This Week In History

March 11       1702: The Daily Courant, England’s first national daily newspaper, was published for the first time. 1851: The first performance of Rigoletto by…

February 26         1909: Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, was first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in…

February 19   1600: Peruvian volcano Huaynaputina exploded in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. 1878: Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)…

February 12   1954: British food company J. Lyons & Co. used the LEO computer to produce a payroll report, becoming the first time in…

February 5   1908: Born this day: swing musician Bob Dunn, first person to record an electrically amplified instrument (died 1971); and famous English conjoined…

January 29   1834: President Andrew Jackson ordered the first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute. 1845: Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, The…

January 22     1889: Columbia Phonograph (later Columbia Records) was formed in Washington, D.C. 1927: Teddy Wakelam gave the first live radio commentary of…

January 15   1967: The first Super Bowl game was played at the Los Angeles Coliseum between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City…

January 8   1790: George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York, New York. 1815: Gen. Andrew Jackson (seventh president,…

January 1   45 BC: The Julian calendar took effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Empire, establishing January 1 as the new first…