Coors Field, home to the Colorado Rockies of the MLB, has earned a reputation as a hitter’s park, due to the effect of Denver’s high elevation and semi-arid climate on the distances of batted balls. To combat this, the outfield fences were positioned farther away from home plate and baseballs used in the park have been pre-stored in humidors.
Despite all this, on September 17, 1996, Hideo Nomo of the Los Angeles Dodgers threw the first of his two career no-hit games as the Dodgers won 9–0.
Submarines of the Los Angeles class of nuclear fast attack submarines, first entering U.S. Navy service in the Bicentennial year of 1976, are almost all named after American cities and towns. However, the USS Hyman G. Rickover was named instead for the “Father of the Nuclear Navy.”
Bicentennial Minutes was a series of one-minute history programs, which ran nightly, during prime time, on the CBS television network from July 4, 1974 until December 31, 1976. Each segment was narrated by a different celebrity (often an actor from a CBS show), and led off with the phrase, “Two hundred years ago today,” then detailed an event, germaine to the American Revolution, which had occurred on that day.
The More You Know is a series of public service announcements (PSAs) broadcast on the NBCUniversal family of networks in the United States and other locations, featuring educational messages.
In November 1906, Theodore Roosevelt became the first President to leave the United States while in office, visiting the Panama Canal while it was still being dug.
When Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin Roosevelt, her father was deceased and so her uncle,Theodore Roosevelt, President at the time, gave her away.
Following the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, President Kennedy asked Eleanor Roosevelt to join several male statesmen in traveling to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro, for the purpose of securing releases for captured Americans.
“What If?” was a series of sketches during the fourth season (1978-79) of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. It was presented as a faux-documentary series, to answer “what if?” questions about world history, which had been posed by a ten-year-old boy.
Episodes and premises included “What if Superman grew up in Germany instead of the United States?”, “What if Napoleon had a B-52 bomber at Waterloo?”, and “What if Eleanor Roosevelt could fly?”
The first female B-52 pilot was Kelly Flinn from St. Louis MO. When she left Air Force service she became a pilot for TWA.
In New York City, the TWA Flight Center at JFK airport was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. Saarinen wanted the design to have a practical purpose to “interpret the sensation of flying”, to “express the drama and specialness and excitement of travel” and to strive for the “spirit of flight" to be encapsulated in the design.
The TWA Flight Center was completed by 1962. By 1965, Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St. Louis MO was completed. Sadly, Saarinen passed in 1961.
The TWA Flight Center has been converted into an on-site hotel at JFK airport. It opened in May 2019, with 512 rooms, several bars and restaurants, conference space, an observation deck, and a cocktail lounge installed inside a preserved Lockheed L-1649 Starliner.
(I’ve eaten at the restaurant, and it’s a cool building!)
JFK was the first Catholic person to serve as President of the United States; Joe Biden is the second. Looks like we’re going to be 0-2 for second-term Catholic POTUSes.
Biden and Trump are the most recent presidents to be elected, and serve a single, full term, consecutively. The last time that occurred was 1888 and 1892, for presidents Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland. However, Cleveland was elected the previous cycle (1884), so the next previous presidents are Franklin Pierce (1852) and James Buchanan (1856). There have been no other presidents who were elected, and served a single full term, consecutively.
There have been 23 single term POTUSes.
Not in play:
Does this count include Biden?
The acronym POTUS, for “President of the United States,” was apparently first coined in 1879, in a book of codes for use in telegraph communications.
By the 1940s, the term was often used in governmental circles in reference to the President, and grew into general use by the 1960s. Similar acronyms which are also widely used include FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States) and SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States).
No. He is not yet a single term President although he will soon join those ranks.
Former American Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby became an actor after she retired from gymnastics at the age of 20. In the mid-1970s, she shattered an old taboo by appearing in a series of TV commercials for Stayfree maxi pads. She thereby became the first celebrity lady to endorse a feminine hygiene product.
(Of course she’s a lady but I had to insert that for my play to work.)
Eleanor Rigby was one of 14 tracks on the 1966 album Revolver, which was released by the Beatles on the 5th of August that year. The song was also released as a single the same day; the flip side of the single was Yellow Submarine.
The bed in which Eleanor Roosevelt typically slept at Sagamore Hill, the home of President Theodore Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, N.Y., has a red-and-white checked bedspread.
I know because I was just there, and the guide pointed it out!
Jonathan Swift said, “It was a brave man who first ate an oyster.”