The Creeks are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee (or Muskogee), the name they use to identify themselves today. Mvskoke is their name in traditional spelling. Modern Muscogees live primarily in Oklahoma, Alabama, and Florida. Their language, Mvskoke, is a member of the Creek branch of the Muskogean language family. The Seminole are close kin to the Muscogee and speak a Creek language as wel ...
William Henry O'Connell (December 8, 1859–April 22, 1944) was a Cardinal Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. An 1881 graduate of Boston College, O'Connell was moved to join the priesthood in 1882 after hearing a sermon by His Excellency John Joseph Williams, then-Archbishop of Boston. Because he showed above average scholastic aptitude, O'Connell was sent to Rome to study at North American College. After serving in various pastoral roles as a priest, O'Connell was eventually appointed the Bishop of Portland, Maine on April 22, 1901. ...
In astronomy, the term black moon is not well known nor frequently used. As a consequence it has no accepted definition, but seems to have occasionally been applied to at least four different situations:
the absence of a new moon or dark moon in a calendar month;
the absence of a full moon in a calendar month;
either the third or the fourth new moon or dark moon in a season that has four of them (a season normally has only three). This is in analogy to the term blue moon which is the third full mo ...
Boxing in the 1930s was affected by one of the biggest economic struggles in the history of the United States: The depression era. Because of the suffering American economy, many boxers were offered lower purses, and they would not fight for low amounts of money. When the decade began, the world Heavyweight title had been vacant for three years. There was a world Middleweight champion, Mickey Walker, but he was more interested in pursuing fights with the best Heavyweight contenders, instead of fa ...
Charles VIII the Affable (French: Charles VIII l'Affable) (June 30, 1470 – April 7, 1498) was King of France from 1483 to his death. Charles was a member of the Valois Dynasty. He started the long series of Franco-Italian wars which characterized the first half of the 16th century.
Charles was born at the Château d'Amboise in France, the only son of King Louis XI and Charlotte of Savoy and the eldest grandson of Charles VII and Mary Anjou. Charles succeeded to the throne upon his father's death on August 30, 1483. In ...
Charles Livingstone Allen (1913 – August 30, 2005) was an American minister.
Born in Newborn, Georgia, he ministered around the state, including 1948 to 1960 at Grace United Methodist in Atlanta. In 1960, he moved to Houston, Texas where he served at First United Methodist until 1983. During his tenure at Grace, it became the largest congregation in Georgia and while at First United it became the largest Methodist congregation in the world at 12,000 members.
He was also a columnist for the Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Constitution dur ...
The Battle of Komarów was one of the most important battles of the Polish-Bolshevik War. It took place on August 31, 1920, near the village of Komarowo (now Komarów) near Zamość. It was the biggest cavalry battle in the history of war since 1813 and the last great battle in which cavalry was used as such and not as mounted infantry.
The Battle of Komarów was a complete disaster for the Russian 1st Cavalry Army, which sustained heavy casualties and barely avoided being totally surrounded. After the battle, the 1st Ca ...
Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is a wealthy American investor and businessman. Nicknamed the "Oracle of Omaha", Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments, particularly through his company Berkshire Hathaway, in which he holds a greater than 31% stake. With an estimated current net worth of $40 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the second-richest person in the world, behind Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.
Warren Buffett - Biography.
Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebras ...
Cameron Michelle Díaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American film actress.
Diaz was born and raised in San Diego, California, the daughter of Emilio Díaz, a Cuban-American father who worked as a foreman for an oil company, and mother Billie Early, an exporting agent whose ancestry includes English, German, and Native American. She attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.
At age 16 she landed a contract with the prestigious Elle modelling agency. After graduating from High School she went to work in Japan, there meet ...
The Cheka (ЧК - чрезвычайная комиссия) was the first of many Soviet secret police organizations, created on December 20, 1917 by Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky.
Cheka - The name.
The agency's full name was Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем (In English, All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage), but was commonly abbreviated to ЧК ...
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин listen ▶ (help·info)), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) (April 22 (April 10 (O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Communist revolutionary of Russia, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the main theorist of Leninism, which he described as ...
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born 20 July 1947 in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico) is a Mexican–American Grammy Award-winning musician and Latin-rock guitarist.
He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his eponymous band Santana, which created a highly successful blend of salsa, rock, blues, and jazz fusion. Their sound featured his high-pitched, clean guitar lines set against Latin instrumentation such as timbales and congas. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades, and ...
Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan (born July 10, 1957 in Bellflower, California) is an American anti-Iraq War activist who attracted international attention in August 2005 for her extended demonstration at a peace camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch. She is sometimes referred to by the media as the "Peace Mom".[1][2]
Cindy Sheehan - Death of her son.
Sheehan is the mother of the late Specialist Casey Sheehan, U.S. Army, who first enlisted in May 2000. He re-enlisted in August 2003, at the age ...
1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
1948 - Events.
1948 - January-February.
January 1 - Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Italian republican constitution.
January 4 - Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
January 5 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tou ...
1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday.
1932 - Events.
1932 - January-February.
January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel
January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees
January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate
January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with pia ...
Ariel "Arik" Sharon ▶ (help·info) (Hebrew: אריאל שרון) (born February 27, 1928) is the eleventh and current Prime Minister of Israel, serving from March 2001. A long-serving Israeli political and military leader, he was a founding member and former head of the Likud party, and previously served for over thirty years in the Israeli Defense Forces, rising to the rank of Major General, and achieving fame within Israel for his actions in the 1967 Six Day ...
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1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
1871 - Events.
1871 - January - April.
January 2 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
January 10 - France surrenders to end the Franco-Prussian War
January 18 - The member-states of the North German Confederation unite into a single nation-state known as the German Empire. The ...
1617 - Events.
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed I (1603-1617) to Mustafa I (1617-1623).
Francesco Andreini's The Penitent Magdalene is published.
February 27 - Peace is reached between Russia and Sweden with the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War. Sweden gains Ingermanland and Karelia.
1617 - Births.
January 6 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
May 23 - Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-2005): http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/
1995 - Events.
1995 - January.
January 1 - Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union
January 1 - Fred West, accused of mass murder, hangs himself in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham
January 1 - World Trade Organization ...
1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
1991 - Events.
1991 - January.
January 2 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first black woman to lead a city of that size and importance.
January 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
January 10 - SA State Govt forced to bail out State Bank.
January 11 - The S ...
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. It is led by the Archbishop of Milan who serves as metropolitan to the dioceses of Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Crema, Cremona, Lodi, Mantova, Pavia and Vigevano.
The Church in Milan was first established in the 1st century as a small diocese. It was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese in the 4th century.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan - Bishops and Archbishops.
St. Barnabas (ca.50-5 ...
1580 in science
1580 - Events.
March 1 - Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. They are published later the same year.
June 25 - Publication of the Book of Concord, a collection of Lutheran confessional documents.
September 26 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe
1580-1764 First session of Jewish Waad (Sejm of 4 countries) in Lublin, Poland. 70 delegates of Jewish local kahals met to discuss taxat ...
