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Jen Taylor Friedman made history this year when she became the first female scribe ever to complete a Torah scroll. The Torah comprises the ...

Valentina Tereshkova, born in 1937, was the first woman in space. In 1963, she spent three days in space and orbited the earth 48 times. Val...

Couch potatoes don’t like to leave the couch to adjust the TV, but remote controls go way back before television. One of the earliest exampl...

Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918 – 1996) was the 39th Vice President of the US, serving under Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland. He is most...

The Great Dinky Robbery was a prank perpetrated by four Princeton University students on Friday, May 3, 1963. "Dinky" is a common...

One year after the completion of the first telegraph line - between Washington and Baltimore, in 1844 - the first cables were laid across Ne...

The first man to break the "sound barrier" was Capt. Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager, of the US Air Force. He reached this ...

BOO! Bobby "Boris" Pickett , whose Boris Karloff impression propelled his Halloween anthem Monster Mash to the top of the charts ...

If it weren't for severe motion sickness, Dr. Ashley Stroupe might already have several space shuttle flights under her belt. The child ...

It's official: the Curse of the Bambino is now over. The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition cited, often jokingly, as a reason for...

It sounds like a fast-food grudge match, or selling ice to the Eskimos: Taco Bell is taking on the homeland of its namesake by reopening in ...

The cellular population exceeded half of the number of men, women and children living in the United States for the first time at the end of...

With the "Great Fire of 2007" now in its 27th year, 84-year-old Andrew "The Last Californian" Goldberg has packed up his...

Microsoft dropped a nearly decade-long legal battle with European regulators Monday, agreeing to key parts of an antitrust ruling that has a...

Sales of laptop computers in stores in the United States outpaced those of desktop computers for the first time in 2003, according to resear...

According to the World Association of Newspapers, Johann Carolus (1575 - 1634) was the publisher of the first newspaper, called Relation all...

The Tonight Show is NBC's long-running late-night talk and variety show, now in its 52nd season. It's the second longest-running en...

Today, the telephone is just another consumer electronics product. It's not much different from a television or a PC or stereo system. Y...

The nation's "first" baby boomer, a retired teacher from New Jersey, applied for Social Security retirement benefits Monday, s...

The raw material for petroleum jelly (also known as petrolatum or soft paraffin) was discovered in 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania where it...