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Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1…
Theodore Roethke, American poet (born 1908)
Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge II was an American writer and anthropologist. In 1925, he surveyed many early Olmec sites in Mexico, and later studied additional sites in Central Amer…
Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)
Sigrid Alfhild Maria "Signe" Salén was a Swedish doctor who was one of Sweden's first female physicians. She was known for specialising in treating venereal diseases as well as cam…
Signe Salén, Swedish doctor (born 1871)
Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria was a Spanish composer.
Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (born 1898)
Ramon Vila Capdevila, sometimes known by various nicknames, including Caracremada, was a Catalan anarchist, member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, and guerrilla fighter.
Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (born 1908)
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was the youngest child of United States president John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. His elder siblings were Caroline, John Jr., and Arabell…
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (born 1963)
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. S…
Estes Kefauver, American lawyer and politician (born 1903)
Ernst Wetter was a Swiss politician.
Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and jurist (born 1877)
Otto Wahle was an Austrian-American swimmer who took part in two Summer Olympic Games and won a total of three medals. Wahle coached the men's US swim team at the 1912 Olympics, an…
Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (born 1879)
Eugène Louis Bastien was a French racing cyclist and fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Cycling at the 1900 Summer Olympics in …
Louis Bastien, French cyclist and fencer (born 1881)
Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill…
Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906)
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was a British artist noted for her portraiture of street children in Glasgow and for her landscapes of the fishing village of Catterline and surroundi…
Joan Eardley, British artist (born 1921)
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus Voûte was a Dutch astronomer.
Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (born 1879)
William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, was an English motor manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered for establishing …
William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (born 1877)
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up …
W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (born 1868)
Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, also known by the honorary title Allama Mashriqi, was a British Indian, and later, Pakistani mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar…
Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (born 1888)
A bhikkhu is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. Male and female monastics (bhikkhunī) are members of the Sangha.
Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by Catholic So
Vostok 6 was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space.
Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space
Fulbert Youlou was a Congolese nationalist leader and former Catholic priest who became the first President of the Republic of the Congo upon its independence in 1960.
President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
"A Call for Unity" was an open letter published in The Birmingham [Alabama] News, on April 12, 1963, by eight local white clergymen in response to civil rights demonstrations takin…
In response to an open letter written by white clergymen, Martin Luther King Jr
The Bristol Omnibus Company was a dominant bus operator in Bristol, and was one of the oldest bus companies in the United Kingdom. It ran buses over a wide area of Gloucestershire,…
A refusal by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the Transport and General Workers' Union to permit the employment of black
Birmingham is a city in the north central region of Alabama, United States. It is the third-most populous city in the state, with an estimated population of 196,357 as of 2024. The…
Police in Birmingham, Alabama, used high-pressure water hoses and dogs against civil-rights protesters, bringing scrutin
Huế, formerly Thừa Thiên Huế province, is a municipality in central Vietnam, located approximately at the center of the country, and an educational, medical, and cultural hub. It b…
In Huế, South Vietnam, soldiers opened fire into a crowd of Buddhists protesting against a government ban on the flying
The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder and riot in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted African-American…
African Americans rioted in Birmingham, Alabama, in response to two bombings, perceiving local police to be complicit wi