The Merrimac was not the ironclad ship fought the Monitor during the Civil War.
The Union ship Merrimac had been renamed the Virginia by the Confederates.
The Virginia fought the Union ironclad Monitor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862.
The battle ended in a draw.
At the outset of President George Washington’s first term (1789-93), they were: Thomas Jefferson—Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton—Secretary of the Treasury Henry Knox—Secretary of War Edmund Randolph—Attorney General
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first woman in the U.S. to receive an M.D. degree. She received her degree in 1849 from Geneva Medical College in New York.
Mary Quant, co-owner (with her husband Alexander Plunket Greene) of the boutique Bazaar in Chelsea, London, is credited with inventing the miniskirt. Quant, “the mother of the miniskirt,” premiered the new fashion item at Bazaar in 1965.
H. L. Mencken said, “Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy”.
Louisiana named after King Louis XIV of France, who reigned from 1643 to 1715. The entire Mississippi River Valley was named Louisiana and claimed for France by Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, in 1682.
Harvey Milk (1930-78) was the first openly homosexual candidate to be elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors. An advocate of gay rights and urban issues, Milk was elected in 1977, representing the Castro district. He was assassinated, with Mayor George Moscone, by a former supervisor on November 27, 1978.