Senator Joseph McCarthy’s extensive and relentlessly cruel hearings to uncover supposed communists in the U.S. government and military was finally halted when Joseph Welch asked him during a televised hearing, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” Mr. Welch served in this capacity.

This was the average age of an American infantryman in the Vietnam War.

This was the first storm named using the system of women’s name adopt in 1953.

He was the first African-American US cabinet secretary.