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This Day in History: December 28th- The Chipmunk Song
This Day In History: December 28, 1958 The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late), a holiday ditty that people seem to either love or hate with an unbridled passion, went to number one on the...
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This Day in History: January 1st- Pepys’ First
This Day In History: January 1, 1660 The fifth of eleven children (and the first child of his parents to survive to adulthood) born to a London tailor, Samuel Pepys ultimately became a senior Naval...
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This Day in History: January 5th- Ike’s Idea
This Day In History: January 5, 1957 Partly because of the “Better Dead than Red” paranoia that pervaded American politics in the 1950s, Arab nationalism in the Middle East ended up getting lumped in...
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This Day in History: January 6th- Trashing the Garden
This Day In History: January 6, 1975 By the mid-70s, the Beatles had long since broken up and the Rolling Stones were part of the jet-set, cavorting with the likes of Truman Capote and Andy Warhol. The...
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This Day in History: January 12th – The Victory Sausage
This Day In History: January 12, 1943 On January 12, 1943, the U.S. Office of Price Administration let it be known that for the duration of the war the popular hot dog, also known by the German...
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This Day in History: January 13th- A Couple of Dumb-Bells
This Day In History: January 13, 1928 Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Long Island housewife Ruth Snyder and the also-married Henry “Judd” Gray were having a torrid affair, beginning in 1925. In...
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This Day in History: January 14th- The Human Be-In
This Day In History: January 14, 1967 The Human Be-In, or the Gathering of the Tribes, on January 14, 1967 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park brought hippies, LSD and psychedelia to national...
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How the Five Day Work Week Became Popular
On September 25, 1926, the Ford Motor Company instituted a five-day, 40-hour work week for its factory employees. While Ford wasn’t the first to do this, they were arguably one of the most influential....
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The Princess Who Worked at Macy’s
Today in History: September 18, 1923 On September 18, 1923, Princess Anne Antoinette Francois Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma was born in Paris, France. Like most European royalty she was relatively closely...
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Why Were Executions Held at Midnight?
Michael F. asks: Are executions really held at midnight like shown in the movies? If so, why? By the time Rainey Bethea was executed on August 14, 1936, most of the United States had ceased executing...
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Did the Warrior Women Known as the Amazons Ever Actually Exist?
Marleen K asks: Did Amazon women really ever exist? They are mentioned time and again by the ancient Greeks in both their history and mythology, going all the way back to around the 8th century B.C....
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