4.Ledger was born in 1979 in Perth, in western Australia, to a miningengineer and a French teacher, and got his first acting role playing Peter Pan at age 10 at a local theater company.
5.When United States voters elected Herbert Hoover, who had established a worldwide reputation as miningengineer, writer, and war-relief administrator, 31st president in 1928, the country was enjoying an industrial and financial boom.