1946

The sinking of the USS Indianapolis happen during World War II. The USS Indianapolis was launched on November 7, 1931. It was 610 feet and 4 inches long. It was 9,600 tons. What had contributed to the weight was eight white Forster boilers, 4 Parsons geared turbines, about 70 guns, and 3 SC-2 Curtiss Seahawk airplanes. On April 1940 the Indianapolis move from west coast to Hawaii with the rest of the Pacific Fleet. On February 1942 the Indianapolis participated in raid on Bougainville in Solomon…

skills by selling soft drinks to his peers at age 8, then later signing customers up for the The Atlanta Journal newspaper. Truett was drafted after high school graduation and served for 6 years until honoraly discharged. Upon his return to Atlanta in 1946, Truett and his brother pooled their money and opened a restaruatn, the Dwarf Grill—later known as the Dwarf House. It took more than 20 years for the first Chick-fil-A to open in an Atlanta mall in 1967. At time of Truett Cathy’s death in…

Rick Peterson is a survivor of the Bataan Death March which was a brutal journey, but the ones that actually survived the march know how bad it was. I’m not going to go into much detail at the moment because you need to know little about the background. For starters the Japanese rounded up the Americans and Filipinos and forced them to march from mariveles on the southern end of San Fernando. The men were divided into groups that’s how the name became as the Bataan Death March came to be.…

She did this to show the intense emotions and psychological states which had registered quickly. In 1946 to 1947 she had included portraits of her friends and family which she had concentrated on painting into the upward-gazing heads. Also in 1947 Joy was diagnosed with having Hodgkin's disease. Since then she left her husband and young son, to move…

There aren’t too many stories of little Jewish boys navigating their way from the Big Apple to any level of basketball fame and fortune. Well, Yanni Hufnagel is the nice little Jewish lad who has managed to build himself into one of the most respected assistant basketball coaches on the NCAA major college level. Hufnagel started out with high aspirations to be a basketball player, but in spite of all his hard work and dedicated diligence, he was cut from his Scarsdale, New York high school…

Tim O’Brien Biography Tim O'Brien was born on October 1, 1946 in Austin, which is a small town in Minnesota and grew up in Worthington (About Tim O’Brien, Illyria.com). He was very into reading when he was a child and loved to do magic tricks. His parents were reading eccentrics, as his father was on the local library board and his mother was a second grade teacher. He was a very all-American kid and spent his childhood on little league baseball teams, and later, on jobs. O’Brien was then…

Inspired by major events like the World Wars, Gertrude Stein was able to become an outstanding and influential author in her time and to this day. Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, Pittsburgh, PA and later moved to Paris, France where her career embarked. She went to Radcliffe College where she studied psychology with William James, who influenced a lot of Gertrude Stein’s ideas. Stein later graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1898. After moving to Paris, she was able…

Trump is not LITERALLY Hitler. Donald was born on June 14, 1946 and Hitler Died April 30, 1945. They were never even alive at the same time. Unless you identify with the Buddhist belief that it takes between 49 days and two years to be reincarnated, which in that case, could mean that Trump is LITERALLY Hitler…

Eva was very active in his campaign and won the votes of the masses who she called los descamisados (the shirtless ones). He won the election and took office in June 1946. Eva never held a government post, but she acted as de facto minister of health and labour, this gave money increases to the unions, who responded with political support for Peron. The government cut out some unnecessary charities, and Eva decided…

scholarship for her Master’s studies. This seems to have been an interesting and fruitful time for her: she read a great deal and she learned a lot about writing. Her first publication, in Accent magazine, of her story “The Geranium,” occurred in 1946 while she was still a student. In 1947 she won the Rinehart-Iowa Fiction Award for a first novel, with part of Wise Blood. On the strength of this, she was recommended for a place at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York, a philanthropic…