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On January 9, 1976, the now classic film Rocky began filming. The movie was written and starred by Sylvester Stallone. The entire film...

On January 8, 1790, President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City. The address gave a brief...

On January 7, 1927, The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team played their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. Created and founded by Abe...

On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse demonstrated the use of the telegraph system. Morse Code was able to transmit encoded message over a...

On January 3, 1959, Alaska becomes the 49th state in the United States, the first of the two non-contiguous states. Alaska is the...

On January 2, 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to enter the Union. Although Atlanta is the current state capital since 1868, the...

On December 30, 1981, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky set the NHL record for scoring 50 goals in only 39 games, becoming the fastest player...

On December 27, 1932, Radio City Music Hall opened in Manhattan, NY. In October 1928, John D. Rockefeller Jr. signed the lease for a...

On December 26, 1996, the body of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found under a blanket in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder,...

On December 23, 1823, A Visit From St. Nicholas was published in the Troy Sentinel newspaper in New York. The poem is better known now as...

On December 21, 1891, the first game of basketball was played. Created by 30-year-old James Naismith, the original game only had 13...

On December 19, 1917, the first NHL games were played. The brand new league began when the National Hockey Association of Canada Limited...

On December 18, 1932, the first NFL playoff game was played indoors in Chicago Stadium, the home of the city’s NHL team. The Chicago...

On December 17, 1903, the first self-propelled airplane flew for the first time. Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright began inventing...

On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists protested the British Parliament’s Tea Act by dumping tea in the Boston Harbor; dubbed The...

On December 13, 2000, Vice President and presidential candidate, Al Gore conceded to George W. Bush after weeks of legal battles over the...

On December 12, 1901, the first transatlantic radio transmission was sent. Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and radio pioneer along...

On December 11, 1816, Indiana became the 19th state in America. President James Madison signed the congressional resolution admitting...

On December 10, 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper currency in the U.S. The paper currency was in the form of...

On December 9, 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on national television for the first time on CBS. The 30-minute animated cartoon is...