When Jim Morrison arrived at the Dinner Key Auditorium on March 1, 1969, he was drunk. Five days later, authorities would arrest Morrison…
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When New Zealand granted women the vote in 1893, they beat the rest of the world by forever. No other country would have…
Had journalist and politician, Henry Jarvis Raymond, known that a future president might one day accuse his paper of printing fake news, he…
It was on ABC, Thursday, September 15, 1949, when the Lone Ranger first premiered on television. It was before many homes had a…
When Francis Scott Key scribbled the lyrics for America’s Anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, it was from the deck of an American sloop in…
Sandwiched in the space of time before Washington D.C. became the capital, and the time when Philadelphia served that function, New York effing City…
When Jacques Marsal closed his eyes for the last time on July 15, 1989, at 63 years old he ended his 49 year vigil,…
Coshocton, Ohio (1950)–Most of the National Guardsmen were asleep when the Spirit of St. Louis rammed the back of their “troop train.” It was…
When the Bostonian magazine, Youth’s Companion, a rag aimed at families, released their September issue, it featured the first version of the Pledge of…
The birthday of the Uncle Sam meme is September 7, 1813, 205 years ago. It was the second calendar year of the War of…
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