June 15 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 15 History Highlights1520 – Pope Leo X threatened to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.1667 – The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.1936 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th US state.1934 – The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was founded.If you […]
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Father’s Day & The Big List of Dad JokesAbout Father’s DayFather’s Day was started in 1909 by Sonora Louise Smart Dodd from Spokane, WA to honor her dad, William Smart. Dodd’s mother died during childbirth with her sixth baby, leaving Smart, a Civil War veteran, to raise the kids himself. When Dodd was grown up
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June 14 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 14 History Highlights1775 -The Continental Army was established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.1900 – Hawaii became a United States territory.1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rode a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 83 miles (134 km), thereby
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June 13 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 13 History Highlights1774 – Rhode Island became the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.1966 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.1967 – President Lyndon
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June 12 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryJune 12 History Highlights1817 – The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, was driven by Karl von Drais.1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York.June 12, 1968 Birthday (fictional) Marty McFly, Back to the Future 1987 – At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S.
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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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