
NBC Sportscaster Al Michaels is an inductee of the Walter Cronkrite Alumni Hall of Fame at Arizona State University.

NBC Sportscaster Al Michaels is an inductee of the Walter Cronkrite Alumni Hall of Fame at Arizona State University.

In the early days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy cancelled all public events due to a “cold”. Instead, he spent five hours discussing the crisis with advisers. Vice President Lyndon Johnson also cited a cold when he cut short his trip to Hawaii to return to Washington.

Boris Yeltsin, a member of the Soviet Politburo, declared that “communism was a lie” after a visiting Houston supermarket in 1989. His visit is now an opera.

Over 300,000 flights were made between June 1948 and September 1949 from West Germany to Berlin as part of “Operation Vittles” in response to the Soviet blockade of the western part of the city.

Victoria Claflin Woodhull was the first woman in the United States to run for President as the nominee for the Equal Rights Party.

Cartoonist Thomas Nash created the elephant and donkey symbols for Republican and Democrats respectively in a cartoon for Harper’s Weekly magazine in 1874.

Socialism was once tried in the United States in the early 19th century. It failed within a few years.