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- 1341: Henry VIII and Louis XIV
- ... adultery and charges of witchcraft. Jane Seymour: recorded in history as the only wife Henry truly loved. Died a few weeks after giving birth to HenryΉs much wanted son. Anne of Cleves: Princess of Germany who was not beautiful in HenryΉs eyes, and was sent away. Catherine Howard: Commoner executed for adultery. Catherine Parr: Outlived Henry. Henry jousted in many tournaments until a leg injury prevented this type of ...
- 1342: Shaquille O'neal
- ... hard childhood, moving from place to place because his step-father was in the military. He had been everywhere from being born in Newark, NJ moving to Bayonne, NJ then to many others places including Germany. He even overcame the threat of everyone telling him he would not be able to become a basketball player to having the highest multi-year contract ever in the NBA. In conclusion, Shaquille O'neal ...
- 1343: Jesse Owens
- ... dash at the time of 10.2 seconds. He then was so good he went on to the 1936 Olympics as a member of the U S Olympic team, the games were held in Berlin, Germany where blacks were not accepted as well as whites and because of that Reichfuekrer Adolf Hitler did not acknowledge the achievements that he did perform, despite his athletic ability. He won four Olympic gold medals ...
- 1344: Richard M. Nixon
- ... 14. He went from town to town doing odd jobs and eventually made his way to California where he met his future wife, Hannah. Nixon's mother's side of the family was originally from Germany. They then migrated to England around 1688, where they became Quakers. From England they migrated to Ireland, and from Ireland to America. During the civil war they were part of the underground railroad. Richard's ...
- 1345: The Political Career of Richard Nixon
- ... as associate justices to replace Hugo L. Black and John M. Harlan, who retired in 1971. Upon becoming president, Nixon turned his attention primarily to foreign affairs. In February 1969 he visited Belgium, England, West Germany, Italy, and France in an effort to strengthen the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). To assure non-Communist Asian nations of continued United States support, Nixon embarked in late July on a tour of the ...
- 1346: Lester Pearson
- ... achieved a feeling of nationalism. Canada also had hardly any diplomatic relations with other countries because Great Britain still handled most of it's affairs. For that reason when Great Britain went to war with Germany, so did Canada. In 1948 he was named Secretary of State for external affairs. He promoted proposals for western alliance tied in with the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He was the ...
- 1347: Georg Simon Ohm
- ... When Georg was growing up his dad, owner of a prosperous locksmith business, wanted young Georg to study mathematics before joining the family business. Georg attended a Gymnasium, like a college, in Erlangen, Bavaria (now Germany) . During his time at this Gymnasium a professor noticed how he excelled in math. This professor's name was Karl Christian von Langsdorf, Georg owes this man much credit from his recommendations to others. After ...
- 1348: Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... life.(Bentley, p. 91) Wagner was the only man Nietzsche knew that personified his will-to-power theory. In essence, Wager was Nietzsche's superman. Nietzsche is given credit for the National Socialism movement in Germany that began in the 1930's. Far more damaging to his reputation has been the course of German history from his death(1900) to 1945. To claim him, as National Socialism did, as a prophet ...
- 1349: Kurt Cobain: Biography
- ... 21, 1993 and the band again went on tour on October 10, 1993. The band took the tour to Europe in February of 1994, 29 days later the last Nirvana performance is played in Munich Germany. Five days later Kurt was hospitalized after a "suicide" attempt, due to an apparent drug overdose. He enters a coma and awakens the next day asking for a milkshake. Three days later he leaves the ...
- 1350: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... stay in Cothen staged his fame in his country for his music. Bach's last job was as Cantor at St. Thomas's school in Leipzig. This was one of the most prestigious posts in Germany. There in Leipzig he spent 20 years constantly battling with the school and church authorities. However, he did write some of the best work in his lifetime during this period. Johann Sebastian Bach spent his ...
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