The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of Europe in WW2
In 1787, a Russian statesman and former lover of Catherine the Great named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin hastily erected a number of phony “mobile villages” along the banks of the Dnieper River. ... Accurate or not, the terms “Potemkin village” and “Potemkin facade” (or simply the word “Potemkin”) have stuck.
Another election is quite recent and it happened in 2000. In the elections between Al Gore, the Democratic candidate, and George Bush, the Republican candidate, the popular vote went to Al Gore, but the winner of the elections was George Bush because of the electoral votes. The elections were narrow and Florida votes were deciding on who the president would be. There was a lot of controversy and recounting and also the fact that Florida governor was Jeb Bush, George's brother, so many naturally accused them of rigging it. It went to the Supreme court and the votes were after a close struggle awarded to George Bush who became the president.
George McClellan was the general fired by Abraham Lincoln on November 2,1861
Alfred Wegener because Alfred Wegener first presented his hypothesis to the German Geological Society on January 6, 1912.
