In 1799 this orator was elected to VA.'s legislature but died before he could take his seat
President Ford appointed this future president director of the CIA in 1975
In 1742 James Oglethorpe won the Battle of Bloody Marsh & virtually ended this country's threat to Georgia
In 1960 he quipped, "Mr. Nixon dismissed me as 'another Truman'...I consider him another Dewey"
When this general died in 1863, Robert E. Lee wrote, "I know not how to replace him"
In December 1989 U.S. troops launched Operation Just Cause to capture this Panamanian gen.
In 1945 he declared Indonesia's independence & became its first president
On July 27, 1953 the armistice to end this war was signed at Panmunjom
From 1931-33 excavations in this country uncovered the palaces of Kings Darius & Xerxes
This 1777 document said, "The stile of this confederacy shall be 'The United States of America'"