CAMILLE BOHANNON
Ferdinand Magellan (February 4, 1480 – April 27, 1521)
After sailing through the dangerous straits below South America
that now bear his name, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan entered the Pacific Ocean with three ships, becoming the first
European explorer to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic.
ROSS SIMPSON
Texan Dooley Wilson is best known for his role as Rick’s
friend and piano player Sam in “Casablanca.”
The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City,
the world’s largest parade is presented by the department store
chain Macy’s, started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest
Thanksgiving parade in the United States with America’s
Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit (with both parades being four
years younger than Philadelphia’s Thanksgiving Day Parade).
The three-hour parade is held in Manhattan, ending outside
Macy’s Herald Square, and takes place from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00
p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1953.
On November 23, 1936, the first issue of the pictorial magazine
Life was published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck
Dam’s spillway by Margaret Bourke-White.
Life actually had its start earlier in the 20th century as a different
kind of magazine: a weekly humor publication, not unlike today’s
The New Yorker in its use of tart cartoons, humorous pieces and
cultural reporting. When the original Life folded during the Great Depression, the influential American publisher Henry Luce bought
the name and re-launched the magazine as a picture-based
periodical.
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On November 10, 1969, “Sesame Street,” a pioneering TV
show that would teach generations of young children the
alphabet and how to count, made its broadcast debut.
The show is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the
Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) until June 2000) and
was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett (below).
As of 2018, Sesame Street has won 189 Emmy Awards and
13 Grammy Awards, more than any other children’s show.
