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- 8951: Gertrude Stein
- ... was the fifth child, and youngest, to Daniel and Amelia Stein, German-Jewish immigrants. She was a bright girl, but was noted for “her lifelong indifference to rules” (Gombar 41), especially in school. The early death of her mother was the cause of this. Her father was the king of his castle, often acting as a tyrant, and Stein “credited her lifelong aversion to all authorities and father figures” (Gombar 41 ...
- 8952: Martin Luther King Jr
- ... to Memphis Tennessee to support a strike of poorly paid sanitation workers. There, on April 4, 1968 Martin was assassinated by a sniper, by the name of James Earl Ray. Martin Luther king JR’s death shocked the nation and started riots everywhere by the African American people in many cities. He was later buried in Atlanta under a monument inscribed with the final words of his famous “I Have a ...
- 8953: Malcolm X
- ... X came to believe that whites, like blacks were among the racist society. After this trip he also adopted the name el-hajj malik el-Shabazz. During the winter of 1964 Malcolm X received several death threats, and his home was bombed. On February 21, 1965 while speaking at an OAAU rally in Harlem Malcolm X was shot and killed. His wife Betty Shabazz that he had married in 1958 took ...
- 8954: Karl Marx
- ... act of affecting philosophy, literature, and the arts. Marx dies at 55 years old, in bad health. His remaining ten years were less eventful. In 1871 the second edition of Capital was needed. After Marx death, the critique of the Gotha program published one of his rare statements on organization of future communist society. In 1843, Marx married, at Kreuznach, a childhood friend he had become engaged to while still a ...
- 8955: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... died by assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. The news was a shock throughout the world, resulting in riots. In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. After King’s death, King came to represent black courage and achievement, high moral leadership, and the ability of Americans to address and overcome racial divisions. We now celebrate January 19 as a remembrance to Dr. Martin Luther King ...
- 8956: James Earl Ray
- ... a spontaneous outburst of racial prejudice. However, Ray did submit a full confession to the court. James Earl Ray was the age of 42 when his rifle was found near the scene of King's death. This had been unexpected of the man considering his past record. “His criminal career was typified by such offenses as taxi-cab holdups and grocery store robberies, for which he usually got caught,” (60 Greatest ...
- 8957: Hitler's Life
- ... war and would play it with anyone, anytime. At this time Adolf was 11 and his little brother Edmund died of measles. This was hard on Adolf. He loved to play war with its pretend death and now he had to confront it. He was buried in the cemetery by their home. Adolf could see the exact grave plot from his window. Neighbors often viewed Adolf sitting in the cemetery looking ...
- 8958: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... When he was called general, not emporer, he grew sick at heart. Napoleon tried to work and to dictate his memoirs, but ill health dogged his footsteps. His legs swelled. His energy flagged. He knew death was not far away. He wrote a will in which his last request was that his ashes might rest on the banks of the Seine, "in the midst of the people I so greatly loved ...
- 8959: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... Lee and one year later he was elected to the Assembly of New York State, holding office for three years and distinguishing himself as an ardent reformer. In 1884, because of ill health and the death of his wife and his mother, Roosevelt abandoned his political work for some time. He invested part of the fortune he had inherited from his father in a cattle ranch in Wyoming, expecting to remain ...
- 8960: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- Stalin and The Soviet Union Joseph Stalin lived from 1879 till 1953. Stalin was one of the most ruthless communist dictators of all time. After Lenin’s death, Stalin pushed his way to the top and was set out to make the Soviet Union into an industrial power. In 1928, Stalin proposed the Five Year Plans, which were to build heavy industry, transportation ...
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