Semiquincentennial

DID YOU KNOW?

• In 1789, George Washington was unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. [1]
• John Marshall began his long tenure as Chief Justice of the United States in 1801. [1]
• Delegates from six Southern states formed the Confederate States of America in 1861. [1]
• The Yalta Conference, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, began in 1945. [1]
• In 2020, President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate following his impeachment. [1] 

• Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in 1913. [1]
• Feminist author and NOW co-founder Betty Friedan was born in 1921. [1]
• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
   opened in 1962. [1]
• Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in 1974. [1]
• In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the assassination of Medgar Evers. [1]
• O.J. Simpson was found civilly liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in 1997. [1] 

• Aviator Charles Lindbergh was born in 1902. [1]
• The Ford Motor Company purchased the Lincoln Motor Company in 1922. [1]
• 1938 saw the release of Disney's 
  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
   and the Broadway debut of Our Town. [1]
• Superman first appeared in 
  Action Comics
   in 1938. [1]
• The game 
  The Sims
   launched in 2000. [1]
• In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched "
  Thefacebook
  ," the precursor to Facebook. [1] 

• The first U.S. Winter Olympic Games were held in Lake Placid, New York, in 1932. [1]
• In 2007, Tony Dungy became the first Black head coach to win the Super Bowl. [1]
• The Philadelphia Eagles won their first Super Bowl title in 2018. 

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