Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (May 2, 1892 – April 21, 1918)

Baron Von Richthofen is best known as “The Red Baron”, a German
fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World 
War I. He is considered the top ace of that war, being officially
credited with 80 air combat victories, more than any other pilot.

He remains quite possibly the most widely-known fighter pilot of all 
time, and has been the subject of many books and films. 

Snoopy’s imaginary battles against the Red Baron began in the comic
strip in October 1965.

 
Francis Gary Powers by his Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane  

  
U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, center, in Moscow’s Hall of Columns during
the opening of his espionage trial.

The U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War presidency of Dwight Eisenhower
and the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States
U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers (above) was shot down over the
airspace of the Soviet Union.

The U.S.government at first denied the plane’s purpose and mission, but then
was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet
government produced the remains of the downed aircraft and it’s surviving
pilot along with photos of Russian military bases taken by Powers.

On August 17, 1960, Powers was convicted of espionage against the Soviet
Union and was sentenced to a total of 10 years, three years in imprisonment
followed by seven years of hard labor. On February 10, 1962, Powers was
exchanged along with American student Frederic Pryor in a spy swap for
Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher.

U-2 wreckage captured in the Soviet Union

The General Grant National Memorial, known as Grant’s Tomb, is a mausoleum containing the bodies of Civil War General and 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826-1902). It is located
in the Riverside Park area of Manhattan in New York City. The U.S. National Park
Service conducted a groundbreaking ceremony on April 27, 1891. The structure was
completed in time for the 75th anniversary of Grant’s birth on April 27, 1897. The
tomb is the second largest mausoleum in the Western Hemisphere.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

 
Historical marker on the South lawn, Indiana State House at Indianapolis.

Lincoln’s body (above) departed Washington in a nine-car funeral train. The 1,700-
mile trip back to Illinois was essentially over the same tracks that carried the then 
President- elect east in 1861. Cities along the route that hold funeral processions 
included Philadelphia, New York City, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago. 

The locomotive Nashville of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad pulled the Lincoln funeral train.

The American Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775 as a war between the
Kingdom of Great Britain and the thirteen British colonies in North America, and
ended in September 3, 1783 following a global war between several European
great powers, such as conflicts in India and West Africa between Great Britain
and France. It resulted around the unconstitutionality of the Stamp Act of 1765,
imposed by the Parliament of Great Britain on the colonists. The colonists felt
it was taxation without representation and was illegal. They soon formed a
unifying Continental Congress.