itself as independent before linking directly to the BNP, was instrume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Butler (other)
Edward Butler may refer to: Politicians * Edward Butler (Australian politician) (1823–1879), barrister and politician in colonial New South Wales * Edward Butler (British politician), British Member of Parliament for Oxford University, 1737–1745 * Edward Butler (Louisiana politician), served in the Louisiana Senate * Edward Butler (1834–1911), political boss of St. Louis and Missouri, see Bottoms Gang * Edward Butler (New Hampshire politician) (born 1949), Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives Peers * Edward Butler, 1st Viscount Galmoye (died 1653), Irish peer * Edward Butler, 2nd Viscount Galmoye (1627–1667), Irish peer Military * Edward Butler (soldier) (1762–1803), United States Army officer * Sir Edward Gerald Butler (1770–1825), Irish officer in the British Army Others * Edward Butler (academic) (1686–1745), English academic administrator at the University of Oxford * Edward Butler (cricketer, born 1851) (1851–1928), Australian cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
