Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was a lawyer,
planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh
president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before his
presidency, he gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and
served in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
General Jackson
Andrew Jackson Monument Statue in Nashville,
Tennessee.
On March 15, 1968, construction started on the north tunnel of
the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnel on Interstate 70 in
Colorado, some 60 miles west of Denver.
Located at an elevation of more than 11,000 feet, the project was
an engineering marvel and became the world’s highest vehicular
tunnel when it was completed in 1979. Four months after opening,
one million vehicles had passed through the tunnel; today, some
10 million vehicles drive through it each year.
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Juliette Gordon Low
(October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927)
Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of Girl Scouts
of the USA. Inspired by the work of Lord Baden-Powell,
founder of Scout Movement, she joined the Girl Guide
movement in England, forming her own group of Girl
Guides there in 1911.
In 1912 she returned to the States, and the same year
established the first U.S. Girl Guide troop in Savannah,
Georgia. In 1915, the United States’ Girl Guides became
known as the Girl Scouts, and Juliette Gordon Low was
fhe first ever leader. She remained active until the time
of her death.
On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States.
In his famous inaugural address, delivered outside the
east wing of the U.S. Capitol, Roosevelt outlined his
“New Deal”, an expansion of the federal government
as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare
and told Americans that “the only thing we have to fear
is fear itself.”
