The College Board first administered the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) in June 1926.
More than 8,000 applicants took the test, most of them applicants to elite colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
The test, intended to help predict subsequent academic performance, was modeled on intelligence tests administered by the U.S. Army in World War I.
In the early 20th century, these three Chicago Cubs filled the following infield positions: Joe Tinker, shortstop; Johnny Evers, second base; Frank Chance, first base. Their fielding, immortalized in a popular sportswriter’s phase, “Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance,” has become synonymous with crack teamwork.
Carol Moseley Braun (Democrat, Illinois), whose term began in 1993, was the first black woman senator. The first black senator was Hiram Revels of Mississippi, who served during Reconstruction, 1870-71.
After escaping from slavery in 1838, the abolitionist and black leader Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-95) took the name “Douglass” from a character in Sir Walter Scott’s narrative poem The Lady of the Lake (1810).
The motto Annuit Coeptis above the eye on the dollar bill means, “He [God] Favored Our Undertakings.” The eye represents the all-seeing deity. The pyramid symbolizes strength; it is unfinished to suggest the work ahead.
In 1800, the national debt was $83 million. In 1988, it was $2.6 trillion.
The eighth president, Martin Van Buren (1836-1844), was born on December 5, 1782, after the United States declared its independence.