Joe Gearing at radio station WLEU.

In addition to his radio career, Gearing once served as a magistrate.

At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a
woman’s rights convention—the first ever held in the
United States—convened with almost 200 women in
attendance.

The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at
the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.

As women, Mott and Stanton were barred from the
convention floor, and the common indignation that
this aroused in both of them was the impetus for
their founding of the women’s rights movement in
the United States.

(FOX NEWS) – Rex White, who was NASCAR’s oldest living
champion and a 2015 inductee into the Hall of Fame, has
died. He was 95.

NASCAR and the NASCAR Hall of Fame confirmed White’s
death on Friday. No additional details were provided.

NASCAR chairman Jim France said, ‘Rex epitomized the
formative days of NASCAR – a true pioneer whose
contributions helped shape the foundation of our sport.’

On July 18, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took
office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, was nominated
for an unprecedented third term.         

       
Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record
four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than
two terms.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)