American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson originated the phrase “the shot heard round the world” in his poem “Concord Hymn” (1836).
The poem memorialized the Battle of Lexington and Concord of 1775, the first battle of the War of Independence.
Super Bowl XII was played in the Superdome in New Orleans on January 15, 1978. Dallas beat Denver 27 to 10. The largest arena in human history, the Superdome covers 13 acres and reaches a height of 27 stories.
On the July 2, 1938, flight during which Amelia Earhart disappeared, the aviatrix was traveling from New Guinea to Howland Island, in the Pacific. In June 1928, Earhart had become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, one year after Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight. Earhart’s remains were never found.
Orville made the first flight in the airplane built by him and his brother Wilbur, on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The 12-horsepower biplane covered 120 feet in 12 seconds.
The comic book superhero Superman died fighting the villain Doomsday in Superman No. 75, the January 1993 issue that went on sale on November 11, 1992.
The founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers was, like his father, a cigar maker. The English immigrant reshaped the Cigar Makers International Union before founding the AFL in 1886.
Manhattan is 13.4 miles long, 2.3 miles across at its widest point, and 22.5 square miles in area.