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A Game of Chicken

The Food That Built America

New Episode Premieres Tonight, May 31 at 8/7c

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?

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On Top of the World

The Titans That Built America

3-Night Event Begins Tonight, May 31 at 9/8c

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?]

2005: It was publicly revealed that former FBI official Mark Felt was "Deep Throat," the anonymous informant at the centre of the Watergate scandal that involved U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration. [Take our quiz about U.S. political scandals.]

1977: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline—which connected the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska with the harbour at Valdez, 800 miles (1,300 km) to the south—was completed. [Sort fact from fiction in our oil and natural gas quiz.]

1943: American gridiron football player Joe Namath, who was one of the game's best passers and a cultural sports icon of the 1960s, was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. [ Test your knowledge of football.]

1927: The Ford Motor Company stopped producing the hugely popular Model T; prized for its low cost, durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance, the "Tin Lizzie," as it was known, essentially realized Henry Ford's goal to "democratize the automobile." [ Watch an overview of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.]

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.

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