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- 1521: John Updike
- ... the magazine. On June 26, 1953 he married his wife Mary E, Pennington a fine arts major from Radcliffe, she was two years older than John Updike. In 1954 he wrote his senior paper on Robert Herrick, who was a 17th century poet. That summer he graduated from Harvard summa cum laude (Yerkes, James 4/2/00). The next fall John Updike moves to England on a Knox Fellowship where he ...
- 1522: John Gotti
- ... again and heal the schism that had broken the family into two camps. Sammy was behind the idea of new leadership of a unified family. Sammy told Angelo that he would see how DeCicco and Robert DiBernardo would react to such a proposal before he made a firm commitment. After DeCicco agreed, the three key players were committed: Gotti, Gravano and DeCicco. DiBernardo, a very rich and influential man with strong ...
- 1523: John Brown
- ... twenty-one men, planned to arm the thousands of chattels who, learning of his crusade, would flock to his side. Instead, numerous bands of militia and a company of United States Marines under Bvt. Colonel Robert E. Lee hastened to the river village, where they trapped the raiders inside the fire-engine house and on the eighteenth stormed the building. The fighting ended with ten of Browns people killed and ...
- 1524: Joeseph McCarthy
- ... missions he actually went on. Sometime in 1944, McCarthy attempted to beat Alexander Wiley for a senitorial seat in Wisconsin but was defeated. But that wasn't all. He was already planning to run against Robert La Follette (a senator who's seat was up for re-election in just two years). La Follette would be a difficult one to beat because he was a pretty well known man. But Joe ...
- 1525: Joan Of Arc
- ... left her. Finally, four years later she was convinced that God had chosen her to help King Charles VII clear the English from French land. Joan set out to Vancoulers to ask the military commander Robert Baudricourt, for an escort to visit the king. The commander did not take her seriously at first and laughed. Eventually he gave her what she wanted. At the age of 17 in 1429 Joan left ...
- 1526: JFK: Was His Assassination Inevitable?
- ... The last major group that would have wanted JFK out of the way was the notorious Mafia. Since its origin, it has had a heinous reputation in the United States. John F. Kennedy's brother, Robert, was working as Attorney General to prosecute the Mafia, thus earning him and his brother a unpleasant reputation with them. Many crime bosses in the United States threatened the Kennedys at one point or another ...
- 1527: Jesse Louis Jackson
- ... coming in first or second in 46 out of 54 contests. Jesse Jackson has acted many times as an international diplomat in sensitive situations. In 1984, Reverend Jackson secured the release of captured Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman from Syria, as well as the release of 4 8 Cuban and Cuban-American prisoners in 1987. He was the first to bring hostages out of Kuwait and Iraq in 1990. In 1990, Jackson ...
- 1528: Jefferson Davis
- ... and gunboats were built. Davis sent agents to Europe to buy arms and ammunition and representatives were sent to try and secure help from England and France. These representatives were unsuccesful. In 1862, Davis appointed Robert E. Lee as the leader of the Army of North Virginia. Lee remained Davis' most favored commander and one of the strongerst and most loyal of Davis' supporters. In May of 1865, Lee, without the ...
- 1529: James Joyce
- ... Hall & Co., 1988. 5. "Joyce, James Augustine Aloysins." Microsoft Corpuration. Encarta. CD-Rom. Encarta. 1993-1996. 6. Kalasky, Drew. Short Story Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1995. 7. Kenner, Hugh, Fritz Senn, E.L. Esptein, Robert Boyle, SJ. A Starchamber Quiry: a James Joyce Centennial Volume, 1882-1982. New York: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1982. 8. Rice, Thomas Jackson. James Joyce: Life, Work, and Criticism. Frederiction: York Press LTD., 1985.
- 1530: Jack Kevorkian
- ... of Life and Death.² Newsday 10 June 1995: 7. Filene, Peter. In the Arms of Others. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. Gutmann, Stephanie. ³Death and the Maiden.² New Republic 24 June 1996: 20-22. Hamel, Robert. Must We Suffer Our Way to Death. Texas: Southern Methodist Press, 1996. Hendin, Herbert. Seduced by Death. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997. Hendin, Herbert. Suicide in America. New York: W.W. Norton ...
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