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Alexander the Great
(356 - 323 BC) – King of Macedonia.orn to parents King Philip II and Queen Olympia. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
(1564 -1642) – Astronomer and physicist. He is widely heralded as one of the greatest scientists of all time. -
Benjamin Franklin
US writer and polymath.Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat -
George Washington
George Washington was the first President of the United States,Washington was unanimously elected President by the electors in both the 1788–89 and 1792 elections. -
Battle of Monmouth Courthouse
Washington chose to send 4,000 men as an advance force to strike at the British rear guard as they departed Monmouth Courthouse, in order to delay the British withdrawal until the main American force could give battle.n the following battle, Washington rallied his men to stand and fight. That night, the British escaped across the Hudson to New York City. No one realized that the war in the North was over. -
French and British Battle in Chesapeake Bay
Battle of the Virginia Capes, was fought during the American Revolution (1775-1783).This prevented the British from any rescue by sea. Eventually the two armies opened fire. -
FRANKLIN PIERCE
President Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing the notion of "popular sovereignty" in determining if a territory would be a slave state or a free state.Jayhawkers" transformed a frontier quarrel over slavery’s borders into a national issue (May 30). -
Poet Eugene field
He was born in St. Louis (Sept. 3).September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. -
Dred Scott
decision was handed down by U.S. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney; the case originated in St. Louis.Under Missouri statutes, in 1846 Scott was allowed to sue for his freedom from slavery based on the fact that he had previously lived in a free territory . -
Albert Einstein
1879 1955 – German physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. -
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
1881-1938 – founder of the Turkish Republic. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey. -
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973 – Spanish painter and sculptor.tage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. -
Adolf Hitler
He initiated World War II and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths.Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as dictator from 1934 to 1945. -
Margaret B
Kelly became the first woman to hold statewide office in Missouri when she was appointed to the office of State Auditor (may30).She stands out, however, as one of very few who claimed to have been Grand Duchess Olga -
Leonor K. Sullivan
She became Missouri’s first woman U.S. Representative.During the 1930s, she worked as an instructor in business and accounting at the St. Louis Comptometer School. -
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.In 1930, when he was 12 years old, his father died and the young Rolihlahla became a ward of Jongintaba at the Great Place in Mqhekezweni -
George Wallace, Governor of Alabama
As an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama,in 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. Wallace has the third longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,848 days. -
Pope John Paul II
1920 – 2005 – Polish Pope from 1978-2005.as a Roman Catholic priest, bishop, and Cardinal who eventually rose to become Pope. -
malcom x
Malcom X was a prominent black nationalist leader who serve s a spokesman for the Nation of Islam .He grew from a mere 400 members at the time he was released from prison in 1952 to 40,000 members by 1960. -
Margaret Thatcher
1925 – British Prime Minister.the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. -
Assessination of Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhan's lawyers have released statements claiming evidence that he was framed.He died a day later. -
Martin Luther King Jr
King, both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, ad a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. King headed the SCLC. -
Mary Gant
She became Missouri’s first woman state senator.In 1981, Governor Bond appointed her as chair of the State Board of Mediation. She held this position for 13 years. -
Cold War
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. so the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. -
Christ of Saint John of the Cross
Oil on canvas. Also in a dream, the importance of depicting Christ in the extreme angle evident in the painting was revealed to him. -
Tim Berners-Lee
1955 – Credited with founding World Wide Web.Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS, also known as TimBL -
The Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century (1955–1972) competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II. -
Phil Hill
Was an American automobile racer and the only American-born driver to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship.He also scored three wins at each of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring sports car races. -
Vietnam - Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder begins. It is one of the most intense, yet least successful, aerial bombardment campaigns in military history. -
woodstock 1969
was a fetival 3 days of Peace & Music".New York–some 50 miles from Woodstock–owned by Max Yasgur. -
Great Flood of 1993
he 1993 flood even surpassed the 1927 flood, at the time the largest flood ever recorded on the Mississippi.
