The first Muppet character designed by Jim Henson that became a recurring character with his own personality was Rowlf the Dog, who rose to fame on The Jimmy Dean Show.
Jimmy Carter, Democrat of Georgia, was the first and so far only U.S. President to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after leaving office. He is currently the oldest living former President, having served from 1977-1981.
The TV show Carter Country was set in Jimmy Carter’s home state of Georgia and is probably the only sitcom to be named after a sitting president, and to take place in a fictional location (Clinton Corners) whose name was the same as a future president.
The 1988 Democratic National Convention was held in Atlanta, Georgia. The convention nominated Mass. Gov. Michael Dukakis for President and Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President. The ticket lost in the fall, but Bentsen was reelected to his U.S. Senate seat. Texas law permitted him to run for both offices; the law was changed in 1960 at the behest of Lyndon B. Johnson, who hedged his bets by running for the very same two offices that year. He was elected to both, and understandably enough decided to be John F. Kennedy’s VP rather than return to the Senate.
Lyndon Johnson named his pair of beagles Him and Her.
He and She, a situation comedy that aired during the Johnson administration, starred Richard Benjamin as a cartoonist and Paula Pretiss as his wife, a social worker. It also featured Jack Cassidy as an egomaniacal actor who portrayed Benjamin’s most successful cartoon character.
Jack Cassidy was the father of future teen idols David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy. David’s mother was Cassidy’s first wife Evelyn Ward, while Shaun was the product of his second marriage to actress Shirley Jones.
2004’s Shaun of the Dead starred Simon “Scotty” Pegg dealing with a variety of family and relationship issues whilst simultaneously fighting off hordes of the undead at his local pub.
In the 2004 U.S. presidential election, incumbent President George W. Bush, Republican of Texas, and Vice President Dick Cheney, Republican of Texas, er, Wyoming, narrowly defeated U.S. Sens. John Kerry, Democrat of Mass., and John Edwards, Democrat of North Carolina. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the economy, were the major issues in the campaign.
Jonathan Edwards had one big hit single with “Sunshine,” which hit the Billboard top ten.
Neil Simon’s play The Sunshine Boys features a pair of vaudeville entertainers known as Lewis and Clark. Among the portrayers of Clark have been Jack Albertson, Jack Gilford, and Jack Klugman.
Not seeing the link, unless it’s undead -> Cheney. 
Danny DeVito’s breakthrough role was as Louie DePalma, owner of the Sunshine Cab Company, on Taxi.
Cute, but no, it’s the year 2004.
Last year, Danny DeVito, his wife Rhea Perlman and director James Burrows helped establish a nonprofit corporation along with Oberlin College to rehab and operate the historic Apollo Theatre in Oberlin, Ohio. Burrows is an Oberlin graduate; DeVito’s and Perlman’s son is now a student at the college.
The Apollo Theater, on 125th Street in Harlem, was known for its Amateur Nights during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s and 30’s, when it was the only major theater in New York to hire black talent. It launched the careers of (thanks, Wiki)
In 1973, the city of Galt, towns of Hespeler and Preston, and the hamlet of Blair, all located in Southwestern Ontario, amalgamated to form the City of Cambridge. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada operates a plant in the city.
Preston Sturges was the first director to win an Oscar for the first film he ever directed. Like three of the first four other directors who managed this feat (Orson Welles, Jerome Robbins (shared), and Mel Brooks), he won the Oscar for screenwriting, not directing.
Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Rabinowitz) was brought before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and named Samuel “Zero” Mostel, veteran character actor Jack Gilford and his wife Madeline Lee Gilford, and others as Communists and Communist sympathizers, making for an incredibly tense set when he worked with them all in the play A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum a decade later. (The Gilfords were surprisingly forgiving [or at least professional], but Mostel made absolutely no pretense of bygones being bygone.)
The de facto leader of the Soviet Union for most of its history was not the president of the country, but rather the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was the first, in 1922, and Vladimir Ivashko was the last, for just five days from August 24-29, 1991.
As far as anyone knows, Vladimir and Estragon are still waiting for Godot.
The most recent Broadway production of Waiting for Godot starred Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin, David Strathairn and John Goodman. Irwin, a professional clown (though he doesn’t wear makeup) had previously starred in a production with Robin Williams in the 1980s; the Don’t Worry Be Happy video they appeared in was filmed while they were starring together.