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George Herbert Walker Bush[a] (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. He was the vice president under Ronald Reagan, and held various other positions. A member of the Republican Party, his presidency oversaw the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Gulf War. He was also the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of ...
The National Guard is a military reserve organization of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It is composed of reserve components of the United States Army and the United States Air Force: the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard, respectively. [2][3] It is based in each of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and three U.S. territories. [a] Guard components are ...
Social Security timeline [18] 1935 The 37-page Social Security Act signed August 14 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The legislation included Unemployment Insurance, Aid to Dependent Children, Old Age Insurance (OAI), and Old Age Assistance (OAA). The old age insurance program gradually developed into the Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance program, which is what Americans typically ...
The Cuban Revolution (Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew the emerging Cuban democracy and consolidated power. Among those who opposed the coup was Fidel Castro, then a young lawyer, who ...
Champaign (/ ˌʃæmˈpeɪn / sham-PAYN) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-most populous municipality in Illinois and the fourth most populous city in the state outside the Chicago metropolitan area. [4] It is a principal city of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, which had 236,000 residents in 2020 ...
The capital moved to Virginia City in 1865 and to Helena in 1875. In 1870, the non-Indian population of the Montana Territory was 20,595. [27] The Montana Historical Society, founded on February 2, 1865, in Virginia City, is the oldest such institution west of the Mississippi (excluding Louisiana). [28]
Angela Deneece Alsobrooks was born in Suitland, Maryland, on February 23, 1971, [1] to James Alsobrooks, who worked as a distributor for the Washington Post [2] and a car salesman, [3] and Patricia Alsobrooks (née James), a receptionist. [4] Her family moved from Seneca, South Carolina to Maryland in July 1956 shortly after her great-grandfather, J. C. James, was shot and killed by police ...
The civil rights movement[b] was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which most commonly affected African Americans. The movement had origins in the Reconstruction era in the late 19th century, and modern roots in the 1940s and in Mohandas Gandhi 's nonviolent ...