The amusement park Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, on July 17, 1955.
Its original size was 200 acres.
Much bigger than Disneyland, Disney World opened near Orlando, Florida, on October 1, 1971.
The acronym EPCOT stands for the third Walt Disney amusement center stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.
It opened in 1982 as a Disney World theme park.
George Bush said, “Don’t cry for me, Argentina” not to Argentina, but to employees of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Dover, New Hampshire, on January 15, 1992. He was asking people not to feel sorry for him during his tough campaign against Pat Buchanan in the New Hampshire presidential primary.
The 4,000-mile trade route called the Silk Road joined the ancient kingdoms of China and Rome. It started in Siam, followed the Great Wall of China to the northwest, bypassed the Takla Makan Desert, crossed the Pamir Mountains, passed through Afghanistan, and ended at the Levant. Goods were then transported across the Mediterranean Sea to…
The WIN in the WIN buttons stood for Whip Inflation Now.
James K. Polk, who served as Speaker of the House from 1835 to 1839, was sworn in as president in 1845. Polk served one term, leaving office in 1849.
The first labor union in America was the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (shoemakers), formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1794.
The first major conflict against Indians in New England was the Pequot War against the Pequot Indians of Connecticut in 1637. In the bloodiest encounter of the war, English colonists burned a Pequot village near Long Island Sound, killing hundreds of Indian men, women, and children.