For The First Time (or the last time)

The majority of witch trials in the US took place in New England, mostly in Massachusetts. The most famous trials were in Salem, MA in 1692....

"Jumping the shark" is a colloquialism used by TV critics and fans to denote the point in a TV or movie series when the characters...

The first commercial screening of movies with fully synchronized sound took place in 1923, and the first feature-length movie originally pre...

In 1898, during the Spanish-American war, the US was the first country to dispatch a specialized hospital ship into a battle zone. The hospi...

According to Madeleine Kunin, a former governor of Vermont, 16% is the percentage of women in the U.S. Congress, a record high. Sixteen perc...

In 1983 President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 25 as National Missing Children’s Day. Each administration since has honored this annual rem...

Adventurer Alison Levine has become the first American to follow a remote route to the geographic South Pole pioneered by Italian explorer R...

The battle between cable and phone companies to sign up new customers for high-speed Internet service is heating up. Customers can save mone...

I'm taking a few days off

North Dakota Governor Ed Schafer signed legislation in 1999 allowing local farmers to "plant, grow, harvest, possess, sell, and buy ind...

A television reporter standing in front of the White House is a familiar image, and the location is used almost every day. In the early 1960...

Following the normalization of US-Cuban relations in 2009, US President Barack Obama visited Cuba in August, 2010. Obama met with new Cuban ...

During the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, a peace rally in Grant Park ended when the police clubbed a teenager who was lowering an A...

First black man elected US president. First multi-racial man elected US president. First president born in Hawaii. First defeated candidate ...

A Florida school board voted late Monday night to keep the name of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader at a majority black h...

In 1979 President Jimmy Carter proposed a "new solar strategy" to "move our Nation toward true energy security and abundant, ...

Belief in the existence of a vast continent located in the far south of the Earth has existed since around the year 150. Ptolemy, the Greek ...

A city that has waited a quarter-century for a major professional sports championship will have to wait even longer. The fifth game of the W...

Maybe Governor Sarah Palin had an abortion the first time she got pregnant, and then got married after the second time she got pregnant. May...