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Abbie Jean MacPherson was an American silent actress, writer and director. She is known for her collaborations with directors D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and was a foundin…
Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (born 1887)
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social co…
H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (born 1866)
James Clark McReynolds was an American lawyer and judge from Tennessee who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an associate justice of th…
James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (born 1862)
Adolphus Busch III was an American brewing magnate based in St. Louis, Missouri, who was the president and CEO of Anheuser-Busch from 1934 to 1946 during World War II.
Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (born 1891)
John Steuart Curry was an American painter whose career spanned the years from 1924 until his death. He was noted for his paintings depicting rural life in his home state, Kansas. …
John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (born 1897)
Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky was the leader of the Russian Fascist Party, which he led in exile from Manchuria. Rodzaevsky was also the chief editor of the RFP paper Nash Pu…
Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (born 1907)
Amon Leopold Göth was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for mos…
Amon Göth, Austrian captain and Nazi war criminal (born 1908)
Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray, also often spelled Eugene Lansere, was a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir isk…
Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1875)
William Alexander Watt was an Australian politician. He served two terms as Premier of Victoria before entering federal politics in 1914. He then served as a minister in the govern…
William Watt, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (born 1871)
Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Roy…
James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1877)
Hans Eppinger Jr. was an Austrian physician of part-Jewish descent who performed experiments upon Nazi concentration camp prisoners.
Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (born 1879)
William Strunk Jr. was an American professor of English at Cornell University and the author of The Elements of Style (1918). After his former student E. B. White revised and exten…
William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (born 1869)
Takashi Sakai was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, known for his role as Governor of Hong Kong under Japanese occupation.
Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (born 1887)
Berna Eli "Barney" Oldfield was a pioneer American racing driver. His name was "synonymous with speed in the first two decades of the 20th century". He was the winner of the inaugu…
Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (born 1878)
Frank Riley Castleman was an American football and baseball player, track athlete, and coach in multiple sports. He competed for the United States in the 200 metre hurdles at the 1…
Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (born 1877)
Joseph Warren Stilwell was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India theater during World War II. Stilwell served as commander of the US forces in the theate…
Joseph Stilwell, American general (born 1883)
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which controlled…
Hermann Göring, German general and Nazi politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (born 1893)
Hans Michael Frank was a German Nazi politician, lawyer and convicted war criminal who served as the head of the General Government, an entity created by Germany on part of the Ger…
Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
Ioannis Rallis was the third and last collaborationist prime minister of Greece during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, holding office from 7 April 1943 to 12 Oct…
Ioannis Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (born 1878)
The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Pea…
The final session of the League of Nations concluded in Geneva, with delegates agreeing to transfer much of its assets t
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony
The Partisan Congress riots were attacks on Jews in Bratislava and other cities and towns in the autonomous Slovak region of Czechoslovakia between 1 and 6 August 1946. Nineteen pe…
Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the…
The Naperville train disaster occurred on April 25, 1946, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad at Loomis Street in Naperville, Illinois, when the railroad's Exposition Fl…
Two passenger trains collided in Naperville, Illinois, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured
Plutonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94. It is a silvery-gray actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air, and forms a dull coating when oxidiz…
While working with a mass of plutonium known as the demon core, Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin accidentally ex