What was the first movie shown in the White House?
D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation in 1916 was the first movie shown in the White House.
Woodrow Wilson was president at the time.
Eight countries are currently known or suspected to have nuclear weapons. They are: China, France, India, Israel, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The fabled district “Storyville” of New Orleans got its name from Alderman Sidney Story. In 1897, he moved the city’s illegal activities, such as gambling and prostitution, into a restricted district along Basin Street, next to the French Quarter. Storyville flourished until 1917, when the secretary of the Navy had it closed down to protect…
The first installment plan in American business was introduced by Isaac Singer’s partner Edward Clark in 1856. Customers could buy a sewing machine for five dollars down, paying the rest in monthly installments of three to five dollars, including interest. Singer was criticized for charging high interest, but the company’s sales took off. In 1857,…
Needle Park, the infamous hangout in New York for addicts and dealers in the 1960s and 1970s was Verdi Square Park. It is named for the Italian composer, and occupies a triangular area between Seventy-second and Seventy-third Streets at Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
The speed limit in New York City is thirty miles per hour on the streets, 50 miles per hour on the highways, except where otherwise noted.
Two Philadelphia-based political periodicals, both published in February 1741, share the honor of being the first magazine created in America. One was the American Magazine, or A Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies, published by Andrew Bradford. The other was the General Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, For all the British Plantations,…