For The First Time (or the last time)

With a name borrowed from an automobile tire sold in the Sears-Roebuck catalog and $700,000 in Sears funding, the Allstate Insurance Company...

Saturday Night Fever starred John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a ...

Coin-operated music boxes and player pianos provided automatic pay-per-tune music in fairgrounds, amusement parks and other public places in...

Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture in the southeastern portion of the modern state of Massachusetts from 1620 until 1691. Found...

Soong Ch'ing-ling (1893 – 1981), also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of three sisters whose husbands were among China's most s...

María Estela Martínez Cartas was born in Argentina in 1931. She became a nightclub dancer in the early 1950s, adopting a non-Spanish variant...

In 1976, Japanese inventor Kazuo Hashimoto built a prototype of a caller ID display device. In 1982, a patent for Caller ID was filed by Car...

A Swiss Army knife is a multi-function pocket tool with a knife blade and other tools, such as screwdriver, tweezers and can opener. It orig...

Ten years ago, Philippe Kahn was in a hospital. "We were going to have a baby and I wanted to share the pictures," Kahn said, ...

In 1858, Sir William Herschel, Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly district in Jungipoor, India, first used fingerprints on contracts. On a whim...

The earliest known use and mention of a rear-view mirror is in the 1906 book The Woman and the Car which noted that women should "carr...

Today, at 4:50pm, Eastern Daylight Time, Cynical Cousin Dave declared that Pumacat , who wrote to Slate.com to predict that Tony Soprano wou...

Flip Wilson was among a group of rising black comics of the early 1970s, of such notoriety as Bill Cosby, Nipsey Russell and Dick Gregory. H...

DaimlerChrysler announced today a deal to sell a controlling stake in Chrysler Group, Detroit's No. 3 auto maker, to private-equity firm...

In 1967, IBM wanted to develop a simple and inexpensive system for loading microcode into their System/370 mainframe computers. The 370 was ...

The garbage disposer (or disposal) was invented in 1927 by John W. Hammes, an architect in Racine, Wisconsin. After eleven years of developm...

The final Plymouth rolled off a Chrysler assembly line in 2001. It was a silver Neon LX with a manual transmission. It was fitting that the ...

In its native Central America and South America, rubber has been collected for a long time. Early civilizations played with rubber balls, an...

Next Sunday, May 13, Mothers' Day will be celebrated in the US and Canada; and the holiday is celebrated on other days in other countrie...

Just-add-hot-water "instant" coffee was invented by Japanese American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago in 1901. The first mass-produ...