A chinook was a dance to summon the warm wind to melt the snow.
It also refers to the wind itself and to the Chinook people of the Columbia River valley.
“Chinook jargon” is a pidgin language based on Indian languages, French, and English, formerly spoken in the Pacific Northwest.
Beginning in August 1990, baseball’s hits leader Pete Rose served a five-month term at the federal prison at Marion, Illinois, for income tax evasion. In August 1989, baseball commissioner Ban Giamatti had banned Rose from baseball for alleged gambling on major league games.
The city of Cleveland (pop. 573,822) was named for its founder Moses Cleaveland in 1836. The city was once known as the “Forest City” because of its abundance of trees.
The initial jewel in the Triple Crown known as the Kentucky Derby was first held in 1875 at Churchill Downs.
American Revolutionary patriots Samuel (1722-1803) and John Adams (1735-1826) were cousins. John Quincy Adams (17671848) was John’s son. Two of these men served as president of the U.S.: John (served 1797-1801) and John Quincy (served 1825-29).
In 1824, the candidates the last time the presidential election went to the House of Representatives were Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay. Jackson won a plurality of both the electoral and popular votes, but not a majority in the Electoral College. In accord with the Constitution, the election was…
The two commanders-in-chief Grant and Lee met at Appomattox Court House, but that was the name of a village in Virginia, not an actual courthouse. On April 9, 1865, Ulysses S. Grant accepted Robert E. Lee’s surrender in the front parlor of a private house owned by farmer Wilmer McLean.