Search
Search results
Displaying 421 - 430
Luis Echeverría, 2004 News
former president of Mexico, in July was charged with genocide in the 1971 massacre of 25 student protesters. The special prosecutor said Echeverría allowed a military-trained hit squad to…John Tobin, Jr., 2001 News
Fulbright scholar, returned to the U.S. in August, after being imprisoned in Russia for six months. He was arrested in January on charges of marijuana possession and was later accused of…Barbara Tuchman
Name at birth: Barbara WertheimBarbara Tuchman covered the Spanish Civil War for the U.S. magazine The Nation in the 1930s. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1963 for her history of the beginnings of World…Johannes Gutenberg
Name at birth: Johann GensfleischJohannes Gutenberg is generally credited with the creation of movable type printing -- the process that made it possible to publish many copies of a single work at…Chris Farley
Chris Farley got his early comic training with Chicago's famous Second City comedy troupe. Later he became the popular big-pudgy-guy cast member of TV's Saturday Night Live and then moved into…Lance Bass, 2002 News
singer in the boy band 'N Sync, aspired to be the first celebrity in space when he began his training at the Johnson Space Center in August. He had planned to join three astronauts on a…Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist of the 18th century who devised the binomial system of taxonomy for plants. A physician by training, Linnaeus was gifted enough at plant identification that me…Kaiane Aldorino
Kaiane Aldorino was a hospital human resources clerk with a love for "netball and training in the gym" when she won the 2009 Miss World contest. As a young woman, Kaiane Aldorino was a dancer who…The Rainbow Coalition
by Reverend Jesse Jackson Address to the Democratic Convention Thank you very much. Tonight we come together bound by our faith in a mighty God, with genuine respect and love for…Butch Cassidy
Name at birth: Robert Leroy ParkerButch Cassidy was one of the most notorious outlaws of the old American west, the leader of the Wild Bunch gang out of Wyoming. Butch and his gang robbed banks and…Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
