Introduction On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States. He is the first African American president, and one of the youngest presidents ever elected. He has a wife, Michelle, and two daughters, Malia, and Sasha. Early Life Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father…
John F. Kennedy graduated from Harvard in 1940, and soon after he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite serious injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety. Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing…
George Washington seems today a figure larger than life itself…..almost as he was when he was a familiar person in the halls, homes, shops, and bars of 18th-century city Williamsburg. On Duke of Gloucester Street, in the Raleigh Tavern’s Apollo Room, or the Governor’s Palace Gardens, his powerful frame and his nice attitude..his presence….drew to…
James Buchanan was born in April 23, 1791 in a cabin in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania. James father came to America as a Scotch-Irish in 1783. At the age of six his family moved to Mercersberg PA. Where his father would open a general store. James was the second of eleven in his family. James was…
The Watergate Scandal was a series of crimes committed by the President and his staff, who were found to have spied on and harassed political opponents, accepted illegal campaign contributions and covered up their own misdeeds. On June 17, 1972, The Washington Post published a small story. In this story, the reporters stated that five…
1933 January 30 –Hitler is appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany by Hindenburg January 30 — Sterilization (of inferiors) Laws enacted; implemented three weeks later February 27 — Reichstag fire February 28 — Leading communists arrested March 20 — Dachau concentration camp established April 1 — General boycott of all Jewish businesses – One day April…