ED DANAHUE

On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War
hero and former president Ulysses S. Grant died of throat
cancer.

The successes of Grant’s tenure while in office (March 4, 1869 
– March 4, 1877) included passage of the Enforcement Act in
1870, which temporarily curtailed the political influence of the
Ku Klux Klan in the post-Civil War South, and the 1875 Civil
Rights Act, which attempted to desegregate public places
such as restrooms, “inns, public conveyances on land or
water, theaters, and other places of public amusement.”

On September 17, 1983, 20-year-old Vanessa Williams became
the first Black woman to win the Miss America crown. Less
than a year later, on July 23, 1984, Williams gave up her crown
after nude photos of her surfaced.

ED DANAHUE

ORLANDO, Fla. (TND) — Madison Marsh is a U.S. Air Force officer,
a master’s student at Harvard and is now adding 2024 Miss America
to her impressive resume.

She also happens to be the first active-duty servicemember to ever
win the title.

Marsh, 22, graduated last year from the United States Air Force
Academy with a degree in physics and is currently enrolled at
Harvard pursuing her master’s in public policy.

The U.S. Air Force celebrated her win on X and called her "our
very own."

ED DANAHUE