Harold Edward Holt, (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967), was an Australian politician who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1966 until his presumed drowning death in 1967. He was the leader of the Liberal Party during that time. Holt was born in Sydney, but...
MEDICI FAMILY - (14th century-1737). MELLON FAMILY - founded by Judge Thomas Mellon (1813–1908). MEYER GUGGENHEIM - (1828-1905). MOAMMAR GADHAFI - (1942-2011). One of the richest men in the world - ever! US$200 billion+. Mohamed Al-Fayed - (1929-2023). Egyptian business magnate....
Duncan I. Steel FRAS (born 11 June 1955) is a British scientist born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. Currently he lives in Wellington, New Zealand, but holds visiting positions as a Professor of astrobiology at the University of Buckingham in England; as a space scientist at NASA-Ames Research...
When Germany and the Soviets attacked Poland in 1939, Galicia was united to the rest of Ukraine. The German-Soviet war in 1941 brought hopes of freedom and even a declaration of independence in western Ukraine. However, the brutal Nazi occupation provoked a resistance movement, first against the...
5 When Sir John Randolph died i n 1737, the same twenty-one families remained dominant in Virginia society. From their ranks came ten of the eleven members of the Council of State: William Byrd, John Carter, John Custis, Cole Digges, John Grymes, Thomas Lee, Philip Lightfoot, William Rand...
Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences ...
They had a son in 1639; The first Burden born in the New World.© 2025 Frank David Leone, Jr./Highway 80 Music (ASCAP). The songs and stories on the Highway 80 Stories website are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either th...
in the creation of objects. A clerihew or spoonerism are abstract word manipulations and so don’t count. The same applies to Morse code and the Farenheit scale. A Caesarian operation might be said to have a product, a baby, but those born in that way do not then have ‘Caesarean’ ...
Born in Kingston upon Thames, London, on June 1, 1996, Holland's journey into the world of performing arts began at a young age. His talent shone through early as he was spotted by a choreographer during a hip hop class at Nifty Feet Dance School. This led him to perfor...
Born in rural Connecticut, Allen had a frontier upbringing but also received an education that included some philosophical teachings. In the late 1760s he became interested in the New Hampshire Grants, buying land there and becoming embroiled in the legal disputes surrounding the territory. Legal ...