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The reason Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s face has been featured on the dime since 1946, is because as a Polio victim in 1938, created The National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis better known as The March of Dimes. ![]()
When John and Jacqueline Kennedy’s last child, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy died after only two days, his mother was too weak to attend his funeral leaving his heartbroken father to bear it alone.
As the tiny casket was lowered into the ground, JFK broke into sobs saying “It’s so dark down there,” his Secret Service detail saying, how they’d never seen him cry before.
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Jackie leaving the hospital.
If someone asks, are you a friend of Bill’s, it’s code for…are you a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson from Akron, Ohio co-founding it in 1935, 180 million members nationwide to date. ![]()
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Actors Bernard Schwartz and ![]()
Issur Danielovich both early in their careers, changed their names to Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas, Jews in the 1940s, not being too welcomed in Hollywood.
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When Annelise Frank, better known as Anne, received a diary on her 13th birthday, named it Kitty so she’d have a friend to talk to. When Kitty was filled up, she still kept writing.
In two years, alas, Anne would be no more, dying in the Bergen-Belson concentration camp at 15. Her Dad, the only surviving member of the family after finding Anne’s diaries, had them published, Anne never knowing how much her words would impact the world.
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Winston Churchill at 78 was Queen Elizabeth’s very first Prime Minister after succeeding her father, King George VI, in 1952.
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Lizbeth, what her dad affectionately called her, was 25 years-old when she became Queen, reigning for the next 70 years and 214 days. ![]()
When someone dies in harness, or with their boots on, it means life was in progress till it was no more.
U.S. President John Quincy Adams, photographer Richard Avedon, and dancer/choreographer Bob Fosse were all felled where they stood, never regaining consciousness.
