There is much history surrounding this, but on this date in 1913, the Indian Head or Buffalo Nickel was officially released into circulation.  It was originally worth five cents, and the depiction on the coin is believed to be a composite of three Native Americans, two of whom modeled for the creator of this coin, James Earl Fraser.  In total, […]

I was intrigued to discover that my state figures in today’s feature.  On this day in 1919, international air mail service began in the U.S.  Bill Boeing and Eddie Hubbard carried 60 letters via air from Vancouver, Canada to Seattle, WA.  And I guess all the rest is history. For more info: http://www.aerodacious.com/FAM002.HTM http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/03/dayintech_0303 http://www.centennialofflight.net/essay/Government_Role/1918-1924/POL3.htm

Any Disneyland fans out there?  It just so happens that on this day in1986, the Safari Outpost opened in Adventureland in California’s Disneyland.  I think I remember this shop.  Unfortunately, this shop closed in 1995. For more info: http://www.disneybymark.com/2013/03/01/this-month-in-disneyland-history-2/ http://www.justdisney.com/disneyland/disneyland_timeline/dl_timeline04.html#anchor1069581

I remember this date very clearly because I was the only one in my family rooting for Katarina Witt to win gold.  It was on this date in 1988, that Katarina Witt won her second consecutive gold medal at the Winter Olympics.  She beat out our skater Debbie Thomas (who I honestly never really liked). For more info: http://www.examiner.com/article/this-day-black-sports-history-february-27-1988 http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/28/sports/88-winter-olympics-witt-is-gold-medalist-for-a-second-time.html

You may be familiar with Galileo Galilei, and on this date in 1616, he was presented with an injunction from the Spanish Inquisition.  Unfprtunately, the result of all this was that Galileo had to reverse his theory that the earth revolved around the sun.  No wonder the church is traditionally seen as backward in the field of science.  This was […]

I was intrigued to discoer that on this date in 1942, actress Karen Grassle was born.  This means that my dad’s favorite show, “Little House on the Prairie’s” Caroline Ingalls was born in he same year as he was.  I liked the show, too, but it is almost a religion for my dad. For more info: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Grassle http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002111/

I grew up watching this actor in the show Different Strokes, and no one in my family knew the issues surrounding the show, least of all me.  On this date in 1993, one of the stars, Gary Coleman, won a massive lawsuit against his parents.  His parents (and business manager) misappropriated his amazing hundreds of thousands of dollars he earned […]

Ready to think this morning?  On this date in 2002 at 8:02 P.M., an unusual circumstance occurd.  Throughout most of the world, the date is written day and then month.  The U.S. is different than most of the world.  In military time, 8:02 is 20:02.  Therefore, on 20/02 at 20:02 in 2002, a palindrome exists.  This means it is the […]

Now for a bit of Olympics trivia.  On this date in 1998, the U.S. Hockey team (who had been defeated) participated in some hotel vandalism.  It was not known how many took out their anger in this manner, but it took place in Nagano, Japan in the Olympics village.  They had been eliminated from the hockey tournament about ten hours […]

On this date in 1954, this man (and his followers) established the First Church of Scientology.  I will be the first to admit that I know very little about Scientology, and I would not ever follow this particular way of thinking.  I know Ginger Rogers was a devout Christian Scientist, and Tom Cruise is one as well.  This first church […]