When did crack first appear in the U.S.?
The inexpensive, crystallized cocaine called crack was first noted in urban areas on the west coast of America in 1983.
The official name of the Statue of Liberty is “Liberty Enlightening the World.” A gift from France, the statue was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated in New York harbor in 1886.
The TV special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” appeared first, in December 1964. “Charlie Brown” followed in 1965. Since then, both have appeared annually at Christmas time on CBS.
Wisconsin’s Victor Berger, elected in 1911, was the first Socialist elected to the U.S. Senate.
In its nine years of existence (1933-42), the employment program for men between 18 and 24 called the Civilian Conservation Corps put over 2 million men to work conserving and developing the country’s natural resources.
The Catholic anarchist and pacifist newspaper The Catholic Worker founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin has been published since May 1933. The cost, then and now, is one cent per copy.
The renowned American painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910) worked for Harper’s Weekly during the Civil War. One of his first important paintings, Prisoners from the Front in 1866, drew on this experience.