KNOW THIS OF SOME GREAT MEN AND EVENTS

· Hans Christian Andersen was born in 1805
· William Wordsworth was born in 1770
· Pablo Picasso died in 1973.
· The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was incorporated in 1866
·· The U.S. Civil War began in 1861
· President · Abraham Lincoln delivered his last public speech in 1865
· Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd U.S. President) died in 1845
· Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseyevich Gagarin completed the first manned space flight in 1961
· Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President) was shot in 1865 and died the following morning
· Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452
· The Titanic sank in 1912 taking with it 1513 of the 2224 passengers
· The first solo flight around the world by a woman was completed when Jerrie Mock landed in Columbus, Ohio in 1964.
· Charles Darwin died in 1882
· William Shakespeare died in 1616
· Albert Einstein died in 1955
· The Spanish-American War began in 1898 when Spain declared war against the U.S.
· Ralph Waldo Emerson died in 1882