January 2022
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- Dark side of the moon (Facebook)
- Solar flare captured 20 January 2022 (Facebook)
- Environmental regulation works (Facebook)
- Jupiter, the fifth planet (Facebook)
- Science as art
- What is the color of water?
- IBM and the Holocaust
- Space shuttle Challenger explodes (Facebook)
- Carl Benz (Facebook)
- Doug Engelbart (Facebook)
- Ham experiences low Earth orbit
February 2022
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- The OED: how we know the history of the word “vax”
- The ice cream scoop is very old!
- A woman pilots a space shuttle
- The shoemaker’s cabinet and its modern corollary, the shoe shine stand
- How the white collar was born
- The woman who found the oldest evidence of human bipedalism
- Venus is at its most brilliant this month
- First trans-Atlantic TV broadcast
- Weather forecasting was initially an Army undertaking
- Man v machine: part one
- Japan and China became space powers in 1970
- Insulin treatments for diabetes are 100 years old
- Almost 400 years ago, Galileo faced heresy charges
- First solar system Family Portrait
- YouTube is 17 years old
- How 9-1-1 became America’s emergency number
- Japanese researcher honored for chickenpox vaccine
- Apple.com is 35 years old
- The first warrant issued to search a computer storage device
- John Glenn was the first American (but third man) to orbit the Earth
- “Bubble Boy” dies after unsuccessful bone marrow transplant
- Cloning, from Huxley to Dolly to Kurt
- Mobile phones, TCP/IP and murder
- An unintended consequence of war
- About 20,000 years ago, ancient Africans started sticking closer to home
- From military defense to daily necessity: radar
- For much of America’s history, voting was a non-secret affair
- Covid-19 vaccines: record speed
March 2022
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- In the beginning, Netscape
- The Antarctic ozone hole, a global environmental success story (sorta)
- Lincoln promoted science while fighting the Civil War
- From agricultural research to an agent of war: nerve gas
- When Arkansas turned a blind eye to forensic science and justice
- Bayer Aspirin: patented on this day in 1899
- Transformative communication technologies: the telephone
- Failed WWII attempt to create rubber substitute yields Hall of Fame toy
- How old is Reddi-wip?
- When cost-cutting kills: the Boeing 737 Max 8
- The “Spanish Flu” breaks out in Kansas in March 1918
- The first fireside chat
- The birth of the K-9 Corps
- Pelican Island, the birth of the National Wildlife Refuge System
- From mold and dirt to drugs, antibiotics have transformed medicine
- Real gas prices are not at record levels; corporations are price gouging
- St. Patrick’s Day reflects the power of storytelling. And writing.
- It’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” 111th birthday
- Lack of Internet access linked to Covid-19 deaths
- The vernal equinox (this year, anyway)
- Twitter turns 16
- The Humvee’s torturous history
- Health care, space, Covid-19 and WWII: 23 March has been history-making
- Exxon Valdez oil spill effects still linger
- Republicans challenge updated voting technologies, starting with Georgia
- Vaccines would eradicate polio in the United States
- Earthquake!
- Three Mile Island: our brush with a nuclear plant disaster
- Mobile phone video helped convict George Floyd’s murderer
- The pencil with an eraser that could be sharpened
- The 15th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote (30 March 1870)
April 2022
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- Gmail is old enough to vote!
- The world’s first anthrax epidemic began 43 years ago
- The first computer to fit under an airplane seat!
- MLK assassinated
- Fox Broadcasting is 35 years old
- It’s the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Windows 3.1
- AT&T demoed the first TV transmission over telephone lines
- Milk bottles: a milestone on the journey to sanitary fresh milk
- The Civil War ended 157 years ago
- Scientists released the first photograph of a black hole three years ago
- Sports broadcasting is 101 years old
- Space shuttle Columbia makes its maiden voyage
- Ukraine issues memorial stamp
- John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln 157 years ago
- 75 years ago, Jackie Robinson broke the MLB color barrier
- Contracts begin requiring that parts be interchangeable
- The first West Coast Computer Faire featured the Apple II
- Patent filed for the chemical aspartame; the brain knows it’s not sugar
- Moore’s law is born
- It was not a “spill”
- The Seattle Space Needle is 60 years old
- Mosaic 1.0 released on 22 April 1993
- Trump suggested injecting bleach to treat Covid-19
- Hubble Space Telescope launched
- The plastic bag: from invention to pollutant
- Congress debates creating a postal telegraph to ‘send mails by electricity’
- One of the deadliest days in tornado history in the US
- The iTunes Music Store proved consumers would pay for digital music
- The first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- The brightest star in the sky
May 2022
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- Rethinking the salt we eat
- From involuntary sterilization to abortion
- West Virginia establishes the first sales tax
- WWII food rationing coupon book issued
- The first American in space
- The Hindenburg tragedy, 06 May 1937
- In 1847, doctors launched the American Medical Association
- From patent medicine to global conglomerate
- FDA approved the birth-control pill in 1960
- American book bans focus on race and gender identity
- From human computers to computerized spreadsheets
- Origin myths: QWERTY and Dvorak
- Don’t call it VELCRO®!
- The first vaccine: smallpox
- 15 May 2022: a melange
- Watergate hearings begin
- Mount St. Helens blows
- A patent for keeping severed heads alive
- Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart fly across the Atlantic
- Daylight Saving Time begins in the UK
- Robert Metcalfe visualizes a networked world
- New York Public Library dedicated
- Let there be light!
- Milk carton kids: appropriate awareness or exaggerated stranger-danger?
- We’ll do nothing about gun violence until we accept that the Second Amendment was about slavery
- Iconic skyline a triumph during the Great Depression
- The first cloned horse was born in Italy 19 years ago
- A day to celebrate women race car drivers
- A day for awareness, not just remembrance
- 101 years ago, the Tulsa Race Massacre began
- Ted Turner launches CNN
June 2022
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- Velveeta, the recover-and-reuse, then reformulate, American … something
- Long-distance electricity comes to Portland, Oregon
- Congress passes the 19th Amendment; it moves on to the states
- When Apple shifted to the Intel chip
- Bobby Kennedy dies in California
- Alan Turing, 41, died in London
- When Israel attacked the USS Liberty
- 1973: Secretariat wins the Triple Crown
- The window envelope is 120 years old
- Gas prices at the pump have increased faster than crude in the barrel
- Science supports law: race is a social construct
- Microsoft announces vaporware
- Happy birthday, UNIVAC!
- We all scream for ice cream!
- First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova
- Evolution of Federal Register comments and Speak out to end corruption (The Moderate Voice)
- Image shows rings around a black hole
- The tireless effort to create a national religion
- The White House and solar energy
- Columbia Records introduces the long playing vinyl record
- The G.I. Bill demonstrated the power of public investment in people
- “Global warming has begun”
- Professors injured by mail bombs on each coast, part of a “string of bombings” that began in 1978
- June 25th deceptions: broken treaties, broken oaths
- The bar code is born
- One year ago: the Pacific Northwest was gripped by historic heat wave
- “As We May Think“
- The first iPhone goes on sale
- The Corvette is 69 years old
- GWTW hits the bookstores
July 2022
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- The television era begins
- Seattle is home to the world’s longest floating bridges
- Mechanization comes to newspapers
- The first round-the-world telegram foreshadowed a shift in global news
- Elvis records ‘That’s All Right (Mamma)’
- The first African American tennis champion was a woman
- The Carters celebrate 76 years of marriage
- A myth is born
- Pan Am Flight 759, the second deadliest crash that killed 153
- The Scopes trial begins
- The rise and fall of the slide rule
- Webb’s First Deep Field reveals thousands of galaxies
- The Global Jukebox straddles the Atlantic
- From Mars to the origins of the universe
- Twitter turns (sweet?) 16
- The United States starts the nuclear age
- Wrong-Way Corrigan joins Lindbergh, Earhart
- In 1876, the British government launched an industrial air pollution investigation
- Seneca Falls hosts the first American women’s rights convention
- In 1925, Darrow questions Bryan on ‘his view of the literal truth of the Bible’
- From Mercury to Atlantis: 50 years of manned space travel ended on 21 July 2011
- Around the world in (about) eight days
- William A. Burt patents the first working model of a typewriter
- Apollo 11 splashes down in the Pacific
- First “test tube” baby
- Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic Party presidential nominee
- Technology, a tool with no agency
- Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
- On the eve of the 20th century, 26 nations grappled with tactics and weapons of war
- “In God We Trust”
- The last British TV ad for cigarettes (until 2014, that is)
August 2022
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- The Navy recalls retired Commander Grace Hopper
- Does anybody really know what time it is?
- The USS Nautilus crosses the North Pole beneath the Arctic ice cap
- The day the Fairness Doctrine died
- The saga of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable
- The United States drops a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
- ‘The first large-scale general-purpose automatic digital computer’
- Nixon resigns
- First email from space
- An establishment for “the increase and diffusion of knowledge”
- Hedy Lamarr, beauty and inventor
- The personal computer era gets a kick start
- The best blues singer you may not know
- Enter the Wiffle Ball, an alternative baseball with holes
- Did Earth receive a big “Hello” 45 years ago?
- Punch cards enter business vernacular
- Recorded music goes digital
- Tennessee ratifies the 19th Amendment
- First U.S. Cold War coup
- Voyager 2 lifts off from Cape Canaveral
- Drumbeats on the horizon: the first Lincoln-Douglas debate
- The car that saved de Gaulle’s life
- In Sweden, a bank robbery begins
- Deconstructing history: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- A hoax goes viral in 1835
- This August, it’s 1-in-1,000 rain events (instead of hurricanes)
- The giant battery in Alaska
- Rufus Porter starts Scientific American
- 1957 filibuster would illustrate growing influence of political blogs 45 years later
- Meat inspection begins, for exports
- The first simultaneous, multi-organ transplant takes place in Houston
September 2022
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- The Doomsday Clock, launched in 1947, edges forward in 1953
- Automation and banking
- The most photographed man of the 1800s
- The first coast-to-coast television broadcast
- The first ‘Labor Day’ took place 140 years ago in New York City
- Genentech develops synthetic insulin
- The U.S. begins the process of transferring control of the Panama Canal
- Star Trek or Star Wars?
- Radio begins transition from islands to networks
- Swanson introduces its frozen turkey dinner
- An infamous speech promoted U.S. isolation during WWII
- Kennedy calls for “freedom and peace” in space, not “weapons of mass destruction”
- Frederic Tudor created the market for ice
- North America’s first lighthouse begins operating in Boston
- Dose, as well as form, makes the poison
- Hollywood introduces CinemaScope
- From IBM and the seven dwarfs to Linux + Bonus: The Who and the The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
- The second radio network launches
- New Zealand first nation to grant women voting rights
- Fortran debuts as alternative to machine language
- The nation’s first daily newspaper was in Philadelphia
- The telegraph and railroads become partners
- The story of WD-40
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: the most popular Black poet of her time
- From the telegraph to the telephone, but no closer to world peace
- Kennedy and Nixon debate on national TV for the first time
- Cracking the Rosetta Stone
- Ted Williams, one of the best hitters in baseball
- Sometimes, the quotation is real
- A study in contrasts: OTD, September 30th
October 2022
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- The Yosemite Act of 1890 protects 1,500 square miles in California
- Gatorade is born as synthetic sweat
- “This machine kills fascists”
- Sputnik 1 ushers in the space age
- The first televised address from the White House, 05 October 1947
- The first train robbery
- Soviet spacecraft photographs the dark side of the moon
- US stamp commemorates ENIAC
- First woman to pilot an airplane across the U.S.
- The “Great National Project” is eclipsed by the railroads
- Documenting the Great Depression
- The NeXT computer is born
- When did you start using a cellphone?
- First supersonic flight in rocket-powered research plane
- British aviator sets land speed record
- There’s a fish named for Led Zeppelin
- From the first “test tube” baby to the first US birth from a frozen egg
- The BBC launches as a private company, 100 years ago
- Blockbuster opens its first store
- The Saturday Night Massacre: 49 years ago
- Word of the day: portability
- 225 years ago, a Frenchman fell 3,200 feet from the sky
- The iPod “changed everything”
- The day the Pony Express died
- OTD: John Carpenter’s Halloween lands in theaters
- The Donora smog killed 20 and brought national attention to air pollution
- NYT political analysis highlights newsroom innumeracy
- October 28: ‘thou shall not’ day
- It was a shocker!
- The most (in)famous radio broadcast
- The first ISS crew launches from Russia
November 2022
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- The Library of Congress opens its doors
- The Spruce Goose is 75 years old
- SOS becomes an official international distress call in 1906
- The first presidential election with a computer predicting the winner
- Marie Curie delivers her inaugural lecture at Sorbonne University
- IBM and Microsoft go beyond a handshake
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