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Nelson Rockefeller (born July 8, 1908, Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S.—died January 26, 1979, New York City) was the 41st vice president of the United States (1974–77) in the Republican administration of Pres. Gerald Ford, four-term governor of New York (1959–73), leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, and a member of the famed ...
3 days ago · Year Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress 1970: A Bullet for Pretty Boy: Pretty Boy Floyd: Fabian: Chisum: John Chisum: John Wayne: Cromwell: Oliver Cromwell
5 days ago · President Ronald Reagan answered it with a pledge to resign if he became impaired, and later with a clever joke that reset his campaign from a stumbling debate performance to a 49-state landslide ...
3 days ago · February 14, 1877: Vetoed H.R. 3156, an act to perfect the revision of the Statutes of the United States. Override attempt failed in House on February 15, 1877, 1–211 (142 votes needed). February 14, 1877: Vetoed H.R. 3367, an act to remove the charge of desertion of Alfred Rowland from military records.
3 days ago · Order of the Bath. Coat of arms of the British monarch as sovereign of the Order of the Bath. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath [2] is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725. [3] Recipients of the Order are usually senior military officers or senior civil servants, and the monarch awards it on the advice of His ...
1 day ago · Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Supreme Court and has ...
1 day ago · t. e. On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 75 after suffering heart failure following years of serious ailments. His death was officially acknowledged on 11 November simultaneously by Soviet radio ...
