In the 1920s, a group of D.C. women formed the Anti-Flirt Club to put a stop to the increasingly annoying, and at times dangerous, problem of men harassing women from motor vehicles and street corners.
Long before D.C. baseball fans started cheering for the Nationals, D.C. came close to landing a different MLB franchise — The San Diego Padres. Jerseys were printed, schedules were made, and the team was nearly moved, but a last minute deal kept them in San Diego, beginning a 33-year baseball drought in D.C.
In 1982, as federal funding for the arts faced cuts, a multiracial women's coalition in D.C. created Sisterfire, a women's festival. What began as a one-day event quickly grew into an annual celebration of women artists.
In 1860, a 21 year old man named Edward Payson Weston made a wild bet: if Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election, he would walk the nearly 500 miles from Boston to Washington, D.C. This wager, initially a joke between two friends, turned into a real challenge that would spark national headlines and launch a new kind of celebrity.
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