Home Search
New Jersey - search results
If you're not happy with the results, please do another search
Good News in History, June 24
25 years ago today and 5 years after that, Eric Clapton and his friends auctioned off over a hundred of their guitars through Christie's...
Good News in History, June 22
86 years ago today, Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in a re-match of perhaps the most famous fight series in history. It completely...
Good News in History, June 19
50 years ago today, Johan Cruyff, the legendary Dutch forward, first performed his 'turn' at the 1974 World Cup. The "Cruyff Turn" as it...
Good News in History, June 15
30 years ago today, The Lion King was released in theaters, receiving critical acclaim for its music, story, themes, and animation, winning two Academy...
Good News in History, June 11
105 years ago today, Sir Barton became the first racehorse in history to win the Triple Crown. A chestnut colt bred in 1916 on...
Good News in History, June 9
Happy 63rd Birthday to Michael J. Fox, the Canadian actor who became famous for his appearances in Back to the Future, and for his...
Good News in History, June 6 – the 80th Anniversary of D-Day
80 years ago today, 160,000 troops from Britain, America, and Canada—along with a dozen other nations—stormed five sandy beaches along the Normandy Coast, intending...
Good News in History, May 22
178 years ago today, the Associated Press organized in New York City as a nonprofit news cooperative to reduce the cost of covering the...
Good News in History, May 18
On this day 976 years ago, the astronomy and mathematician of the Seljuk Dynasty of Persia, Omar Khayyam, was born. Most famous for calculating...
Good News in History, May 13
115 years ago today, the inaugural Giro d'Italia, was held, with cyclists competing in 21 different stages across over 1,200 miles of the country. The...
Good News in History, April 22
300 years ago today, Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born in Prussia. This revolutionary thinker saw rationality as inseparable from morality, and Kant's formulation...
Good News in History, April 19
Happy 37th birthday to the Tennis ace Maria Sharapova, the only Russian, and one of only 10 women to have won the Career Grand...
Good News in History, April 15
136 years ago today, Corrie ten Boom was born in Haarlem. A Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, ten Boom...
Good News in History, April 10
99 years ago today, one of the great American novels, The Great Gatsby was published. F. Scott Fitzgerald's work was a commercial disappointment and strangely,...
Good News in History, April 3
Happy Birthday to Dame Jane Goodall who turns 90 years old today. The beloved British primatologist first observed chimpanzees creating tools in 1960 (and...
Good News in History, March 21
180 years ago today, the Bab began teaching the Baháʼí faith, marking forever both the Holy Day and Day 1, or New Year's Day...
Good News in History, March 19
92 years ago today, the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in Australia. Spanning Sydney Harbor from the central business district (CBD) to the North Shore,...
Good News in History, March 18
100 years ago today, the classic silent film The Thief of Baghdad, written by and starring Douglas Fairbanks, debuted in cinemas. Freely adapted from...
Good News in History, March 11
173 years ago today, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto premiered in Venice. This cornerstone of opera seasons present and past tells the story of a court jester who...
Good News in History, March 9
50 years ago today, Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese infantryman holdout finally surrendered 29 years after the end of World War II. Operating out of...