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Sears Tower 4 May 2010 | 12:44 am
On May 3, 1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, the world's tallest building at the time, was finished. The Sears Tower rises to a height to 1,450 feet and is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the Chic...
Cheerios 2 May 2010 | 01:09 am
On May 1, 1941 General Mills introduced Cheerios. When Cheerios debuted, they were called Cheerioats. The name was changed to Cheerios due to a dispute with Quaker Oats over naming rights in 1945. ...
Chernobyl 27 Apr 2010 | 06:47 am
On April 26, 1986 at 1:23 a.m., reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, near Prypia in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, suffered a massive, catastrophic power excursion (meltdown). This ca...
New Coke 24 Apr 2010 | 05:39 am
On April 23, 1985, The Coca-Cola Company introduced New Coke. Before World War II, Coca-Cola firmly held the majority of cola sales with a 60% market share. By 1983, their share had dropped to 24% b...
1964 World's Fair 23 Apr 2010 | 04:57 am
On April 22, 1964, the World's Fair opened in Flushing, NY. The fair was held at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in the Borough of Queens. That location held both the 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair an...
Heartbreak Hotel 22 Apr 2010 | 07:50 am
On April 21, 1956, Elvis Presley's first hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel" became a number one hit. The song was inspired by the suicide of a young man who left a note with the line, "I walk a lonely st...
Edgar Allan Poe 21 Apr 2010 | 09:30 am
On April 20, 1841, the first detective story, "Murders in Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe, was published. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is a tale of a grisly double homicide investigated by Poe’s re...
AstroTurf 20 Apr 2010 | 05:43 am
On April 19, 1965, the Houston Astrodome's ceiling was painted because glare from the windows made fielding balls difficult. The skylights were painted a dull translucent white, which reduced the lig...
San Francisco Earthquake 19 Apr 2010 | 08:34 am
At 5:12 a.m.on April 18, 1906, a magnitude 8.3 (Richter Scale) earthquake struck San Francisco. The earthquake was felt from southern Oregon to south of Los Angeles and inland as far as central Nevada...
Ford Mustang 18 Apr 2010 | 12:06 am
On April 17, 1964, Ford sold over 22,000 Mustangs the first day that they were for sale. In 1961, Lee Iacocca, vice president and general manager of Ford, had a vision. His wanted a car that would s...
