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Armstrong was honoured SITTING BULL Sitting Bull wasn’t always known by this
with many awards name. At birth he was called ‘Jumping Badger’
including the Presidential SOUTH DAKOTA C. 1831-90 after his father ‘Jumping Bull’
Medal of Freedom
Along with Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull is the most famous chief of the
Lakota-Sioux tribe. A holy man turned war leader, Sitting Bull desired
peace with the new settlers but found it impossible to agree a
compromise. He refused to move onto reservations and was
instrumental in the great Native American victory at Little
Big Horn. The victory was short-lived, however, and by 1881,
the Sioux were defeated and placed on reservations. After a
NEIL ARMSTRONG brief stint appearing in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, Sitting
Bull was shot in 1890 after a struggle motivated by his
OHIO 1930-2012 rumoured connections to the Ghost Dance religious group.
Thefirstmanonthemoonwasoriginally Along with
a naval aviator before turning his attention Martin Luther “Education is our passport
King Jr, Malcolm
to NASA. Prior to the landing, Armstrong X was an
performedthefirstsuccessfuldockingoftwo inspiration tothefuture,fortomorrow
vehicles in space and would later become a to African
Americans belongstothepeoplewho
professor of Aerospace Engineering at the
University of Cincinnati. The Apollo 11 mission
will always be his defining moment, however, prepare for it today” Malcolm X
andwhenheutteredthefamouswordson24
July1969,theSpaceRacechangedforever. Malcolm X NEBRASKA 1925-1965
Born Malcolm Little, the future human rights activist got some
of his inspiration from his father, who was an avid supporter of
ANNIE OAKLEY Her aim was MarcusGarvey.Afterthedeathofhisfatherandhismother’s
so good that
emotional breakdown, Little moved back to his hometown of
Sitting Bull
OHIO 1860-1926 called Oakley Boston.ItwasherethathejoinedtheNationofIslamandchanged
Phoebe Ann Moses was a ‘Little Sure hissurnametotheiconic‘X’.Hischarismaanddrive
Shot’
complete unknown until she sawmembershipoftheNOIrocketashismessageof
starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West black supremacy appealed to the masses. By 1965, his
Show. A successful hunter from famehadbeguntotroublewhitesupremacistsand
an early age, her sharpshooting after several attempts at his life, he was shot
abilities caught the eye of George while at a speaking
legendary marksman Frank E Washington
Butler. Starring in shows with wanted to join
him, she developed the stage
name Annie Oakley and quickly the Royal Navy at
rose to star billing. With the the age of 14 but his
outbreak of World War I in 1914, mother, Mary,
Oakley offered to teach the
troops shooting skills and also stopped him
endeavoured to raise a regiment
of female volunteers.
Walt Disney
ILLINOIS 1901-66 GEORGE WASHINGTON
The man who created VIRGINIA 1732-99
the world’s most famous ThefirstpresidentoftheUnitedStatesofAmericawas
mouse started off muchmorethanjustapolitician.Bornintoawealthy
doodling sketches on his family, George’s father, Augustine, got his money from
notepad at high school. aboomingtobaccobusiness.StartingoutintheVirginia
Always an aspiring artist, Militia, Washington rose to become commander-in-chief of
Disneygothisbigbreak theColonialArmies,vanquishingtheBritishRedcoats
animating in a Kansas fromtheNewWorld.Hewasparticularlysuccessfulin
City theatre. Later moving battles at Boston, Trenton, Saratoga and Yorktown.
Disney died in 1966 but was to Hollywood, the young AftertheAmericanRevolution,Washington
alive long enough to witness the cartoonist’s stock grew oversawacountrythatwassquabblingover
firstDisneyland,whichopenedin rapidlyandhiscreation,
California in 1955 state boundaries and war debt payments. AtrueiconoftheUSA,
Mickey Mouse, began a Theonlypresidenttobeunanimously Washington was a
driving force in getting
tidal wave of success. The short Steamboat Willie kick- voted into power, his death plunged thecountryoffits knees
startedDisney’scareerandheneverlookedback,asthe the young nation into mourning. after a long push for
all-conqueringentertainmentindustrytookovertheworld. independence © NASA

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