For The First Time (or the last time)

For much of the 20th century, women played an important role in telecommunications system of the United States. As telephone operators, they...

On November 10, 1951, Mayor M. Leslie Downing of Englewood, NJ, picked up a telephone and dialed 10 digits. Eighteen seconds later, he reach...

The first transcontinental telephone call in the United States took place in 1915, and required five operators and 23 minutes to set up the ...

Head Start is a US Government program that focuses on assisting children from low-income families. Created in 1965, it has helped more than ...

The term Cyber Monday refers to today -- the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shop...

I'll be back Monday. Have a great Thanksgiving.

What is regarded in American tradition as the "First Thanksgiving" was actually a harvest festival, without a name. In the spring ...

In Del Rio, Texas on Thanksgiving morning in 1963, Carlos "Cisco Kid" Kelp heated up a big pot of peanut oil to cook french fried ...

With great expectations and much fanfare, the Ford Motor Company introduced the 1958 model Edsel on September 4, 1957. The car was named for...

North and South Korea agreed Friday to launch cross-border rail service for the first time in more than half a century, the latest sign of i...

PetroChina became the world's first company worth more than $1 trillion earlier this month, surging past Exxon Mobil as the Chinese oil ...

In 1588, Lithuania abolished slavery. In 1772, slavery was declared illegal in England. In 1777, slavery was abolished in Vermont. In 1799, ...

Las Vegas was long the home of the Anasazi Indians, but the first non-Indian on the scene was a young Mexican scout by the name of Rafael Ri...

Eugene Andrew Cernan (born 1934) is a retired US Navy officer and former NASA astronaut. He has been into space three times: as co-pilot of ...

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...