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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitller's grade school years were coming to an end and he had to choose which type of secondary school to attend, classical or technical. By now, young Hitler had dreams of one day becoming an artist. He wanted to go to the classical school. But his father wanted him to follow in his footsteps and become a civil servant and sent him to the technical high school in the city of Linz. -
Ronald Regan
Number President: 40th President
Terms Served: 2 Term Served
Dates Served: 1981-1989
Party: Republican
State Represented: California
Married to / First Lady: Nancy Davis Reagan
Born: February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois
Died: June 5, 2004 in Bel-Air, California
Ronald Regan is 103 this year
Age: Ronald Regan would be 103 years old this year -
Richard Nixon
Number President; 37th President
Terms Served: 1 Term Served
Dates Served: 1969-1974
Party: Republican
State Represented: New York
Married to / First Lady: Patricia Ryan Nixon
Born: January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California
Died: April 22, 1994 in New York, New York
Age: Richard Nixon is 101 years old this year -
Gerald Ford
Number President: 38th President
Terms Served: 1 Term Served
Dates Served: Republican
Party: 1974-1977
State Represented: Michigan
Married to / First Lady: Elizabeth Bloomer Ford
Born: July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska
Gerald Ford is 101 this year
Age: Gerald Ford is 95 years old this year -
WWI ends
This 'Stab in the Back' theory would become hugely popular among many Germans who found it impossible to swallow defeat. During the war, Adolf Hitler became obsessed with this idea, especially laying blame on Jews and Marxists in Germany for undermining the war effort. To Hitler, and so many others, the German politicians who signed the armistice on November 11, 1918, would become known as the 'November Criminals.' -
George H.W. Bush
Number President: 411st President
Terms Served: 1 Term
Dates Served: 1989-1993
Party: Republican
State Represented: Texas
Married to / First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush
Born: June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts
Age: George Hw. Bush is 90 years old this year -
Jimmy Carter
Number President: 39th President
Terms Served: 1 Term Served
Dates Served: 1977-1981
Party: Democrat
State Represented: Georgia
Married to / First Lady: Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born: October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia
Age: Jimmy Carter is 90 years old this year -
Grandparent's birthday
(Grandparents) (Dad's side) (Mom's Side)
Mom ? August 22,1936
Dad ? August 28, 1942
Step-mom ? ____________
Step-dad ? ____________ -
Hitler says a speech
Appearing before the Nazi Reichstag (Parliament) on the sixth anniversary of his coming to power, Adolf Hitler made a speech commemorating that event and also made a public threat against the Jews... -
Evacuation of Children
The government have accordingly made plans for the removal from what are called “evacuable” areas to safer places called “reception” areas, of school children, children below school age if accompanied by their mothers or other responsible persons, and expectant mothers and blind persons. -
WWII
French citizens are advised to leave Paris. Churchill leaves France and returns to London. Daladier asks the Permanent Committee for National Defense whether they can stand by and watch the disappearance of Poland and Rumania; they agree that they cannot. -
The Fall of France and the Battle of Britain in 1940
In April 1940, the German army invaded Denmark and Norway. In May the army staged a successful two-pronged attack on France, with one division invading through Belgium and the other through the Ardennes, south of Paris. The advancing German divisions cut off the British troops, who were forced to retreat across the English Channel. On June 21, Marshal Pétain of France asked for an armistice. Thus Hitler won an easy victory over Germany’s historical enemy. -
Rocketry
The V-1 rocket -
Raising the Flag on Mout Suribachi
Five Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raise the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, using a piece of Japanese pipe as a mast, February 23, 1945. Three of the flag raisers were later killed as the fighting raged on. By March 16, when Iwo Jima was declared secured, 6,821 Americans and 21,000 Japanese (the entire force) had died. The flag raising photo and subsequent statue came to symbolize being a Marine. -
George W. Bush
Number President: 43rd President
Terms Served: 2 Ters served
Dates Served: 2001-Present
Party: Republican
State Represented: Texas
Married to / First Lady: Laura Bush
Born: Born July 6, 1946.
Age: George W. Bush is 68 years old this year -
William J. Clinton
Number President: 42nd President
Terms Served: 2 Term Served
Dates Served: 1993-2001
Party: Democrat
State Represented: Arkansas
Married to / First Lady: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born: August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas
Age: William J. Clinton is 68 years old this year -
89-year-old U.S WWII vet
Who: Richard Faulkner
What: He was awarded a purple heart
Why: He was the only survivor in a crash
When: He was awarded this month. He crashed in WWII
How: His plane crashed
Where: -----UNKNOWN-----
