BATTLE OF VERDUN- BEGINS THIS DAY 1916
The Battle of Verdun the longest and one of the costliest battles in human history began on this day in 1916. This World War I battle between the French […]
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 […]
“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. […]
KURT COBAIN- BORN 50 YEARS AGO TODAY
Kurt Cobain would have turned fifty today. Nirvana’s Cobain committed suicide nearly twenty-three years ago at the age of 27. Back in the early 90’s Cobain was hailed as […]
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