Rear Admiral Alden, born in Portland, Me., March 31st, 1810, died in San Francisco, Cal., February 6th, 1877. He was appointed midshipman in 1828, and in that capacity accompanied the Wilkes Exploring Expedition around the world in...

CNN briefly covers two earthquakes in Chile which occurred a few weeks after the devastating earthquake on February 27, 2010.

Charles Lee (February 6, 1732 - October 2, 1782) was a British soldier turned Virginia planter who was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.

DeWitt Clinton (March 2, 1769 - February 11, 1828) was an early American politician who served as United States Senator and Governor of New York. In this last capacity he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal.

James Oglethorpe (1/2/22/1696 - 6/30/1785) was a British general, a philanthropist and was the founder of the colony of Georgia. A social reformer in England, he hoped to resettle England's poor, especially those in debtors prison, in...

James Harrison Wilson (September 2, 1837 - February 23, 1925) was a United States Army topographic engineer, a Union Army General in the American Civil War and later wars, a railroad executive, and author.

A French general who served under Napoleon. He was born on February 14, 1763 and died on September 2, 1813.

John Dickinson (November 2, 1732 - February 14, 1808) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware.

Peter Jan Beckx (February 8, 1795, Sichem, Belgium - March 4, 1887, Rome, Italy) was a Belgian Jesuit, elected 22nd Superior-General of the Society of Jesus. The Duke and Duchess of Anhalt-Kothen converted to Catholicism in 1825 and...

Thomas Holliday Hicks (September 2, 1798 - February 14, 1865) was an American politician from Maryland. He served as Governor of Maryland from 1858 until 1862, and as a U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1862 until his death in 1865.