Month: May 2026
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: The Golden Gate Bridge Opens
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, a stunning technological and artistic achievement, opens to the public after five years of construction. On opening day—“Pedestrian Day”—some 200,000 bridge walkers marveled at the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge, which spans the Golden Gate Strait at the entrance to San Francisco Bay and connects San Francisco and Marin County. The next day, on May 28, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to vehicular traffic.
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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: May 22, 1972
President Nixon arrives in Moscow for historic summit. During a week of summit meetings with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet officials, the United States and the USSR reached a number of agreements, including one that laid the groundwork for a joint space flight in 1975. On May 26, Nixon and Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), the most significant of the agreements reached during the summit. The treaty limited the United States and the USSR to 200 antiballistic missiles each, which were to be divided between two defensive systems. President Nixon returned to the United States on May 30.
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FROM THE DESK OF THE POLI-SCI EXPLAINER
The first in a series, where we try to clear up misconceptions, misunderstandings, and so on, about politics and public affairs in the US.
#1: CONGRESS is both the House and the Senate. So, if a candidates says they are “running for Congress,” it would be reasonable to ask, “which house?”
TIME IS RUNNING OUT! Sign up now for Summer I classes, which begin May 18.
You might especially be interested in the following online classes:
*POLS 1010: American National Government
*POLS 3045: Humor and America Poltics
POLS 3203: The American Executive
