Electric lights were first used for a baseball game between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis teams on May 28, 1883, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
James Chaney, 21, Andrew Goodman, 21, and Michael Schwerner, 25, were the names of the three civil rights workers murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. Goodman and Schwemer were white students from New York who had come to Mississippi to help in the “Freedom Summer” voter registration project. Chaney was a black Mississippian….
The warning “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal” appeared in the 1968 report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which was headed by Illinois governor Otto Kerner. President Johnson appointed Kerner to investigate the causes of over 100 ghetto riots that took place in the…
Peggy Noonan created the phrase “a thousand points of light”, in a speech she wrote for presidential nominee George Bush at the 1988 Republican Convention.
Two U.S. presidents are buried in Arlington National Cemetery: William Howard Taft and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The man who had been expelled from Harvard, William Randolph Hearst, bought or started 42 newspapers. Only a handful remained by the time of his death in 1951.