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Barenboim was presented with the medal of the Elgar Society.

He was presented with the Medal of Honor by President Harry S. Truman on Oct. 12, 1945.

What have these got in common... Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union, Charles Lindbergh was presented with the Medal of Honour for the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic, and British inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first colour television transmission?

Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to Master Sergeant, and evacuated to the United States, to be presented with the Medal of Honor for his actions.

"You have always been a pioneer, a leader rather than a follower," Bollinger said, noting that Lung was the first Columbian of Asian descent to be presented with the medal since Wellington Koo (Class of 1909) in 1949, three years after its inception.

Bonnie Carroll, founder of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, was one of several activists presented with the medal along with Billy Frank Jr, a Native American rights activist and environmental conservationist, and Minoru Yasui, who fought against the US government's internment of Americans of Japanese descent.

Afterwards, Schiff was presented with the gold medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society by the Duke of Kent.

Mr. Waddington was one of the founders of the Natural Science Society of Bournemouth, and was later presented with the gold medal of the society and elected honorary vice-president.

In 1992 he was presented with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition Organization.

He frequently visited London, most recently in 2008 when, after a concert by the Nash Ensemble he was presented with the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society.

In 1963 he collapsed again after being presented with the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society, Britain's highest musical honour.