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- President of the United States (42878 bytes)
29: ...in Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is traditionally ...
38: ...cretary of Veterans Affairs|Secretary of Veterans Affairs]].
40: ... office of President or merely act as President. After the death of [[William Henry Harrison]], howev...
51: ...ember 5]], [[1782]], was the first president born after the [[United States Declaration of Independenc...
52: ...arch 29]], [[1790]], was the first president born after the adoption of the [[United States Constituti... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ... 1765|Stamp Act]] of [[1765]]. In that year, he drafted the instructions which were sent by the town o...
39: ...Robert R. Livingston]] and [[Roger Sherman]] to draft a [[United States Declaration of Independence|De...
44: ...constitution]] of [[1780]]. He penned the first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] and Samuel Adams.
48: ...ties between the United States and foreign powers after that of February 1778 with France.
57: In [[1796]], after Washington refused to seek another term, Adams... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
9: ...<td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</td></tr>
22: ...[United States]]. He was the first President born after the signing of the [[United States Declaration...
29: .... Livingston]] and Aaron Burr. Federalist control after [[1799]] depended upon coalition with one or o...
35: ...recognized procedure in national, state and local affairs. Van Buren did not originate the system, but...
43: After the election, he sought to bring the Crawford ... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
58: ...e. The name ''Republic of Ireland'' came into use after the [[Republic of Ireland Act]] defined it as ...
67: ...e Act 1914]]'s implementation was suspended until after the [[World War I|Great War]]. (The war at tha...
69: ... Conference, 1919]]. However it was not admitted. After the bitterly fought [[Anglo-Irish War|War of I...
75: ... battlefield. British supplies of artillery, aircraft, machine-guns and ammunition were much help to P...
161: ...as the fourth-highest GDP per capita in the world after [[Luxembourg]], [[Norway]], and the [[United S... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
16: * [[1782]]: Invented double-acting engine.
36: ...wer (physics)|power]], the ''[[watt]]'', is named after him. So is, at least in part, [[Edinburgh]]'s ...
40: There are 4 colleges named after him in Scotland, James Watt College in Kilwinn...
44: There are over 50 roads or streets named after him, in the UK. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
143: *[[Henryka Beyer]] ([[1782]]-[[1855]])
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]])
502: *[[Olaf Gulbransson]] ([[1873]]-[[1958]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
73: ...bile phone call is made by [[Ernie Wise]] to [[Vodafone]].
96: *[[2004]] - [[Pervez Musharraf]] receives a vote of confidence to continue as th...
146: *[[1942]] - [[Gennadi Sarafanov]], [[astronaut|cosmonaut]]
175: *[[1782]] - [[Johann Christian Bach]], German composer (b... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...alization in the population of native inhabitants after European colonization means that most of the k...
21: ... [[1534]] and [[1535]] without finding the sought-after city.
38: After Cabrillo's voyage in [[1542]] the concept of [...
40: ... chief pilot [[Bartolomé Ferrelo]], sailed north after Cabrillo's death, past [[Point Arena|Cabo de F...
86: ...[[Spanish missions in California|mission]] chain. After King [[Carlos III]] ordered the [[Society of J... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
52: ...eans that the graph is flat and the device is not affected by temperature changes.
109: ...minish in brightness. If shunted with a resistor after being stimulated, they stop glowing immediatel...
150: ... It was coined by [[Alessandro Volta|Volta]] in [[1782]] (derived from the Italian ''condensatore''), wi...
162: ...into short circuits, which can be dangerous. For safety purposes, all large capacitors should be disch...
164: ...ce all of the electrolyte-based caps out of hand. After long storage electrolytic capacitors may deter... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
13: ...rr's courage earned him a place on Washington's staff, but the general never quite trusted Major Burr....
14: ...782]], and began to practice in [[New York City]] after its evacuation by the British in the following...
20: ...om her husband's land speculation, they separated after only four months. During the month of their fi...
32: ...ork City. Later, when Burr fled the United States after the Hamilton duel and treason trial, [[Talleyr...
44: ...eo, but most historians discount this as fiction. After a letter regarding the incident written by Dr.... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
7: On [[December 14]], [[1782]] they succeeded in an outdoor launch of an 18 m&...
11: ...the balloon, but the animals landed more or less safely. It flew for all of eight minutes.
22: ...[1960s]], when [[Raven Industries]] improved the safety of the classic Montgolfier design by using rip... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
3: ...he broader perspective, including the origins and aftermath of the war, see the [[American Revolution]...
23: [[African-Americans]], including slaves and free black...
25: ...ommunities east of the [[Mississippi River]] were affected by the war, many dividing over the question...
33: ...tia)|minutemen]] formed up on the village common. After [[the shot heard around the world]], the Briti...
37: After the battles of Lexington and Concord, thousand... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ... to cross North America, but was roughly a decade after the expedition of [[Alexander Mackenzie (explo...
5: ...ptain Meriwether Lewis]] to lead the expedition, afterwards known as the '''Corps of Discovery'''; Le...
37: *Sergeant [[Charles Floyd]] (1782 – 1804)
38: ...ant [[Patrick Gass]] (1771 – 1870) promoted after Floyd's death
77: ...ifying sense of the vastness of their new country after the Louisiana Purchase and America's almost li... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
10: ...itish]] forces evacuate [[Boston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] places [[artillery]] ove...
14: *[[1886]] - [[Carrollton Massacre]]: 20 [[African American]]s are killed in [[Mississippi]].
16: ...ncent van Gogh]] paintings in [[Paris]], 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
104: *[[1782]] - [[Daniel Bernoulli]], mathematician (b. [[170...
112: *[[1987]] - [[Santo Trafficante, Jr.]], gangster - March 18 (10594 bytes)
32: ...osmonaut]] [[Aleksei Leonov]], leaving his spacecraft [[Voskhod 2]] for 12 minutes, becomes the first ...
49: *[[1782]] - [[John Calhoun]], [[Vice President of the Uni...
61: ... - [[Jake Swirbul]], co-founder of [[Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation]] (d. [[1960]])
80: *[[1936]] - [[Frederik Willem de Klerk]], South African politician
120: *[[2002]] - [[R.A. Lafferty]], science fiction writer (b. [[1914]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
8: *[[Abu'l-Wafa]] (Iran, [[940]] - [[998]])
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]])
150: *[[Pafnuty Chebyshev|Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev]], ([[Russia]], [[May 16]],...
232: ...m Emerson]] (England/United Kingdom, [[1701]] - [[1782]])
411: *[[Laurent Lafforgue]] (France, [[1966]] - ) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
72: *[[Wilhelm von Biela]] ([[Austria]], [[1782]] – [[1856]])
203: *[[Al-Farghani|Farghani]] ([[Persia]], d. after [[861]])
243: *[[Bengt Gustafsson]], ([[Sweden]])
298: ...ert Thorburn Ayton Innes]] ([[Scotland]], [[South Africa]], [[1861]] – [[1933]])
302: *[[Cyril V. Jackson]] ([[South Africa]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
28: *[[Sediq Afghan]]
29: *[[Jamal al-Din al-Afghani]], (1839-1897){{fn|R}}
172: *[[Paul Benacerraf]]
324: *[[Rafe Champion]]
891: *[[Henry Home, Lord Kames|Lord Kames]], (1696-1782){{fn|R}} - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
7: ...Jean-Fran�ois de La P�rouse|La P�rouse]] in 1782. He returned to England in [[1787]] where he died... - Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
3: '''Daniel Webster''' ([[January 18]], [[1782]] – [[October 24]], [[1852]]) was a [[Unite...
9: ...he [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] was short (he left after 9 months) and traumatic. As a child Daniel had...
11: ...ssful was he at overcoming his fears that shortly after his graduation the town of [[Hanover, New Hamp...
23: ...te]] from the state of [[Massachusetts]]. Shortly after that, in [[1828]], his first wife, Grace, died...
25: ...e Webster championed American [[nationalism]] and after the demise of the Federalist party he joined t...
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