After eight years of construction on the White House, President
John Adams and his wife,  Abigail, moved into the unfinished
home in 1800.

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MIKE GRACIA

Howard Hughes in the Spruce Goose pilots seat.

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Presidential candidates Sen. John Kennedy, left, and Vice President Richard Nixon face each other in a Chicago television studio as they debated. In center is Howard K. Smith, moderator. Four members of
the panel are in foreground.

For the first time in U.S. history, a debate between major party presidential candidates is shown on television. The presidential hopefuls, John F.
Kennedy, a Democratic senator of Massachusetts, and Richard M. Nixon,
the vice president of the United States, met in a Chicago studio to discuss
U.S. domestic matters. Kennedy emerged the apparent winner from this
first of four televised debates.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Joan Ruth Bader)
(March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a jurist who served as an
associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States from 1993 until her death from Cancer.

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On August 28, 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago,
thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while
the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning
its stance on Vietnam. Over the course of 24 hours, the predominant
American line of thought on the Cold War with the Soviet Union was
shattered.

Anti-war delegates who oppose Humphrey’s nomination at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

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