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Henry Winkler’s was born on this day in 1945. If you’re as old as I am, you’ll remember the show that made him a household name as “The Fonz”. Happy Days was one of the most popular shows back in the 70s, where a group of teenagers showed us how they lived back in the […]
Thomas Edison brought a lot of new things to light for us (pun intended), but the one the most can say shines through the most is inventing a working model of the incandescent light bulb. On this date, in 1879, after many attempts to come up with a working model that wouldn’t burn out too […]
Eddie Rickenbacker was an incredible human being. He stuffed in one lifetime what ten men could have split up and looked at as living life in an incredible way. This guy had a seventh grade education and accomplished so much in life. Who says perserverance doesn’t get you where you want to go? Having to […]
If you are my age, you remember a show that would be on CBS every weekday morning. In fact, this show would last almost 30 years and at the time was the longest running children’s show ever. Captain Kangaroo would read stories, talk about various topics with his friends, and would always have special guests […]
Long before Michael Phelps came into the limelight with his record-breaking performances in the Beijing Olympics, Mark Spitz would become the first Olympian in any sport to amass seven Gold Medals in the 1972 Munich Games. That record will hold untill the Beijing Games in 2008, where Phelps would eclipse this record by winning eight […]
Just a few days prior to attacking Poland to begin WWII, German manufacturer, Henkel would successfully fiy the first practical jet aircraft on this day in 1939, the He 178. However, due to the lack of speed this particular model could fly, which was quite slow, and the fact that this model could only handle […]
Charles Darwin started a controversy on this date in 1858 that is still questioned by many. People who follow, word-for-word, the Book of Genesis feel he shouldn’t be taken seriously and is way out of bounds with his Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection. In fact, for years many have tried to take him out […]
Couldn’t find anything to match with the history, so I figured I’d find something that would be nice and tropical for a nice summer’s day. I found it in the Caribou Lou. Rapper Tech N9ne sings about this cocktail in his song titled the same, introducing you to the ingredients he uses when making up […]
It was a bitter day for Native Hawaiians on this day in 1898 when President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. The royal family of the islands was overthrown five years earlier and due to debt and scandals caused, the islands were more or less backed […]
It would be a sad day on this day back in 1985 when U.S. Route 66 was decommisioned by the United States Highway Service. Due to the Interstate Highway System being erected, US Routes such as this one became obsolete. To save money, many of the US Routes would have the same fate. Today, only […]
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