The largest earthquake in American history was the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964.
The quake, on March 28, 1964, had its epicenter near Anchorage and measured a 9.2 on the Richter scale.
This is the second highest magnitude ever recorded, behind a 9.5 earthquake in Chile.
What Peter Minuit gave the Manhattoe tribe was a package of trinkets and cloth valued at 60 guilders, roughly equivalent to $24.
The song “Meet Me in St. Louis” by Andrew B. Sterling and Kerry Mills refers to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. The tune provides the leitmotif for the 1944 musical film Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland, about a St. Louis family faced with a move to New York…
About 4.7 million Americans served in the armed forces in World War I. Over three times as many, 16.1 million, served in World War II.
James K. Polk, photographed by Matthew Brady in 1849, was the first president photographed while in office. The first president of whom there is any known photograph was John Quincy Adams.
The Daughters of the American Revolution refused to rent Constitution Hall to contralto Anderson for a concert in 1938 because she was black. Appalled by this action, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, a DAR member, resigned from the organization and rallied support in Anderson’s behalf. Later that year, Roosevelt was able to arrange a performance for…
The first college to be founded in America north of Mexico was a college for young men founded by French Jesuits at Quebec in 1635. Harvard, the first college in the British colonies, was founded in 1636.