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124 years ago today, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek was born in the Austral-Hungarian Empire. Along with a distinguished academic career in which he… Read More »Good News in History, May 8

37 years ago today, the Canadian Patrick Morrow became the first man in history to climb all of the True Seven Summits when he completed… Read More »Good News in History, May 7

186 years ago today, the American blacksmith John Deere launched his first agricultural product—a plow forged in steel that was self-scouring, and earned the nickname… Read More »Good News in History, May 6

50 years ago today, ridden by Ron Turcotte, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby in 1 minute 59 seconds and 40 milliseconds, the record which stands… Read More »Good News in History, May 5

On this day 155 years ago, the world’s largest book was completed in the form of the entire Buddhist canon copied onto 730 marble tablets… Read More »Good News in History, May 4

90 years ago today, the Godfather of Soul was born in South Carolina. James Brown, aka “Soul Brother No. 1” aka “Mr. Dynamite,” had a… Read More »Good News in History, May 3

Happy 76th birthday to the great modern inventor, Sir James Dyson, who founded Dyson Ltd. and invented the cyclonic separation technology that created the next… Read More »Good News in History, May 2

270 years ago today, publication of the Species Plantarum marked the formal beginning of the plant taxonomy, which would later be adopted by the International Code of Plant… Read More »Good News in History, May 1

30 years ago today, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) changed the world forever. Tim Berners-Lee, after creating the first-ever website, announced that the… Read More »Good News in History, April 30

Happy 90th Birthday to Willie Nelson, the prolific American music icon who wrote his first song at age 7. He scored his first number-one hit… Read More »Good News in History, April 29

19 years ago, a famous fugitive was apprehended. Shrek the Sheep, a resident Merino “wether” (a castrated adult male sheep) of Bendingo Station, New Zealand,… Read More »Good News in History, April 28

5 years ago today, the Panmunjom Declaration was signed by President Moon Jae-in and Chairman Kim Jong-un, declaring the intention to end the Korean War… Read More »Good News in History, April 27

220 years ago in the afternoon, thousands of small meteorite fragments rained down from the sky over L’Aigle, France. Upon hearing of this event, the… Read More »Good News in History, April 26

Today, millions of Italians will take to the streets and their backyard grills to celebrate Liberation Day, which marked the victory of the Partisans over… Read More »Good News in History, April 25

On this day 490 years ago, the founding father of the Netherlands, William from the House of Nassau, known commonly as William of Orange, was… Read More »Good News in History, April 24

109 years ago today, the first-ever baseball game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Then known as Weeghman Park, it’s original occupants were the… Read More »Good News in History, April 23

299 years ago today, Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born in Prussia. This revolutionary thinker saw rationality as inseparable from morality, and Kant’s formulation of… Read More »Good News in History, April 22

April 21st marks Groundation Day, when hundreds of thousands of Rastafari celebrate the arrival of Emperor Haile Selassie in Jamaica in 1966. The great significance… Read More »Good News in History, April 21

Happy 51st birthday to Stephen Marley, the second-oldest and Grammy Award-winniest son of reggae legend Bob Marley and his wife Rita. Marley is an eight-time… Read More »Good News in History, April 20

Happy 36th birthday to the Tennis ace Maria Sharapova, the only Russian, and one of only 10 women to have won the Career Grand Slam.… Read More »Good News in History, April 19

On this day 100 years ago, Yankee Stadium opened its doors in The Bronx for the first time with John Philip Sousa playing The Star-Spangled… Read More »Good News in History, April 18

Happy 64th birthday to everyone’s favorite dead man, Sean Bean! The famous actor has enjoyed, or perhaps not, some of the most famous on-screen deaths… Read More »Good News in History, April 17