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Anna McCune Harper Biography
Anna McCune HarperAge: 99 replaced Helen Wills Moody as the top-ranked U.S. women's tennis player in 1930; won mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1931; called home in 1932 because of a…John Harper 2002 Deaths
John HarperAge: 78 rector of Washington, DC's St. John's Episcopal Church who preached to eight presidents, from Kennedy to Clinton, in his 30-year career with the church. Died: Washington,…Jerry Harper 2001 Deaths
Jerry HarperAge: 67 center on Alabama's "Rocket Eight" basketball teams of the mid-1950s; team's fives starters and three reserves earned the nickname by compiling records of 19-5 in and 21-3…Stephen Harper, 2006 News
Canadian politician, was elected prime minister in January, when his Conservative Party defeated the Liberal Party, headed by Prime Minister Paul Martin, in parliamentary elections. It's the…Stevenson, Robert Louis
(Encyclopedia) Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850–94, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, b. Edinburgh. Handicapped from youth by delicate health, he struggled all his life against tuberculosis. He…Bill W.
(William Griffith Wilson)founder of Alcoholics AnonymousBirthplace: East Dorset, VermontBorn: 1895Died: 1971Anthony, Susan Brownell
(Encyclopedia) Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass.; daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17,…Thomas W. Binford Biography
Thomas W. BinfordAge: 74 Indianapolis banker who served as president of the United States Auto Club (1957-69) and chief steward (referee) of the Indianapolis 500 (1974-95). Died of a cerebral…Timrod, Henry
(Encyclopedia) Timrod, Henry, 1828–67, American poet, b. Charleston, S.C., studied at the Univ. of Georgia. He was known as “the laureate of the Confederacy.” Timrod became editor of the Columbia…Fredericksburg, battle of
(Encyclopedia) Fredericksburg, battle of, in the Civil War, fought Dec. 13, 1862, at Fredericksburg, Va. In Nov., 1862, the Union general Ambrose Burnside moved his three “grand divisions” under W. B…Trending
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