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- 1591: Christopher Marlowe
- ... on May 30th, 1593, at age 29. The strange circumstances for Marlowes murder in that room in Debtford, have been the subject for many debates. Four men were present at the house on that day Robert Poley was an experienced government agent who carried the Queens most secret letters to and from the courts in Europe. He had arrived from Debtford, straight from The Hague, where he had been on the ...
- 1592: Calvin Coolidge
- ... Republican party to be nominated for president at June. Besides Republican backing, Coolidge gained a superior amount of the people's confidence to be easily elected over his major opposition, John W. Davis (Democrat) and Robert M. La Follete (Progressive) ("American Presidency). When Coolidge entered the campaign with a series of "nonpolitical" statements, he became well-known for being the "apostle of prosperity, economy, and respectability." (Askin 146). His opponents exhausted ...
- 1593: Stephen King
- ... children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Phillip. Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry, stands 6'4" and weighs about 200 pounds. He is blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and has thick, black hair, with a frost of white most noticeable in his beard, which he sometimes wears between the end of the World Series and the opening of baseball practice in Florida. Occasionally he wears a moustache in other seasons. He ...
- 1594: Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman on May 24th, 1941, has perhaps been one of the most influential singer songwriters of all time. Young Dylan lived the first five or six years of his life in Duluth, Minnesota, until his ...
- 1595: Ben Franklin 2
- ... War. Franklin also received most of the credit for the agreement with England that became the peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. Franklin was part of a five-man committee including Roger Sherman Adams, Robert Livingston, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Where would the United States of America be without Ben Franklin? As if Ben's scientific and political accomplishments were not enough, he ...
- 1596: Arthur C. Clarke
- ... 50,000 dollars, this marks a turning point in his career as being known to only a select few to becoming widely known. He appeared on "The Today Show" that same month. He also meets Robert Bloch "Psycho" and E. E. "Doc" Smith at the American Science Fiction convention. In June of 1953 Clarke is married to Marilyn Torgenson. This marriage lasts only until the Christmas of the same year. This ...
- 1597: Abraham Lincoln 4
- ... fall of Richmond, he alarmed his critics by inviting the Confederate legislature of Virginia to repeal the secession ordinance. His Reconstruction policies, however, had been determined by military necessity. As soon as the Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, Lincoln withdrew the invitation to the Virginians. He again proved how close he was to the radicals by endorsing a limited black franchise. At his second inaugural, Lincoln ...
- 1598: Adam Smith 2
- ... leading Continental philosophers of the physiocratic school, which based its political and economic doctrines on the supremacy of natural law, wealth, and order. He was specially influenced by the French philosophers Francois Quesnay and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, whose theories Smith later adapted in part to form a basis for his own. The book dealt with the basic problem of how social order and human progress can be possible in a ...
- 1599: Lyndon B Johnson
- ... construction of the Johnson presidential library in Austin. Johnson died on Jan. 22, 1973, 5 days before the conclusion of the treaty by which the United States withdrew from Vietnam. Bibliography Evans, Rowland, and Novak, Robert, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Exercise of Power : A Political Biography (1966); Geyelin, Philip, Lyndon B. Johnson and the World (1966); Goldman, Eric F., The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (1969); Johnson, Lady Bird, White House Diary ...
- 1600: JFK: Was His Assassination Ine
- ... 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 ...
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