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August 18, 1920 – The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote.

August 15, 1969 – Woodstock began in a field near Yasgur’s Farm at Bethel, New York. The three-day concert featured 24 rock bands and drew a crowd of more than 300,000 young people. The event came to symbolize the counter-culture movement of the 1960’s.

Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the U.S. on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. wikipedia.org

In April 25, 1901, New York was the first state to require Drivers Licenses.  At the time, a drivers license cost $1.00.

On April 18, 1775,  Paul Revere rode from Charleston to Lexington, Massachusetts shouting his famous saying: “The red Coats are Coming.” The poem is spoken by the landlord of the Wayside Inn and tells a partly fictionalized story of Paul Revere. In the poem, Revere tells a friend to prepare signal lanterns in the Old North Church (North End, Boston) to inform him whether the […]

On April 1, 1792, Oliver Pollack invented the dollar sign $.

January 1, 1878 – Emma Nutt became the first woman telephone operator. She loved the job and worked at it for 33 years.  This special day celebrates the world of telephone operators. It was a very important job for many decades. Today, the position has been eliminated being replaced by automation in telephone systems. Can you imagine what Emma would […]

January 12, 1966 –  Batman debuts on television. Batman is a 1960s American live action television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name, It was described by executive producer William Dozier as the only situation comedy on the air without a laugh track. The 120 episodes aired on the ABC network for three seasons from […]

January 24, 1935 – Beer was first sold in cans.  A lot of people do not know that there’s a huge number of beer can collectors out there. Collectors meticulously open a beer can from the bottom, empty it (and drink the beer, of course), then wash and dry it. For beer can collectors, there is no shortage of types […]

October 21, 1879 – Thomas Edison successfully tested an electric incandescent lamp with a carbonized filament at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, keeping it lit for over 13 hours.