The Splash of a Phantom: Steve Brodie’s Brooklyn Bridge Gamble
On July 23, 1886, an unemployed New York bookmaker named Steve Brodie claimed to have leaped off the newly opened Brooklyn Bridge and survived, plunging 135 feet into the churning, ...
The Grandfather’s Holiday: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Train to Paris
Standing aboard a vintage Paris train with his beloved Mamie at his side on July 23, 1962, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower waved a warm, relaxed farewell to a cheering ...
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The Starlight Sanctuary: Jo Grissom and the Weight of the Moon
Sitting in the audience at a tense Cocoa Beach press conference on July 23, 1961, Betty Grissom and her young son Scott watched as her husband, astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, ...
The Groove of the Invisible Grid: Telstar 1’s Transatlantic Dawn
Two weeks after launching into the silent vacuum of space, the Telstar 1 communications satellite made history on July 23, 1962, by facilitating the world’s very first live, public transatlantic ...
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The Threshold of Cooperstown: Jackie Robinson’s Hall of Fame Triumph
On July 23, 1962, Jackie Robinson stood before a celebratory crowd in Cooperstown, New York, to be officially inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his very first ...
The Cowboy in the Living Room: The Premiere of The Gene Autry Show
On July 23, 1950, American entertainment history galloped into a new era as The Gene Autry Show made its official premiere on network television. Autry, the nation's favorite "Singing Cowboy," ...
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The Rhythm of the Rural Grid: Roy Vanderwall’s Baker County Dairy Endeavors
Under the high, clear skies of Baker County, Oregon, farmer Roy Vanderwall stood in his barn on July 23, 1925, carefully weighing the morning’s milk from his dairy herd. In ...
The Shadow of Command: Elizabeth Hamilton, Henry Halleck, and the Union Army
On July 23, 1862, Major General Henry W. Halleck officially assumed command over the entire Union Army, a promotion that placed the monumental burden of a fractured nation squarely on ...
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The U.S. Army Transport Rosecrans Sent East
When the U.S. Army Transport Rosecrans steamed out of the Seattle harbor on July 23, 1900, her decks were packed with American soldiers bound for the multi-national China Relief Expedition ...
The Architecture of a Smile: Gloria DeHaven’s Summer Holiday
Born into a prominent, multi-generational vaudeville family in Los Angeles, actress Gloria DeHaven was celebrated on July 23, 1925, entering a world that was entirely defined by the spotlights of ...
The Quiet Ledger of Mt. McGregor: The Repose of Ulysses S. Grant
Perched on the side porch of the Drexel Cottage in the bracing air of Mt. McGregor, New York, a terminally ill Ulysses S. Grant spent his final day on earth ...
The Cavalryman’s Covenant: Count Casimir Pulaski’s Massachusets Arrival
Recruited in Paris by a deeply impressed Benjamin Franklin, Polish nobleman and brilliant cavalry strategist Count Casimir Pulaski stepped onto American soil in Massachusetts on July 23, 1777. Driven into ...
The Midnight Pioneers: The Discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp
Peering through their amateur telescopes from two completely different locations on July 23, 1995, independent astronomers Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona both spotted an unfamiliar, ...
The Anchor of the Infield: Pee Wee Reese’s Kentucky Roots
Born in the small rural community of Ekron, Kentucky on July 23, 1918, Harold Peter Henry “Pee Wee” Reese would grow up to become the legendary, ten-time All-Star shortstop and ...
The Last Stand of the Frontier: Buffalo Bill’s High Jinks Auction
On July 23, 1913, a somber crowd gathered at a public auction in Denver, Colorado, as the iconic costumes, stagecoaches, and historical paraphernalia of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show were ...
