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The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.; South Point School was founded in Kolkata, India.
World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, and 1945 was a particularly grim year as it marked the war's violent conclusion. This year witnessed the U.S. dropping two atomic bombs on Japan ...
My childhood was the most uneventful part of my life, I think." [ 3 ] He reports, however, that there was friction within his family, as in an interview he states: My father wanted me to work with him in his company, an import/export firm, and to that end I lived in Japan for a couple of years.
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
Crowds wait for Churchill outside the U.S. Capitol (Washington Star)Winston Churchill's first address to the U.S. Congress was a 30-minute World War II-era radio-broadcast speech made in the chamber of the United States Senate on December 26, 1941.
February 8: A Day for Scientific Breakthroughs. On February 8, nearly 200 years apart, two groundbreaking scientific papers were unveiled that dramatically reshaped our comprehension of the world.
About the year 1584, a Lutheran named Adam Nachenmoser wrote the volume Prognosticum Theologicum in which he predicted: "In 1590 the Gospel would be preached to all nations and a wonderful unity would be achieved. The last days would then be close at hand." Nachenmoser offered numerous conjectures about the date; 1635 seemed most likely. [26]
ARIOSTO: 2001). Over the last ten years, the Hispanic population accounted for 56 percent of the nation’s growth rate—an increase of 15.2 million out of a total of 27 million (PEW HISPANIC CENTER: 2011). Moreover, “between 1980 and 2000, the increase of 20.7 million in the Hispanic