Daniel Boone(November 2, 1734 – September 26, 1820)
American frontier legend Daniel Boone was born and raised in Pennsylvania and blazed Wilderness trails in old Kentucky, living off the land as a hunter and trapper. He learned how to shoot at age twelve. Boone was married to Sarah Morgan and Rebecca Bryan and had a total of ten children between the two. His frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
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Statue Daniel Boone on campus of Eastern Kentucky University.
Harry S. Truman holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the incorrect headline
Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency on this day in 1948. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN (above)." The Truman victory had surprised many polls and newspapers.
President Truman (right) on his campaign train whistle-stop.
On this day in 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California on this day in 1947. It was the plane’s first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.
On this day in 1959, Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program "Twenty-One" admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
