What was the leading career choice of Harvard M.B.A. graduates in 1976 and in 1986?
In the mid-1970s, the leading career choice for Harvard M.B.A. graduates was manufacturing.
Ten years later, it was investment banking.
During World War I (1917-18), Franklin Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the Navy.
The subject of the 1840s folk song “On Top of Old Smoky” is one of the peaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains, located near Asheville, North Carolina.
In 1992, the average annual salary of a major league baseball player was $1,014,947. Currently, the highest paid player is Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants at $7.3 million.
Not until the 23rd Amendment was ratified in 1961, were the residents of Washington, D.C., allowed to vote in presidential elections.
The Merrimac was not the ironclad ship fought the Monitor during the Civil War. The Union ship Merrimac had been renamed the Virginia by the Confederates. The Virginia fought the Union ironclad Monitor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862. The battle ended in a draw.
In 1920, the Yankees paid the Boston Red Sox $125,000 for the Babe.