Alp Arslan (1029-1072) was the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1063 to 1072, succeeding Tughril Beg and preceding Malik Shah. Alp Arlsan was the ruler who defeated the Byzantine Empire at the decisive Battle of Manzikert in 1071 and extended Seljuk rule to Armenia, Georgia, and Turkey.
Charles III Known as an enlightened despot, Charles III (1716-1788) was king of Spain from 1759 to 1788. His reign was marked by economic progress and political stability and is usually considered one of the greatest in Spanish history.
Petrus Jacobus Joubert (20 January 1831 – 28 March 1900), better known as Piet Joubert, was Commandant-General of the South African Republic from 1880 to 1900.[1] He also served as Vice-President to Paul Kruger from 1881 – 1883.[2] He served in First Boer War, Second Boer War, and the Malaboch War.
Charles White Whittlesey (born January 20, 1884; disappeared November 26, 1921) was a United States Army Medal of Honor recipient who led the “Lost Battalion” in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive during World War I. On November 26, 1921, he committed suicide by drowning en route to Havana at age 37.
Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 â 9 June 1944) was an English poet noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. (1930-), better known as “Buzz,” was part of the Apollo 11 mission that first put a man on the moon. The son of a U.S. Air Force colonel, Aldrin became a top student at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point before a decorated stint as a fighter pilot during the Korean War. He was among the first NASA astronauts tapped for the nascent space program, and his historic Apollo 11 mission with Neil Armstrong in 1969 was televised to an estimated 600 million viewers. Aldrin later returned to the Air Force in a managerial role and developed spacecraft systems, writing an autobiography and publishing several additional books.
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