For what U.S. periodical was Karl Marx a correspondent?
In the 1860s, Karl Marx wrote about politics in Europe for the U.S. periodical the New York Tribune.
In Ronald Reagan’s first job after college, the future president (served 198189) broadcasted play-by-play accounts of major league baseball games from Station WHO in Des Moines, Iowa.
Peggy Noonan created the phrase “a thousand points of light”, in a speech she wrote for presidential nominee George Bush at the 1988 Republican Convention.
It was in 44 B.C. that Julius Caesar was assassinated. The date was March 15, the Ides of March.
The first petroleum well was dug by American railway conductor Edwin L. Drake on August 28, 1859, at Titusville in western Pennsylvania. Kerosene for lamps was the first product to be refined from oil; gasoline did not become important until the development of the internal combustion engine in the 1880s and ’90s.
The colorful, demagogic Huey Long (1893-1935), nicknamed the “Kingfish,” governed Louisiana from 1928 to 1932, when he resigned to enter the U.S. Senate. Elected in 1930, he deferred his entry into the Senate until 1932. He stayed there until he was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1935. His wife finished his term.
U.S. military expenditures during Reagan’s first term totalled $1.5 trillion dollars. Between 1981 and 1986, the U.S. national debt doubled, expanding from $1 trillion to $2 trillion.