Who was the first U.S. president to ride in an automobile to his inauguration?
Warren G. Harding was the first president to ride in an automobile to his inauguration, on March 4, 1921.
George Bush said, “Fluency in English is something that I’m not often accused of”, in a toast to Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto at a White House dinner on June 6, 1989.
The American-born dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), long an advocate of radical politics, went to Moscow in 1921 at the invitation of Anatoly Lunacharsky, Soviet commissar of enlightenment. In Moscow, she founded a school and married poet Sergei Essenin.
In November 1775, the Continental Congress advised that a regiment have eight companies of 91 officers and men apiece, for a total of 728. The actual size of the regiments varied per state.
Roosevelt had polio in August 1921, when he was 39. By that time, he had been assistant secretary of the navy, a vice presidential nominee (in 1920), and a member of the New York State Senate.
Legend claims that when sentenced to death in 1776 by the British for spying, Nathan Hale proclaimed, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” But British officer Captain Frederick Mackenzie reports in his diaries that Hale said, “It is the duty of every good officer to obey any…
Bill Clinton was born in the small town of Hope, Arkansas, but was raised in the city of Hot Springs from the age of four.