Saturday, December 24, 2011
First radio broadcast
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Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast on December 24, 1906 from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. After six ye...
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Diet book
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Englishman William Banting's 1862 book "Letter on Corpulence Addressed to the Public” is considered to be the world's first boo...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
First basketball game
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The first basketball game was played at a YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts on December 21, 1891. James Naismith, a physica...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Frst NFL playoff game
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The first NFL playoff game was played in Chicago on December 18, 1932. Due to extremely cold weather, the game was played on a modified 80-y...
Monday, December 19, 2011
Freedom Tower
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The first steel columns for the Freedom Tower in lower Manhattan were installed on December 19, 2006, more than five years after the 911 eve...
Saturday, December 17, 2011
First in flight
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Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first sustained air craft flight on the windy beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903....
Friday, December 16, 2011
Mario Lemieux
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In December 1988, hockey superstar Mario Lemieux became the first and only player in National Hockey League history to score one each of the...
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