1978 Happy birthday to Garfield!  41 newspapers throughout the United States were the lucky first-time readers of the brand-new Garfield comic strip created by talented cartoonist, Jim Davis There are now over 220 million folks who read Garfield every day in over 2500 newspapers worldwide. 1989 Batman premiered! and then lastly... One year ago 2014 [...]

A new composite of the world's most desirable woman has been created ... and three of the body parts are from stars over the age of 45. The final result combines 69-year-old Helen Mirren's bust, 46-year-old Jennifer Aniston's flat tummy, and 51-year-old Elle Macpherson's long legs. All these elements make up what would be the [...]

  Here are 11 of the most common Father's Day gifts, and the percentage of dads who say they want them . . . 1.  A day with the family, 57%.   2.  Electronics and gadgets, 37%.   3.  Gift card, 37%.   4.  Home-cooked meal, 36%.   5.  Pictures of their children or grandchildren, [...]

1928 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean! She completed a flight from Newfoundland, Canada to Wales. 1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger. 2013 Boeing's Dreamliner plane, the 787-10, debuted at the Paris Air Show! and then lastly... 1976 Happy 39th [...]

1872 George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas. The town had been dry up until this point. 1928 Amelia Earhart began the flight that made her the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean Proud Kansan!  1992 Billy Ray Cyrus was at #1 on the country charts with Achy Breaky Heart! [...]

A journalist gathered the statistics on animal-caused fatalities in the US between 2001 and 2013 to come up with a chart of what animal would likely kill you. Bees, wasps and hornets kill the most people each year with an average of 58 people per year. Miscellaneous mammals like horses, pigs and deer came in [...]