The humorous fictional character Mr. Dooley was created by Chicago journalist Finley Peter Dunne was a saloon keeper.
He was based on an actual person, Jim McGarry, a Chicago barkeep.
He appeared in such satirical works as Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War (1898) and Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of His Countrymen (1899).
The baseball league was formed in 1876. Its charter members were Chicago, St. Louis, Hartford, Boston, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati. The American League was founded in 1900 and received major league status in 1901. Its charter members included Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Baltimore.
The insider stock trader Michael Milken who became the symbol of 1980s greed graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, symbol of 1960s activism, in 1968.
The Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin to the position of first postmaster general of the United States in 1775. In 1789, Samuel Osgood was named the first postmaster general under the new Constitution.
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier was the French nobleman better known to history as the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834). In 1777, at the age of 19, Lafayette came to America to volunteer in the Revolutionary War. Idealistic and adventurous, he was appointed a major-general and helped to secure military assistance from France.
The company IBM, now known as International Business Machines was originally founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company in 1911.
“Embalmed beef” was a nickname for the tinned meat fed to troops at training camps during the Spanish-American War. The meat gained its nickname because it caused diseases such as typhoid fever, dysentery, and food poisoning, which eventually claimed thousands of soldiers’ lives.