How many couples were married in the first mass wedding performed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon?
The head of the Unification Church married 2,075 couples in a mass wedding at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 1, 1982.
Only one U.S. president was never married, James Buchanan (president 1857-61).
Previous handguns before the Colt revolver could fire only once before they had to be reloaded. Samuel Colt’s invention, patented in 1835, had a six-chambered cylinder that rotated with each shot, automatically readying another bullet for firing. The Colt revolver became standard equipment on America’s western frontier.
The world’s largest employer of women is Avon Products, Inc., which, as of 1992, employed 1.5 million women throughout the world. Nearly all the women work as independent sales representatives, often known as Avon ladies. Founded in 1883 by David H. McConnell as the California Perfume Company, it became Avon Products, Inc. in 1939, a…
In 1619, a Dutch ship brought the first 20 slaves to the English colony of Virginia. How many slaves were freed after the American Civil War? About 4 million. In total, how many Africans were brought to the United States as slaves? Approximately 15 million.
Shays’s Rebellion (with the apostrophe after Shays) was named for army veteran Daniel Shays, who led an uprising against the Massachusetts state government in 1786. This action was one of a series of protests in 1786-87 by American farmers and workers throughout the young nation against state and local enforcement of tax collection and judgments…
“Embalmed beef” was a nickname for the tinned meat fed to troops at training camps during the Spanish-American War. The meat gained its nickname because it caused diseases such as typhoid fever, dysentery, and food poisoning, which eventually claimed thousands of soldiers’ lives.