Idi Amin was a Ugandan president produced circa 1925 in Kokobo, West Nile Province, Uganda. He grew within the military from the 1940s through 1970. Amin overthrew the present leader in 1971 and held himself president, and he stayed in power from 1971-1979. During his tenure, he lived a lavish ...

John Quincy Adams – Miniature Biography (TVPG; 3:31) John Quincy Adams was the oldest son of President John Adams and the sixth president of the United States. Before his presidency, Adams was one of America’s best diplomat; after, he fought from the growth of slavery. Produced in Massachusetts on July ...

Florence Nightingale – She created a nursing school and her writings started world-wide health care reform. Throughout the Crimean War, she and a team of nurses enhanced the unsanitary conditions in a British base hospital, cutting back the death count by two thirds. Her writings started world-wide healthcare reform. She ...

He expired on December 25, 1635, in Quebec. Samuel de Champlain was born in 1574 (according to his baptismal certificate, that has been found in 2012), in Brouage, a little port town in the province of Saintonge, to the western shore of France. He was probably born a Protestant, but converted ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower – In 1945 he was made U.S. Army chief of staff. He became the very first Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1951. In 1952 he was elected U.S. president. He served two terms before retiring to Gettysburg in 1961. Dwight was ...

Produced in Detroit in 1943, vocalist Florence Ballard, became renowned in the 1960s as an associate of The Supremes, a group which she began with youth friends Mary Wilson and Diana Ross. She sang on 16 distinct Top 40 hits but left the group in 1967 after a dispute with ...

Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927 in Nyc. He began in show business as a humor writer, collaborating with talents like Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. He’s likewise an accomplished screenwriter as well as the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his 1991 playLost in Yonkers. (Some sources say ...

In 1951, she directed her fellow African American high school pupils in a walkout to protest the inequality of segregated schools. Societal activist Barbara Johns was born in New York in 1935. Johns grew up in Prince Edward County, Virginia. At that time, the schools were segregated. White pupils went to ...

Produced April 26, 1906, in Chicago, Illinois, into a shoemaker and his wife, Antonino Leonardo Accardo dropped from grade school and immediately dedicated himself into a life of organized crime. Accardo came to infamy as a hitman for Al Capone who supposedly participated in the Valentine’s Day Massacre. Never convicted ...

He started out as a theatre actor, and became a standard as a character actor in a variety of 1950s TV shows. He loved continuous movie work in the 1960s and 1970s. While attaining great success as a film actor, he never left his love for the stage. He expired ...