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Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of western philosophy. -
Genghis Khan was the founder and first Khagan emperor of the Mongol Empire. -
Joan of Arc is considered a hero of France for her role during the Hundred Years War. She was canonized as a saint. -
Napoleon was a french military leader. He led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. -
Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is extremely well known and his works are some of the most played and performed. -
David Crockett was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. -
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He led the nation through the Civil War and he was assassinated in 1865. -
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American business magnate and philanthropist -
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. -
Billy the Kid was an outlaw and gunfighter. He killed eight men before he was shot and killed at age 21. -
Joseph was the ruler of the Soviet Union. -
Albert Einstein was a physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. -
Harry Truman was the 33rd president of the United States. -
Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States. -
Charles Gaulle was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II -
Juan Peron was an Argentine Army general and politician. -
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. -
Joe was a politician that served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. -
Joe was an American baseball center fielder who played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. -
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. -
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. -
Doris Day was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. -
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. -
Marilyn was an American actress, model, and singer. -
Johnny Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. -
James Dean was an American actor. -
Elvis Presley, also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician, and actor. -
On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom -
Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, which opened on July 17, 1955. -
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. -
Beatlemania was the fanaticism surrounding the English rock band the Beatles in the 1960s. -
the Hula Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America -
The JKF assassination took place in Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.