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- 1301: Margaret Bourke-White
- ... her a star but Margaret still kept her studio, which had grown to a staff of eight and moved to the Chrysler building. In 1930 Fortune sent Margaret on one of her biggest assignments, to Germany to capture foreign industry. Curious about the Soviet Union she wanted to extend her trip but very few foreigners were allowed into the country. As she once said, "nothing attracts me like a closed door ...
- 1302: Biography of Anne Frank
- Biography of Anne Frank Annelies Frank was born June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her parents Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Hollander called their daughter Anne. In 1933, in response to Hitlers anti-Jewish decrees, Mr. Frank opened a branch of his company, Opteka, in Amsterdam and began ...
- 1303: Lyndon Johnson
- ... power, and staunch anti-communism. These qualities also led him to intervene militarily in the Dominican Republic-allegedly to stop a Communist takeover-in April 1965. Like many Americans who recalled the "appeasement" of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Johnson thought the United States must be firm or incur a loss of credibility. While the nation became deeply involved in Vietnam, racial tension sharpened at home, culminating in widespread urban race ...
- 1304: Carl Gauss
- ... created have had an immense influence in many areas of the mathematic and scientific world. Carl Gauss was born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the thirtieth of April, 1777, in Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany). Gauss was born into an impoverished family, raised as the only son of a bricklayer. Despite the hard living conditions, Gauss's brilliance shone through at a young age. At the age of only two ...
- 1305: The Wright Brothers
- ... bicycle/repair shop, and manufactured their own bicycles. At a young age they were fascinated with flight, playing with kites and a toy helicopters. After becoming inspired by several glider pioneers, especially Otto Lilienthal in Germany and Octave Chanute in the United States, and observing how buzzards keep their balance while in the air, Wilbur realized that to fly successfully an airplane must operate on three axes. In 1900 they built ...
- 1306: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
- ... He used his knowledge to create, educate, and lead. Sakharov became an engineer in a military plant at the age of 17. He was anxious to help his country, Russia, to win the war against Germany. It was there that he invented a device to test the cores of bullets. In 1945 he was invited to Moscow to conduct studies at the P.N. Lebedev Physicial Institute. At the institute, he ...
- 1307: Bob Marley
- ... back to Miami, were he was baptized Berhane Selassie in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church on November 4, 1980. In a last attempt to save Bobs life, he flew to a controversial treatment center in Germany. In February 1981 Bob had his 36th anniversry in the German clinic. Three months later, on May 11, 1981, Bob died in a hospital in Miami. Hundreds of thousands of people including the Prime Minister ...
- 1308: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... settled in America in the seventeenth century. At eighteen he entered Harvard College and spent four years there, dividing his time between books and sport and excelling at both. After leaving Harvard he studied in Germany for almost a year and then immediately entered politics. In 1880 he married Alice Hathaway Lee and one year later he was elected to the Assembly of New York State, holding office for three years ...
- 1309: Sigmund Freud
- ... the cancer became so severe that Freud became addicted to cocaine to help with the pain. In the late 1930's Freud was awarded the Goethe Prize. On March 12, 1938, Austria is annexed by Germany and Freud emigrate to London with his wife and his youngest daughter Anna. On September 23, 1939, Freud dies of cancer in London. (Jones, 1970) In Freud's book A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis ...
- 1310: The Life of Beethoven
- ... was most famous for the Third (Eroica), Fifth, Sixth (Pas-torale), Ninth Symphonies, an opera, Fidelio, and his religious composition Missa solem-nis. Beethoven had a great influence on music. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, on December 16,1770. His mother was a singer in the service of the elector of Koln. His father was a weak-spirited and drank too much, but he recognized his son's talent. His ...
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