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6 hours ago · Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [ a ] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865. Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1843.
1 day ago · Barry Manilow was born Barry Alan Pincus on June 17, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, [10] the son of Edna Manilow and Harold Kelliher, a truck driver of Irish descent. Barry's mother made his father change his name to Pincus, which was the name of a Jewish uncle of his father from the 1800s.
6 hours ago · Guyana. Guyana (/ ɡaɪˈɑːnə / ⓘ or / ɡaɪˈænə / ⓘ ghy-A (H)N-ə), [11][5] officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, [12] is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city. Guyana is bordered by the ...
6 hours ago · John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison, succeeding to the presidency following Harrison's death 31 days ...
1 day ago · St. Philip's Church in the Highlands, an Episcopal church in Garrison, New York The "secularization of society" is attributed to the time of the Enlightenment . In the United States, religious observance is much higher than in Europe, and the United States' culture leans conservative in comparison to other western nations, in part due to the Christian element.
1 day ago · Maximilian I (Spanish: Fernando Maximiliano José María de Habsburgo-Lorena; German: Ferdinand Maximilian Josef Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen; 6 July 1832 – 19 June 1867) was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867.
6 hours ago · 1860: Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary (d. 1927) 1864: Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1943) 1865: James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1950) 1867: Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí (d. 1956)
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