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The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary. He was influenced by the London YMCA and saw the association as an opportunity to provide a "home away from home" for young sailors on shore leave.
The first YMCA in the United States opened on 29 December 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary. In 1853 the Reverend Anthony Bowen founded the first YMCA for Colored Men in Washington, D.C.
The YMCA of Greater Boston, founded in 1851, was the first YMCA in the United States. The organization began as a modest Evangelical association, and by the late nineteenth century, had become a major social service organization dedicated to improving the lives of young men. With that aim in mind, the YMCA held athletic and educational ...
For the first few months (until spring 1955), Swedish TV is broadcast one evening a week and for about an hour each time. November 3 – Disney's Alice in Wonderland airs on ABC in the United States. November 6 – LTV began broadcasting for the first time in Latvia and the oldest in the Baltic countries.
NBC News pioneered the morning news program when it launched TODAY in 1952 with Dave Garroway as host. Now, over 70 years later, the TODAY broadcast features a team of familiar faces. Meet the ...
Al Neuharth was born in Eureka, South Dakota, [2] to a German-speaking family. [3] Neuharth's parents were Daniel J. and Christina, who married on January 11, 1922. Daniel died when Al was two.
Saturday Night Live cast members sarcastically praised Donald Trump’s victory and debuted a new version of the former president — “hot, jacked Trump” — to avoid being put on his ...
Blair (left) with the rest of the 1953 Today show cast, including J. Fred Muggs. In 1951, Blair began his television career as the host of Heritage, an NBC cultural series broadcast live from Washington's National Gallery of Art. From 1951 to 1953, he was the moderator of Georgetown University Forum on the DuMont Television Network.