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- 5761: Lou Gehrig
- ... face of this earth." Less than two years later Lou Gehrig was dead at age 38. A nation mourned for him. Baseball's Hall of Fame immortalized him. His locker in the Yankee's club house was turned into a shrine. No Yankee ever again wore Gehrig's famed number 4 on a baseball uniform.
- 5762: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... first major speech calling for voting rights for blacks. (Jim Haskins, The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot)" "In October 1961, eight months into his presidency, John F. Kennedy invited King to the White House. Their meeting had been a long time coming. King had wanted to talk about civil rights ever since the election, but the president kept putting him off. Finally, when they were together in the president ...
- 5763: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- ... Western Association of Writers. This lead to notoriety outside of Dayton. A famous poet, James Whitcomb Riley read of Dunbar's work and encouraged him to publish his work. Dunbar approached the United Brethren Publishing House of Dayton, which eventually printed his first book, entitled Oak and Ivy. His second collection was published in 1895, Majors and Minors. Dunbar's poets received positive reviews by novelist Williams Dean Howell,(one of ...
- 5764: Booker T. Washington
- ... problem, but to heal it in the loving Christian way. Washington was a national spokesman for blacks but was excluded from any effective participation in national political life. Even Washington's visit to the White House in 1901 was greeted with a storm of protest as a "breech of racial etiquette". He went on to receive honorary degrees from Harvard University in 1896 and Dartmouth College in 1901. Booker T. Washington ...
- 5765: Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
- ... of the distinguished Randolph family of Virginia, he graduated from the College of William and Mary (1762) and read law under George Wythe. After several years of law practice, Jefferson was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses (1769--75) and sided with the revolutionary faction, writing an influential tract, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774). In 1770 he began designing and building Monticello, which would occupy ...
- 5766: Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
- ... go to school, he also worked six hours a day at his family owned icehouse and fuel station, in addition to schooling. He also had other chores that included raising chickens, pigs and cattle; cleaning house as well as the yard. He credits these lessons early in life of hard work and self-reliance for giving him the drive to be where he is today. His grandfather, who could not read ...
- 5767: Raymond Mary Kolbe
- ... growth of this apostolate between 1927 and 1929 led to the foundation of Niepokalanow near Warsaw. The name “Niepokalanow” means “City of the Immaculate”, and was completely self supported, equipped with a seminary, a mission house, a printing establishment, and a radio station. “Father Maximilian was a guiding spirit” (Chenu, Broono.P78). The success of his monthly magazine, whose circulation eventually reached 750,000, encouraged him to install ultra-modern machinery ...
- 5768: Biography on Mario Lemieux
- ... in third person and I am in four different sections. The first section is called "The Prodigy" in which I talk about Mario's early life: from playing hockey in the carpeted basement of his house in Montreal, Quebec, to him playing, and dominating, junior hockey to his debut in the NHL. This chapter basically recounts, briefly, his life. My second section is called "The Champion". In this chapter I talk ...
- 5769: Joseph Stalin
- ... cobbler by trade.(Joseph Stalin) Stalin was beat badly by his father when he was only eleven years old and his father also died that same year.(Tyrant) Stalin’s mother, Yekaterina Geladze, was a house servant for an upper-class Georgian, she was a deeply religious women.(Joseph Stalin) Stalin was sent to the Gori Church Run School in 1888 to 1894, it turned out that he was their best ...
- 5770: John Fitzgerald Kennedy and His Accomplishments in Office
- ... not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” In the beginning of his presidency, John F. Kennedy and his staff brought many great changes to the White House and to Washington. Instead of letting his secretaries contact people for him, he would often dial calls himself, which surprised many who would pick up the phone to discover that the president was already on ...
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