The first commercially available oral contraceptive “pill” was introduced in August 1960, by Chicago-based pharmaceutical company G. D. Searle.
It contained synthetic progesterone and estrogen and was named Enovid 10.
According to median income figures for 1990, women with four years of college make 72 percent of what their male counterparts make. Women who are high school graduates make 67 percent of what their male counterparts make.
During World War I (1917-18), Franklin Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the Navy.
The illustrations of fashionable, modern women of the 1890s were named for the artist who drew them for popular magazines, Charles Dana Gibson. Gibson’s drawings helped to establish a new standard of American beauty at the turn of the 19th century.
The British fort, captured by the French in 1757 during the French and Indian War, was located in New York near Lake George. Where was Fort McHenry? The fort that withstood British bombardment during the War of 1812 was on the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland. Where was Fort Henry? The Confederate stronghold captured by…
Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan’s first wife (married 1940, divorced 1948), is Maureen Reagan’s mother. Nancy Davis Reagan (married 1952) is her stepmother.
The initial jewel in the Triple Crown known as the Kentucky Derby was first held in 1875 at Churchill Downs.