January 8, 2013 Most boys his age might have wanted a bike or a rifle, but an 11-year old boy in Tupelo, Mississippi asked his mom for a guitar on his birthday and that’s what he got. Elvis Presley and his mom went to the Tupelo Hardware Store on this date in 1946 and she paid $6.95 for a guitar that changed his life and set him on a course to stardom.
January 7, 2013 It was only two weeks after becoming the country’s oldest person, Mamie Rearden of Edgefield,Georgia passed away at the age of 114. She was born in 1898. She was married for 59 years until her husband died in 1979. She raised 11 children, 10 of them still living.
January 4, 2013 For those out of work and looking for a job there’s a website called CareerCast that has a job search site. It can help you create a resume, get e-mail job alerts. It allows employers to post jobs. It has job advice and job rankings. And each year they rank the best jobs, the worst jobs and the most stressful jobs.
January 3, 2013
Every January 1st new laws go into effect across the nation. Some affect the whole country, some apply to states, others are unique only to individual towns.
In Illinois, any motorcyclist caught popping a wheelie while speeding will be subject to a $1,000 fine.
January 2, 2013 It was on this day in 1974, President Nixon signed a law that set the national speed limit at 55 miles an hour. Before that it was always up to the states to set speed limits, but with oil prices on the rise after the war between Israel and Arab countries in 1973-74, the U-S began a policy of fuel conservation and rationing including a lower speed limit to force drivers to save on gas.
December 31, 2012 What were people most interested in during 2012? Google will give you an idea. Here is their year-ending list of the Top 10 most-searched items for the past 12 months.
December 21, 2012 It started as a special treat in New York City on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.
Channel 11 in New York, began the tradition of a televised Yule Log back in 1966. The station's general manager loved Christmas. Because he grew up in a home that had a fireplace, he always associated its warmth with Christmas
December 20, 2012 There are many traditions and superstitions surrounding Christmas around the world. From Europe to Asia and South America, let's take a look at some of them.In Italy, instead of Christmas trees, they decorate small wooden pyramids with fruit.
Ukranians decorate their trees with an artificial spider and matching web. A spider web found on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck.
December 19, 2012 Here we are counting down the days until the end of the world this Friday. We’re not exactly sure when it’s going to happen – at the stroke of midnight or at noon or during morning rush hour – the Mayan calendar doesn’t specify. Are you worried? I’m not because we’ve survived the end of the world many times before.
December 18, 2012 It’s some local history that most people don’t know about. People who even live near where it happened may have heard about it, but probably don’t know the details. It was the worst railroad disaster to that point in American history and it happened just outside the Village of Angola when the last car of the Buffalo-bound Lake Shore Express derailed while crossing Big Sister Creek.
December 17, 2012 Ohio calls itself the "Birthplace of Aviation." North Carolina proclaims itself "First In Flight." Both take credit for the Wright brothers and their inventions. Which one has the most convincing bragging rights? Actually both states do.
December 14, 2012 It was all because Arthur Fry lost his temper in church back in 1980.
He always knew there had to be a simple solution to every problem if you just thought about it long enough. He loved to sing with his church choir. And he liked to keep track of all of the songs in his hymnal because the choir director would skip back and forth from the back of the book to the front.
