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- 1561: Olaudah Equiano
- ... thing that a certain country wanted. It worked out for everybody trading except for the slaves. Equiano was traded for such items in the Narrative. The first person to own Equiano was a Quaker named Robert King. He did most of his business in the West Indies. Equiano was eventually traded for sugar cane and was forced to go on a slave ship. The conditions were horrible. Equiano was transported on ...
- 1562: Marilyn Monroe
- ... encounter, I would hardly call us lovers. In fact we only saw each other four times, the last being the immortalized birthday in Madison Square Gardens. That was all. I never had any relationship with Robert Kennedy, no matter what the press would like to believe. That same year, I moved into a beautiful new house, and Eunice came with me. Some people called her a witch, and she made me ...
- 1563: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... to 1. The Congress passed a huge 1.3 billion dollar bill to aid public schools. They passed another bill that would create the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Later on, Johnson made Robert C. Weaver head of HUD. He was the first black man to be elected to the cabinet. Vietnam The United States role in South Vietnam changed in 1965. In March United States planes began bombing ...
- 1564: Lewis And Clark
- ... for botany, zoology, and geography was one of Jefferson s main reasons. Also Jefferson wanted to establish communication and some interaction with the Indians. The purchase of the Louisiana Territory was an entirely unexpected outcome. Robert Livingston, an ambassador to France, was told to discuss the purchase of the port of New Orleans from France. After weeks of fruitless efforts to buy the port, Livingston got lucky. The French, in need ...
- 1565: Kobe Bryant
- ... out with 23 points and 13 rebounds. Harsh words were exchanged between him and Karl Malone after a flagrant foul committed by O'Neal early in the third quarter led to Malone receiving a technical. Robert Horry, meanwhile, gave Jazz guard Jeff Hornacek a rough forearm, earning himself an ejection. But this is nothing compared to the tension between Laker coach Del Harris and his point guard, Nick Van Exel. In ...
- 1566: King Arthur 3
- ... around the fourteenth century, and thought to have been built for Arthurian tournaments held by King Edward III. The first mention of the Round Table in literature are found in the writings of the poet Robert Wace in 1155, but he refers to it as famous, and it seems to assume that the readers would already know of that part of the story. So the actual years in which the Round ...
- 1567: Joseph Kennedy
- ... Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Rose was the daughter of the Mayor of Boston, John Francis Fitzgerald, a leading Irish figure in Boston. Together they had 9 children, Joseph Patrick Jr., John Fitzgerald, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice Mary, Patricia, Robert Francis, Jean Ann, and Edward Moore. By the age of 30 he had amassed a great fortune through business ventures that included motion pictures, shipbuilding, and real estate, and through the stock market. As chairman ...
- 1568: 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 ...
- 1569: Jfk Alliance
- ... Kennedy s advisors supported his decision to initiate the Alliance for Progress. They felt that it would not only domestically improve life of many Latin Americans, but also to politically ward off any Communist threats. Robert A. Hurwitcch, Department of State Representative, stated that he wished to continue and intensify where possible and necessary, U.S. efforts to strengthen the democratic sectors in Latin America under the Alliance for Progress in ...
- 1570: 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 ...
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