– On this date in 1828, The Webster’s Dictionary was first published.
– On this date in 1902, The First J.C. Penney Store opened.
– It was on this date in 1912, when the Titanic began to sink after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sank the following morning.
– On this date in 1956, the first VCR was invented.
– On this date in 1983, the first cordless phone was introduced by Fidelity and British Telecom and was capable of operating up to 600 feet from its base.
– On this date in 2008, Delta and Northwest Airlines announced they were merging and becoming the largest airline in the U.S. at the time.
On This Day In Sports:
– Tiger Woods became only the third player to win back to back Masters titles in 2002.
– On this date in 2008, Carmelo Anthony got popped for a DUI.
– On this date in 2010 Tiger Woods mistress Jaimee Grubbs was arrested for driving on a suspended license.
and on this date in 2014, Michael Phelps ended his retirement and announced plans to swim again in late April.
On This Day In Music History:
– On this date in 1994, Kurt Cobain was cremated at the Bleitz Funeral Home in Seattle.
– On this date in 2009, Former Beatle George Harrison was honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
– On this date in 2013, Justin Bieber went to the Anne Frank Museum and wrote the following in a guestbook: “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.”
– On this date in 2014, Sam Smith releases Stay with Me.
– On this date in 2016, Prince plays his last concert at the Fox Theater in Atlanta.
– On this date in 2018, Beyonce headlines Coachella in lavish fashion, with over 70 performers and a reunion of Destiny’s child. She also became the first black woman to headline the festival.
and on this date in 2019 Logic becomes the first rapper with a New York Times best seller when his novel Supermarket tops the Paperback Trade Fiction list.
