Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, while Ben-Hur won 11 Academy Awards in 1960. The United States adopted the Stars and Stripes flag in 1818, and William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia in 1841. Dixie debuted in 1859, and the Kennel Club was founded in 1873. The peace sign was introduced in 1958, while Microsoft was founded in 1975. The NATO Treaty was signed in 1949, and Robert Walpole became Britain’s first Prime Minister in 1721.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. (1968) King’s death rocked the nation and was immediately surrounded by conspiracy theories, despite the fact that James Earl Ray admitted to the crime. King is still regarded as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.
Ben-Hur has won 11 Academy Awards. (1960) Only two other films matched Ben-Hur’s record of Oscar wins: Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The United States has started using the Stars and Stripes flag. (1818) There had been many other designs of the American flag adopted before the modern Stars and Stripes, including one for which the designer asked to be paid “a quarter barrel of the public wine.”
William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia. (1841) Harrison was the first president to die in office and also the president to serve the shortest term: one month. He died after contracting pneumonia while delivering his inauguration speech, which was the longest in presidential history.
The song “Dixie” had its debut. (1859) The song, which was later associated with the antebellum South, actually originated from a blackface show in New York. The show was wildly popular during the Civil War and remains a symbol of the idealized antebellum South.
The Kennel Club was founded. (1873) The Kennel Club was the first official registry for purebred dogs in the world and recognizes only about 200 dog breeds.
The peace sign was shown for the first time. (1958) The Peace Sign of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is often regarded as the symbol of the anti-war and free-love culture of the 1960s and is one of the most internationally recognized symbols in the world.
Microsoft was founded. (1975) The company was originally a small partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen after they read about a new microcomputer in Popular Science and realized they could implement Gates’ BASIC language with it. The company released its first operating system five years later.
The NATO Treaty has been signed. (1949) The treaty was originally signed to contain Soviet aggression and played an important role in European politics during the Cold War, especially in the Bosnian civil war.
Great Britain got its first Prime Minister. (1721) Robert Walpole took office at the end of the collapse of the South Sea Bubble and has been credited with leading the country out of financial disaster, cementing the importance of the Prime Minister’s position in British government.
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