Today in History
1916
This "Palmetto State" raised the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers from 12 to a more appropriate age of 14 years old.
What is South Carolina?
The first satellite to orbit Jupiter was named for this Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This 1958 Alfred Hitchcock thriller set in San Francisco starred James Stewart as former police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson?
What is Vertigo?
Not to be confused with the term for baby goats, this is the name for baby rabbits.
What is kits?
1940
Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award for her performance in this epic historical romance film.
What is Gone with the Wind?
The year that the first artificial satellite flew into space.
What is 1957?
This 2010 sci-fi film was an easy maze to solve for all Greek mythology lovers since a integral character was named Ariadne.
What is Inception?
This Grace and Frankie actress voiced Ms. Frizzle on the Magic School Bus?
Who is Lily Tomlin?
1940
In a ceremony in California physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention, cyclotron, which was this type of machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies, and to contain them in well-defined beams.
What is a particle accelerator?
A valuable side mission for Explorer 6 resulted in the first image of Earth from space taken on on August 14, 1959 over this country.
What is Mexico?
This historical drama from 2000, directed by Ridley Scott, follows Maximus as he seeks revenge.
What is Gladiator?
Established by the 42nd U.S. Congress and President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, this is America’s first national park.
Yellowstone National Park
2008
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense made the decision to withdraw this individual from a tour of Afghanistan?
Who is Prince Harry?
The first human to travel to space in a satellite was this Soviet cosmonaut aboard Vostok 1 in 1961. He achieved three orbits before returning to Earth.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
Hamburger phones were sent to critics to entice them to review this film written by Diablo Cody.
What is Juno?
Not far off thematically, this was the original title of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451?
What is The Fireman?
Instead of changing from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar by omitting a block of consecutive days, as had been done in other countries, this country planned to change gradually by omitting all leap days from 1700 to 1740 which resulted in a date of February 30th occurring once in 1712.
What is Sweden?
The first successful U.S. artificial satellite, Explorer 1, is best remembered for confirming zones of charged particles trapping radiation in the magnetosphere of Earth known as this.
What are the Van Allen belts?
This 2017 superhero film which received high praise from critics was the 10th installment in its franchise.
What is Logan?
Not the fear of arthropods, this is the fear of flowers?
What is Anthophobia?