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- 1431: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... develop land, not destroy it or completely shelter it through reservations. This synopsis marks the end of the political career of Theodore Roosevelt. His presidency ended in 1908. Serving two terms he decided to follow Washingtons leads by ending at two terms. However, victory would have been won easily if he had run for a third term. He had been a well-loved hero of the American people. Rising to ... giving three or four speeches a day. He grew emotionally distraught and his health suffered dearly. The president clearly had a death wish. Finally, Wilson suffered a sever stroke and was immediately sent back to Washington. After weeks of near death survival, he recovered. Yet Wilson was permanently paralyzed on his left side. Wilson had lost everything. The Republicans under Lodge held the momentum. Wilson still refused to compromise however. He ...
- 1432: Joe Louis Barrow
- ... he realized there wasn't enough room to complete his full name he just wrote Joe Louis, that is how the name became so famous in the short form. Joe then meet a man named George Slayton, who soon became Joe's manager. With George's help Joe made it to the Golden Gloves.Joe's first fight was against Jack Kracken, July 4,1934. He only made $55.00 for the fight and 3 months later he made it ...
- 1433: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to campaign for civil rights in the South. "In the spring of 1957 the SCLC, NAACP, and Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters joined together in a prayer pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. There, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King delivered his first major speech calling for voting rights for blacks. (Jim Haskins, The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot)" "In October 1961 ... for desegregation, because of the heavy pressure applied by the president. With that through, Martin Luther King was now a very known and respected leader. So on August 3, 1963 King lead a march on Washington. What started up as 30,000 people ended with 250,000 people white and black alike, lined up with King to the nations capital. When they had reached their destination point, Martin Luther King delivered ...
- 1434: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- ... national reputation. In 1897 Dunbar was sponsored by the Savage Club in London, England, to give a series of readings and, after his return to America, he obtained employment at the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. Dunbar married Alice Ruth Moore on March 8, 1898. She was a teacher and writer from New Orleans. They separated in 1902. Dunbar to suffer emotional depression and at the same time he developed tuberculosis. Dunbar returned to Washington and continued to write despite persistent health problems. In 1904 he returned to Dayton to stay with his mother. On February 9, 1906, he died in his mother's arms at the age of 33 ...
- 1435: Pablo Picasso
- ... called the Nabis. The themes of the French painters Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as the style of the latter, exerted the strongest influence. Picasso's Blue Room (1901, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.) reflects the work of both these painters and, at the same time, shows his maturity toward the Blue Period, so called because various shades of blue dominated his work for the next few ... 1904 and 1905 are thus called the Rose Period. Many of his subjects were drawn from the circus, which he visited several times a week; one such painting is Family of Saltimbanques (1905, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.). In the figure of the harlequin, Picasso represented his alter ego, a practice he repeated in later works as well. Dating from his first decade in Paris are friendships with the poet Max ...
- 1436: The Beliefs of Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... King, Jr., The Making of a Mind, 1982, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY. Lowery, Linda, Martin Luther King Day 1987 Carolrhoda Book - Minneapolis, Minnesota McPhee, Penelope; Schulke, Flip, King Remembered 1986 W.W. Norton& Company, Inc. Washington, James M. , I Have a Dream , 1992, Harper San Francisco Claybourne Carson, Kings Biography, 1996, Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project Paul E. Johnson, Martin Luther King jr. and the African-American Social Gospel ... leland.stanford.edu Albert, Peter J. We Shall Overcome, Da Capo Press, New York, 1993. Archer, Jules. They Had a Dream, Penguin Books, New York, 1993. Schulke, Flip. King Remembered, Pocket Books, New York, 1986. Washington, James M. I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World by Martin Luther King, Harper, San Fransisco, 1992.
- 1437: Abraham Lincoln
- ... 1842 Lincoln married his long time suitor Mary Todd. The both of them had four children together (3). In 1846 Lincoln ran for congressman he won by a large majority and was sent off to Washington (Stefoff 64). While in Washington Lincoln worked vigorously to try to slowly end slavery. His plan did not work. When Abraham realized that the only way he could stop slavery was if he had Power, he decided to run for ...
- 1438: Bill Gates
- ... s. Yet this is an office, not a dorm room. And, while everyone calls the complex of 25 buildings a campus, it is not a college or university. It is the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. And the person is no grad student. He is William H. Gates III chief executive and co-founder of Microsoft. Mr. Gates has changed the way we live through his first computing experience, the roots ... The company finally went out of business in March of 1970. The Lakeside Programmers Group had to find a new way to get computer time. Eventually they found a few computers on the University of Washington's campus where Allen's dad worked. The Lakeside Programmers Group began searching for new chances to apply their computer skills. Their first opportunity came early the next year when Information Sciences Inc. hired them ...
- 1439: Wyatt Earp
- ... left out important aspects of Wyatt's life in Lamar, and for "good reason" and that Wyatt had reason to claim he never lived there. He never explained what he meant. Wyatt's other cousin George, also from Lamar, claimed that Wyatt sent him a letter in later years asking him not to say anything to biographers who might come to him looking for information about Wyatt's life in Lamar ... a part in them. While most of the stories about Wyatt Earp's life in Dodge are made up of Hollywood bravado, he was involved in at least one known killing there. Wyatt shot cowboy George Hoy, who would later die of gangrene from the wound, after the latter came riding into town and starting "shooting the place up". Some would claim that Hoy was attempting to kill Earp, but this ...
- 1440: John Wilkes Booth
- John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth assassinated president Abraham Lincoln at Fords theater in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Booth was born near Bel Air, MD. His father, Junius Brutus Booth, and his brother Edwin Booth were famous actors, and John himself was one of the most promising ... Booth refused to be taken alive and was shot by one of the soldiers, or more likely by his own hand. He died on the morning of April 26. His body was brought back to Washington where it was secretly buried in a warehouse and then buried in a common graveyard for criminals. In 1869 the body was removed to the family plot in Baltimore. John Wilkes Booth became an important ...
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