Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010
             
Wallace Hume Carothers invented nylon, and killed himself

Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
             
and Machine Gun Kelly's nickname was a myth

Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
             
and roll the dice for Milton Bradley

Friday, Aug. 27, 2010
             
and the railroad ran through Thomas Garrett's house

Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
             
and Kurt Cobain, sigh, died too damn young

Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010
             
Remember Terri Schiavo, and remember the lies

Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
             
and we'll miss Jack Horkheimer

Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
             
and Percy Julian eased pain and saved lives

Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
             
and brake for George Westinghouse

Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
             
and Peter Paul Halajian brought you the Mounds bar

Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010
             
and Philip K. Dick can remember it for you wholesale

Monday, Aug. 16, 2010
             
and the world needs more Pee-wee Herman

Friday, Aug. 13, 2010
             
Honor Blackman Patrick Macnee, and Diana Rigg

Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
             
and you want a hero? Try Marie Stopes

Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
             
Ladies and gentlemen, Pete Seeger

Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
             
and Dennis Weaver was more than "McCloud"

Monday, Aug. 9, 2010
             
and Uri Geller has a lot of people snowed

Friday, Aug. 6, 2010
             
and it's smart to smear George Papanicolaou

Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010
             
and listen for the buzz about Joseph Mortimer Granville

Monday, Aug. 2, 2010
             
and Fatty Arbuckle was probably innocent

Friday, July 30, 2010
             
and let's hope history remembers Anita Bryant

Thursday, July 29, 2010
             
and what makes Glenn Beck tick?

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
             
and a sci-fi hat-tip for Hugo Gernsback

Tuesday, July 27, 2010
             
and why did J. Armand Bombardier build a snowmobile?

Monday, July 26, 2010
             
and Jocelyn Bell Burnell was pretty dang smart

Friday, July 23, 2010
             
and Roebuck was no fan of Sears

Thursday, July 22, 2010
             
and Srinivasa Ramanujan was smarter than you

Wednesday, July 21, 2010
             
and who is Rush Limbaugh?

Tuesday, July 20, 2010
             
and Alfred Kinsey was an American hero

Monday, July 19, 2010
             
and Barbara McClintock was one smart loner

Friday, July 16, 2010
             
and Will H. Hays censored America's movies

Thursday, July 15, 2010
             
and William Shockley was a big ol' poopyhead

Wednesday, July 14, 2010
             
and George Washington Carver did a lot more than invent peanut butter

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
             
and Ephraim McDowell stuffed the intestines back

Monday, July 12, 2010
             
and William Beaumont's story is delightfully gross

Friday, July 9, 2010
             
and it was Lucy Stone who inspired Susan B. Anthony

Thursday, July 8, 2010
             
and William Haines wouldn't play straight

Wednesday, July 7, 2010
             
and Percy Julian had a shotgun ready

Tuesday, July 6, 2010
             
and America needs another Bill Haywood

Friday, June 2, 2010
             
and say hey to Moses Farmer

Wednesday, June 30, 2010
             
and thanks, Stephen Babcock, for milk and cheese

Tuesday, June 29, 2010
             
and Juliette Gordon Low ought to be remembered

Monday, June 28, 2010
             
and Olympia Brown was a radical woman

Friday, June 25, 2010
             
and you might like the real J. C. Penney

Thursday, June 24, 2010
             
and Cole Younger was a bad guy who went good

Wednesday, June 23, 2010
             
and play ball with A. G. Spalding

Tuesday, June 22, 2010
             
and go to the movies with Oscar Micheaux

Monday, June 21, 2010
             
and meet Charles Walgreen

Friday, June 18, 2010
             
and ride with George Ferris

Thursday, June 17, 2010
             
and some damned fools still love Thomas Dixon

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
             
and always ring twice for Ruth Snyder

Monday, June 14, 2010
             
Ah, sweet mystery of Victor Herbert

Friday, June 11, 2010
             
and Walter White worked to stop lynchings

Thursday, June 10, 2010
             
and thank Ernst F. W. Alexanderson for sit-coms and newscasts

Wednesday, June 9, 2010
             
and Robert S. Abbott was "the colored William Randolph Hearst"

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
             
and some women remember Lydia Pinkham every month

Monday, June 7, 2010
             
and Clarence Birdseye filled your freezer

Friday, June 4, 2010
             
and Elizabeth Blackwell
was one heck of a dame

Wednesday, June 2, 2010
             
and Charles Atlas really was a 97-pound weakling

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
             
and there's more to
Milton Bradley
than board games

Friday, May 28, 2010
             
and can you believe Robert L. Ripley?

Thursday, May 27, 2010
             
and celebrate your sense of decency with Joseph Welch

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
             
and ride safely with Elisha Otis

Tuesday, May 25, 2010
             
and get qwerty with Christopher Sholes

Monday, May 24, 2010
             
and blow a bubble for Walter Diemer

Friday, May 21, 2010
             
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid weren't all fiction

Thursday, May 20, 2010
             
and Milton and Harry
are together forever

Wednesday, May 19, 2010
             
and flick your wrist for Fred Morrison

Tuesday, May 18, 2010
             
and William Boeing was a stubborn old coot

Monday, May 17, 2010
             
and there's more to Molly Brown than just being unsinkable

Friday, May 14, 2010
             
and Billy Sunday wanted to save you

Thursday, May 13, 2010
             
Meet 1790s astronomer and activist Benjamin Banneker

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
             
and open a can of Hector Boiardi

Monday, May 10, 2010
             
and get that Nazi look with Hugo Boss

Friday, May 7, 2010
             
and don't ride the rails with Casey Jones

Thursday, May 6, 2010
             
and Dred Scott died a free man

Wednesday, May 5, 2010
             
and meet the Kelloggs of Battle Creek

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
             
and Isaac Merritt Singer got married a lot

Monday, May 3, 2010
             
and get to the heart of Werner Forssmann

Friday, April 30, 2010
             
and send a letter to Lysander Spooner

Thursday, April 29, 2010
             
and pass the popcorn for Jack L. Warner

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
             
and they don't make 'em like Frederick L. Maytag any more

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
             
and salute the real Betsy Ross

Monday, April 26, 2010
             
and click to Robert Adler

Friday, April 23, 2010
           
and zap Percy Spencer

Thursday, April 22, 2010
             
and have a Coke with Fatty Arbuckle

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
             
and no comma for William Wrigley, Jr.

Monday, April 19, 2010
             
and tune in tomorrow for Irna Phillips

Friday, April 16, 2010
             
and ride with Louis Chevrolet

Thursday, April 15, 2010
             
and wipe well for E. Irvin Scott

Wednesday, April 14, 2010
             
and get to know Alfred Nobel

Tuesday, April 13, 2010
             
and get your degree from Elihu Yale

Monday, April 12, 2010
             
and Sitting Bull should be remembered with respect

Friday, April 9, 2010
             
and stay fresh with Earl Tupper

Thursday, April 8, 2010
             
and bloody hell, it's William Quantrill

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
             
and drink a toast to
Thomas B. Welch

Tuesday, April 6, 2010
             
and look to the stars with Annie Jump Cannon

Monday, April 5, 2010
             
and have breakfast with C. W. Post

Sunday, April 4, 2010
             
and circle your A's for Alexander Berkman

Saturday, April 3, 2010
             
and huddle with Walter Camp

Friday, April 2, 2010
             
and let Josephine Cochrane do the dishes

Thursday, April 1, 2010
             
and how come you've never heard of Martin Delany?

Monday, Mar. 29, 2010
             
and get icy cool with John Gorrie

Friday, Mar. 26, 2010
             
and get arrested by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer

Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010
               
and get a rubdown from D. D. Palmer

Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010
             
and play baseball with Henry Chadwick

Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010
             
and Gutzon Borglum's work is set in stone

Monday, Mar. 22, 2010
             
and flip history's finger at Henry Clay Frick

Sunday, Mar. 21, 2010
             
and meet the millionaire socialist Corliss Lamont

Saturday, Mar. 20, 2010
             
and send a coded message to Hedy Lamarr

Friday, Mar. 19, 2010
             
and go to court with Jerome H. Lemelson

Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010
             
and Joseph Cinqué was a real revolutionary

Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010
             
and you can't play ball with Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010
             
and get righteous with Fulton J. Sheen

Monday, Mar. 15, 2010
             
and wasn't Kurt Gerstein a good guy?

Friday, Mar. 12, 2010
             
and 57 varieties of Henry Heinz

Friday, Mar. 11, 2010
             
and talk about sex with
Mary Calderone

Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2010
             
and feel the good vibrations from Joseph Mortimer Granville

Tuesday, Mar. 9, 2010
             
"Mr. Watson,
come here -- I want you."

Monday, Mar. 8, 2010
             
and ride the streetcar with Charles J. Van Depoele

Sunday, Mar. 7, 2010
             
and don't change your name for Ruth Hale

Friday, Mar. 5, 2010
             
Change the channel to Allen B. DuMont

Thursday, Mar. 4, 2010
             
Come to the slums with Lillian Wald

Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010
             
Go shopping with Clarence Saunders

Tuesday, Mar. 2, 2010
             
Lick a stamp for Rowland Hill

Monday, Mar. 1, 2010
             
Play ball with Alexander Cartwright

Friday, Feb. 26, 2010
             
Say howdy to Philo Farnsworth

Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010
             
Don't cross Boss Tweed

Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010
             
Meet Jean Piccard

Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010
             
Meet Charles B. Purvis

Monday, Feb. 22, 2010
             
Meet Peter Paul Halajian

Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010
             
Meet William Procter

Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010
             
Meet A. Philip Randolph

Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
                   
Meet Francis B. Harrison

Monday, Feb. 15, 2010
                   
Meet Ernestine Rose

Friday, Feb. 12, 2010
                   
Meet Julius Rosenwald

Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010
                   
Meet Chief Joseph

Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010
                   
Meet Andrew Smith Hallidie

Monday, Feb. 8, 2010
                   
Meet Mac Bundy

Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
                   
Meet Robert Smalls

Monday, Feb 1, 2010
                   
Meet Bessica Raiche

Friday, Jan. 29, 2010
                   
Meet Alvah C. Roebuck

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010
                   
Meet Joseph Welch

Friday, Jan. 22, 2010
                   
Meet James C. Napier

Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010
                   
Meet Hattie Wyatt Caraway

Monday, Jan. 18, 2010
                   
Meet Stuart Symington

Friday, Jan. 15, 2010
                   
Meet Blanche Stuart Scott

Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010
                   
Meet Forrest J. Ackerman

Monday, Jan. 11, 2010
                   
Meet Iwasaki Yataro

Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010
                   
Meet Harry Sinclair

Friday, Jan. 8, 2010
                   
Meet Norbert Wiener

Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010
                   
Meet Bette Nesmith Graham

Monday, Jan. 4, 2010
                   
Meet Henry Dunant

Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010
                   
Meet Robert Purvis

Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009
                   
Meet Leonardo da Vinci

Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009
                   
Meet Philip Syng Physick

Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009
                   
Meet Abner Doubleday

Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009
                   
Meet Claude Shannon

Monday, Dec. 21, 2009
                   
Meet Frank J. Sprague

Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009
                   
Meet Rebecca Latimer Felton

Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009
                   
Meet Spartacus

Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009
                   
Meet Ted Nelson

Monday, Dec. 14, 2009
                   
Meet Cecil B. DeMille

Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
                   
Meet Alan Turing

Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009
                   
Meet Doug Engelbart

Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009
                   
Meet Busby Berkeley

Monday, Dec. 7, 2009
                   
Meet Frederick A. Stanley

Friday, Dec. 4, 2009
                 
Meet Ishi

Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009
                   
Meet Vannevar Bush

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009
                   
Meet Kiichiro Toyoda

Monday, Nov. 30, 2009
                 
Meet B. Traven

Friday, Nov. 27, 2009
                   
Meet Mary Baker Eddy

Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009
                   
Meet Jack Mack

Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009
                   
Meet Soichiro Honda

Monday, Nov. 23, 2009
                   
Meet Preston Tucker

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
                   
Meet Black Hawk

Monday, Nov. 16, 2009
                   
Meet Tsien Hsue-shen

Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
                   
Meet G.G. de la Tourette

Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
                   
Meet John Langdon Down

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009
                   
Meet Mildred Loving

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
                   
Meet Roger Baldwin

Monday, Nov. 9, 2009
                   
Meet Amelia Bloomer

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
                   

Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
                   

Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
                   

Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
                   

Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
                   

Monday, Oct. 26, 2009
                   

Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
                   

Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
                   

Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
                   

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
                   

Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
                   

Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
                   

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009
                   

Monday, Oct. 5, 2009
                   

Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
                   

Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009
                   

Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009
                   

Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009
                   

Monday, Sept. 28, 2009
                   

Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009
                   

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009
                   

Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009
                   

Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009
                   

Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
                   

Friday, Sept. 18, 2009
                   

Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
                   

Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009
                   

Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009
                   

Monday, Sept. 14, 2009
                   

  Friday, Sept. 11, 2009
                   

Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009
                   

Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009
                   

Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009
                   

Friday, Sept. 4, 2009
                   

Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009
                   

Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009
                   

Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009
                 

Monday, Aug. 31, 2009
                   

Friday, Aug. 28, 2009
                   

Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
                   

Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009
                   

Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009
                   

Monday, Aug. 24, 2009
                   

Friday, Aug. 21, 2009
                   

Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009
                   

Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009
                   

Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009
                   

Monday, Aug. 17, 2009
                   

Friday, Aug. 14, 2009
                   

Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009
                   

Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009
                   

Monday, Aug. 10, 2009
                   

Friday, Aug. 7, 2009
                   

Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009
                   

Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009
                   

Monday, Aug. 3, 2009
                   

Friday, July 31, 2009
                   

Thursday, July 30, 2009
                   

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
                   

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
                   

Monday, July 27, 2009
                   

Friday, July 24, 2009
                   

Thursday, July 23, 2009
                   

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
                   

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
                   

Monday, July 20, 2009
                   

Friday, July 17, 2009
                   

Thursday, July 16, 2009
                   

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
                   

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
                   

Monday, July 13, 2009
                   

Friday, July 10, 2009
                   

Thursday, July 9, 2009
                   

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
                   

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
                   

Monday, July 6, 2009
                   

Friday, July 3, 2009
                   

Thursday, July 2, 2009
                   

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
                   

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
                   

Monday, June 29, 2009
                   

Friday, June 26, 2009
                   

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
                   

Monday, June 22, 2009
                   

Friday, June 19, 2009
                   

Thursday, June 18, 2009
                   

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
                   

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
                   

Monday, June 15, 2009
                   

Friday, June 12, 2009
                   

Thursday, June 11, 2009
                   

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
                   

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
                   

Monday, June 8, 2009
                   

Friday, June 5, 2009
                   

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
                       

Monday, June 1, 2009
                   

Friday, May 29, 2009
                   

Thursday, May 28, 2009
                   

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
                   

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
                   

Memorial Day, May 25, 2009
                   

Friday, May 22, 2009
                   

Thursday, May 21, 2009
                   

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
                   
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
                   

Monday, May 18, 2009
                   

Friday, May 15, 2009
                   

Thursday, May 14, 2009
                   

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
                   

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
                   

Monday, May 11, 2009
                   

Friday, May 8, 2009
                   

Thursday, May 7, 2009
                   

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
                   

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
                   

Monday, May 4, 2009
                   

Friday, May 1, 2009