Bonanza

The television series Bonanza aired on NBC from September 1959 to January 1973. The popular cowboy series was the first network television series to film all of its episodes in color. The show chronicled the Cartwright family with father Ben and sons Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe living on a ranch called The Ponderosa.
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"In God We Trust"

"In God We Trust" was first declared as the current national motto of the United States by an act of Congress in 1956 and first appeared on paper currency in 1957. The new motto displaced the existing national motto "E Pluribus Unum."
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Charles Lindbergh

On May 12, 1927, Charles Lindbergh and his plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" landed in Curtiss Field on Long Island, New York to break the existing record for the fastest transcontinental flight. Eight days later, Lindbergh landed safely at Le Bourget Field in Paris becoming the first pilot to fly a transatlantic flight solo. The flight through fog and ice covered 3,600 miles and took almost 34 hours.
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Philadelphia Phillies

The Philadelphia Phillies are the oldest continuous franchise in all of American professional sports. The Phillies were established in the National League as the Philadelphia Quakers in 1883. The storied and often maligned baseball franchise ended a 97-year World Series championship drought by defeating the Kansas City Royals in 1980 to win its first World Series.
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Mother's Day

Anna M. Jarvis is credited with establishing the celebration of Mother's Day in the United States. Ms. Jarvis solicited the help of hundreds of legislators and prominent businessmen to create this special day. The first Mother's Day was celebrated on May 10, 1908 in a church. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as a national holiday in honor of mothers.
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American Dictionary

Noah Webster published the first edition of his American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828. In this edition of nearly 50,000 words, Webster standardized the spelling of many of the words, introducing the convention of having one acceptable and correct spelling for a word. Webster's dictionary was so popular that "Webster's" became synonymous with dictionary to many Americans.
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First commercial airlines

United Airlines was the first commercial airlines in the U.S. Walter Varney launched what would become United Airlines as an air mail service in 1925. Varney's service was purchased in 1927 by William Boeing, who later renamed the company United Aircraft-Transport Corp. Boeing's company was later split into three separate company's: United Technologies, Boeing Airplane Company and United Airlines.
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