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Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state.
Aircraft shot down by unknown assassins; Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and 10 others also killed Grady Nutt: United States 1982 Minister and Christian comedian Beechcraft Baron 55: Cullman, Alabama: cause of crash undetermined, weather (fog and rain) considered factors Donald Nutter: United States 1962 Governor of Montana: Douglas C-47 ...
The first president of the United States was George Washington, who served from 1789 to 1797 and won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. The web page provides a comprehensive list of all 45 presidents, their terms, parties, elections, and vice presidents.
James Alexander Malcolm Caldwell (27 September 1931 – 23 December 1978) [1] was a Scottish academic and a prolific Marxist writer. He was a consistent critic of American foreign policy, a campaigner for Asian communist and socialist movements and a supporter of the Khmer Rouge.
Mary Jo Kopechne was a secretary and campaign worker for Robert F. Kennedy, who died in 1969 after a car driven by Ted Kennedy overturned into a pond. Learn about her life, career, and the Chappaquiddick incident.
Jesse Jackson is a prominent African-American leader who ran for president twice and served as a shadow senator for the District of Columbia. He is the father of former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. and current U.S. Representative Jonathan Jackson.
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Two people were killed in a shootout with the Bolivian police on 7–8 November 1908. Authorities were unable to identify the bodies, but they were thought to have been Robert Leroy Parker (40), (also known as Butch Cassidy) and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (41–42), (also known as the Sundance Kid). [22]