Al Gore was born on 31 March 1948 in Washington, D.C.. An American politician from Tennessee, Gore served in the House of Representatives and Senate before becoming vice president under Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. He was an early advocate of high-speed information networks and environmental protection. In the 2000 presidential election he won the national popular vote but lost the Electoral College to George W. Bush after a disputed recount in Florida that was ended by the Supreme Court. Afterwards he focused on climate change, appearing in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Before and after
- 28 February 1948Birth of Steven Chu
- 7 March 1948Founding of Nea Salamis Famagusta FC
- 9 March 1948Death of Edgar de Wahl
- 20 March 1948Birth of John de Lancie
- 31 March 1948Birth of Al Gore
- from 3 April 1948 to 1 December 1951Marshall Plan
- 7 April 1948Founding of World Health Organization
- 9 April 1948Deir Yassin massacre
- 13 April 1948Hadassah medical convoy massacre
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