January 28 in Pop Culture History
January 28 in Pop Culture History 1807 - London's Pall Mall became the first street of any city to be illuminated by gaslight. 1813 - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...
January 27 in Pop Culture History
January 27 in Pop Culture History 1606 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators began for the Gunpowder Plot, ending with their execution on January 31. 1888 -...
January 26 in Pop Culture History
January 26 in Pop Culture History 1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. 1838 - Tennessee became...
January 25 in Pop Culture History
January 25 in Pop Culture History 1533 - Henry VIII of England married his second wife Anne Boleyn. 1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn was played at the...
January 24 in Pop Culture History
January 24 in Pop Culture History 41 - Roman Emperor Caligula was assassinated. 1848 - Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, Coloma, California by James W. Marshall. 1899 - The...
January 23 in Pop Culture History
January 23 in Pop Culture History 1556 (Earthquake) Shaanxi, China. Over 800,000 people may were killed. 1571 - The Royal Exchange opened in London. 1793 - Humane Society of Philadelphia...
January 22 in Pop Culture History
January 22 in Pop Culture History 1890 - The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio. 1943 - Spearfish, North Dakota experienced a forty-nine degree temperature change...
January 21 in Pop Culture History
January 21 in Pop Culture History 1472 - The Great Daylight Comet of 1472 was visible in daylight for 8 days. 1790 - Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed the guillotine to...
January 20 in Pop Culture History
January 20 in Pop Culture History January 20, 1992 was a Good Day for rapper Ice Cube. 1265 - 1st English Parliament was called into session by Earl of Leicester....
January 19 in Pop Culture History
January 19 in Pop Culture History 1825 - The US patent (#X004009) for food storage in cans to "preserve animal substances in tin" was issued to Ezra Daggett and his...
January 18 in Pop Culture History
January 18 in Pop Culture History 1644 - "In this year one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy...
January 17 in Pop Culture History
January 17 in Pop Culture History 1706 - Ben Franklin 'The First American' was born. 1773 - Captain James Cook and his crew became the first Europeans to sail below...
January 16 in Pop Culture History
January 16 in Pop Culture History 1362 - St. Marcellus Flood or Grote Mandrenke (Great Drowning of Men), Netherlands 1547 - Ivan the Terrible crowned himself 1st Tsar of Moscow....
January 15 in Pop Culture History
January 15 in Pop Culture History It's National Hat Day, because in 1797, the 1st top hat was worn, by John Etherington in London. There are 350 days left until...
January 14 in Pop Culture History
January 14 in Pop Culture History 1690 - The Clarinet was invented in Nurnberg, Germany 1794 - Elizabeth Hog Bennett became the first woman in the US to successfully give...
January 13 in Pop Culture History
January 13 in Pop Culture History 1854 - US patent (#11062) for an accordion was issued to Anthony Faas of Philadelphia, Pa. 1863 - Thomas Crapper invented the portable toilet....
January 12 in Pop Culture History
January 12 in Pop Culture History "I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught...
January 11 in Pop Culture History
January 11 in Pop Culture History 1693 (Earthquake) Sicily, Italy 1908 - The Grand Canyon National Monument was created. 1922 - Leonard Thompson (1908-35) was the first person to receive...
January 10 in Pop Culture History
January 10 in Pop Culture History 1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published. 1863 - London's Metropolitan, the world's first underground passenger railway, opened. 1870 - John D....
January 9 in Pop Culture History
January 9 in Pop Culture History 1693 (Earthquake) Sicily, Italy 1788 - Connecticut became the 5th state 1793 - Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first successful balloon flight in the...
January 8 in Pop Culture History
January 8 in Pop Culture History 1780 (Earthquake) Tabriz, Iran 1790 - George Washington gave the first 'State of the Union' message, urging the opening of the US Patent Office....
January 7 in Pop Culture History
January 7 in Pop Culture History 1608 - Fire destroyed the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia 1714 - The world's first patent (#395) for a "Machine for Transcribing Letters" was granted...
January 6 in Pop Culture History
January 6 in Pop Culture History 1540 - King Henry VIII of England married Anne of Cleves. 1838 - Samuel Morse made the 1st public demonstration of telegraph in New...
January 4 in Pop Culture History
January 4 in Pop Culture History 1790 - President Washington delivered the 1st State of the Union address 1865 - The New York Stock Exchange opened its first permanent headquarters...
January 3 in Pop Culture History
January 3 in Pop Culture History January 3 is Take A Nerd To Lunch Day 1521 - Martin Luther was excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church 1777 - Washington defeated the...
January 2 in Pop Culture History
January 2 in Pop Culture History 1788 - Georgia became the 4th state to ratify U.S. constitution. 1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers was founded. 1839 - First...
January 1 in Pop Culture History
January 1 in Pop Culture History 4713 BC - Julian Calendar day #1, according to Joseph Justus Scaliger's cycle of 7980 years. 46 BC - The Julian Calendar began, and...
December 31 in Pop Culture History
December 31 in Pop Culture History 1600 - The British East India Company was chartered. It was the first global mega-corporation. 1805 - The 'Calendar of Reason' had been introduced...
December 30 in Pop Culture History
December 30 in Pop Culture History Only two Atlantic storms/hurricanes were ever observed to span two calendar years: Alice (Dec 30, 1954 - Jan 6, 1955) and, exactly 51 years...
December 29 in Pop Culture History
December 29 in Pop Culture History 1170 - Archbishop Thomas Becket was assassinated in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights, under orders from King Henry II of England. 1851 - The...
December 28 in Pop Culture History
December 28 in Pop Culture History 1065 - Westminster Abbey was consecrated. 1869 - The Knights of Labor, a labor union of tailors in Philadelphia, PA, held the first Labor...
December 27 in Pop Culture History
December 27 in Pop Culture History 1831 - Charles Darwin set sail in the HMS Beagle, beginning his journey discovering evolution. 1895 - "Stag" Lee Sheldon killed his friend Billy...
December 26 in Pop Culture History
December 26 in Pop Culture History 1610 - Countess Elizabeth Bathory had tortured and killed possibly hundreds young girls for over a dozen years. She believed eating flash and bathing...
December 25 in Pop Culture History
December 25 in Pop Culture History 0 (possibly 4 or 6 BC) - Jesus was born. 350 - Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome, proclaimed December 25 the official celebration...
December 24 in Pop Culture History
December 24 in Pop Culture History 1801 - Richard Trevithick publicly displayed his "Puffing Devil," or "Puffer," the first steam-powered passenger vehicle. The steam engine was a prototype of steam...
December 23 in Pop Culture History
December 23 in Pop Culture History 1823 - A Visit From St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, was published. Clement Clarke Moore acknowledged authorship in 1837. 1888...
December 22 in Pop Culture History
December 22 in Pop Culture History 856 (Earthquake) Damghan, Iran 1666 - The French Academy of Sciences was founded. 1808 - Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (Symphony No. 5 in...
December 21 in Pop Culture History
December 21 in Pop Culture History 1620 - William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims landed on (what is now known as Plymouth Rock) in Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1913 - Arthur Wynne...
December 20 in Pop Culture History
December 20 in Pop Culture History 1803 - Although officially signed in April 1803, the French flag came down and the United States' flag rose in New Orleans, completing the...
December 19 in Pop Culture History
December 19 in Pop Culture History 1732 - Benjamin Franklin published the first edition of Poor Richard's Almanac, in Philadelphia. 1843 - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was published. 1871...
December 18 in Pop Culture History
December 18 in Pop Culture History 1620 - The British ship Mayflower docked at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers prepared to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony. Passenger William...
December 17 in Pop Culture History
December 17 in Pop Culture History 497 BC - The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome. 1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicated England's Henry VIII. 1790 - The...
December 16 in Pop Culture History
December 16 in Pop Culture History 1707 (Eruption) The last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan. 1773 - The Boston Tea Party. Massachusetts colonists, 'the Sons of Liberty,' disguised...
December 15 in Pop Culture History
December 15 in Pop Culture History 1827 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, the School Committee voted to require, effective March 1 1828, that public school students show that they...
December 14 in Pop Culture History
December 14 in Pop Culture History 1287 - St. Lucia's Flood, Netherlands 1656 - Imitation pearls were first manufactured by a Frenchman, named Jacquin. 1852 - Cullen Whipple, of Providence,...
December 13 in Pop Culture History
December 13 in Pop Culture History 115 (Earthquake) Antioch, Byzantine Empire (Turkey) 1545 - The Council of Trent began; it was the planning of responding to the Protestant Movement, by...
December 12 In Pop Culture History
December 12 in Pop Culture History 1787 - Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi sent the first Atlantic wireless (radio) transmission (three...
December 11 In Pop Culture History
December 11 in Pop Culture History Babies born today were probably conceived on Saint Patrick's Day. 1769 - Venetian Blinds were patented in London by Edward Bevan in England. 1844...
December 10 in Pop Culture History
December 10 in Pop Culture History 1033 (Earthquake) Ramala (West Bank) 1478 - Arte dell'Abbaco ('The Art of the Abacus'), the first teaching math book, was printed and distributed in...
December 9 In Pop Culture History
December 9 in Pop Culture History 1884 - The US patent (#308990) for ball-bearing roller skates, was issued to Levant M. Richardson. 1907 - Christmas Seals, an outreach from the...
December 8 In Pop Culture History
December 8 in Pop Culture History 1765 - Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts. Whitney invented the cotton gin and developed the concept of mass-production of interchangeable parts, which...
December 7 In Pop Culture History
December 7 in Pop Culture History 1732 - The Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) was opened on London. 1787 - Delaware became 'The First State' to...
December 6 in Pop Culture History
December 6 in Pop Culture History 1790 - The US Congress moved from New York to Philadelphia. 1830 - The U.S. Naval Observatory, one of the oldest scientific agencies in...
December 5 in Pop Culture History
December 5 in Pop Culture History 1455 (Earthquake) Naples, Italy, killing an estimated 40,000 people. 1854 - Aaron H. Allen of Boston, received U.S. patent# 12,017 for a folding chair...
December 4 In Pop Culture History
December 4 in Pop Culture History 1674 - In what is now Chicago, Father Jacques Marquette founded a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek...
December 3 In Pop Culture History
December 3 in Pop Culture History 856 (Earthquake) Tunisia 1910 - The neon light was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show at the Grand Palace. The...
December 2 In Pop Culture History
December 2 in Pop Culture History 1697 - St Paul's Cathedral was consecrated in London. 1763 - Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island. 1804 - At Notre...
December 1 In Pop Culture History
December 1 in Pop Culture History 800 - Charlemagne judged the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican, and decided in the Pope's favor. 1783 - The first manned...
November 30 In Pop Culture History
November 30 in Pop Culture History 3340 BC - Earliest believed record of an eclipse, in Ireland. 1609 - Galileo Galilei realized that the moon was a landscape, not a...
November 29 in Pop Culture History
November 29 in Pop Culture History 533 (Earthquake) Aleppo (now Syria) - 130,000 people estimated killed. 1681 - The Royal College of Physicians, in Edinburgh, Scotland, was granted its charter...
Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
(Proclamation Given October 3, 1863) The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are...
November 28 in Pop Culture History
November 28 in Pop Culture History 2348 BC - A supposed comet , under divine guidance, passed near Earth, causing the Great Flood, in the opinion of Anglican priest and...
November 27 in Pop Culture History
November 27 in Pop Culture History 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703. 1826 - Chemist John Walker invented the friction match in...
Thanksgiving Tradition – Presidential Pardoning of the Turkeys
Every year before the Thanksgiving holiday, the President chooses a turkey or two who will be spared from ending up on your dining room table. In a ceremony that takes...
November 26 in Pop Culture History
November 26 in Pop Culture History 1703 - The Great Storm - more than 8,000 people perished and the first Eddystone Lighthouse (Winstanley's lighthouse) was totally destroyed overnight. 1716 -...
November 25 in Pop Culture History
November 25 in Pop Culture History 1792 - The Old Farmer's Almanac first published by Robert B. Thomas. He added "Old" to the title in 1832 because there was so...
November 24 in Pop Culture History
November 24 in Pop Culture History 1639 - First observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish the size of our Solar System. 1859...
November 23 in Pop Culture History
November 23 1644 - John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. 1874 - A paper by Ferdinand Braun was published in the Annalen der Physik und Chemie describing his...
November 22 in Pop Culture History
For those born on November 22, 1989 you have a special birthday in the year 2033. Why? On 11/22/33 you're turning 44! November 22 in Pop Culture History 1809 -...
November 21 in Pop Culture History
November 21 164 BC - Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restored the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah....
November 20 in Pop Culture History
November 20 1866 - US patent (#59,745) for a yoyo, called a "Whirligig" or "Bandalore" in the paperwork, was issued to James L. Haven and Charles Hittrick of Cincinnati, Ohio....
November 19 in Pop Culture History
November 19 in Pop Culture History 1620 - The Mayflower reached Cape Cod & explored the coast 1805 - Lewis & Clark reached Pacific Ocean, they were the first European...
November 18 in Pop Culture History
November 18 in Pop Culture History 401 - The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, crossed the Alps and invaded northern Italy. 1307 - William Tell shot an apple off...
November 17 in Pop Culture History
November 17 in Pop Culture History 1558 - Queen Mary I of England died and was succeeded by her half-sister, The 'Virgin Queen' Elizabeth I of England. 1827 - The...
November 16 in Pop Culture History
November 16 in Pop Culture History 1620 - The first corn (maize) was found in North America by British settlers, including Myles Standish and William Bradford, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. 1676...
November 15 in Pop Culture History
November 15 in Pop Culture History 1492 - Christopher Columbus' notes included the first recorded reference to tobacco. 1660 - First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) was licensed in New York...
November 14 in Pop Culture History
November 14 1851 - Moby-Dick by Herman Melville was published. 1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to duplicate the literary journey of Jules...
November 13 in Pop Culture History
November 13 in Pop Culture History "On November 13, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence; that request came from his wife. Deep down, he...
November 12 in Pop Culture History
November 12 in Pop Culture History 1799 - Andrew Ellicott wrote the about first known record of a meteor shower observed in the US. We now know they were the...
November 11 in Pop Culture History
November 11 in Pop Culture History 1111 - Most of the people alive at 11:11 11/11/1111 had no idea there was anything interesting about that moment. 1215 - The Fourth...
November 10 in Pop Culture History
November 10 in Pop Culture History 1619 - René Descartes had the dreams that inspired his Meditations on First Philosophy. 1775 - The United States Marine Corps Was Born: "That...
November 9 in Pop Culture History
November 9 in Pop Culture History In Germany, November 9th is called Schicksalstag (Fateful Day) it was the day that Robert Blum was executed in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated in...
November 8 in Pop Culture History
November 8 in Pop Culture History 392 - Roman Emperor Theodosius declared the Christian religion the official state religion. He also dissolved the order of the Vestal Virgins in Rome,...
November 7 in Pop Culture History
November 7 in Pop Culture History 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck ground one afternoon in a wheat field outside the...
November 6 in Pop Culture History
November 6 in Pop Culture History 1572 - A supernova was observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia. Queen Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus, King of Aethiopia and mother of...
November 5 in Pop Culture History
November 5 in Pop Culture History 1530 - St. Felix's Flood, Netherlands 1605 - Gunpowder Plot - an attempt to blow up English Parliament. Plot discovered and leader Guy Fawkes...
November 4 in Pop Culture History
November 4 in Pop Culture History 1667 (Earthquake) Shamakhi (now Azerbaijan) estimated 80,000 people killed. 1841 - First wagon train arrived in California. They left Independence, Missouri on May 1,...
November 3 in Pop Culture History
November 3 in Pop Culture History November 3rd is National Sandwich Day! Not coincidentally, it is also the birthday of John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, who is credited with...
November 2 in Pop Culture History
November 2 in Pop Culture History 1898 - Cheerleading was started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team with "Rah,...
November 1 in Pop Culture History
November 1 in Pop Culture History 1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in Vatican, Italy were first exhibited. He started the work in 1508. 1570 - The...
The Big List of Knock Knock Jokes For National Knock-Knock Day!
October 31st is well known as Halloween, but did you know it is also National Knock-Knock Day? Knock, Knock... Who's there? Robin Robin who? Robin you! Give me your wallet!...
The History of Halloween
(PCM) Halloween is probably the longest-running holiday with a set day or time period. The earliest celebrations of the day that became November 1st was Samhain, a celebration of the...
October 31 in Pop Culture History
October 31 in Pop Culture History 683 - During the second Second Islamic Civil War and the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba caught fire and burned down. 1517 - Martin...
October 30 in Pop Culture History
October 30 in Pop Culture History October 30 is National Candy Corn Day 1876 - Great Backeganj Cyclone, India (now Bangladesh) 1945 - Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs...
October 29 in Pop Culture History
October 29 in Pop Culture History 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded for conspiring against James I of England. 1886 - The first ticker tape parade took place in...
October 28 in Pop Culture History
October 28 in Pop Culture History 1420 - Beijing became the officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of...
October 27 in Pop Culture History
October 27 in Pop Culture History 312 - Constantine the Great saw the Vision of the Cross. "In this sign, you shall conquer" 1275 - Amsterdam, in the Kingdom of...
October 26 in Pop Culture History
October 26 in Pop Culture History 1774 - The first Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia. 1775 - King George III of Great Britain went before Parliament to declare the American...
October 25 in Pop Culture History
October 25 in Pop Culture History 1938 - Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounced swing music as "a degenerated musical system, turned loose to gnaw away at the...