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Ted Turner
Name at birth: Robert Edward Turner IIITed Turner took over his father's billboard business and in 1970 bought a TV station in Atlanta, Georgia. Among the channels to emerge from Turner Broadcasting…Audrey Hepburn
Name at birth: Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-RustonActress Audrey Hepburn was known for her gracefully petite figure (and famously long neck) and for her air of playful elegance. Among her best-known films…Adlai Stevenson
Name at birth: Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIAdlai Stevenson was the Democratic candidate for president in 1952 and 1956, losing decisively to former general and World War II hero Dwight Eisenhower both…State of the Union Address: Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 6, 1955)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 6, 1955) Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Congress: First, I extend cordial greetings to the 84th Congress. We shall have much to do together; I am sure that…Landmark Affirmative Action Ruling
—Borgna Brunner Citing the possession of weapons of mass destruction, links to terrorism, and Saddam Hussein's despotism as the casus belli for “regime change” in Iraq, President George W. Bush…1950 – 1959 World History
Atomic BombNational Archives and Records Admin.Dwight D. Eisenhower(1890–1969)National Archives and Records Admin.Dag Hammarskjöld(1905–1961)United NationsMartin Luther King, Jr.(1929–1968)N.…Dorothy Fosdick Biography
Dorothy FosdickAge: 83 foreign policy expert who helped in creation of United Nations, the Marshall Plan, and NATO, in the 1940s. Died: Feb. 5, 1997.Leon Forrest1997 DeathsFrances Foster…Slobodan Milosevic, 1999 News
57, president of Yugoslavia, balked at repeated warnings from NATO to withdraw Yugoslav troops and weapons from Albanian-dominated Kosovo, which had been fighting for full independence from…June 2004 Disasters
June 29–30, Philippines: Typhoon Mindulle struck the Philippines, killing 30.June 29, Sierra Leone: A United Nations helicopter carrying peacekeepers and others crashed, killing all 24 on…Slobodan Milosevic
A fierce Serb nationalist, Slobodan Milosevic became president of Serbia in 1989 in that country's first democratic elections since World War I. He then became President of Yugoslavia in 1997. By…Trending
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