What disease was responsible for the most deadly epidemic in U.S. history?
Influenza was responsible for the most deadly epidemic in U.S. history.
An epidemic from March to November 1918 killed over 500,000 people nationwide.
Four presidents have been assassinated. Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James A. Garfield in 1881, William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy in 1963.
The pioneer of modern dance Martha Graham (1894-1991) choreographed for women from 1927 to 1938. She began her own dance troupe in 1929. Her works include Deep Song and Night Journey.
Manhattan is 13.4 miles long, 2.3 miles across at its widest point, and 22.5 square miles in area.
Super Bowl XII was played in the Superdome in New Orleans on January 15, 1978. Dallas beat Denver 27 to 10. The largest arena in human history, the Superdome covers 13 acres and reaches a height of 27 stories.
The Watts riots of 1965 lasted six days, beginning on August 12, 1965. The riot in the largely black Watts district of Los Angeles involved up to 10,000 people. Thirty-four people, most of them black, were killed. Nearly 4,000 people were arrested. Whole blocks were burned, with nearly 1,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. Damage was…
The phrase “rub out” first appeared not among gangsters in the Roaring ’20s but among the rugged fur traders and trappers of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains in the early 19th century. It came into more widespread use in World War I.