Questions:
1) Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor of England was a happy Prince on April 9, 2005. Why?
2) In the film The Right Stuff, who played test pilot Chuck Yeager?
3) Who did the United States make an honorary citizen on this date in 1963?
4) What was the name of the plane Charles Lindbergh flew during his famed solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927?
Answers:
1) At long last, he married Camilla Parker-Bowles.
2) Sam Shepard.
3) British statesman Sir Winston Churchill. As of 2008, six people have had this honor bestowed upon them, three during their lifetime. They were: (1) Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (or Lafayette), a French general in the American Revolution (On 28 December 1784 the Maryland General Assembly honored Lafayette. He was made an honorary citizen of Maryland again in 1823 as well as of Connecticut the same year. He was also recognized as an honorary citizen in a 2002 joint congressional resolution); (2) Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II (posthumously 1963); (3) Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat who rescued Jews in the Holocaust (posthumously 1981); (4) William Penn, 17th and 18th century proprietor and governor of the American colony of Pennsylvania (posthumously 1984); (5) Hannah Callowhill Penn, second wife of William Penn and administrator of Pennsylvania (posthumously 1984); and (6) Mother Teresa, Albanian Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in India (1996).
4) The Spirit of Saint Louis.
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