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Good News in History, July 17
69 years ago today, Disneyland was dedicated and opened in Anaheim, California. It is the most visited theme park in world history with 757...
Good News in History, July 14
On this day in 1912, Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. The folk singer and songwriter who traveled with farmers displaced during the...
Good News in History, July 12
129 years ago, the architect, visionary, and writer Buckminster Fuller was born. Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known...
Good News in History, July 11
88 years ago today, The RFK Bridge, also known as the Triborough Bridge, opened to traffic in New York City. Together, the series of...
Good News in History, July 8
Happy 80th Birthday to Jeffery Tambor, famous for staring in 4 seasons as the Bluth Family patriarch on Fox/Netflix's Arrested Development, which earned him 3...
Good News in History, July 7
41 years ago today, Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flew to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov on an...
Good News in History, July 6
67 years ago today, Althea Gibson won her first Wimbledon Women's Singles title, becoming the first African American to do so. The 1957 season...
Good News in History, July 4
20 years ago today, in quite unbelievable fashion, Greece beat Portugal 1-0 to become European champions for the first time in her history. Several...
Good News in History, July 3
36 years ago today, the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, also known as the Second Bosphorus Bridge was completed over the famous stretch of water...
The Vatican Goes Green: Pope Francis Announces New Suburban Solar Plant to Power Vatican City
There's no country anywhere on Earth that's entirely powered by renewable energy every day, but that's soon to change.
In a letter released on June...
Good News in History, July 2
101 years ago today, Wisława Szymborska was born in Poland. This poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature penned...
Good News in History, June 30
84 years ago today, Congress ordered the creation of the Fish and Wildlife Service. The FWS was later reorganized into the 'US' Fish and...
Good News in History, June 26
80 years ago today, the inspirational United Nations Charter was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco, a document that began with the following:...
Good News in History, June 25
68 years ago today, the renegade travel host and chef Anthony Bourdain, was born. With his food and culture show, No Reservations, and the...
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 21
Happy 80th Birthday to The Kinks co-founder and frontman Ray Davies. Regarded as one of the most influential British songwriters, Davies wrote the 1964...
Good News in History, June 20
29 years years ago today, Greenpeace activists bolstered by international pressure forced Shell Oil of the UK into a dramatic reversal of its decision...
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 17
66 years ago today, Things Fall Apart, believed to be the most read, best-selling African novel ever written, was published. Nigerian author Chinua Achebe depicts...