The Kentucky Derby, the Preakness (begun at Pimlico, Baltimore, in 1873), and the Belmont (begun in 1867 at Jerome Park, New York; now held in Belmont Park, New York) make up the Triple Crown.
Sir Barton in 1919 first won the Triple Crown.
The independent political party the Mugwumps was comprised of Republicans who wanted to band together to demonstrate support for the Democratic candidate for the 1884 election, Grover Cleveland. They remained active in presidential politics through 1892. The word mugwump was a slang term for “kingpin.”
The Virginia dynasty were four of the first five presidents, all from Virginia: George Washington (served 1789-97) Thomas Jefferson (served 1801-09) James Madison (served 1809-17) James Monroe (served 1817-25) John Adams of Massachusetts (served 1797-1801) was the only one of the first five presidents not from Virginia. His son John Quincy Adams broke the hold…
Margaret Brent, who demanded the right to vote in Maryland’s colonial assembly in 1647, was the first known suffragette in American history.
Only one U.S. president was never married, James Buchanan (president 1857-61).
The first public showing of a motion picture in the U.S. took place on April 23, 1896, at New York’s Koster & Bial Music Hall on 34th Street and Broadway. The 12 short-subject films, projected on Thomas Edison’s Vitascope, accompanied a vaudeville show. Previously, Edison’s films could only be viewed peep-show style on his Kinetoscope…
National Airlines began the first domestic jet airliner passenger service in the U.S. on December 10, 1958, between New York and Miami.