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LEIF ERIKSSON DAY In A.D. 1000, long before Columbus, Eriksson led a Viking voyage westward from Greenland and reached the coast of North America, in what is now Newfoundland. He named his discovery Vinland. Although Eriksson is not officially credited with the European discovery of […]
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Walter Francis O’Malley (October 9, 1903 – August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the […]
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Cornell University is a private Ivy League and statutory land-grant research university, based in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, it has consistently been ranked among the top universities in the world by major educational publications. Cornell was founded with the intention to teach and make contributions […]
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian. Self-billed as “The World’s Greatest Entertainer”, Jolson is credited with being America’s most famous and highest-paid star of the 1920s. He was known for his […]
Every Year WORLD TEACHERS’ DAY 1700s BORN 1703: JONATHAN EDWARDS (PHILOSOPHER) 1810s DIED 1813: TECUMSEH (NATIVE AMERICAN LEADER) DIED 1818: NANCY HANKS LINCOLN (MOTHER OF U.S. PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN) 1820s BORN 1829: CHESTER ARTHUR (21ST U.S. PRESIDENT) 1860s BORN 1864: LOUIS LUMIERE (INVENTOR) 1880s BORN […]
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday, October 4, 1931 in the Detroit Mirror, and it was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Gould wrote […]
Every Year UNITY DAY (GERMANY) 1220s DIED 1226: ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI 1790s BORN 1790: JOHN ROSS (CHEROKEE NATION CHIEF) 1860s 1863: PRESIDENT LINCOLN DECLARED THE LAST THURSDAY IN NOVEMBER AS THANKSGIVING DAY 1868: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S LITTLE WOMEN FIRST PUBLISHED 1890s BORN 1898: LEO […]
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The St. Lawrence Seaway (French: la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth, Minnesota, at the western […]
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Another World (often shortened to AW) is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from May 4, 1964, to June 25, 1999.[1][2] It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J. Bell, and was produced by Procter & Gamble Productions at NBC Studios, 1268 JC Studios in Brooklyn. Set in the fictional town of Bay […]
ON THIS DATE IN 1880, CANADA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM, “O CANADA,” WAS FIRST PERFORMED IN QUEBEC CITY, CANADA. FULL STRAWBERRY MOON In 2020, the Full Moon for June rises on June 5 at 3:12 PM EDT. For some Native Americans, this month’s Moon was called the […]
