George Washington was born in Virginia's Westmoreland County on this day in 1732. When his father died in 1743, George moved to Mount Vernon to live with his half brother, later inheriting that estate. He learned surveying, worked in the frontier...
Oliver Cromwell was born at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England on this day in 1599. Educated at Huntingdon Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he returned home to marry and served a term in Parliament before a conflict with the gentry...