What were the birth names of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin?
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) was born V. I. Ulyanov.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein.
Josef Stalin (1879-1953) was born Josef Dzhugashvili.
Bill Clinton was born in the small town of Hope, Arkansas, but was raised in the city of Hot Springs from the age of four.
Henry Lee, a fellow officer in the Revolutionary War and the father of Civil War general Robert E. Lee called George Washington “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”.
The first American musical radio broadcast was a broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City in 1910.
The first major conflict against Indians in New England was the Pequot War against the Pequot Indians of Connecticut in 1637. In the bloodiest encounter of the war, English colonists burned a Pequot village near Long Island Sound, killing hundreds of Indian men, women, and children.
About 4.7 million Americans served in the armed forces in World War I. Over three times as many, 16.1 million, served in World War II.
William O. Douglas (1898-1980), who served 36 years (1939-75), was the Supreme Court Justice who served the longest term. Four justices served 34 years: John Marshall (1801-35); Stephen J. Field (1863-97); Hugo L. Black (1937-71); and William J. Brennan, Jr. (1956-90).