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Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister ...
Website. www .jacksongov .org. Jackson County is located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri, on the border with Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 717,204. [1] making it the second-most populous county in the state (after St. Louis County in the east). [2] [3]
Freeman was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. [3] He is the son of Mamie Edna (née Revere; 1912–2000), a teacher, [4] and Morgan Porterfield Freeman (July 6, 1915 – April 27, 1961), [2] a barber, who died of cirrhosis in 1961. [5] He has three older siblings. [6] Some of Morgan's great-great-grandparents were enslaved people who ...
Pierce Brosnan. Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish [a] actor and film producer. He was the fifth actor to play the fictional secret agent James Bond in the James Bond film series, starring in four films from 1995 to 2002 ( GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day) and in multiple video ...
Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas. [10] She was the youngest child of Marcella Ofelia Quintanilla (née Samora), who self-identified as being of Cherokee ancestry, [11] and Abraham Quintanilla Jr., a Mexican American former musician. [12]
Columbia Correctional Institution, Portage, Wisconsin. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer ( / ˈdɑːmər /; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, [4] was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991. [5]
Murder with malice (2 counts, murdered before trial) On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie ...
The Jackson 5, [a] later the Jacksons, is an American pop band composed of members of the Jackson family. The group was founded in 1964 in Gary, Indiana, and originally consisted of brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael. They were managed by their father Joe Jackson. [1] [4] [2] [3] The group were among the first African American ...