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- 4751: Women Who Changed the World: Rosa Parks
- ... lost her job because of the boycott, moved to Detroit, Michigan, the following year, and again took in sewing. She also worked as a fundraiser for the NAACP. In 1965 she was hired by Congressman John Conyers, Jr., also a civil rights leader, to manage his Detroit office. She remained active in the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In 1987 she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute ...
- 4752: Stefan Edberg
- ... only once. It happened in Dusseldorf, after a wrongly judged ball when he hit the ball hard to the ground. The ball bounced out into the audience and he was warned. Don't forget that John McEnroe was lucky if he wasn't warned at all in a match. The big drop came For nine years in a row he constantly was among the top five ranked players in the world ...
- 4753: Isaac Asimov
- ... typewriter and started to work on his on science fiction short story (Wilsonweb). When this story was finished, he sent it in to his favorite science fiction magazine, (Galenet), however, it was rejected by editor John Wood Campbell, Jr. Although he rejected the story, he discussed it at length with Asimov and became a constant source of advice and encouragement to him. "He was lean and hungry, and very enthusiastic," Campbell ...
- 4754: Jack London 2
- Jack London was born John Griffiths Chaney and changed his name for unknown reasons. He was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco. His mother, Flora Wellman, was unmarried and of wealthy background. His father may have been William ...
- 4755: Jack The Ripper
- ... also worked a regular job, which kept him occupied during the week but allowed him weekends free when the murders occurred. He was violent and homicidal with women and committed multiple murders of women. Montague John Druitt was born in 1857 in Dorset. His father was a surgeon. Druitt graduated with a degree in classics and went to teach boarding school. In 1885 his father died and a couple of years ...
- 4756: Nikola Tesla
- ... holds over 700 patents. Tesla died privately and peacefully at 87 on January 7, 1943 New York hotel room from no apparent cause in particular. Hundreds filed into New York City's Cathedral of St.John for his funeral services, and a flood of messages acknowledged the loss of a great genius. Three Nobel Prize winners in physics (Millikan, Compton, and W.H. Barton) addressed their tributes. One of the outstanding ...
- 4757: Joan Of Arc 2
- ... continued fighting the enemy in other locations along the Loire. Fear of her troops was so formidable that when she approached Lord Talbot's army at Patay, most of the English troops and Commander Sir John Fastolfe fled the battlefield. Fastolfe was later stripped of his Order of the Garter for this act of cowardice. Although Lord Talbot stood his ground, he lost the battle and was captured along with a ...
- 4758: Joan Of Arc 3
- ... began to threaten small towns, they looked upon Joan to protect them. As Joan's troops began raiding Burgundian camps to relieve Compiegne, Joan was pulled from her horse. She then became a prisoner of John of Luxembourg and was brought to his castle with no hope of escape. She was soon sold to the English and brought to Rouen were she was held captive. Her soldiers grieved yet King Charles ...
- 4759: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... because he was an Indian. In his lonely hours he studied philosophy. In his reading he discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and he was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional handicrafts--ideals similar to many Hindu religious ideas. In 1891 Gandhi returned to India. Unsuccessful in Bombay, he went to South Africa in ...
- 4760: Leonard Bernstein
- ... he could be. When Mrs. Bernstein became seriously ill, though, they were reconciled. Bernstein has received such awards as the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award in the Arts from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine; the John H. Finley Medal for service to New York City; the Golden European trophy, an annual award given to an outstanding figure in popular music; the Datsun Award for outstanding service to American music; the Institute ...
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