Ulysses S. Grant

the 18th President of the United States, was born April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Grant also served as Commanding General of the Army during the American Civil War, the highest position in the military.

Charles Richter

Did you know...
... that today is National Richter Scale Day? Today, we honor American seismologist and physicist Charles Richter, born near Hamilton, Ohio, on this date in 1900. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale that, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

(10-11-1884 – 11-7-1962) First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights.

Benjamin Franklin

(January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

Ponce de Leon

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... that today is the birthday of Ponce de Leon (1460)? Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer who led the first European expedition to Florida. He named it La Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers).

Vandana Shiva

(born 5 November 1952) is an Indian environmental activist and anti-globalization author

Ernest Borgnine

(January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but calm voice, Machiavellian eyebrows, and gap-toothed Cheshire cat grin.

Douglas Adams

(11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a “trilogy” of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film.

Steve Jobs

Did you know...
... that today is the birthday of Apple Computer? In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer out of a garage. Their first product was the Apple I computer kit, built by hand by Steve Wozniak. Happy birthday, Apple!