June 11 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 11 History Highlights1895 – Paris-Bordeaux-Paris, the “first motor race”, took place.June 11, 1934 – Mandrake the Magician, Comic Strip debuted1935 – The London International Surrealist Exhibition opened.June 11, 2001 – Game Boy Advance released, Video Game Console2018 – 3 World Trade Center officially opened.If you were […]
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June 10 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 10 History Highlights1692 – Bridget Bishop was hanged at Gallows Hill during the Salen Witch Trials.1935 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by DR. Robert Smith and Bill Wilson.1963 – The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex,
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June 8 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 8 History Highlights1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments (Bill of Rights) to the United States Constitution in Congress.1912 – Universal Pictures was founded by Carl Laemmle.1949 – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was published.1953 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia
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June 7 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 7 History Highlights1776 – Richard Henry Lee presented the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress.1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agreed in the Lyons-Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.1914 – The Alliance was the first vessel to pass through the Panama
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June 6 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 6 History Highlights1933 – 1933 – America’s first drive-in opened near Camden, New Jersey, opened.1942 – The United States Navy’s victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway.1944 – D-Day: The Normandy Landings1983 – Reading Rainbow premiered on PBSIf you were born on
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June 5 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 5 History Highlights1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin began publication.1967 – The Six-Day War, between Isreal and its Neighboring countries June 5-111981 – The AIDS virus was first noted.If you were born on June 5th,You were likely conceived the week of… September 12th (prior
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June 4 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 4 History Highlights1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrated their montgolfière (hot air balloon).1896 – Henry Ford completed the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile.1939 – The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, was denied permission to land in the United States.1942 –
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About 80s Music: Pop Superstars, MTV, New Wave, Hip-Hop, Hair Metal, Synth-Pop, Movie Soundtracks, and Songs That Defined a DecadeMusic of the 1980s was colorful, electronic, loud, glossy, rebellious, commercial, and wonderfully strange. The decade gave us MTV, global pop superstars, hip-hop breakthroughs, new wave, synth-pop, hair metal, college rock, dance-pop, blockbuster soundtrack hits, power
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June 3 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 3 History Highlights1937 – The Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson.1940 – The Battle of Dunkirk ended with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.1989 – The government of China sent troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after almost 2 months
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June 2 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 2 History Highlights1692 – Prosecutions in the Salem Witch Trials began1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus began touring the United States.1953 – The coronation of the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II.1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed.If you were born on June
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June 1 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 1 History Highlights1792 – Kentucky became the 15th US state.1796 – Tennessee became the 16th US state.1812 – US President James Madison asked Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom, starting the War of 1812..1938 – Superman debuted in Action Comics #12009 – General Motors
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June Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune HighlightsBirthstone: Moonstone or PearlFlower: Rose or HoneysuckleGemini (May 21 – June 20)Cancer (June 21 – July 20)June has the Summer Solstice, the day with the longest daylight of the year, typically on June 21st, which is also National Nude day.June is often considered a “summer month”, whereas
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May 31 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 31 History Highlights1909 – The National Negro Committee, the forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convened for the first time.1911 – The RMS Titanic was launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.1971 – Observation of Memorial Day occurred on the last Monday
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May 30 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 30 History Highlights1842 – John Francis attempted to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London.1854 – The US territories of Kansas and Nebraska were established.1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ended with Ray Harroun in his Marmon
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May 29 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 29 History Highlights1886 – John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, in The Atlanta Journal.1919 – Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was tested (and later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.1953 – Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing
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May 28 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 28 History Highlights1830 – President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which denied Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocated them.1934 – In Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets were born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne1936 – Alan Turing published On Computable Numbers.1961 – Peter
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May 27 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 27 History Highlights1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg.1933 – The Century of Progress World’s Fair opened in Chicago.1941 – The British navy sank the German battleship, Bismarck, in the North Atlantic near France, killing over 2,000 Germans.1972 – The Anti-Ballistic
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May 26 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 26 History Highlights1868 – The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal by a single vote.1923 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held.1927 – The last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.1967 –
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May 25 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 25 History Highlights240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.It will next appear in mid-2061.1925 – John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.1977 – 1977 – Star Wars (now Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) opened Memorial Day
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Geese in Delaware: Local Honkers and HangoutsDelaware is more than tax-free shopping and scrapple—it’s also home to thousands of geese, especially the well-known Canada goose, a familiar sight in neighborhoods, parks, and farm fields across the state. Depending on the season, these large waterfowl have made Delaware part of their year-round or migratory home.(PCM’s What
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May 24 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 24 History Highlights1626 – Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Lenape Indians for “60 guilders worth of trade,” approximately $1,143 in 2020 dollars.1844 – Samuel F.B. Morse sent the first public telegraph message – ‘What Hath God Wrought?’ through the Washington-to-Baltimore telegraph line.1958 – United Press
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May 23 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 23 History Highlights1430 – 1430 – Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians1788 – South Carolina officially became the eighth US state.1995 – The first version of the Java programming language was released.1873 – The Canadian Parliament established the North-West Mounted Police, later named the
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May 22 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 22 History Highlights1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began, from St. Charles, Missouri.US President #16 Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to receive a patent, on his floating drydock on May 22, 1849, US patent #6469.1906 – The Wright brothers were granted US
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May 21 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 21 History Highlights1881 – The American Red Cross was established by Clara Barton in Washington, DC.1972 – Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome was damaged by a mentally disturbed Hungarian, Laszlo Toth.2001 – French Taubira law officially recognized the Atlantic slave trade and slavery
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May 20 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 20 History Highlights1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.1883 – Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploded three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.1940 – The first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp.1956 –
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May 19 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 19 History Highlights1848 – Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day US states to the United States for $15 million.1962 – Marilyn Monroe sang her famous Happy Birthday to President John
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May 18 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 18 History Highlights1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.1860 – Abraham Lincoln won the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward.1953 – Jackie Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier.If you were born on May
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Top 100 Thank You Songs: Gratitude, Appreciation, Friendship, and Tribute Music Thank you songs are made for the moments when ordinary words feel a little too small. They work for friends, family, teachers, parents, mentors, coworkers, volunteers, caregivers, veterans, coaches, partners, pastors, neighbors, and the people who quietly made life better without asking for a
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May 17 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 17 History Highlights1756 – Seven Years’ War formally began when Great Britain declared war on France.1900 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, was first published in the United States.1954 – The US Supreme Court declared a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board
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May 16 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 16 History Highlights1866 – The United States Congress established the 5-cent nickel.1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense.It was repealed on December 13, 1920.1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic
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