While enjoying the photos of the Nationals parade in our nation's Capital Saturday to celebrate their World Series Championship, think about the historical impact of this event.
It is one of few glorious moments in the Capital in recent history as an intellectually constipated Congress or a three-year Impeachment battle dominated the headlines.
The team who traded away their star before the season began, were 19-31 in late May, had the worst record of any team in the playoffs, were given no chance to win their division, the National League pennant and most certainly the World Series, stunned the baseball world.
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| 1924 parade |
Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 53
Woodrow Wilson died, the 28th president of the United States
Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio
broadcast from the White House
Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for
"Beer Hall Putsch"
Marlon Brando, actor (On the Waterfront, The Godfather)
J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation at age 29
Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians
The comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold
Gray (d. 1968) made its debut in the NY Daily News
Baseball’s first "colored World Series" was held in
Kansas City, Mo
The New York Times published news of Edwin Hubble’s
discoveries of other galactic systems
Rod Sterling (d. 1975), writer and host (Twilight Zone, Night
Gallery), was born in Syracuse, NY
Albert Einstein completed a manuscript that predicted that
particles of gas near absolute zero will clump together in one larger mono-atom
Peter Pan was first produced as a Broadway musical
Calvin Coolidge was re-elected president
The Ku Klux Klan numbered four million members
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of
Labor (AFL), died
