A Ukrainian man legally changed his name to iPhone 7 to win a free phone from a tech store
The 20-year-old won a promotion where the first person to change their name to iPhone 7 would receive a free device from a tech company. He actually w...
Historical Events
2017
1995
The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter after a six-year journey
NASA's Galileo probe became the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, beginning an eight-year mission that revolutionized our understanding of the gas gi...
1987
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Washington for his first U.S. summit with President Reagan
MajorThe historic three-day summit resulted in the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the first agreement to actually reduce nuclear...
1972
Apollo 17 launched, becoming the last crewed mission to the moon
MajorNASA's final Apollo lunar mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ronald Evans. This was...
1965
The Vatican and Eastern Orthodox churches simultaneously lifted mutual excommunications that had lasted 911 years
MajorPope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I nullified the excommunications that began during the Great Schism of 1054. This historic gesture of reconcili...
1963
Instant replay was used for the first time during a live sports broadcast
During the Army-Navy football game, CBS director Tony Verna successfully used videotape to replay a touchdown moments after it happened. The groundbre...
1926
The first miniature golf course opened in New York City, sparking a national craze
The course on a New York rooftop was an immediate sensation, helping launch a miniature golf boom that would see over 25,000 courses built across Amer...
1907
A horse named Clever Hans was exposed as a fraud after scientists proved he couldn't actually do math
The famous performing horse had amazed audiences by apparently solving arithmetic problems by tapping his hoof, but psychologist Oskar Pfungst discove...
1873
A Pennsylvania man received a patent for a machine that could make 750 ice cream cones per hour
Italo Marchiony patented his ice cream cone-making machine, revolutionizing the treat industry decades before cones became standard at the 1904 World'...
1787
Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution
MajorDelaware's legislature voted unanimously to approve the Constitution, earning the state its nickname "The First State." The swift and unanimous ratifi...
1598
Italian sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born in Naples
Bernini would become the defining artist of the Baroque period, creating masterpieces like the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa and designing St. Peter's Squar...