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5 hours ago · Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal. World War II Victory Medal. John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, [2] and was one of the first American ...
1 day ago · ABC News radio broadcast on Roswell disc – July 8, 1947. The Roswell incident is a conspiracy theory which alleges that the 1947 United States Army Air Forces balloon recovered near Roswell, New Mexico was actually a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft. Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of the top secret Project ...
5 hours ago · —Sinatra's daughter Nancy on the importance of his mother Dolly in his life and character. Francis Albert Sinatra [a] was born on December 12, 1915, in a tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, [b] the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, who boxed under the name Marty O'Brien. [c] Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg ...
5 hours ago · The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.The Democratic ticket of Senator John F. Kennedy and his running mate, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon and his running mate, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
5 hours ago · During the 1960 U.S. presidential elections, Brzezinski was an advisor to the John F. Kennedy campaign, urging a non-antagonistic policy toward Eastern European governments. Seeing the Soviet Union as having entered a period of stagnation, both economic and political, Brzezinski predicted a future breakup of the Soviet Union along lines of nationality (expanding on his master's thesis).
1 day ago · John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American jurist who has served since 2005 as the 17th chief justice of the United States. He has been described as having a moderate conservative judicial philosophy , though he is primarily an institutionalist.
5 hours ago · 1968 [5] –1969: [6] Chair of the Republican Governors Association. Ronald Wilson Reagan[a] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American conservative movement, and ...