Pope, a Pueblo medicine man, planned the Indian revolt against the Spanish in New Mexico in 1680.
The Pueblos and Apaches took over Santa Fe, drove out or killed Spanish settlers, and forced the Spanish to abandon New Mexico.
The Spanish recaptured Santa Fe in 1693; the revolt was not entirely crushed until 1698.
Alaska became the 49th U.S. state in 1958, Hawaii the 50th in 1959.
The 1964 resolution that gave President Johnson the right to use extensive military force in southeast Asia was approved by all of the House of Representatives and all but two members of the Senate. The two dissenting senators were Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska.
Dwight D. Eisenhower changed the name Shangri-La to Camp David in 1953, naming it after his grandson.
The most destructive air attack of World War II was not the atomic bombing of Hiroshima but the firebombing of Tokyo by 279 Superfortress bombers on March 9-10, 1945. Over 1,650 tons of incendiary bombs were dropped on the city, raising a massive firestorm and killing from 80,000 to 120,000 people. The bombing represented a…
In 1939, a night at the Essex House on Central Park South cost $6. Today, a night in the same hotel starts at $185.
Theodore Roosevelt offered a “square deal”. Franklin Delano Roosevelt offered a “new deal”. Harry Truman offered a ‘fair deal”.