‘THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY’- ALI-FRAZIER I- MARCH 8TH, 1971
Forty-six years ago today- “The Fight of the Century”- the Boxing Heavyweight Championship of the World- Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier. In the fifty years I have been a sports […]
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TWENTY-SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION RATIFIED-THIS DAY 1951
On this day in 1951 the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified limiting a U.S. President to two terms. The amendment was passed on March 21st, 1947 […]
PRESIDENT-ELECT ABRAHAM LINCOLN ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON, D.C.-THIS DAY 1861
On this day in 1861 President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived in Washington, D.C. Inauguration Day would be on March 4th, 1861. Abraham Lincoln had left Springfield, Illinois by train heading east […]
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 […]
RANKING THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES #31 THE23RD POTUS BENJAMIN HARRISON
On the countdown of the Presidents of the United States from Worst to First we are at #31 the 23rd POTUS, Benjamin Harrison. Benjamin Harrison was born in North Bend, […]
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 […]
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