Who was the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet capital of Moscow while in office?
Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet capital of Moscow while in office in 1972.
NASCAR, headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida, was founded by William H. G. France in 1947.
Philadelphia lawyer Andrew Hamilton (c. 1676-1741), born in Scotland, was John Peter Zenger’s attorney during Zenger’s trial for seditious libel. He successfully defended the German-born editor’s right to print true accusations against the colonial governor of New York. The famous trial in 1735 was a landmark for freedom of the press.
Poet Henry Timrod (1828-67) of Charleston, South Carolina, author of “The Cotton Boll” and “Ethnogenesis” was given the title “Laureate of the Confederacy”.
Yogi Berra was born Lawrence Peter Berra in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1925. He joined the New York Yankees in 1946.
The New York City department store Bloomingdale’s owned by Lyman, Joseph, and Gustave Bloomingdale opened in 1886 at Third Avenue and 59th Street, near a station of the Third Avenue El. By 1927, Bloomingdale’s occupied the entire block, where it is located to this day.
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