Before death carried him off to that great covert operation in the sky, Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. -- who would have turned 89 today -- sowed discord among his his.
William Hubbs Rehnquist was flushed into the world 83 years ago today. During his ascent toward the Supreme Court, where he would eventually serve nearly 20 years as Chief Justice,.
A straight line of misfortune connects the lives of the early 20th century agrarian revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, hero to the peasants of Southern Mexico; Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, author.
"I've gambled all my life and it's never been a moral issue with me. I liked church bingo when I was growing up." [1]Erected upon a sturdy moral pedestal of.
If not for the icy hand of death, Nathan Bedford Forrest -- Confederate general and inaugural Grand Wizard of the KKK -- would have turned 186 years old today. A.
Toby Keith Covel, country music artist and open-throated jingo, turned 46 today. Born halfway through the first year of John F. Kennedy's truncated presidency, Covel would not have been alive.
William Laws Calley, Jr., turns 64 today. As of this writing, Calley has lived 39 years, two months and three weeks longer than the defenseless Vietnamese peasants slaughtered on 16.
One of the great injustices in Curtis Mayfield's short life was that he was forced by circumstance to share his birthday with Jefferson Davis, the former Mississippi Congressman and Senator.
