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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.
Wister took on the book at the urging of his friend M. A. De Wolfe Howe. [ 1 ] In particular, Wister's biography points-up the remarkable contrast between Grant's life up to his thirty ninth year and the transition between a relatively uneventful and undistinguished life in a provincial town to the achievement of the status of one of the most ...
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 ...
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]
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The Annual Register was created in 1758 by the publishers James and Robert Dodsley.On 24 April 1758 the Dodsley brothers signed a contract with Edmund Burke (1729–97) to write and edit the material for The Annual Register, which was conceived as an annual publication which would review the history, politics and literature of the day.
altered forever. History has a great deal to teach us about what is happening right now—what has happened since 2001 and what could well unfold after the 2008 election.But fewer and fewer of us have read much about the history of the mid-twentieth century—or about the ways the Founders set up our freedoms to save us from
The book takes readers on a day-by-day journey from January 1 to December 31, uncovering at least one interesting and appropriate historical event for each day of the year. This Day in History For ...