Modern scholars take a more-balanced approach that avoids the extremes of either side. Some of those charges are now regarded as excessive, the work of his enemies, and his supporters have attempted to rehabilitate him. For almost 500 years after his death, he was generally depicted as the worst and most wicked of kings. He usurped the throne of his nephew Edward V in 1483 and perished in defeat to Henry Tudor (thereafter Henry VII) at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Richard III, also called (1461–83) Richard Plantagenet, duke of Gloucester, (born October 2, 1452, Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England-died August 22, 1485, near Market Bosworth, Leicestershire), the last Plantagenet and Yorkist king of England.
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In 1991, by the time he was 34 years old, on November 7th, legendary basketball player Magic Johnson announced that he had HIV. The O-ring failure was due to the unusually cold conditions at Cape Canaveral.
The cause of the explosion was later found to be a failed O-ring. In 1986, Carey was 29 years old when on January 28th, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. Nixon releases some of the tapes, under extreme pressure because of the firings. The Solicitor General became the acting Attorney General and fired the Special Prosecutor (the Saturday Night Massacre). Nixon ordered the Attorney General, then the assistant Attorney General, to fire the Special Prosecutor. Nixon offered the recently discovered Oval Office tapes be heard by one person and summarized - his offer was rejected by the Special Prosecutor. Nixon's tax returns came under investigation. In 1973, he was 16 years old when in October, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned - President Nixon nominated Gerald Ford for Vice President. Although the operation began under Eisenhower, Kennedy approved it and the operation, named the Bay of Pigs for the beach where they landed, was a humiliation for the United States. In 1961, when he was only 4 years old, on April 17th, about 1,000 CIA trained Cuban exiles invaded Cuba with the intention of igniting a rebellion and overthrowing Castro. President Eisenhower ordered federal troops - the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army - to guard the students and allow them entry. Orval Faubus had previously prevented the students from entering the school at the beginning of the term with the Arkansas National Guard - they blocked the door. In 1957, in the year that Carey Richard Long was born, on September 24th, the "Little Rock Nine" (nine African-American students) entered Little Rock High School. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Carey's lifetime.