The 42nd president Bill Clinton (1993— ) was born William Jefferson Blythe 4th on August 19, 1946.
His father, a traveling salesman, died in a car accident three months before he was born.
He received his new name when his mother married Roger Clinton, a car dealer, in 1950.
Calvin Coolidge’s announcement was: “I do not choose to run for president in 1928.”
The first black person to win the prize, the American statesman and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche earned the honor of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for mediating an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1949.
Mark Twain said, “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to”.
An American “Continental Navy” was established by the Second Continental Congress on October 13, 1775. It was disbanded after the War of Independence, in 1784. The first U.S. Navy was not established until April 30, 1798.
The fabled district “Storyville” of New Orleans got its name from Alderman Sidney Story. In 1897, he moved the city’s illegal activities, such as gambling and prostitution, into a restricted district along Basin Street, next to the French Quarter. Storyville flourished until 1917, when the secretary of the Navy had it closed down to protect…
Ronald Reagan, at 69 in 1980 and at 73 in 1984, was the oldest man to be elected president.