Asia – North Korea
Francisco Macias Nguema (1924-1979)
Francisco Macias Nguema was the first president of Equatorial Guinea. He was born on January 1, 1924 in the village...
Rudolph “Val” Archer (1929-2020)
Tuskegee Airman Rudolph “Val” Archer was born in Woodlawn, a South Side neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois on April 13, 1929...
William Jones (1918-2009)
William Jones, one of the last Buffalo Soldiers, was also a U.S. Army Master Sergeant, Prisoner of War (POW) in Korea and successful entrepreneur. Jones was...
Fighting For Freedom, Fighting Against the Bomb: African Americans and the Campaign for a Nuclear-Free World, 1945-
In the description of his 2015 book, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement,...
William E. Brown, Jr. (1927- )
Lieutenant General William E. Brown, Jr. is a former United States Air Force pilot, former commander of Allied Air Forces Southern Europe and former...
Ethiopian-Somali War Over the Ogaden Region (1977–1978)
In 1977 Ethiopia and Somalia engaged in a brief territory conflict over the Ogaden region situated between and claimed by...
C. Steven McGann (1951 – )
C. Steven McGann joined the Foreign Service in 1992 and has since attained the status of Career member, Senior Foreign...
Samuel Eugene Kelly (1926-2009)
Samuel Eugene Kelly, soldier and educator, was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on January 26, 1926, to James Handy Kelly, a minister,...
Dennis Keith Rodman (1961- )
Dennis Keith Rodman, hall of fame basketball player, actor, and self-appointed political emissary, was born in on May 13, 1961...
