Shaking America

Max Baer is known in boxing circles as one of the hardest hitting men in combat sports history. Widely feared in the early 1920s and into the 1930s, Baer is credited with killing two different fighters with the destructive power in his right hand. As thoughtful and empathetic outside the ring as he was a savage within it, Baer became an icon of the sport through his wild life and reckless fighting style. He gained worldwide recognition when he defeated Hitler’s favorite boxer, Max Schmeling, with the Star of David sewn into his trunks in recognition of his Jewish heritage.
Sources:

Cinderella Man by James Schaap

Joe Louis: The Great Black Hope by Ernie Bak

https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Max_Baer

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/max-baer

How the Soviet Union conned the United States out of $600 million worth of grain subsidies.
Sources
The book The Great American Grain Robbery and Other Stories by Martha Hamilton

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/how-satellite-maps-help-prevent-another-great-grain-robbery

https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/podcast-wasde-transcript.pdf

For over two hundred and fifty years the isolated island nation of Japan was closed to all foreigners. American Commodore Matthew Perry changed all of that when he arrived in the bay outside of modern day Tokyo and demanded at gunpoint that the Japanese open their ports.
Less than fifteen years later the feudal system in Japan had completely collapsed -- and the empire that would emerge from the chaos became a world power.

In rural Minnesota a farmer named Olaf Ohman found a mysterious runestone. Engraved into the stone was an epic tale of adventure and bloodshed, apparently written by Norse explorers. The discovery of the Kensington Runestone sparked a worldwide discussion about what we know about pre-Columbus European exploration.
Sources:

The Kensington Stone: Anatomy of a Hoax by Harold Edwards from the Minnesota Archaeological Society

The Non-Enigmatic Origins of the Kensington Stone by Helmer Gustavson from the Scandinavian Archaeological Society

Whats the truth behind Minnesota’s Kensington Runestone? by Henry Erlandson from the Star Tribune

The Landsat Program is a NASA-led operation that shows us earth from space. It helps us understand our environment and has saved millions of lives by allowing scientists to predict crop yields worldwide.
At the heart of the program's early years was a woman named Valerie Thomas, a brilliant young African American physicist who would become one of the most respected inventors of her generation.