Event class: named, honor, renamed, opened, honour, new, school, street, building, stadium

Events with high posterior probability

John G. Fary	In 1982, a railway bridge on 67th and Cicero in the Southside of Chicago was named in his honor.
Hugh Cairns (VC)	In March 1936, the town of Valenciennes renamed one of its principal streets'' Avenue du Sergent Cairns''.
Addison Mizner	In addition, an elementary school in Boca Raton was named for him in 1968.
Henry Leach	In 2004 it was announced that the new Navy Command Headquarters building of the Royal Navy at Whale Island, Portsmouth, was to be named the'' Sir Henry Leach Building'' in his honour.
Arthur John Burns	Burns died on 15 September 1901 and is memorialised in the names of two schools - Arthur Burns School in Mosgiel and the Arthur Burns Early Learning Centre.
Charles M. Schulz	In 2000, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors renamed the county airport as the Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport in his honor.
Sarah Harris Fayerweather	In 1970 Fayerweather Hall, a dormitory on the campus of University of Rhode Island, was named for Sarah Harris Fayerweather.
Harold Wilson	Also in 2006, a street on a new housing development in Tividale, West Midlands, was named Wilson Drive in honour of Wilson.
Alfred J. Kennedy	In 1952, Public School No. 193 in Queens was named for him Alfred J. Kennedy School.
Nelson Poynter	The Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, built in 1996, was built in memory of Poynter on the campus of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.
Laura Bush	In 2012, Bush -- along with Hector Ruiz, Charles Matthews, Melinda Perrin, Julius Glickman and Admiral William H. McRaven, the Navy Seal who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden -- was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas.
Mary Wayte	the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2000, The community swimming pool where she formerly trained in Mercer Island, Washington was renamed'' Mary Wayte Pool.''
Carl Sandburg	In December 1961, Carl Sandburg Elementary School was dedicated in San Bruno, California.
Herbert J. Brees	Laramie, Wyoming's Regional Airport was built in 1934 and originally named Brees Field in his honor.
Anton Schr?tter von Kristelli	Since 1876, the Schröttergasse in the Favoriten district of Vienna has been named in his honor.
Roger Hawken	Shortly after his death in 1947, a road leading to the main UQ campus at St Lucia, Queensland (then known as Coronation Drive) was renamed Hawken Drive.
Vicente Madrigal	In 1992, a public school in Binangonan, Rizal was built and was named after him, the Vicente Madrigal Municipal High School.
John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst	In July 1966, Belrose South Public School in Belrose on the Northern Beaches was renamed in his honour as Wakehurst Public School.
Michael P. Murphy	On July 9, 2009, the newly constructed Combat Training Pool at the Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island was dedicated in honor of Murphy.
John Wooden	Also in 2008, Wooden was honored with a commemorative bronze plaque in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Memorial Court of Honor because his UCLA basketball teams played six seasons in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
H. C. Coombs	On 2 January 2008, it was announced that a suburb in the future Canberra district of Molonglo would be named Coombs.
Carl W. McIntosh	He fished often, Long Beach State University renamed its Humanities Office Building, erected during McIntosh's tenture as president, the Mcintosh Humanities Building in 1980 in his honor.
John Oldham (architect)	In 2000, Oldham Park at the Narrows Interchange was named in his honour.
Clarence Munn	MSU's Munn Ice Arena, built in 1974, is named in his honor.
Oliver Sacks	84928 Oliversacks, a - diameter main-belt minor planet discovered in 2003, was named in his honour.
Ken Arthurson	The Ken Arthurson Stand at Brookvale Oval is named after him and was officially opened on Sunday 14 June 1995.
Richard Caliguiri	In October 1990, a commemorative statue of Caliguiri sculpted by Robert Berks was dedicated on the steps of the Downtown Pittsburgh City-County Building on Grant Street.
Jimmye Laycock	On June 21, 2008, William & Mary officially opened its state-of-the-art football facility which was named after him.
Edgar Fauver	When two undergraduate residence complexes were built on the site of Fauver Field in 2005, the buildings were named the Fauver Residences.
Lew Mayne	Daingerfield renamed its football stadium Mickey Mayne Tiger Stadium in his honor in 2009.
Ray Fisher	Thirty-eight years later, on 2 May 2008, a renovated Ray Fisher Stadium was incorporated into the university's new Wilpon Baseball and Softball Complex, Fred Wilpon having pitched for Michigan under Ray.
Demas T. Craw	The military airfield at Port Lyautey was named Craw Field in 1943.
Tom Osborne	In 1999, Nebraska renamed the playing surface at Memorial Stadium Tom Osborne Field in Osborne's honor.
John Cunningham (RAF officer)	In 2003 Cunningham was honoured with having a street named after him, Cunningham Avenue is one of the main residential streets which make up Salisbury Village, a new development currently being built on the former de Havilland site in Hatfield.
John Watts de Peyster	It later became the Watts De Peyster Industrial Home and School for girls, and was torn down in 1938.
William Henry Bramble	In 1995, the international airport of Montserrat was renamed, after him.
James Wilson (U.S. politician)	Wilson Hall, a residence hall at Iowa State University, was named in his honor, as was Washington State University's Wilson Hall (renamed Wilson-Short Hall in 2009), originally built as the college's agriculture building.
J. S. Woodsworth	In Winnipeg a chrome coloured sixteen-story Manitoba provincial office building built in 1973 is named after him.
Lionel Van Praag	In 2000, the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly named a street, Van Praag Circuit (later renamed Van Praag Place) after him.
Edward Simpson (naval officer)	The destroyer USS'' Simpson'' (DD-221), commissioned on November 3, 1920, was named for in his honor.
Frederick C. Sherman	On 11 January 1961, Frederick C. Sherman Field at San Clemente Island, California was dedicated in honor of Vice Admiral Sherman.
Gene Autry	On November 16, 1941, the town of Berwyn, Oklahoma, north of Ardmore, was renamed in honor of Gene Autry.
Imre Mudin	Today the stadium of Nagyatád bears the name of Imre Mudin, and the sports hall of Kétegyháza was named in the honor of the Mudin brothers and known as Mudin Sports Hall since 2008.
George Watson (Medal of Honor)	Several places and structures have been named in Watson's honor, including a field in Fort Benning, Georgia, and, in 1997, the United States Navy ship.
Donald A. Gary	In 1983, the guided missile frigate was named in honor of Donald A. Gary.
Robert A. Little	One of the buildings of the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in Canberra, opened in 1986, was named in Little's honour.
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield	In 2006 LSE, alongside the Housing Association landlord Places for People, renamed their Great Dover Street Student Residence Sidney Webb House in his honour.
Claire Lee Chennault	In 2006 the University of Louisiana at Monroe renamed its athletic teams the Warhawks, honoring Chennault's AVG Curtiss P-40 fighter aircraft nickname.
John W. Weeks	The John W. Weeks Bridge, a footbridge over the Charles River on the campus of Harvard University in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, was named for Weeks and opened in 1927.
Ed Mirvish	On 6 December 2011 the Canon Theatre was renamed Ed Mirvish Theatre in his honour.
Ricardo Bochini	On November 2007 a street was named after him in the city of Avellaneda where Independiente's Stadium is located.
Georg Groscurth	Furthermore, a street in the Pankow section of Berlin was named Groscurthstraße in his honour on 31 August 1977.
Thomas Hambly Ross	The park was originally named Ross Park, then renamed Patton Park in 1946, in honour of captain John MacMillan Stevenson Patton, a Hamiltonian who risked his life during World War II by detonating an unexploded bomb.
Ralph Chetwynd	The Premier of British Columbia, W. A. C. Bennett, renamed the PGE station at Little Prairie to Chetwynd, in his honor, and the town of Little Prairie soon changed its name in 1959.
Loren Miller (judge)	In 1968, Loren Miller Elementary School, a new $ 1,200,000 campus in South Central Los Angeles, was named after Judge Miller.
Rod Laver	In 2000, the centre court at Melbourne Park, which today hosts the Australian Open, was named the Rod Laver Arena in his honour.
Bernard A. Clarey	In 1998, the floating bridge connecting Ford Island to the mainland was named the Admiral Clarey Bridge in Clarey's honor.
Bobby Robson	Similarly, in December 2011, the Port of Tyne Authority named its new work boat the Sir Bobby Robson.
John W. Keys	In May 2009, the pump-generating plant at the Grand Coulee Dam was renamed the John W. Keys III Pump-Generating Power Plant in honor of Keys' service.
Samuel Ogbemudia	He built the Ogbe sports stadium, now named the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, and in August 1973 he commissioned the three-story National Museum in Benin City.
Hector Ruiz	In 2012, Ruiz -- along with former First Lady Laura Bush, Charles Matthews, Melinda Perrin, Julius Glickman and Admiral William H. McRaven, the Navy Seal who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden -- was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas.
Lorna Kesterson	Lorna J Kesterson Elementary School, dedicated in her honor in February 2001, and a Henderson recreational area are named for Kesterson.
Washakie	During World War II, a Liberty Ship built in Portland, Oregon, in 1942, SS Chief Washakie, was named in his honor.
Jarvis Offutt	On May 10, 1924 the landing field at Fort Crook, near Omaha, Nebraska, was renamed Offutt Field in his honor.
Alejandro Cruz	As Mayor of Guaynabo, Cruz put emphasis on the city's sports programs, and, in 1983, the Mets Pavilion (named after the city's BSN basketball team ; later renamed Mario Morales coliseum) was opened.
Clive Sullivan	When Sullivan died of cancer in 1985 aged just 42, the city of Hull held him in such high regard that a section of the city's main approach road (the A63) between the Humber Bridge and the city centre was renamed Clive Sullivan Way in his honour.
Donnie Cochran	CAPTAIN Donnie Cochran at the dedication ceremony for the A4 static display on the Campus of Savannah State University on May 10, 1991.
H. R. Milner	Edmonton's Milner Building at 10040 104th Street, completed in 1958, was also named for him.
William "Bull" Nelson	On June 12, 1863, authorities honored the victim by naming the new supply depot in Jessamine County, Kentucky, Camp Nelson.
Rose Chibambo	In 2009 the Prime Minister Bingu wa Mutharika met Rose Chibambo and honored her, naming a street in Mzuzu City after her.
Ernest E. Evans	The Naval Station Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, Surface Warfare Officers School's virtual simulator for shiphandling training was dedicated as the Evans Full Mission-2 Simulator in Evans' honor 23 May 2013.
Ami Chandra	In 1957, the people of Tawakubu, Lautoka honoured him by establishing a primary school, which in his honour was named, the Ami Chandra Memorial School.
Guy Favreau	Complexe Guy-Favreau, the federal government's main building in Montreal, was built in 1983 and is named in his honour.
Gilberto Bosques Sald?var	He was memorialized in Vienna on 4 June 2003 by having a street in the 22nd district named after him : the Gilberto-Bosques-Promenade.
Kevin Thain	33077 He was given the honour of opening his local community's new sports centre in 2010 in honour of his sporting achievements.
Frank Thomas (American football)	In 2006, a bronze statue of Thomas was erected outside of the University of Alabama's Bryant -- Denny Stadium alongside the statues of Wallace Wade, Bear Bryant, Gene Stallings and now Nick Saban, the other head coaches who have led Alabama to national championships.
Charlton Heston	In his childhood hometown of St. Helen, Michigan, a new charter school, Charlton Heston Academy, opened on September 4, 2012.
Donald Woods	On 9 September 1997, on the twentieth anniversary of the death of Steve Biko, Woods was present in East London when a statue of Biko was unveiled by Nelson Mandela and the bridge across the Buffalo River was renamed the'' Biko Bridge''.
Peter Cosgrove	In recognition of the important contribution General Cosgrove made to the community of North Queensland following Cyclone Larry'', on 11 October 2008, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh announced that the new residential suburb in the Bohle Plains area of Townsville will be named Cosgrove.
Beatrice Tinsley	In December 2010 the New Zealand Geographic Board officially named a mountain in Fiordland's Kepler Mountains (which are named for the astronomer Johannes Kepler) as Mt Tinsley.
Sherman Minton	In 1962, the Sherman Minton Bridge in southern Indiana and the Minton-Capehart Federal Building in Indianapolis were named in his honor.
Phoebe Omlie	In June 1982, a new air traffic control tower was dedicated and named in honor of Phoebe and Vernon Omlie at the Memphis International Airport.
Donald Soper, Baron Soper	From 2005, his old school, now called Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College has a house dedicated to him -- the only one to not be named after a headmaster or headmistress.
Annie May Jackson	Jackson Road, named in July 1980, also carries her name.
Joe Aillet	Joe Aillet Stadium, the home of the Louisiana Tech football team, was dedicated in Aillet's honor in 1972.
Leonard P. Zakim	The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, the Charles River crossing of Interstate 93 and US 1 completed in 2003 as part of the Big Dig (the Central Artery/Tunnel Project), was named in his honor.
Arthur Covington	One of the buildings at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory was named in his honour in 2003.
G. C. Foster	He died in 1966, with Jamaica's principal sporting college, the G. C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport, subsequently named after him.
Dennis Timbrell	In 2006, City of Toronto Council voted to name the community recreation - library - aquatic - child care facility, located at 29 St. Dennis Drive, Don Mills the'' Dennis R. Timbrell Resource Centre in Flemingdon Park''.
Henry L. Pierce	In 1896, the City of Boston named the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Washington and Adams Streets in Dorchester Lower Mills `` Pierce Square'' in memory of Henry Lillie Pierce.
Tetteh Quarshie	And since Independence (1957) the Government of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah after petitions from Dr. J. B. Danquah and the Eastern Region House of Chiefs, has built a first class hospital and fittingly named it after him at Mampong-Akwapim - TETTEH QUARSHIE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.''
Oscar Adams	Gadsden's Oscar W. Adams Elementary School was named in his honor in 1983.
Frederick Weld	In 1982 it was renamed Jalan Raja Chulan after Raja Chulan, but a 1980s shopping complex on that road retains the name'' The Weld''.
Lawrence Joel	In memory of Lawrence Joel and all Forsyth County veterans, the Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen (now City Council) in February 1986 decided to name the city's new coliseum the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Stephen W. Groves	In 1981, the guided missile frigate USS'' Stephen W. Groves'' (FFG-29) was named in his honor at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.
Charlie Bennett	When a new ballpark was opened in Detroit in 1896, it was named Bennett Park in his honor.
John Blackburn (educator)	In 1995, Blackburn was honored by becoming the namesake of the new ua.
Steadman Vincent Sanford	The building of the first baseball stadium (Sanford Field), a basketball facility (Woodruff Hall in 1924) and the current football venue (Sanford Stadium) all occurred due to Steadman Sanford.
Rafic Hariri	On 22 June 2005, Beirut International Airport was renamed Rafic Hariri International Airport.
Hermann Leopoldi	In June 1984 a park was named in his honour in Meidling, a Viennese district.