America’s iconic business empires conquer the night, starting with The Food That Built America at 8/7c. In the 1970’s, one fast food titan is far ahead of the competition until one of its top executives is poached by a rival burger chain claiming to be king. When these two fast food giants clash over new, innovative chicken meals—who will take the crown?
The epic night continues with The Titans That Built America at 9/8c. Business giants including Henry Ford, William Boeing, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan, Jr., and Pierre du Pont battle to dominate new industries. When the fight culminates in a race to build the world’s tallest building—which titans will end up on top?
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2009: Millvina Dean, the last known person to have survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died in Southampton, England; she was nine weeks old at the time of the disaster. [How much do you know about the Titanic?]
1921: The Tulsa race massacre began in Oklahoma as mobs of both African Americans and whites descended on the courthouse where a Black man, who was accused of assaulting a white woman, was being held; in the ensuing violence, Tulsa's prosperous Black neighbourhood of Greenwood was destroyed and as many as 300 people were killed, mostly African Americans.
