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4 days ago · George W. Bush's tenure as the 43rd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2001, and ended on January 20, 2009. Bush, a Republican from Texas, took office following his narrow Electoral College victory over Democratic incumbent vice president Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election, in which he lost the popular vote to Gore by 543,895 votes.
23 hours ago · Sir Edward Richard George Heath, född 9 juli 1916 i Broadstairs, Kent, död 17 juli 2005 i Salisbury, Wiltshire, mest känd som Ted Heath, var en brittisk konservativ politiker. Han var premiärminister 1970–1974 och ledare för det konservativa partiet från 1965 till 1975. Heath var också parlamentsledamot i 51 år från 1950 till 2001 ...
2 days ago · One of the greatest African players of all time, George Weah was, like his namesake George Best before him, hamstrung in World Cup terms by hailing from a global minnow. — Scott Murray writing for The Guardian on Weah's "stand-alone effort" to get his nation to a World Cup.
1 day ago · George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American politician and historian who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.
1 day ago · Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.
23 hours ago · George William Coleman, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Fall River (2003–2014). [ 582 ] Júlio Sarmento da Costa , 64, East Timorese politician, MP (2017–2018).
3 days ago · George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
