WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, June 3, 2022 1888, the poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was first published in the “San Francisco Daily Examiner”. He earned $5. 1946, Jacques Heim, a French fashion designer, debuted a two-piece
WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, June 2, 2022 1835, P.T. Barnum began the first circus tour of the United States. 1896, Guglielmo Marconi filed a patent for The Radio. 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second was held at Westminster Abbey. It was the first one
WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, June 1, 2022 1813 U.S. Captain James Lawrence ordered “Don’t give up the ship” after being mortally wounded in battle during the War of 1812. 1869 Inventor Thomas Edison was granted his first
WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, May 31, 2022 1678 The first Lady Godiva Procession to celebrate the legend Godiva’s famous nude ride through Coventry marketplace. Her husband,had promised to relieve Coventry of its heavy taxes if she
WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, May 27, 2022 1937 The Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco, California to Marin County (the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula) opened. Many experts believed that a bridge could not
WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, May 26, 2022 1637 The first battle of the Pequot War (the first war between the settlers and Indians) begins, near present-day New Haven, Connecticut. 1994 The King of Pop Michael Jackson married
WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, May 25, 2022 1951 Baseball legend Willie Mays played his first major-league game. 1969 The controversial film is released. Midnight Cowboy was the first X-Rated film to win an Oscar; however, its rating was later
WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, May 24, 2022 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge over the East River is opened. It connected the cities of New York and Brooklyn for the first time in history. Its construction took 14
WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, May 23, 2022 1701 Scottish pirate, Capt. William ‘Billy the” Kidd was hanged. He had been commissioned by the King to hunt pirates, but instead became one, for which he was hanged
WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, May 20, 2022 1927 The first ‘solo’ transatlantic flight by a man. Charles Lindberg, in The Spirit of St. Louis, left New York. He landed in Paris the following day. Five years later… 1932
WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, May 19, 2022 1906 The Federated Boys’ Clubs was organized. It is now known as the Boys’ Clubs of America. 1910 The earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet. The comet’s
WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, May 18, 2022 1860, Abraham Lincoln was nominated as the Republican candidate for U.S. president at a convention in Chicago. 1927, Grauman’s Chinese Theater opened in Hollywood, California, with the premiere of Cecil B. De Mille’s “The King of Kings”. 001,
WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, May 17, 2022 1792, The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree located on what is now Wall Street. 1845, the Rubber Band was patented. 1875 The first Kentucky Derby is run.
WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, May 13, 2022 1866, Congress authorized minting the nickel Five-Cent Piece to replace the smaller silver piece known as the “Half-Dime”. 1960 Theodore Maiman emitted the world’s first laser light. The term “laser” is an acronym for
WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, May 13, 2022 1637, Cardinal Richelieu of France invented the Table Knife. Until then, people used daggers to cut their meat. Cardinal Richelieu had the points rounded off all the knives at his table.
WAY BACK WHEN for Weds., May 11, 2022 1502 Explorer Christopher Columbus set sail on his fourth voyage to the “New World.” He was searching for a westward passage to the Indian Ocean mainland. 1659 The celebration of
WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, May 9, 2022 1508 Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo began his work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. He completed the masterpiece 5 years later. 1869, America’s First Transcontinental Railroad was finished. The
WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, May 9, 2022 1899 The first Lawn Mower was patented. 1914 Then President Woodrow Wilson established the first Mother’s Day. 1960 The F.D.A. approved use of the birth control pill. 1992 The
WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, May 6, 2022 1937 the Hindenburg blimp disaster took place in New Jersey, killing 36. The radio announcer on the scene yelled, ” Oh the humanity!” . . . which went on
WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, May 5, 2022 1862, the Mexican army scored an upset victory over the invading French army at the Battle of Puebla. It is celebrated today as Cinco De Mayo. FYI: It’s NOT
WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, May 4, 2022 “Star Wars Day!” – “May the 4th be with you!” 1626, a Dutch colonist named Peter Minuit landed on the island of Manhattan. He eventually bought the island from the Indians for
WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, May 3, 2022 1937 Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War novel “Gone with the Wind” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It sold a million copies in its first six months. 1973, the Sears
WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, April 29, 2022 1961, ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” showed the “thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” for the very first time. 1986, Roger Clemens became the first pitcher to strike out 20 batters in
WAY BACK WHEN for Thurs. April 28, 2022 1789, there was a Mutiny on the Bounty! Mutineers seized the British ship called “The Bounty” and set Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in
WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, April 26, 2022 1865 John Wilkes Booth, who shot and killed U.S. President Abraham was shot and killed in Garrett’s barn in Virginia. When Booth refused to come out of the barn,
WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, April 25, 2022 1859 Construction of the Suez Canal, a North-South waterway connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas, begins. It was completed in 1869. 1719 The first volume of Daniel Defoe’s
WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, April 22, 2022 1864, Congress authorized the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins. 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated. 1976, Barbara Walters became network TV’s First Anchor Woman when she signed on to co-anchor
WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, April 21, 2022 1876 The first ‘fire pole’ was installed in a New York City Firehouse. 1918, Baron Manfred Von Richthofen, better known as the “Red Baron”, was shot down. He made a
WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, April 20, 2022 1841 The first ‘Who Done It” book, The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe was published, establishing the literary genre of the detective stories. 1862 Louis Pasteur completed
WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, April 19, 2022 1775, the Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. 1987, “The Simpsons” premiered as a cartoon short between skits on the second episode of Fox’s now-defunct “Tracey Ullman Show”. “The Simpsons” is now the
