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Hace 9 horas · Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Joseph Stalin's crimes and embarked on a policy of de ...
Hace 9 horas · Hermann Göring, the first Supreme Commander of the Luftwaffe (in office: 1935–1945) Robert Ritter von Greim, the second and last Supreme Commander of the Luftwaffe (in office: April–May 1945). The Luftwaffe (German pronunciation: [ˈlʊftvafə] ⓘ) was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the ...
Hace 1 día · Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [b] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war.
Hace 9 horas · The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion.The period also saw great population growth with increased birth rates and ...
Hace 9 horas · Burning of three "witches" in Baden, Switzerland (1585), by Johann Jakob Wick. A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft.Practicing evil spells or incantations was proscribed and punishable in early human civilizations in the Middle East.In medieval Europe, witch-hunts often arose in connection to charges of ...
Hace 1 día · Early life Childhood: 1927–1945 Cesario Estrada Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927. He was named for his paternal grandfather, Cesario Chavez, a Mexican who had crossed into Texas in 1898. Cesario had established a successful wood haulage business near Yuma and in 1906 bought a farm in the Sonora Desert's North Gila Valley. Cesario had brought his wife Dorotea and eight ...
Hace 9 horas · On the Friday 17th May 10am 2024 we will unveil a Nubian Jak Blue Plaque to recognise Baldwin's presence and the link to Black British Civil rights. In the weeks preceding and following the unveiling there will be a number of walks,talks, films and workshops about local anti-racist groups of the 1980s as well as reviews of James Baldwin's ...
