Among those who lost their lives that day was Davy Crockett, an American pioneer, soldier, trapper, explorer, and Congress man._-_USNWR.jpg)
President Jimmy Carter is pictured shaking hands with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Manachem Begin on the White House lawn after the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty on March 26, 1979.
When the Statue of Liberty was completed in France and ready to be shipped to the United States, it was disassembled into 300 pieces and packed in 214 wooden crates, arriving in New York on June 17, 1886. The torch alone, which was displayed in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial, required 21 crates for shipping.
Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, pictured above in 1953, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901. The grandson of slaves, he grew up in poverty in the rough neighborhoods of New Orleans. Despite his surroundings, the love of music eventually led him to a career that would see him described by some as the greatest musician ever. On July 6, 1971, Louis Armstrong died of a heart attack at the age of 69.
At 10:35 am on December 17, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made history by flying their aircraft 120 feet in 12 seconds.
