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- 1641: JFK
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th president of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected president. He was also the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20th century ... popular. He brought to the presidency an awareness of the cultural and historical traditions of the United States. Because Kennedy expressed the values of 20th-century America, his presidency was important beyond its political achievements. John Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the second of nine children. Kennedy announced his candidacy early in 1960. By the time the Democratic National Convention opened in July, he had won seven primary ...
- 1642: Robert Penn Warren
- ... successful. During his college years at Vanderbilt, the sense of being physically maimed, as well as the fear sympathetic blindness in his remaining good eye became almost unbearable. At Vanderbilt University he met Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, and others interested in poetry. As part of The Fugitives, a private group that met off campus, he delved deeply into poetry, and his first poems were published in their short ... from Vanderbilt in 1925, he took a Master's Degree from the University of California at Berkley. After visiting Yale University, he moved to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where he wrote his first book: John Brown: The Making of a Martyr in 1929. "Red" Warren, as he was known to his friends, married Emma Brescia in 1930, a marriage which ended in divorce 20 years later. In the last several ...
- 1643: Book Report On Thomas Jefferson
- ... the book great value because he has framed Jefferson among his peers. Consequently, the book truly comes to life, and the reader is able to learn about Jefferson as well as his contemporaries James Madison, John Marshall, and John Adams. The scope of the book is all-inclusive. Risjord begins with Jefferson's birth on April 13, 1743 on his father's plantation, Shadwell, in Goochland County on the western edge. The narrative continues ...
- 1644: FDR
- ... for the U.S. Senate by James W. Gerard. The setback would not discourage Roosevelt from continuing to pursue his ultimate goal of becoming President. In March of 1916, the Roosevelts had their last child, John Aspinwall, who was born in Washington, D.C. (Diggins 135) On February 3, 1917, Roosevelt received word from Secretary Daniels while he was in Santo Domingo on business that he needed to return to Washington ... Valley Bibliography Asbell, Bernard. The FDR Memoirs. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1974. Conkin, Paul K. FDR and the Origins of the Welfare State. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1967. Diggins, John P. The Proud Decades. New York: W and W Norton and Company, 1988. Eisenhower, Milton S. The President Is Calling. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1974. Ginna, Robert and Robert Graff. FDR ...
- 1645: Daniel Webster
- ... the West. In 1828, the dominant economic interests of Massachusetts having shifted from shipping to manufacturing, Webster backed the high-tariff bill of that year. Angry Southern leaders condemned the tariff, and South Carolina's John C. CALHOUN argued that his state had the right to nullify the law. Replying to South Carolina's Robert HAYNE in a Senate debate in 1830, Webster triumphantly defended the Union. His words "Liberty and ... candidates but carried only Massachusetts. For the remainder of his career he aspired vainly to the presidency. In 1841, President William Henry Harrison named Webster secretary of state. The death of Harrison (April 1841) brought John Tyler to the presidency, and in September 1841 all the Whigs but Webster resigned from the cabinet. Webster remained to settle a dispute with Great Britain involving the Maine-Canada boundary and successfully concluded the ...
- 1646: Bio On Shakespear
- ... gr 8 The Life of William Shakespeare England's most talented and well know poet and dramatist was born on April 23, 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon, located in the cetre of England. His father, John, was a glove-maker and wool dealer involved with money lending. His mother Mary Arden was the daughter of a Farmer. William was the third out of eight children whom all died young. His father ... Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, and Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King John, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra. He was accused for corrupting the ...
- 1647: The Greatest
- ... Ali's head, particularly in the fights against Frazier, Norton, and Holmes. He now spends his time with his wife and children, as well as supporting various charity events. Bibliography Works Cited Muhammad Ali. By John Stravinsky. Copyright 1997. Random House Value Publishing, Inc. 201 East 50th Street. New York, New York. Muhammad Ali: The Greatest. By Jim Spence. Copyright 1995. The Rourke Press, Inc. Vero Beach, Florida. Encyclopedia of American Biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Jerome L. Sternstein. Ali, Muhammad, pg. 29-30, Harvard Sitkoff. Muhammad Ali: The Fight for Respect. Thomas Conklin. Copyright 1992. Millbrook Press. Brookfield, Connecticut. Champions Forever. Film. 115 min. 1996 American Home ...
- 1648: Adolf Hitler
- ... bars, flophouses, and shelters for the homeless, including, ironically, those financed by Jewish philanthropists. It was during this period that he developed his prejudices about Jews, his interest in politics, and debating skills. According to John Toland's biography, Adolf Hitler, two of his closest friends at this time were Jewish, and he admired Jewish art dealers and Jewish operatic performers and producers. However, Vienna was a center of anti-Semitism ... objectives was achieved with the annihilation of two-thirds of European Jewry. Bibliography WORKS CITED 1. Grobman, Gary M. 1990 Adolf Hitler Retrieved April 11, 2000 htttp://remember.org/Facts.root.hitler.html 2. Toland, John Adolf Hitler Anchor Books New York, 1992 3. Stalcup, Brenda Adolf Hitler (People Who Made History) Greenhaven Press New York, 2000 4. Weppman, Dennis Adolf Hilter (World Leaders-Past And Present) Chelsea House Publishing Boston ...
- 1649: Shakespeare
- ... of great literature and performance, the birth of William Shakespeare, whose creations have affected everyone for generations. |He was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. William was the third child out of eight from John and Mary Shakespeare. The names of the other seven children are Joan, Margaret, Gilbert, Joan, Ann, Richard and Edmund. William’s grandfather, Richard Shakespeare was a whittawer and a dealer in agricultural commodities. Richard died ... James. It also brings him to the influence of The Book of Common Prayer. No one knows exactly how long William remained at the Stratford Grammar School but it is believed that an assistant of John Shakespeare forced him to withdraw William from thence. His later education must be the ways of business he would have learned around his father’s shop. Spectators said they have seen William give speeches to ...
- 1650: President Millard Fillmore
- ... made little progress during the spring and early summer of 1850, but on July 9, Taylor died, and Fillmore became president of the United States. His choice of Daniel Webster as secretary of state and John J. Crittenden as attorney general indicated his pro-Compromise stand, and his message to Congress proposed “indemnification of Texas for surrendering its claim to New Mexican territory.” The support Fillmore and his cabinet gave to ... with the swift rise of the nativist know-nothing party, kept his presidential hopes alive. He received the know-nothing presidential nomination in 1856, but ran a poor third to Democrat James Buchanan and Republican John C. Frémont, carrying only the state of Maryland. This catastrophic defeat ended his pretensions to a further political career. Fillmore was distrustful of the new Republican Party and its leaders and had little hope of ...
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