May 11 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 11 History Highlights1846 – President James K. Polk requested a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.1858 – Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd state of the United States1960 -Adolf Eichmann was captured by the Mossad in Argentina.The 1970 Lubbock tornado killed 26 people
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May 10 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 10 History Highlights1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette became King and Queen of France1908 – Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.Mother’s Day in Mexico is a set date of May 10th every year, unlike most
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May 9 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 9 History Highlights1662 – The precursor to Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.1955 – West Germany joined NATO.1961 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gave his Television is a Vast Wasteland Speech.1974 – The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opened impeachment
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Mother Songs and Mother’s Day Music: Songs About Mom, Mama, Mothers, and MotherhoodMother songs can be sweet, sentimental, funny, heartbreaking, grateful, complicated, or just plain catchy. Some songs are perfect for Mother’s Day. Some honor a mother’s love, strength, sacrifice, advice, humor, or memory. Others use “mama” in a story that is more dramatic than
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May 8 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 8 History Highlights1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sold his carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine.1933 – Mohandas Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.1945 – Germany’s ‘second surrender’ with StalinMay 8, 21** Birthday
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May 7 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 7 History Highlights1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) was founded.1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit was first published by Geoffrey Dummer.2013 – The Dow Jones Index closed above 15,000 for the first time.If you were born on May 7th,You were likely conceived
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May 6 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture History May 6 History Highlights 1527 – The Sack of Rome was carried out by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. 1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was the first adhesive postal stamp. 1937
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May 5 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 5 History Highlights1260 – Kublai Khan became the ruler of the Mongol Empire.1847 – The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded.1893 – Stock Market Crash of 1893, the second-worst economic crisis in American history, so far.1987 – Congressional televised hearings in the United States began over
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May 4 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 4 History Highlights1776 – Rhode Island was the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.1904 – The United States began the construction of the Panama Canal.May 4 is Star Wars Day. “May the Fourth be with you.”May 4 Birthday (fictional) Alice, In WonderlandIf
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May 3 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 3 History Highlights1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 began in Jacksonville, Florida.1948 – CBS Evening News premiered with a 15 minute broadcast.1971 – National Public Radio began broadcasting1979 – Margaret Thatcher won the United Kingdom general election, and became the first female British Prime Minister
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May 2 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 2 History Highlights1611 – The King James Bible was published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.1885 – Good Housekeeping magazine began publication.1939 – Lou Gehrig’s playing streak ended with 2,130 consecutive games played since May 25, 1925.2011 – Osama bin Laden
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May 1 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMay 1 History Highlights1707 – The Act of Union, uniting England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain took effect.1893 – The influential Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago.1939 – Batman debuted in Detective Comics #271956 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was made
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May Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMonth of May History HighlightsBirthstone: EmeraldFlower: Lily of the ValleyTaurus (April 21 – May 20)Gemini (May 21 – June 21)The first seven days in May is Choose Privacy WeekSpanish: En mayo, Italian: Mei, French: Mei, German: Mai, Polish: Maj, Latin: MaiusWhy so many June weddings? Maybe this old
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April 30 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 30 History Highlights1938 – The cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuted in movie theaters, introducing ‘Happy Rabbit’ (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).1939 – The 1939/1940 New York World’s Fair opened.1939 – Franklin Roosevelt became the first US President to appear on Televsion, while appearing at the
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April 29 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 29 History Highlights1770 – James Cook arrived in Australia, and named Botany Bay.1945 – The Dachau concentration camp was liberated.1968 – Hair, a hippie/counter-culture and sexual revolution musical, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway.2011 – The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place
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April 28 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 28 History Highlights1789 – The Mutiny on the Bounty took place.1967 – World boxing champion Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) refused to be inducted into the US Army and was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title.2001 – Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space,
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April 27 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 27 History Highlights1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.1967 – Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Quebec.1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics joined the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.2006 – Construction began on the
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April 26 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 26 History Highlights1954 – Polio vaccine trials began.April 26, 1968 Birthday (fictional) Lorelai Gilmore, TV Mom1986 – A nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, created the world’s worst nuclear disaster.April 26, 19** Birthday
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About 70s Music: Classic Rock, Disco, Funk, Soul, Singer-Songwriters, Punk, New Wave, Pop, and Songs That Took Over the RadioMusic of the 1970s was big, messy, emotional, danceable, loud, strange, and impossible to squeeze into one neat box. The decade gave us classic rock, disco, funk, soul, soft rock, singer-songwriters, Southern rock, progressive rock, punk,
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April 25 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 25 History Highlights1901 – New York required the first license plates.1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson published Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed.If you were
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April 24 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 24 History Highlights1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, began publication.1800 – The Library of Congress was founded.1913 – The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, was opened.It was the tallest building in the world until 1930.1990 –
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April 23 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 23 History Highlights1516 – The Munich Reinheitsgebot, rules regarding the ingredients of beer, took effect in all of Bavaria.1635 – America’s oldest school, The Boston Latin School opened.1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.1940 -The Rhythm Club fire
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April 22 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 22 History Highlights1864 – The US Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games,
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April 20 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 20 History Highlights1836 – The US Congress created the Wisconsin Territory.1898 – President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for a declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolved, giving most of its power to the
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About Music of the Sixties: Rock, Soul, Motown, Surf, Folk, Psychedelia, Garage Bands, Bubblegum Pop, and Songs That Changed CultureMusic of the 1960s moved fast. The decade opened with teen idols, doo-wop leftovers, dance crazes, Brill Building pop, surf rock, girl groups, early Motown, and clean-cut television-friendly stars. By the end of the decade, popular
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April 19 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 19 History Highlights1770 – Captain James Cook discovered the eastern coast of what is now Australia.1987 – The Simpsons first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show,1993 – The Branch Davidian Fire, caused by federal agents at Waco, killed 86 people.1995 –
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April 18 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 18 History Highlights1906 – The San Francisco Earthquake killed nearly 4,000 people.1925 – The International Amateur Radio Union formed in Paris.1946 – The International Court of Justice held its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.1955 – Indonesia’s President Sukarno first used the term “third world” at
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Top 100 Girl Group Songs: Classic Hits, Motown Favorites, Pop Anthems, and Girl Power Girl group songs have shaped pop music for more than six decades. From early doo-wop harmonies and Brill Building drama to Motown polish, 1980s pop-rock, 1990s R&B, and modern global pop, girl groups have given music some of its catchiest hooks,
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April 17 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 17 History Highlights1521 – The trial of Martin Luther over his teachings began during the assembly of the Diet of Worms.1961 – The Bay of Pigs Invasion2014 – NASA’s Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet, Kepler-186f.April 17, 19** Birthday (fictional) Daffy
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April 16 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 16 History Highlights1862 – Emancipation Day – Abraham Lincoln freed 3,1000 slaves in Washington DC.1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah.1946 – The United States Army liberated Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Colditz, aka Oflag IV-C.1947 – Bernard Baruch first used the
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