June 26 1498 – The bristle toothbrush was invented in China. 1797 – Charles Newbold was issued a patent (#X000177) for an improvement for the cast-iron plow 1807 – Lightning struck a gunpowder factory in Luxembourg, killing more than 300 people. 1819 – The first US patent (#X003115) for a velocipede, a predecessor of […]
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June 25 1867 – Barbed wire was patented (#66,182) by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio. 1876 – Native American forces, led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, defeated the US Army troops lead by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a battle near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River. 1910 – The US Congress […]
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June 24 in History 1374 – An early morning, sudden outbreak of ‘St. John’s Dance’ caused people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion. 1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were crowned King and Queen of England. 1873 – […]
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Popular Music has two special seasons – Christmas and Summer. Each Year, One Song Becomes The Song Of The Summer The Top 100 Summer Songs 1920- 2019: 2019: Old Town Road by Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus 2018: In My Feelings – Drake 2017: Despacito – Luis Fonsi feat Daddy Yankee (and sometimes Justin Bieber) 2016: Closer – Chainsmokers […]
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June 23 in Pop Culture History 1683 – William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. 1860 – The United States Congress established the Government Printing Office. 1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes received the patents (#79265 & #79868) for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.” He also invented the ‘QWERTY […]
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June 22 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe 1870 – US Congress created the United States Department of Justice. 1937 – Joe Louis won the world heavyweight boxing title when he defeated Jim Braddock. 1942 […]
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June 21 1834 – Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent (#X008277) for his grain reaping machine. 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, were hanged in Pennsylvania prisons, in Schuylkill County and Carbon County. 1893 – The first Ferris wheel premiered at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, and could hold up to 2000 […]
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June 20 in Pop Culture History June 20 is National Vanilla Milkshake Day. 1214 – The University of Oxford received its Royal charter. 1782 – Congress adopted the Great Seal of the United States, with the Bald Eagle clutching both an olive branch and thirteen arrows. 1837 – Queen Victoria succeeded to the British throne. […]
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June 19 1586 – Some English colonists left the Roanoke Island Colony that was established in 1585, and it was found empty in July of 1857. It was decided to re-establish the colony leaving 90 men, 17 women, and 11 children at the encampment, instead of bringing them further north, in the Chesapeake Bay. Supplies […]
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June 18 1178 – A meteor crached into the Moon or exploded between Earth and the Moon. 1812 – The U.S. Congress declares war on Great Britain, Canada, and Ireland, starting The War of 1812. 1815 – Napoleon defeated at Waterloo, in Belgium. 1873 – Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to […]
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June 17 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempted to assassinate Mehmed II, forcing him to retreat from Wallachia, in Romania. 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, spent the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal. 1837 – Charles Goodyear obtained his first rubber-processing patent. […]
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June 16 1816 – Lord Byron read Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests – Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspired his challenge that each guest write a ghost story. 1858 – Abraham Lincoln gave his “a house divided against itself cannot stand” speech. 1884 – The first public roller coaster, […]
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June 15 763 BC – Assyrians recorded a solar eclipse, and that detail was later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1215 – The signed (sealed) Magna Carta guaranteed King John would respect feudal rights and privileges, uphold the freedom of the church within his kingdom. This was probably the same King John […]
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June 14 1158 – Munich (in what is now Germany) was founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar. 1775 -The Continental Army was established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army. 1777 – The Stars and Stripes was adopted by Congress as the Flag of […]
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June 13 1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest international agreement in the world which is still in force. 1525 – Ex-Catholic priest Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns. 1611 – […]
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June 12 1790 – A ‘Red Globe’ was being reported by many people, flying over France. 1849 – A gas mask “inhaler or lung protector” was patented (#X006529) by Lewis Phectic Haslett of Louisville, Ky. 1899 (Tornado) New Richmond, Wisconsin 1906 – Sound movies were patented (#823,022) by John Ballance. 1913 – John Randolph Bray […]
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June 11 323 BC – Alexander the Great died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon. 1509 – Henry VIII of England married Catherine of Aragon. 1742 – Benjamin Franklin invented the Franklin stove. He chose not to patent it. 1793 – Robert Heterick was issued the patent (#X000063) for a stove design of […]
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June 10 1692 – Bridget Bishop was hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries.” 1809 – The first steamboat to navigate the open seas, the Phoenix paddle wheel steamboat took 13 days to sail from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1829 – The first Boat Race […]
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June 9 in Pop Culture History 1650 – The Harvard Corporation, one of the two administrative boards of Harvard, was established. It was the first legal corporation in the Americas. 1856 – 500 Mormons left Iowa City, Iowa, and headed west for Salt Lake City. 1902 – Horn & Hardart opened first restaurant with vending […]
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June 8 in Pop Culture History 632 – Muhammad, the Islamic prophet, died in Medina. 793 – The Viking Age began when Vikings destroyed the Abbey on Lindisfarne, on an island off the northeastern coast of Northumberland, England on this day. 1637 – René Descartes published Discourse on Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking […]
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June 7 in Pop Culture History 1692 (Earthquake) Port Royal, Jamaica, over 1,000 people were killed. 1753 – The British Museum was founded, starting the the collections of Sir Hans Sloane. 1755 (Earthquake) Tabriz, Iran 1893 – Mohandas Gandhi committed his first act of civil disobedience. 1914 – The Alliance was the first vessel to […]
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June 6 in Pop Culture History 1844 – The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London. 1882 (Cyclone) More than 100,000 people in Bombay, India were killed. 1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroyed 25 blocks of downtown Seattle. 1912 (Volcano Eruption) Novarupta 1933 – America’s first drive-in opened near Camden, New Jersey, […]
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June 5 in Pop Culture History 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (or Life Among the Lowly) began a ten-month run in the National Era, an abolitionist newspaper. 1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express left Paris. 1933 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the United States off of […]
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June 4 in Pop Culture History 1784 – Elisabeth Thible was the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon, flying for about 45 minutes. 1812 – Following Louisiana’s admittance as a US state, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory. 1876 – The Transcontinental Express arrived in San Francisco, California, in […]
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June 3 in Pop Culture History 1621 – The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherland (now eastern US) and the Caribbean. 1888 – The poem Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was published in the San Francisco Examiner. 1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the […]
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June 2 in Pop Culture History 455 – The Sack of Rome: Vandals entered Rome, and plundered the city for several weeks. 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ended as Crusader forces take the city. The crusades were a result of Muslim conquests of the Christian holy lands. 1835 – P. T. […]
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June 1 in Pop Culture History 495 – John Cor made a note referring to the first known batch of Scotch whisky. 1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gave the now famous line: “Don’t give up the ship!” 1831 – James Clark Ross discovered the Magnetic North Pole. 1886 – […]
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May 31 in Pop Culture History 1279 BC – Ramesses II became pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. He may have been the pharaoh involved with Moses. He was the subject of Percy Bysshe Shelly’s Ozymandias. “King of Kings am I, Osymandias. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass […]
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May 3o in Pop Culture History 1431 – At Rouen, Normandy, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy. 1631 – Gazette de France, the first French newspaper, began publication. 1806 – Future US President Andrew Jackson participated in a duel, killing Charles Dickinson. Dickinson shot first, wounding Jackson, but Jackson’s shot at… Read More
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Popular Music has two special seasons – Christmas and Summer. Each Year, One Song Becomes The Song Of The Summer The Top 100 Summer Songs 1920- 2019: 2019’s Contenders: Old Town Road by Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus Me! – Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse) – Post Malone […]
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May 29 in Pop Culture History 1453 – Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captured Constantinople after a 53-day siege, commonly referred to as The Fall of Constantinople. 1790 – Rhode Island was the last of the original United States’ colonies to ratify the Constitution and was admitted as the 13th US state. 1913… Read More
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May 28 in Pop Culture History 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurred, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales. Knowing this exact date helped historians find other exact and near exact historical dates. 1830 – US President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which relocated Native Americans. 1892 – In San… Read More
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May 27 in Pop Culture History 1199 – John (December 24, 1166 – October 19, 1216) became King of England. He’s the one who signed The Magna Carta, which was the first document to offer people individual rights. 1796 – The patent (#X0116) for a piano was issued to James Sylvanus McLean of New Jersey,… Read More
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May 26 in Pop Culture History 1293 (Eartquake) Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000. 1869 – Boston University was chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1896 – Charles Dow published the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. 1897 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel began being sold in the UK. 1917 (Tornadoes) Matoon and… Read More
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May 25 in Pop Culture History 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London. 1935 – At Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Babe Ruth hit his 714th (and final) home run. 1961 – President John F. Kennedy declared “I believe that this nation should commit itself to… Read More
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May 24 in Pop Culture History 1775 – John Hancock was elected president of the Second Continental Congress. 1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale was published. 1844 – Samuel F.B. Morse sent the first public telegraph message – ‘What Hath God Wrought?’ through the Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph line. 1883 – The… Read More
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Music and Ice Cream Trucks Officially, in North America, the summer season does not begin until June 20th or 21st which is the date of the summer solstice and the longest day of the year. However, if you are a resident of the United States, then we all know by popular vote the “unofficial” start […]
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The American Sound of Summer – Ice Cream Truck Music Officially, in North America, the summer season does not begin until June 20th or 21st, which is the date of the summer solstice and the longest day of the year. However, if you are a resident of the United States, then we all know by […]
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May 23 in Pop Culture History 1701 – Scottish-born sea captain William Kidd was hanged on the banks of the Thames after being found guilty of piracy and murder. 1911 – The New York Public Library was dedicated. 1920 – Joan of Arc was canonized by Pope Benedict XV. 1922 – Abie’s Irish Rose (Broadway Play) Opened… Read More
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May 22 in Pop Culture History 1455 – England’s War of the Roses began when the Yorkists defeated King Henry VI’s Lancastrian forces at St. Albans. 1849 – Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent (#6,469) for “buoying boats over shoals”. 1906 – Orville and Wilbur Wright were granted a patent (#821,393) for their system of… Read More
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May 21 in Pop Culture History 1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan. 1955 – George B. Hansburg of Walker Valley, N.Y. was issued a patent (#2,793,036) for his invention of an improved pogo stick. 1975 – Carol Burnett was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1977 – Gemini (Broadway Play)… Read More
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May 20 in Pop Culture History 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob W Davis patented (#139,121) copper-riveted jeans, designed to help prevent tears in the fabric. 1883 – Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploding three months later, killing more than 36,000 people. 1899 – The American Physical Society was founded at Columbia University. 1901… Read More
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May 19 in Pop Culture History 1780 – This morning, a combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover caused complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States candles were needed by noon, and it not disburse until the following evening, causing New England’s Dark Day. 1910… Read More
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May 18 in Pop Culture History 1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Halley’s Comet. 1926 – In one of the first Media Frenzy’s of Popular Culture, Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared while visiting a Venice, California beach. 1946 – A UFO, with living creatures inside, was reported by Gosta Carlsson, in Sweden.… Read More
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May 17 in Pop Culture History 1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage. 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange was formed. 1875 – Aristides won the first Kentucky Derby. 1890 – Comic Cuts, the first British weekly comic paper, was published in London by Alfred Northcliffe. 1900 – The Wonderful… Read More
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May 16 in Pop Culture History 1866 – Root Beer was invented by Charles Elmer Hires in Philadelphia, PA. Annie Get Your Gun (Broadway Musical) Opened on May 16, 1946 and Closed: February 12, 1949 1946 – The first magnetic tape recorder was demonstrated by Jack Mullin. 1964 # 1 Hit May 16, 1964 – May […]
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May 15 in Pop Culture History 1501 – Ottaviano Petrucci opened the first modern-style music publishing house, by producing the first book of music made from movable type, in Venice. 1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flew a glider for approximately 1,000 feet during one of the first attempted manned flights, in Spain. 1800 – President… Read More
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May 14 in Pop Culture History 1796 – Edward Jenner, a doctor from Gloucestershire, England successfully tested his vaccination for smallpox on eight year old James Phipps. 1804 – Lewis and Clark expedition left St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 1842 – Alfred… Read More
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May 13 in Pop Culture History 1607 – English in Virginia founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. 1637 – The rounded table knife was created by Cardinal Richelieu in France. 1890 – Nikola Tesla was issued a patent (#428,057) for an electric generator. 1917 – Three children, Lúcia Santos and her… Read More
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May 12 in Pop Culture History 1551 – The National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru. 1932 – The body of the Lindbergh baby was found less than a mile from the Lindbergh home in Hopewell, New Jersey. 1963 – Bob Dylan walked out on The… Read More
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May 11 in Pop Culture History 868 – The first known dated printed book was the Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture. A citation included : “printed on 11 May 868, by Wang Chieh, for free general distribution”. 1811 – The famous Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, were born of Chinese parents in Siam (now Thailand).… Read More
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May 10 in Pop Culture History Mother’s Day in Mexico is a set date of May 10th every year, unlike most other countries where it lands on a Sunday. 1503 – Columbus stumbled across the Cayman Islands and dubbed them Las Tortugas, after the numerous sea turtles. 1860 – The discovery of two new elements… Read More
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May 9 in Pop Culture History 1662 – Famous puppet Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England. 1865 – The patent (#47,631) was issued to Richard Jordan Gatling for the Gatling gun, which was the first to successfully combine reliability, high firing rate and ease of loading into a single device. 1882 –… Read More
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May 8 in Pop Culture History 1840 – The first U.S. photographic patent (#1,582) was issued to Alexander S. Wolcott of New York City 1886 – Coca-Cola was first sold to the public at the soda fountain in Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. 1902 (Tornado) Goliad, Texas 1912 – Paramount Pictures was founded. 1933 –… Read More
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May 7 in Pop Culture History 1718 – La Nouvelle-Orleans (now New Orleans) was founded by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, the Regent of France. 1896 – Dr. H. H. Holmes, one… Read More
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May 6 in Pop Culture History 1840 (Tornado) Natchez, Mississippi 1851 – Linus Yale, Jr. was granted a patent (#8,071) for the invention of his “Self-Detaching and Attaching Key-Lock” as “a new and Improved Safety-Lock for Banks, Safes, Vaults, Stores, &c.” 1851 – President Benjamin Harrison had the first electric lights installed in the White… Read More
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May 5 in Pop Culture History 1809 – Mary Kies became the first woman awarded a US patent (#X01043) , for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. 1821 – Corsica-born Napoleon Bonaparte died as a British prisoner on the remote island of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean. 1847 – The… Read More
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May 4 in Pop Culture History May 4 is Star Wars Day. “May the Fourth be with you.” 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit (~1594-1638), director-general of New Netherlands, bought Manhattan Island for 60 guilders (about $24 in 1839 dollars) worth of cloth and buttons. 1886 – A labor protest in Haymarket Square in Chicago,… Read More
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May 3 in Pop Culture History 1375 BC -The first recorded eclipse occurred, noted in the area know known as Syria. 1802 – Washington, District of Columbia. was incorporated as a city. 1937 – Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 1951 – The Senate Armed Forces and Foreign… Read More
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May 2 in Pop Culture History 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, was arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. 1611 – The King James Bible was published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. 1670 – Hudson’s Bay Company was chartered by King Charles II… Read More
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May 1 in Pop Culture History May 1 is Law Day, begun in 1958. “A national day set aside to celebrate the rule of law. Law Day underscores how law and the legal process have contributed to the freedoms that all Americans share.” 526 (Earthquake) Antioch, Byzantine Empire (Turkey) 1707 – The Act of Union… Read More
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April 30 in Pop Culture History 1789 – In New York City, George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States. 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase from France, for 15 million dollars, also included much (if not all of) of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, […]
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April 29 in Pop Culture History 1429 – 17 year-old Joan of Arc arrived to relieve the Siege of Orléans. 1864 – Theta Xi fraternity was founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1962 – ABC’s Wide World of Sports premiered. 1945 – The US Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberated the Dachau concentration camp. 1945 – […]
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April 28 in Pop Culture History 1789 – The HMS Bounty was taken over in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the first mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal supporters were set adrift in a small boat. 1919 – The first jump with the Army manually operated (jump first, then pull the […]
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April 27 in Pop Culture History 4977 BC – The Universe was created, according to Johannes Kepler. 1667 – Blind writer John Milton sold his copyright to Paradise Lost for 10 pounds. He needed the money because he was penniless at the time. 1865 – SS Sultana explosion, Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tennessee, killing 1800 […]
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April 26 in Pop Culture History 662 (Earthquake) Iran 1278 – Imprisoned for murder, John le F*cker sent a letter asking for bail, the earliest recorded instance of the English swear word “f*ck”. 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. People were traditionally baptized three days after birth, this is how […]
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April 25 in Pop Culture History 1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, committed suicide during a peasant rebellion. 1719 – Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was published. 1792 – Highwayman (thief) Nicolas J. Pelletier became the first person executed by guillotine in Paris, France. […]
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April 24 in Pop Culture History 1184 BC – The fall of Troy (with the Trojan Horse) took place, according to tradition. 1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, the News-Letter, was published in Boston, Massachusetts. 1800 – The Library of Congress was established. 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley joined Buffalo […]
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April 23 in Pop Culture History 1516 – A Beer Purity Law was put into law still in effect today in Germany. It was decreed on April 23, 1516, by Munich’s Duke Wilhelm, protecting the country’s beer drinkers from contaminants, chemicals and any other additives that unsavory merchants might have thought of adding. 1564 – […]
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April 22 in Pop Culture History 1056 – First seen July 2, 1054, the supernova in the Crab nebula was last seen by the naked eye. 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés established a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. 1864 – The U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandated that the inscription ‘In […]
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April 21 in Pop Culture History 753 BC – Romulus and his twin brother Remus founded Rome. 1509 – Henry VIII ascended the throne of England. 1878 – The first U.S. firehouse pole was installed in New York City, by Capt. David B. Kenyon at Engine Company 21. 1895 – Woodville Latham and his sons, […]
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April 20 in Pop Culture History 1657 – Freedom of religion was granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (New York City). 1832 – Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas was established as a reservation by an act of Congress. Technically, it was the first United States’ National Park. 1841 – The Murders in the […]
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April 19 in Pop Culture History 1775 – The American Revolution began in Lexington, Massachusetts. 1892 -The first Duryea automobile was operated by pioneer manufacturer Charles E. Duryea in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1897 – The first Boston Marathon was held. 1919 – Leslie Irvin made the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a self-contained parachute. […]
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“Faster than speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall building in a single bound. “Look up in the sky!” “It’s a bird!” “It’s a plane!” It’s Superman!” Yes, it’s superman strange visitor from another planet who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman who […]
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April 18 in Pop Culture History 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica was laid. 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) was founded in Madrid, Spain. 1775 – Paul Revere’s Ride took place. He probably said “The Regulars are coming out” rather subtly since there were British […]
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