Notre Dame holds the honor of the most winners of the Heisman Trophy, with seven Heisman Trophy winners:
1943—Angelo Bertelli, quarterback 1947—John Lujack, quarterback
1949—Leon Hart, end
1953—John Lattner, halfback 1956—Paul Hornung, quarterback
1964—John Huarte, quarterback 1987—Tim Brown, wide receiver
During World War I (1917-18), Franklin Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the Navy.
Yes, there really was a John Deere. In 1839, he invented the steel plow, which, along with Cyrus McCormick’s 1834 invention, the reaper, changed the face of American agriculture.
The 32,000-ton liner the Lusitania sunk by a German submarine on May 6, 1915, was British. Of the 1,200 passengers who lost their lives, 128 were Americans, a fact that aroused strong anti-German feeling in the U.S.
Margaret Jones of Charlestown, Massachusetts, was the first person executed for witchcraft in America, on June 15, 1648. This was nearly five decades before the Salem witch trials of 1692– 93.
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.
Located in Wyoming, Teapot Dome was one of two naval oil reserve sites improperly leased in 1922 to private oil companies by Albert B. Fall, President Harding’s secretary of the interior. After the scandal broke in 1923, Fall paid a heavy fine and served a year in prison for bribery. The other oil reserve site…