More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962
This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929
This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands
This alumnus of Plato's Academy went on to found his own school, the Lyceum
In 1946, hours before he was to be hanged, this 2nd highest-ranking Nazi official took his own life
Stricken by leprosy, this Belgian Roman Catholic missionary died on the island of Molokai in 1889
One of the newer large cities in the world, it's located in the central plateau of Brazil
In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea
In the Kennedy assassination, a bullet struck John Connally, the governor of this state
In 1779 this Pennsylvania city was a state capital as well as the national capital