Profile America: National Junk Food Day
Today is National Junk Food Day, which celebrates the naughty temptations on offer at fast food joints.
Today is National Junk Food Day, which celebrates the naughty temptations on offer at fast food joints.
The first 18-hole golf course in the U.S. opened this week in 1893 in Downer’s Grove, Illinois.
On this date in 1955, the Atomic Energy Commission sold electric power from a General Electric nuclear reactor.
On this date in 1867, Harvard University opened the first dental school associated with a medical school.
On this date in 1995, Amazon.com launched its business of selling books online out of a two-car garage in Bellevue, Washington.
Motorists in Oklahoma City were confronted with America’s first parking meter this month in 1935.
One of the most important inventions of our time — the transistor — was announced in early July 1948 by Bell Laboratories (New Jersey).
Historian Frederick Jackson Turner delivered a landmark academic paper declaring that the closing of the American frontier ended the formative national experience.
The successful relay of a transatlantic TV signal by Telstar, the first privately owned satellite launched this week in 1962.
It took a while after the invention of the gas-powered automobile by Karl Benz in Germany in 1886 for someone to steal the wheels.
July is not only National Grilling Month but also National Hot Dog Month and National Ice Cream Month.
This week in 1898, President William McKinley signed a resolution annexing the Hawaiian islands, then an independent republic.
Sliced bread, wrapped for sale in wax paper, first appeared on store shelves on this date in 1928 in Chillicothe, MO.
Today is the signature American holiday, celebrating the date in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
In1964, the Civil Rights Act swept away Jim Crow laws by prohibiting discrimination based on race in all accommodations and facilities open to the public, as well as employment, union membership, and voter registration.
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