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Burials at sea
- Jiang ZeminJiang Zemin stood before a group of student protesters in Shanghai in 1986 and recited the Gettysburg Address in English.
- J. Robert OppenheimerJ. Robert Oppenheimer stood in a control bunker near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in the early morning hours of the 16th of July, 1945, holding a post to steady…
- Francis CrickOn his death bed, Francis Crick was editing a manuscript. "He was editing a manuscript on his death bed, a scientist until the bitter end," said his…
- Alan ShepardAlan Bartlett Shepard Jr. awoke at 01:10 on the 5th of May 1961, ate a breakfast of orange juice, a filet mignon wrapped in bacon, and scrambled eggs, then…
- Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong set his left boot on the lunar surface at 02:56 UTC on the 21st of July 1969, and said seven words that an estimated 530 million people heard…
- Francis DrakeTo the Spanish, Sir Francis Drake was El Draque, the Dragon, a pirate to be feared. To the English, he was a hero. He was the man who, between 1577 and 1580…
- Wally SchirraWally Schirra was the only astronaut to fly in all three of America's first crewed space programs: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
- Zhou EnlaiZhou Enlai stood at the center of Chinese history for more than half a century, serving as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from October…
- Zheng HeZheng He commanded ships that, by legend, were almost twice as long as any wooden vessel ever recorded, carrying hundreds of sailors across four decks.
- Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of BurmaEdwina Cynthia Annette Ashley entered the world on the 28th of November 1901 in London. Her father Wilfrid Ashley served as a Conservative member of…
- Hideki TojoHideki Tojo was awakened at 5:00 a.m. on the 8th of December 1941 and told that Japanese planes had struck the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.