“Make-Believe Ballroom” was a long-lived program of American popular music and ballroom music on New York radio station WNEW-AM.
Begun in 1934 by announcer Martin Block, it ran until WNEW-AM went off the air on December 11, 1992.
It was known for popularizing big band, swing, and jazz, and for its distinctive announcers, such as William B. Williams.
Andrew Jackson said, “After eight years as president, I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun”.
Newspaper columnist Bob Greene is credited with first writing the term “yuppie” in a column in March 1983. The derisive term for “young urban professionals” became widespread by 1984.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, was written by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974). Delivered on May 17, 1954, it was one of the first of several major decisions of the Warren Court, which lasted from 1953 to 1969.
The first in this series of musical shows The Ziegfeld Follies staged by producer Florenz Ziegfeld was “The Follies of 1907.” Combining European style and American topical humor, the show was such a hit that Ziegfeld followed it with 21 annual editions of The Ziegfeld Follies. Famous alumni include Will Rogers, Ruth Etting, Eddie Cantor,…
The acute pneumonia called Legionnaires’ disease is caused by a bacterium of the genus Legionella. The disease made headlines (and got its name) when it killed 29 people at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia, July 21-24, 1976. The causative agent was found a year later.
Only once has the U.S. national debt been fully paid off, in 1835 and 1836, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. This was the only time any modern nation has eliminated its national debt.