1881 Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages. Damnit, Kansas! 1984 The XIV Winter Olympic Games closed in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Within the shadow of what was the Olympic Stadium, hundreds, maybe thousands, of Bosnians are now buried; the result of the civil war that began in the early 1990s. Tragic. 1985 Cherry Coke was introduced by the Coca-Cola [...]
The annual "Oscar" nominee gift bags - stuffed with more than 80 gifts - are worth a record $167,000-plus each. That's $17,000 more than the previous record of $150,000 set back in 2005. The Oscar nominee gift bags are hand-delivered the day after the Oscar broadcast as a sort of "consolation" prize to the 21 [...]
An MTA worker in New York named Charles Gaston was working in a subway tunnel in the Bronx last week, and found a stray dog that was shivering and covered in filth. Its hair was matted and almost black, and Charles thinks she might have been down there for MONTHS. None of the other workers [...]
1937 Kansas Dust Storms A dust storm hit five states - Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. I remember my grandmother telling me about the dust bowl days. She would say that people could taste the dirt in their food at dinner time. During the dust bowl storms, dust in the air was so thick that [...]
There are 33 Americans still in the running to be the first pioneers to live (and die) on Mars. The applicants started with 200,000 and then the Mars One crew in Denmark took it down to 50 men and 50 women, 33 of which are from the US. From this list only 4 US [...]
The new "Hello Barbie" doll will connect to the internet, so she can have 2-way conversations with children. Mattel showed off the new Barbie at the New York Toy Fair last weekend, and said they partnered with a speech-recognition company called Toytalk to make the doll.The doll's digital makeover will connect it to the [...]
1972 The 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle rolled out of the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, surpassing the Ford Model T to become the most heavily produced car in history! The Beetle is the world's best selling car design, but the Toyota Corrola has actually sold more units since - it's just had a lot of major changes since being [...]
A widow in Wyoming got flowers from her late husband from beyond the grave because he arranged for her to get Valentine's Day flowers every year for the rest of her life.The 52-year-old woman said she was stunned when flowers were arrived from her husband of 28 years who passed away last June from [...]
