The first members were France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. In 1958, he was 42 years old when on January 1st, the European Economic Community (Common Market) came into operation.

Since the 1880's, professional baseball had been segregated and blacks played in the 'Negro leagues'. He was the first black man to play in the Major Leagues. In 1947, when he was 31 years old, on April 15th, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, playing first base. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment. The 21st Amendment said 'The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.' Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. In 1933, by the time he was 17 years old, on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The resources managed by the National Park Service have often been referred to as the 'crown jewels' of the United States. The Park Service was charged with the dual role of 'preserving the ecological and historical integrity of the places entrusted to its management while also making them available and accessible for public use and enjoyment'. National Park Service - part of the Department of the Interior - was created by an act of Congress in August. In 1916, in the year that Edward W Leeman was born, the U.S. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Edward's lifetime.

El Cerrito by Edward Staniford