Debbie Schlussel: Do You Agree?: "Ten Days That Shaped America"
Last night, the History Channel debuted its "10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America."
Not among them: 9/11 and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Or the invention of the computer. But what is among them is even more startling: Sept. 9, 1956--the date of Elvis Presley's debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Huh?
Here are the rest of "The Ten" (do you agree with these choices?):
* Sept. 17, 1862: Antietam
* May 26, 1637: Massacre at Mystic
* July 16, 1939: Einstein's Letter
* Sept. 6, 1901: McKinley's Assassination
[DS: Did this really change America? What about Lincoln's assassination? Or even, Alexander Hamilton's?]
* Jan. 24, 1848: California Gold Rush
[DS: Agree with this in the larger context of Manifest Destiny.]
* July 21, 1925: Scopes Trial
* July 6, 1892: Homestead Strike
* June 21, 1964: Freedom Summer
* Jan. 25, 1787: Shays' Rebellion
Posted by Debbie on April 10, 2006 09:31 AM to Debbie Schlussel