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- 1691: Greek Orthodox Customs
- ... At the end, the lady who'd married us said, "You can kiss the bride." My husband and I were so embarrassed we could barely look at each other. Then we headed back to the house where we had our religious ceremony. Following Greek Orthodox custom, I went home afterward with my parents. The next day, my father drove Emanual, my husband, and me to a hotel. When we got to ... ever go on a date." My father died and I had another baby, and the four of us continued living with my mother. Couple of years after we were finally able to afford our first house. It was very exciting. But I did all the shopping, all the chauffeuring. I wanted to save money so the children could go to college. Emanual spent his time working in a takeout restaurant, gambling ... first time. I called the police. At this point he wanted to end the marriage also and move back to Greece. I paid for his ticket. I walked the five blocks to my mother's house and said, "I just want to be your friend, for you to ask me over for a cup of coffee." She shut the door in my face. She still won't talk to me. ...
- 1692: The Presidential Contenders In
- ... nominated former president Millard Fillmore and Andrew Donelson, and the Abolition Party nominated Gerrit Smith and Samuel McFarland. Buchanan started his political career as a state representative in Pennsylvania, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1821, appointed minister to Russia in 1832, and elected US Senator in 1834. He was appointed Secretary of State in 1845 by President Polk and in that capacity helped forge the Treaty ... more to mold the campaign of 1856 than did any other single event. Although he did not intentionally destroy the North-South balance created by the Compromise of 1850, his focused quest for the White House caused him to make some foolish choices. Douglas coveted a rail head in Chicago for the new transcontinental railroad. This would make Chicago a major trade center for the country, not unlike New York City ... by appointing a mix of northern and southern politicians to his cabinet, but each side accused him of favoring the other for the important positions. Buchanan never married, so the social duties of the White House were handled by his niece, Harriet Lane. During a state visit by the Prince of Wales, an orchestra performed the premiere of a new song dedicated to Miss Lane, titled "Listen to the Mockingbird." [ ...
- 1693: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and ... other minorities. As vice-president, he also undertook some missions abroad, which offered him some limited insights into international problems. Presidency The assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, elevated Johnson to the White House, where he quickly proved a masterful, reassuring leader in the realm of domestic affairs. In 1964, Congress passed a tax-reduction law that promised to promote economic growth and the Economic Opportunity Act, which launched ... Novak, Robert, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Exercise of Power : A Political Biography (1966); Geyelin, Philip, Lyndon B. Johnson and the World (1966); Goldman, Eric F., The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (1969); Johnson, Lady Bird, White House Diary(1970); Kearns, Doris, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976); Schandler, Herbert, The Unmaking of a President: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam (1977); White, Theodore, The Making of the President--1964 (1965); Wicker, Tom, ...
- 1694: Mahatma Gandhi: Man Of Peace
- ... of police, recognized Gandhi as one of her husbands friend, and rain to his aid. The sight of a white woman helping a little brown Indian stopped the crowd. Gandhi was taken to a friends house were his wounds were treated. While all this was going on, a mob began to gather out side the house and even got to the point of threatening to burn the house down. The superintendent of police had to disperse the crowd, while Gandhi slipped out the back disguised as a Indian constable. In 1906 A war broke out due to a Zulu uprising. This war ...
- 1695: Thomas Jefferson
- ... Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill allowing owners to free their slaves. The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of ... had he wanted to be a political leader, he could have easily attained a position in government. Instead, he chose to return to Monticello and give his public service to Virginia. Returning to the Virginia House of Delegates in October 1776, Jefferson set to work on reforming the laws of Virginia. He also proposed a rational plan of statewide education and attempted to write religious toleration into the laws of Virginia ... States. BIBLIOGRAPHY Daugherty, Sonia. Thomas Jefferson: Fighter for Freedom and Human Rights. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1961. Koch, Adrienne, and William Peden. The Life and Selected Writings Of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Random House Publishers, 1993. McLaughlin, Jack. Jefferson and Monticello The Biography Of A Builder. 1st ed. New York: Henry Holt and Company Publishers, 1988. Randall, Willard Sterne. Thomas Jefferson A Life. 1st ed. New York: Henry ...
- 1696: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca
- ... the pilgrimage. On the first day of the pilgrimage, thousands of Muslims join each other by walking in a circles (circumambulating) around the Ka'ba seven times. The Ka'ba also is known as "The House of Allah", and is very symbolic in the Islamic religion. The Ka'ba is the axis mundi of all Muslims. It is believed that the area above and the area below the Ka'ba are ... Allah (Muslim God) kissed them in return. Due to the enormous number of people attending the pilgrimage, not all get to touch the Ka'ba. Instead of touching it, these people reach out to the "House of Allah", which is considered to be just as effective as actually touching it. Another sacred structure located within the Great Mosque of Mecca, is the Shrine of Abraham. Abraham is considered as the first ... where every worshipper makes his personal supplication, asking Allah for that which is closest to his heart. The shrine is smaller (than the Ka'ba) and commemorates the ancient Patriarch's founding of the first house of worship. After the tawaf, the Muslims go to a colonnade, or long corridor that runs from Safa to Marwa. This area is symbolic of when Hagar (Abraham's wife) ran back and forth ...
- 1697: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
- ... President Kennedy following the Bay of Pigs disaster. In short, as Anthony Summers has observed, "in September and October 1963--a crucial moment politically--CIA officers were acting in a way that gravely endangered White House policy". A key figure linking the Agency to the assassination was CIA man David Atlee Phillips, who was seen with Oswald a few months before the shooting. Among many other things, Phillips was the propaganda ... Kennedy. Prior to the assassination, various Mafia leaders were heard to threaten JFK's life. The Mafia were believed to of pay JFK's way into Power. They thought they had someone in the White House, however JFK began to crack down on Mafia. On November 20, two Mafia men told Rose Cheramie that it was common knowledge in the underworld that Kennedy was about to be killed. Mafia-CIA man ... Kennedy's death, and Hunt has given conflicting accounts of where he was on the day of the shooting. Also several of the people who were hired or considered for employment by the Nixon White House during Watergate had been connected with the Warren Commission. Was this just a coincidence? In addition, some of the operatives and Cuban exiles who were involved in the Bay of Pigs operation later turned ...
- 1698: Alexander Hamilton
- ... one brother, James Hamilton. Heavy burdens fell upon Hamilton's shoulders during childhood. Business failures caused Hamilton's father to become bankrupt. Soon thereafter, his mother died in 1768. At twelve, Alexander entered the counting house of Nicholas Cruger and David Beekman. There, young Alexander served as a clerk and apprentice. At the age of fifteen, Mr. Cruger left Alexander in charge of the business. Early on, Hamilton wished to increase ... foreign mission. Later, Hamilton ended Burr's goal of attaining the presidency. In the election, Burr was tied in votes for the presidency with Jefferson. Thus, the final vote was thrown onto the lame-duck House of Representatives, which was strongly Federalist. Hamilton urged the House to side with Jefferson, who consequently won the election. Last, Burr wished to attain the governorship of New York. Failing to get the Republican nomination, Burr solicited the aide of the Federalists. Hamilton denounced ...
- 1699: Watergate Scandal
- ... walkie-talkies, two 35mm. cameras, and forty rolls of unexposed picture film. The intruders refused to tell what their purpose of being at Watergate was. So the burglars were taken to the Second District station house. Each intruder gave a name, but each was later found out to be false. The five insist on not answering any questions. To lawyers were summoned and they told the five to stay quiet and ... were assigned to cover the Watergate story for the Washington Post. They followed a lead they received about E. Howard Hunt's name being in to burglars notebooks and traced him back to the white house where he worked as a writer. On June 20 the two reporters linked Hunt as an adviser to the Watergate burglary. With that lead the reporters found out about the payoffs and the cover-up ... resigned, including Bob Haldeman who played a great role in getting Nixon elected and re-elected. On July 24, 1974 the Supreme Court had ruled that the republicans had to turnover 64 tapes of White House conversation. So Nixon was charged with three articles of impeachment. On August 9, 1974 Nixon resigned and on September 8, he received a unconditional pardon from Gerald Ford.
- 1700: Jesus
- ... 41). Some say that Peter told them to be baptized in Jesus' name because they were Jews and this baptism was to make them acknowledge Jesus Christ. But let us go with Peter to the house of Cornelius several years later. Cornelius and his household were Gentiles, yet there again Peter "commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord" (Acts 10:48). (Most translations actually say, "In the name of Jesus Christ.") If Peter was wrong on the Day of Pentecost, he surley had ample time to be corrected before he went to the house of Cornelius. Was Peter wrong on the Day of Pentecost? When the hearers were prickled in their hearts, they spoke to Peter and to the rest of the apostles (Acts 2:37)). This included Matthew ... latter came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas, saying, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And he took them the same hour of the night [shortly after midnight], and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway" (Acts 16:30-33). How can we doubt that ...
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