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- 811: Alexander I
- ... difficult it became for him to return to the principals of good government and the role of the monarch he had learned in his youth. Out of a sincere desire to innovate, Alexander considered a constitution and the limitation of the autocracy, but he recoiled before the danger of imposing sudden change on nobility, and then rejected it. Furthermore, he was a visionary who could not transform his dreams into reality ...
- 812: Albert Einstein 3
- ... be indistinguishable from acceleration caused by mechanical forces. Gravitational mass was therefore identical with inertial mass. In 1908 Einstein became a lecturer at the University of Bern after submitting his Habilitation thesis Consequences for the constitution of radiation following from the energy distribution law of black bodies. The following year he become professor of physics at the University of Zurich, having resigned his lectureship at Bern and his job in the ...
- 813: Adolf Hitler 2
- ... They helped a Communist arsonist set the Reichstag on fire and then claimed it was a Communist plot. Hindenburg signed a state of emergency decree giving Hitler temporarily unlimited powers that normally violated the German constitution. As Chancellor one of his first to withdraw Germany from the League of Nations. He wanted to be in charge of completely independent Germany. On the March 5 Election, Hitler won 44% of the vote ...
- 814: Abraham Lincoln 4
- ... and authorized the creation of black military units. Lincoln was determined to place emancipation on a more permanent basis, however, and in 1864 he advocated the adoption of an antislavery amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment was passed after Lincoln's reelection, when he made use of all the powers of his office to ensure its success in the House of Representatives. A consummate politician, Lincoln sought to maintain ...
- 815: Andrew Johnson
- ... Tennessee, where he died four months later on July 31, 1875. He suffered from a stroke. Johnson was buried on a hilltop in Greenville, wrapped in a 37 star flag with a copy of the Constitution under his head. Work Cited 1.) Castel, Albert. The Presidency of Andrew Johnson, University Press of Kansas, 1979
- 816: Adolf Hitlers Life And Times
- ... who preceded Hitler was voted out by a vote of non-confidence. The other reason is that Hindenburg was a royalist and believed that Hitler could return Germany to a royalist state without breaching the constitution, which Hindenburg seriously believed in. So the Nazi party took control and turned Germany into a dictatorship based on terror. The War "Hitler's ultimate goal was the establishment of a greater Germany than had ...
- 817: Abraham Lincoln
- ... Slaves within any state, or designated part of a state then in rebellion, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. This proclamation was the main cause of creating the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This was important because now there was a bigger sense of peace between the slaves, and the people that once owned them. This proclamation plays a big part of the peace that we have among ...
- 818: President Andrew Jackson
- ... were a larger risk and the bank didn't see it in it's interest to make such a gamble with it's money. And in his mind the bank was in violation on the Constitution. Even though the bank's charter wasn't due to expire until 1836, Jackson's political enemies pushed a bill through congress granting the banks re-charter, Jackson vetoed the bill. The "Bank" issue was ...
- 819: Karl Marx
- ... was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a constitution for Prussia and reading such authors as Voltaire and Kant, known for their social commentary. His mother, Henrietta, was originally from Holland and never became a German at heart, not even learning to speak the ...
- 820: Dalai Lama
- ... of exile, His Holiness appealed to the United Nations on the question of Tibet, resulting in three resolutions adopted by the General Assembly in 1959, 1961 and 1965. In 1963, His Holiness promulgated a draft constitution for Tibet, which assures a democratic form of government. In the last two decades, His Holiness has set up educational, cultural and religious institutions, which have made major contributions towards the preservation of the Tibetan ...
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