Who was the first U.S. president to speak over the radio?
Warren G. Harding was the first president to speak over the radio, on June 14, 1922.
Technically, the first president of the United States was not George Washington, but John Hanson of Maryland. In 1781, Hanson began a one-year term as the first “president of the United States in Congress assembled” under the Articles of Confederation. Seven other men served as president before Washington, technically, the ninth president, took office in…
The United Nations occupied four sites, three of them in New York. The first regular session of the General Assembly was held in October 1945 at Central Hall in London. The United Nations then moved to Hunter College in the Bronx, before establishing interim headquarters at Lake Success on Long Island in August 1946. The…
Roman citizens wore the woolen garment called the toga when they were in public. There were three types of togas: the toga pieta, embroidered with golden stars and worn by emperors and victorious generals; the toga virilis, the unadorned white toga worn by males fifteen and older; and the toga praetexta, bordered in purple and…
Unofficial studies of field reports indicate that about 4,500 men died in battle and over 6,000 were wounded in the American Revolution. Illness also took a large but indeterminate number. At Valley Forge, for example, illness claimed over 3,000 lives.
Ronald Reagan, at 69 in 1980 and at 73 in 1984, was the oldest man to be elected president.
The doomed whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) was named for the Pequot tribe of Connecticut, massacred by English colonists in 1637. Melville said the “celebrated tribe” was “now extinct as the ancient Medes.”