John Franklin - John Franklin John Franklin (April 15, 1786 - June 11, 1847) was an English sea captain and Arctic explorer, whose fate -- and that of his last expedition -- was for many years a mystery. Franklin was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire. He was one of twelve children of a family which had prospered in trade, and one of his sisters became the mother of Emily Tennyson (wife of the poet). He decided on a naval career at the age of fourteen, and was present at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. During the latter, he served on board the ill-fated HMS Bellerophon. One of Franklin's uncles was Captain Matthew Flinders, with whom he also travelled to Australia. In 1814,.
John Brown (abolitionist) - John Brown (abolitionist) John Brown (May 9, 1800 - December 2, 1859) was an extremist abolitionist who led the raid on Harpers Ferry and whose defeat, trial, and execution helped set the stage for the American Civil War. John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, on May 9, 1800. His father Owen Brown, a strict Calvinist who hated slavery, was a tanner and taught the trade to his son. On June 21, 1820, Brown married Dianthe Lusk. In 1826 they moved to Pennsylvania, where Brown built a tannery. Dianthe died in 1832, shortly after giving birth. On June 14, 1833, Brown married sixteen-year-old Mary Day. She eventually bore thirteen children with Brown, in addition to caring for the five children from his previous marriage. In 1836.
John C. Breckinridge - John C. Breckinridge John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 - May 17, 1875) was a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and the fourteenth Vice President of the United States. Breckinridge was born at "Cabell's Dale", near Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1839 and later attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and moved to Burlington, Iowa, but soon returned and began practice in Lexington. Breckinridge was a major of the Third Kentucky Volunteers during the Mexican-American War in 1847 and 1848. He was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1849. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3,.
John Candy - John Candy John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 - March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Candy was a member of Toronto's Second City comedy troupe and gained widespread North American popularity when, in 1977, he became a cast member on the influential Toronto-based TV comedy-variety show, SCTV (Second City Television). - John Candy - From there he went on to star in such Hollywood movies as Splash, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Spaceballs and Uncle Buck. He typically played characters who, while they lived somewhat seedy lives, often had their hearts in the right place. John Candy died at the age of 44 of a heart attack while filming on location in Durango, Mexico, for the movie Wagons East..
John Nance Garner - John Nance Garner John Nance Garner (November 22, 1868 - November 7, 1967) was a Representative from Texas and the thirty-second Vice President of the United States. Garner was born near Detroit, Red River County, Texas. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1890, and commenced practice in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas. He was a judge of Uvalde County from 1893 to 1896 and a member of the state House of Representatives from 1898 to 1902. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1933), and served as minority floor leader and as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was reelected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932, and.
John Rae - John Rae John Rae (1813-1893) was a Scottish Arctic explorer. Rae was a native of Stromness in the Orkney Islands. After studying medicine at Edinburgh he went into the service of the Hudson's Bay Company as a doctor. In 1846 he first ventured on an expedition and in 1848 joined Sir John Richardson in searching for the North West Passage. In 1853, he was involved in exploring King William's Land, and made contact with the Inuit. From them he obtained valuable information about the fate of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin. In 1860 he worked on the telegraph line to America, visiting Iceland and Greenland. In 1864 he made a further telegraph survey in the west of Canada. He is buried in St Magnus.
John D. Sloat - John D. Sloat Commodore John D. Sloat John Drake Sloat (July 6, 1781 - November 28, 1867) was a commodore in the United States Navy, and in 1846 claimed California for the United States. He was born in Sloatbury, near Goshen, New York, and orphaned at an early age, his father having been killed by a British soldier two months before he was born, and his mother dying a few years later. He was brought up by his maternal grandparents. Appointed midshipman in the Navy in 1800, he became sailing master of the frigate USS United States under Commodore Stephen Decatur by the War of 1812, and was promoted to lieutenant for conspicious gallantry in the capture of the frigate HMS Macedonian. Sloat then served in.
John Bigelow - John Bigelow John Bigelow (November 25, 1817 - December 19, 1911) was an American lawyer and statesman. Born in Malden-on-Hudson, New York, he became a lawyer and editor. Abraham Lincoln appointed him Consul at Paris in 1861, progressing to Charge d'Affaires to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Napoleon III. In 1865 he became Minister to France and helped block the Confederacy's efforts to acquire ships in Europe. He published The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and helped expose the graft of the Tweed administration in New York City. After three years living in Germany, he returned to New York, where he was elected Secretary of State. He was instrumental in the development of the New York Public Library, and a staunch proponent of.
John Thach - John Thach John Smith Thach (19 April 1905 - 15 April 1981) was a World War II naval aviator, air combat tactician, and Admiral in the United States Navy. John S. Thach was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1927 and spent two years serving in battleships before training as a Naval Aviator in 1929. Thach spent the next decade serving as a test pilot and instructor and establishing a reputation as an expert in aerial gunnery. In the early 1940s he was placed in command of Fighting Squadron Three and developed a fighter combat tactic known as the Thach Weave. This tactic enabled US fighter aircraft to hold their own against the superior Mitsubishi Zero, the primary.
John Ross (Arctic explorer) - John Ross (Arctic explorer) Sir John Ross (June 24, 1777 - August 30, 1856) was a British rear admiral and Arctic explorer. Ross, the son of the Rev. Andrew Ross, minister of Inch, near Stranraer, Wigtonshire, entered the Royal Navy in 1786, serving in the Mediterranean until 1789, and afterwards in the English Channel. In 1808 he acted as captain of the Swedish Fleet, and in 1812 was promoted to commander. Six years later he received the command of an Arctic expedition fitted out by the Admiralty, the first of a new series of attempts to solve the question of a Northwest Passage. This expedition failed to discover much that was new, and somewhat prejudiced the Arctic reputation of its leader, who attained the rank of.
John Bartram - John Bartram John Bartram (March 23, 1699 – September 22, 1777) was an American botanist. He was the father of William Bartram. Bartram was born in Darby Township into a Quaker family. He travelled extensively in the eastern United States collecting plants, from Lake Ontario in the north, to Florida in the south and the Ohio River in the west. Many of his acquisitions were transported to collectors in Europe. He founded Bartram Botanical gardens in Philadelphia. He was one of the co-founders, with Benjamin Franklin, of the American Philosophical Society in 1742. In 1765 George III made Bartram Royal Botanist, a post he held until his death..
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt Roosevelt in 1944 Order: 32nd President Term of Office: March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945 Followed: Herbert Hoover Succeeded by: Harry S. Truman Date of Birth Monday, January 30, 1882 Place of Birth: Hyde Park, New York Date of Death: Thursday, April 12, 1945 Place of Death: Warm Springs, Georgia First Lady: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Profession: lawyer Political Party: Democrat Vice President: John N. Garner (1933-1941) Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945) Harry S Truman (1945) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945), often referred to as FDR, was the 32nd (1933-1945) President of the United States. He was elected to an unprecedented four terms of office - the only U.S. president elected more than twice, and part.
Franklin - Franklin In Canada Franklin is a district of the Northwest Territories, consisting of some of the Arctic islands: Banks and Prince Patrick islands, and parts of Victoria and Melville islands, and some smaller islands. It was named after the Arctic explorer, John Franklin. There is also a Fort Franklin, Northwest Territories. In New Zealand, the Franklin District[1] is a municipality in the Auckland region, consisting of the towns of Pukekohe and Waiuku and four other wards. Franklin is the name of some places in the United States of America, many of them named for Benjamin Franklin: State of Franklin, in eastern Tennessee 1784-1789 Franklin, Georgia Franklin, Idaho Franklin, Indiana Franklin, Kentucky Franklin, Louisiana Franklin, Maine Franklin, Massachusetts Franklin, Michigan Franklin, New Hampshire Franklin, New Jersey Franklin,.
Franklin (automobile) - Franklin (automobile) The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company was a maker of automobiles in the United States between 1902 and 1934 in Syracuse, New York. Herbert H. Franklin, the founder, started out in the metal die-casting business (in fact, he invented the term) before entering the automobile business with the engineer John Wilkinson. All Franklin cars were air cooled, which the company considered simpler and more reliable than water cooling, and the company considered light weight to be critical in making a well-performing car given the limited power of the engines then available. Franklins were wood-framed and light aluminum was used in quantity, to the extent that Franklin was reckoned to be the largest user of aluminum in the world in the early years of the.
Franklin's Gull - Franklin's Gull Franklin's Gull Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Laridae Genus: Larus Species: pipixcan Binomial name Larus pipixcan The Franklin's Gull, Larus pipixcan is a small gull. It breed in central provinces of Canada and adjacent states of the northern USA. It is migratory, wintering in the Caribbean, Peru and Chile. Although it is uncommon on the coasts of North America, it nevertheless occurs as a rare vagrant to western Europe. This species is easy to identify. The summer adult's body is white and its back and wings are much darker grey than all other gulls of similar size except the larger Laughing Gull. The wings have black tips with an adjacent white band. The bill and legs are red..
USS Franklin - USS Franklin Five United States Navy ships have been named USS Franklin, the first four after Benjamin Franklin, and the fifth, the aircraft carrier CV-13, perpetuating the name of the previous ships (it was not the usual practice at the time to name carriers after individuals). The first Franklin was a 6-gun schooner, taken under the command of Commodore John Manly in 1775, participating in the capture of many British vessels and returned to the owner in 1776. The second Franklin was a 8-gun brig built in 1795, captured by corsairs from Tripoli in 1802, bought back by the Navy in 1805, and sold in 1807. The third Franklin was a 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1815 and broken up in 1852. The fourth Franklin.
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) - USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) was launched 29 April 1945 by New York Naval Shipyard as Coral Sea (CVB-42); sponsored by Mrs. John H. Towers, wife of the Deputy Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet; renamed Franklin D. Roosevelt 8 May 1945; and commissioned 27 October 1945 Captain A. Soucek in command. She was reclassified CVA-42 on 1 October 1952. During her shakedown cruise, Franklin D. Roosevelt called at Rio de Janeiro 1 to l1 February 1946 to represent the United States at the inauguration of the Brazilian president, Eurico G. Dutra, who came aboard for a short cruise. Fleet maneuvers and other training operations in the Caribbean preceded her first deployment to the Mediterranean, from 8 August to 4 October during which she.
January 3 - is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time. 1899 - The first known use of the word "automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times 1920 - Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan. The loan was to finance Frazee's Broadway production of the musical No, No, Nanette. 1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy. 1926 - General Theodorus Pángulos names himself dictator of Greece 1938 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 1947 - Proceedings of the United States Congress are televised for the first time. 1951 - Dragnet airs on television for the first time (NBC). 1957.
January 30 - of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police. 1972 - Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom forces kill thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland. 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth. 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. 1994 - Peter Leko becomes the youngest grand master in chess. 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anaemia. 1996 - Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit. 2002 - Slobodan Milosevic accuses the United Nations war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him. 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage. Births 1687 -.
January 17 - British Telecom annouces they are going to abolish the famous red telephone boxes. 1991 - Gulf War: Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel. 1992 - Punk rock band Green Day releases their second full-length album, Kerplunk. 1995 - A magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred near Kobe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing over 5,000. 1998 - Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. 2002 - Eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. 2002 - A Petroproduccion Fairchild FH-227E crashes into the mountains in southern Colombia killing 26 Births 1463 - Friedrich III, Saxon elector (†1525) 1706 - Benjamin Franklin American writer, inventor, publisher, and ambassador (†1790) 1763 - John Jacob Astor, entrepreneur (†1848) 1820 - Anne.
