History Archives
On this day in 1978 Garfield, the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, made its debut. Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim→
On this day in 1923 the first Checker Taxi hit the streets. The Checker Taxi is the most famous taxi in the United States.→
1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date,→
How Starbucks Started Up History
Neatorama: In the early 1980s, a Swedish plastics company called Hammarplast sold plastic coffee filters that fit over a thermos. One day in 1981,→
On this day in 1946 Donald Trump was born. Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is→
On this day in 1955 the Mir Mine, first diamond mine in the USSR, was discovered. The honor of thus pleasing cranky old Stalin→
History of Tattooing History
Collectors Weekly: Tattooing really took off after 1870, when the first professional tattoo shops opened in the United States and Great Britain. In America,→
On this day in 2007, Don Herbert, better known as Mr. Wizard, died. Donald Jeffry Herbert (“Mr. Wizard”) (1917 – 2007) was the creator→
1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia. 1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives→
A teenager into ice skating isn’t very unusual, and it doesn’t necessarily mark that teen out for future financial success. In Chester Greenwood’s case,→
1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game. 1955 – Lux Radio Theater signs off→
1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world’s first university museum. 1892 – Chicago ‘L’ begins operation 1932 – The→
1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched. 1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris. 1933 – The→
Why Was Coke Always 5 Cents? History
Cool Culinaria: In 1899, when the drink was only being sold in soda fountains, the two lawyers went to the President of Coca Cola→
1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon). 1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San→
1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790. 1879 – New York, New York’s Gilmores Garden is→
On this day in 1631, La Gazette, first French newspaper was published. Before the advent of the printed Gazette, reports on current events usually→
On this day in 1886 Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal. We’ve covered John→
Born in Maine in 1838 and raised by a widowed mother, Margaret Knight showed a proclivity toward inventing from a very young age –→
The Man Who Created Nachos History
The Huffington Post: During World War II, wives of American military officers who lived at the Eagle Pass. Texas. base would often venture over→
