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470 BCE
Socrates
Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of western philosophy. -
1162
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan was the founder and first Khagan emperor of the Mongol Empire. -
Jan 6, 1412
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc is considered a hero of France for her role during the Hundred Years War. She was canonized as a saint. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon was a french military leader. He led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. -
Beethoven
Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is extremely well known and his works are some of the most played and performed. -
Davy Crockett
David Crockett was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He led the nation through the Civil War and he was assassinated in 1865. -
Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American business magnate and philanthropist -
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. -
Billy the kid
Billy the Kid was an outlaw and gunfighter. He killed eight men before he was shot and killed at age 21. -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph was the ruler of the Soviet Union. -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. -
Harry Truman
Harry Truman was the 33rd president of the United States. -
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States. -
Charles de Gualle
Charles Gaulle was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II -
Juan Peron
Juan Peron was an Argentine Army general and politician. -
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. -
Joe Mccarthy
Joe was a politician that served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. -
Joe DiMaggio
Joe was an American baseball center fielder who played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. -
John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. -
Doris Day
Doris Day was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. -
Malcom X
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. -
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn was an American actress, model, and singer. -
Johnnie Ray
Johnny Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. -
James Dean
James Dean was an American actor. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley, also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician, and actor. -
Englands got a new queen
On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom -
Disneyland
Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, which opened on July 17, 1955. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. -
British Beatlemania
Beatlemania was the fanaticism surrounding the English rock band the Beatles in the 1960s. -
Hula Hoops
the Hula Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America -
JFK assasination
The JKF assassination took place in Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S.