MIRACLE ON ICE- U.S.A. 4 U.S.S.R.3- “DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?”
I have been a sports fan for over fifty years now. The greatest event of my fandom took place on this date in 1980. I can’t believe it was thirty-seven […]
Category Archives: American History
ONLY NIXON COULD GO TO CHINA
On this day in 1972 President Richard Milhous Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon arrived in China. This would have been unthinkable several years earlier. Nixon made his career on […]
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT “HAMILTON?”
In 2001 David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize winning “John Adams” and the HBO mini-series based on the book brought a lot of renewed interest in one of the great somewhat forgotten […]
“GODSPEED, JOHN GLENN”-JOHN GLENN BECOMES THE FIRST AMERICAN ASTRONAUT TO ORBIT THE EARTH ON FRIENDSHIP 7- 55 YEARS AGO TODAY.
On this date 55 years ago astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth when he piloted his Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 around the earth three times. […]
F.D.R.’S DARKEST MOMENT-EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066. THIS DAY 1942.
On this day in 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which was used mostly to relocate and intern people of Japanese ancestry, including American born citizens. There were […]
NEW YORK MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN’S TAKING ON PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
An interesting, lengthy article on The Maverick-Senator John McCain and his taking on President Donald J. Trump- from the latest New York Magazine. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/john-mccain-takes-on-donald-trump.html
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