The future U.S. president Bill Clinton was elected governor in 1978 at the age of 32, making him the youngest person to hold that office in Arkansas history.
Two years later, he was voted out; he regained the governorship in 1982.
Clinton became president in 1993.
The humorous fictional character Mr. Dooley was created by Chicago journalist Finley Peter Dunne was a saloon keeper. He was based on an actual person, Jim McGarry, a Chicago barkeep. He appeared in such satirical works as Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War (1898) and Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of His Countrymen (1899).
The sheep at the White House were part of the war effort. In 1917, during World War I, President Wilson arranged for a small flock of sheep to graze on the White House lawn, thus freeing up the regular gardeners for military service. Although the sheep began eating more of the White House grounds than…
There were three articles recommended before Nixon’s resignation on August 8, 1974. Twenty-eight minutes after Nixon delivered his letter of resignation, Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the new president.
Born as Malcolm Little (1925-65), Malcolm X served six years in prison for burglary, beginning at age 21. While in prison, he joined the Nation of Islam and took the Muslim name El-Hajj Malik ElShabazz and the public name of Malcolm X. Malcolm became a vocal opponent of white racism and advocate for black rights….
Columbus did not realize he had discovered a new continent that would be named America, but Amerigo Vespucci, who explored the New World between 1497 and 1504, did. German mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller first applied the name to the new continent on a map published in 1507.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 250,000 AIDS cases have been reported in the U.S. and its territories as of September 30, 1992. Of those people, 160,372 have died.