President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war against Japan on Dec. 8, 1941, but he didn t have to urge Oklahomans to volunteer for military service.
America s best-known detective always gets his man, using high-tech devices long before their real-life invention to capture or kill strangely named bad guys. His name? Dick Tracy.
He first came to Oklahoma soon after the opening of the Cherokee Strip and became a deputy sheriff, but previously was sentenced to prison for bank robbery (but escaped).
A December 1975 tornado that "just dropped out of the sky" cut a half-mile swath through east Tulsa, disproving the belief that such storms always occur in the spring.