23 January marks the birthday of Django Reinhardt, a Belgium-born French guitarist and composer of Romani ethnicity. Reinhardt is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time; he was the first important …
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One Man Revolution
14 January marks that day that Ammon Hennacy died in 1970. Ammon Hennacy was an Irish-American, Christian Anarchist Pacifist activist. He was born into a Quaker family in Ohio, and attended the UW-Madison in 1914. …
The Great Outdoors
13 January marks the day that Sigurd Olson died in 1982. Sigurd Olson was an American author and environmentalist. Born to Swedish, Baptist parents, Olson grew up in northern Wisconsin where he developed his lifelong …
Born in the House his Father built
9 January, marks the birthday of America’s 37th President, Richard Nixon. A Navy veteran of WWII, Nixon won his first race for elective office by defeating an incumbent Congressman in his home state of California in …
The Russian Swan
8 January marks the birthday of Galina Ulanova, in St. Petersburg Russia, in 1910. In 1944 she became the Prima Ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet. In the USSR she was awarded the Stalin Prize in …
We Have A Winner
It was on 6 January, 2001, that a joint session of Congress certified that George W. Bush was the winner of the 2000 election. In one of the closest Presidential elections in U.S. history, George W. …
What goes up, must come down
It was on 4 January, in 1958, that Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial Earth satellite, fell from orbit after having completed 1,440 orbits of the Earth. On the first orbit the Telegraph Agency of …
The Founder
25 December marks the birth of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the first Governor-General of Pakistan. Born in Karachi and trained as a barrister in London. In 1895, at age 19, he became the youngest Indian to …
He Paid with His Life
22 December marks the date on which Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist, was assassinated by a rancher in 1988. Mendes fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for …
Vive La France!
It was on this day, 21 December, in 1958, that Charles de Gaulle was elected the first president of the Fifth Republic by a sweeping majority of French voters. During the next decade, President de …