President Herbert Hoover signed a congressional act making “The
Star-Spangled Banner” the official national anthem of the United
States.
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964)
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843)
SANDY KOZEL
The movie King Kong opened in New York City on March 2, 1933,
to rave reviews, and has since been ranked by Rotten Tomatoes
as the greatest horror film of all time and the fifty-sixth greatest
film of all time. In 1991, it was deemed "culturally, historically
and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and
selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Robert William Armstrong (November 20, 1890 – April 20, 1973)
Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004)
President John F. Kennedy addresses the first group of
Peace Corps volunteers headed for Ghana and Tanzania.
On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive
Order #10924, establishing the Peace Corps as a new agency
within the Department of State. The same day, he sent a message
to Congress asking for permanent funding for the agency, which
would send trained American men and women to foreign nations
to assist in development efforts. The Peace Corps captured the imagination of the U.S. public, and during the week after its
creation thousands of letters poured into Washington from
young Americans hoping to volunteer.
SANDY KOZEL
Hitler (seated second from left) poses with members of his
first cabinet in the chancellery.
Dr.Jonas Salk administered one of the first polio shots.
On February 23, 1954, a group of children from Arsenal
Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, receive the
first injections of the new polio vaccine developed by Dr.
Jonas Salk (above). Thanks to the vaccine, by the 21st
century polio cases were reduced by 99 percent worldwide.
Though not as devastating as the plague or influenza,
poliomyelitis was a highly contagious disease that emerged
in terrifying outbreaks and seemed impossible to stop.
Attacking the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous
system, polio caused muscle deterioration, paralysis and even
death. Even as medicine vastly improved in the first half of the
20th century in the Western world, polio still struck, affecting
mostly children but sometimes adults as well.
The most famous victim of a 1921 outbreak in America was
future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then a young
politician. The disease spread quickly, leaving his legs
permanently paralyzed.
